Meaning

2 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, emphatic, idiomatic, vulgar)Go away.

  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, emphatic, idiomatic, vulgar)An expression of disagreement or disbelief.

    Bugger off! You're joking, aren't you?

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Bugger off, will you?

    Відвали, будь ласка. — deniko

Translations

2 languages

Origin

Derived from bugger (idiomatic, obsolete, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “sodomite”, (idiomati

Derived from bugger (idiomatic, obsolete, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “sodomite”, (idiomatic, vulgar, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “man”, especially in the colloquialism (idiomatic, dismissal, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) old bugger for “an old man”.

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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