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bugger off Definition


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bugger (coarse) (slang)
noun
    1. A person who practises anal sex.
    2. A person or thing considered to be difficult or awkward.
      Example: He really is a bugger to work for
    3. A person one feels affection or pity for.
      Example: poor old bugger
verb buggered, buggering
    1. To practise anal sex with someone.
    2. To tire or exhaust someone.
    3. To spoil or ruin it
      Example: She completely buggered up our weekend.
      Form: bugger something up (also)
exclamation
    1. Expressing annoyance or frustration.
      Form: bugger it! (also)
Derivative: buggered
    Exhausted; tired out.
    Ruined; broken.
      Example: The TV's buggered
    Shocked; amazed
      Example: Well I'm buggered!
Idiom: bugger all
    Nothing at all.
Idiom: not give a bugger
    Not to care at all.
Etymology: 16c in sense 3: from French bougre, from Latin Bulgarus a heretic (literally ‘a Bulgarian'); a large number of heretical beliefs, including deviant sexual practices were thought in the Middle Ages to have come from the Balkans.

Phrasal Verb: bugger about or around
    To waste time; to do things flippantly or without due attention.
Phrasal Verb: bugger someone about
    To mislead them or cause them problems.
Phrasal Verb: bugger off
    To go away; to clear off.


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