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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUG'GERY, n. The unnatural and detestable crime of carnal intercourse of man or woman with a beast; or of human beings unnaturally with each other.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman [syn: sodomy, buggery, anal sex, anal intercourse]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1514 sodomy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 anal intercourse. 2 = BESTIALITY 2. Etymology: ME f. MDu. buggerie f. OF bougerie: see BUGGER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Buggery Bug"ger*y, n. [OF. bougrerie, bogrerie, heresy. See Bugger.] Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Buggery is anal intercourse.





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