not give a bugger Definition

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.