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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgar”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ, “Bulgarian”), used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various sexual practices such as anal sex were ascribed. Doublet of Bulgar.
Noun
bugger (plural buggers)
- (obsolete) A heretic.
- (UK law) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.
- (slang, derogatory, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Commonwealth) A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
He's a silly bugger for losing his keys.
The bugger’s given me the wrong change.
My computer's being a bit of a bugger.
- 1928, Frank Parker Day, Rockbound, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500721h,
- “I’ll take it out on dat young bugger,” he thought viciously.
1947, James Hilton, So Well Remembered, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0600371h:Here the cheers and shouts of the gallery were interrupted by a shabby little man in the back row who yelled out with piercing distinctness: “Don't matter what you call ’im now, George. The bugger’s dead.”
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Commonwealth) A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
So you're stuck out in the woop-woop and the next train back is Thursday next week. Well, that's a bit of a bugger.
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Commonwealth) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
How are you, you old bugger?
- 1946, Olaf Stapledon, Arms Out of Hand, in Collected Stories, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0601341,
- Good luck, you old bugger!
- 1953 February-March, Henry Beam Piper, John Joseph McGuire, Null-ABC, in Astounding Science Fiction, Gutenberg eBook #18346,
- “And if Pelton found out that his kids are Literates—Woooo!” Cardon grimaced. “Or what we've been doing to him. I hope I’m not around when that happens. I’m beginning to like the cantankerous old bugger.”
- (slang, dated) A damn, anything at all.
I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth) Someone who is very fond of something
I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
- (slang, UK, US) A whippersnapper, a tyke.
What is that little bugger up to now?
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
someone who commits buggery
foolish or worthless person, rascal
- Afrikaans: bokker, bogger
- Czech: debil (cs) m
- Finnish: tollo (fi), kusipää (fi), lurjus (fi), ryökäle (fi), retku (fi), vintiö (fi) (child), retale (fi), renttu (fi)
- French: tête de nœud (fr) f, abruti (fr) m, glandu (fr) m
- German: Lump (de) m, Mistkerl (de) m, Arschloch (de) n
- Greek: βλάκας (el) m (vlákas)
- Maori: pokokōhua
- Slovak: blbec (sk) m
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slang: a situation that causes dismay
slang: someone viewed with affection
slang: someone very fond of something
Translations to be checked
Verb
bugger (third-person singular simple present buggers, present participle buggering, simple past and past participle buggered)
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To have anal sex with, sodomize.
- To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s era Big Rock Candy Mountain)
- (transitive, slang, vulgar in British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) To break or ruin.
This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) Expressing contemptuous dismissal of the grammatical object.
- Bugger Bognor. (Alleged to be the last words of King George V of the United Kingdom in response to a suggestion that he might recover from his illness and visit Bognor Regis.)
Oh, bugger this! I'm going out for a beer instead.
Derived terms
Translations
to have anal intercourse with
to ruin
- Czech: zkurvit (cs)
- Dutch: verneuken (nl)
- Finnish: pilata (fi), rikkoa (fi), panna paskaksi
- French: ravager (fr), ruiner (fr)
- German: versauen (de), verpfuschen (de), ruinieren (de), vermurksen (de)
- Greek: καταστρέφω (el) (katastréfo)
- Polish: pierdolić (pl) impf, spierdolić (pl) pf, rozpierdalać impf (into smithereens), rozpierdolić (pl) pf (into smithereens)
- Russian: лома́ть (ru) (lomátʹ), по́ртить (ru) (pórtitʹ)
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Interjection
bugger
- (slang, British, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
Bugger, I've missed the bus.
1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Charles (Hugh Grant):Dear Lord, forgive me for what I am about to, ah, say in this magnificent place of worship. Bugger. Bugger! Bugger-bugger-bugger-bugger!
Synonyms
Translations
slang: expressing annoyance
Further reading
Etymology 2
From bug (noun) + -er.
Noun
bugger (plural buggers)
- One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
Related terms
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From bug + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
bugger
- (computing, also figurative) to malfunction, to glitch
2021 April 15, Benjamin Bourgois, quotee, “Benjamin Bourgois: "On a été autorisés à s'embrasser"”, in La Provence, →ISSN, page 32:Quand je l’ai vue arriver, cela s’est passé comme dans la série, j’ai buggé. Elle était déjà trés jolie.- When I saw her arrive, it happened like in the series: I glitched. She was already very pretty.
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written bugge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.
infinitive
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simple
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bugger
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compound
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avoir + past participle
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present participle or gerund1
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simple
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buggeant /bœɡ.ʒɑ̃/
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compound
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ayant + past participle
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past participle
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buggé /bœɡ.ʒe/
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singular
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plural
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first
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second
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third
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first
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second
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third
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indicative
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je (j’)
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tu
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il, elle, on
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nous
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vous
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ils, elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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bugge /bœɡʒ/
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bugges /bœɡʒ/
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bugge /bœɡʒ/
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buggeons /bœɡ.ʒɔ̃/
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buggez /bœɡ.ʒe/
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buggent /bœɡʒ/
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imperfect
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buggeais /bœɡ.ʒɛ/
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buggeais /bœɡ.ʒɛ/
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buggeait /bœɡ.ʒɛ/
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buggions /bœɡ.ʒjɔ̃/
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buggiez /bœɡ.ʒje/
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buggeaient /bœɡ.ʒɛ/
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past historic2
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buggeai /bœɡ.ʒe/
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buggeas /bœɡ.ʒa/
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buggea /bœɡ.ʒa/
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buggeâmes /bœɡ.ʒam/
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buggeâtes /bœɡ.ʒat/
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buggèrent /bœɡ.ʒɛʁ/
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future
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buggerai /bœɡ.ʒə.ʁe/
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buggeras /bœɡ.ʒə.ʁa/
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buggera /bœɡ.ʒə.ʁa/
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buggerons /bœɡ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
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buggerez /bœɡ.ʒə.ʁe/
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buggeront /bœɡ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
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conditional
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buggerais /bœɡ.ʒə.ʁɛ/
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buggerais /bœɡ.ʒə.ʁɛ/
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buggerait /bœɡ.ʒə.ʁɛ/
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buggerions /bœɡ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/
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buggeriez /bœɡ.ʒə.ʁje/
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buggeraient /bœɡ.ʒə.ʁɛ/
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(compound tenses)
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present perfect
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present indicative of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect
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imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
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past anterior2
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past historic of avoir + past participle
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future perfect
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future of avoir + past participle
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conditional perfect
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conditional of avoir + past participle
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subjunctive
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que je (j’)
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que tu
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qu’il, qu’elle
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que nous
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que vous
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qu’ils, qu’elles
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(simple tenses)
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present
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bugge /bœɡʒ/
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bugges /bœɡʒ/
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bugge /bœɡʒ/
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buggions /bœɡ.ʒjɔ̃/
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buggiez /bœɡ.ʒje/
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buggent /bœɡʒ/
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imperfect2
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buggeasse /bœɡ.ʒas/
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buggeasses /bœɡ.ʒas/
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buggeât /bœɡ.ʒa/
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buggeassions /bœɡ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/
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buggeassiez /bœɡ.ʒa.sje/
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buggeassent /bœɡ.ʒas/
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(compound tenses)
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past
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present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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pluperfect2
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imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
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imperative
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–
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tu
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–
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nous
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vous
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–
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simple
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—
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bugge /bœɡʒ/
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—
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buggeons /bœɡ.ʒɔ̃/
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buggez /bœɡ.ʒe/
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—
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compound
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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simple imperative of avoir + past participle
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—
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1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
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2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
- past historic → present perfect
- past anterior → pluperfect
- imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
- pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).
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