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English
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Verb
bugger up (third-person singular simple present buggers up, present participle buggering up, simple past and past participle buggered up)
- (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To break or spoil something, or make it inoperative, useless etc.
- Synonym: (Southern US) booger up
I've buggered up the sudoku somehow and can't finish it.
2016 March 15, David Dale, “John Jarratt talks new show Territory Cops and a murderous return in Wolf Creek”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:Well, he only buggers up one sentence, and that's the first one. He says, 'Shut up, blek.' But from that point on, it was OK because I helped him with it. If I'd been there, I would have told him to say, 'Shut up, black', exactly the same as an American accent.
- (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To injure or harm (someone).
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Translations
to break or spoil something