Meaning
9 senses(UK)Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.
Sodomit, Arschficker
содомитsodomit
(Commonwealth, Hawaii, derogatory, slang)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.
Lump, Mistkerl, Arschloch
(Commonwealth, Hawaii, slang)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.
(Commonwealth, Hawaii, slang)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!
Kumpel, Kerl
(dated, slang)A damn, anything at all.
I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
(Commonwealth, slang)Someone who is very fond of something
I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
Fan
(UK, US, slang)A whippersnapper, a tyke.
What is that little bugger up to now?
(Commonwealth, transitive, vulgar)One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
(obsolete)A heretic.
- someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
Examples
10 sentencesHe's a clever little bugger.
Він розумний малий шибеник.
Keep buggering on.
Не здавайся.
Bugger off, will you?
Відвали, будь ласка.
I know you're feeling discouraged, but you just have to keep buggering on and eventually things will get better.
Я знаю, що ти відчуваєш розчарування, але ти мусиш триматися і рухатися вперед, і з часом все покращиться.
You little bugger!
Ах ти ж малий спиногризе!
ruАх ты маленький засранец!
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 4
Origin
From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin BulgarFrom 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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