bugger
Meanings
noun
- A heretic.
- Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
- A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
- A damn, anything at all.
- Someone who is very fond of something
- A whippersnapper, a tyke.
verb
- To have anal sex with, sodomize.
- To break or ruin.
- Expressing contemptuous dismissal of the grammatical object.
intj
- An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
noun
- One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Turkic *bulga-der. Proto-Turkic *bulgar Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 (b¹ul¹ǧa) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Slavic *-inъ Old Church Slavonic -инъ (-inŭ) Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ)der. Medieval Latin Bulgarusder. Old French bogrebor. Middle English bougre English bugger 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.
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