definitions

bugger

1
[ buhg-er, boo g- ]
/ ˈbʌg ər, ˈbʊg- /

noun

verb (used with object)

Verb Phrases

bugger off, Chiefly British Slang. to depart; bug off.
bugger up, Chiefly British Slang. to ruin; spoil; botch.

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Nearby words

bugayev, bugbane, bugbear, bugboy, bugeye, bugger, bugger about, bugger off, bugger-all, buggery, buggin's turn
Compare sod3.

Origin of bugger

1
1300–50; Middle English bougre < Anglo-French bugre < Medieval Latin Bulgarus heretic, literally, Bulgarian, by association of the Balkans with heretical sects such as the Bogomils and their alleged deviant sexual practices; def. 1 perhaps by reanalysis as bug1 or bug2 + -er1 (cf. booger)
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British Dictionary definitions for bugger off (1 of 2)

bugger off

verb

(intr, adverb) British slang to go away; depart

British Dictionary definitions for bugger off (2 of 2)

bugger

/ (ˈbʌɡə) /

noun

verb

interjection

slang an exclamation of annoyance or disappointment

Word Origin for bugger

C16: from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus Bulgarian; from the condemnation of the dualist heresy rife in Bulgaria from the tenth century to the fifteenth
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Idioms and Phrases with bugger off

bugger off

see bug off.

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