bugger off
bugger off · buggers off · buggered off · buggering off
To leave, go away, disappearTo leave, go away, disappear.
Meaning
1 senses(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, emphatic, idiomatic, vulgar)To leave, go away, disappear.
We tried to catch him, but he had already buggered off.
verziehen, verpissen, vom Acker machen
More definitions
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
Examples
1 sentencesBugger off, will you?
Відвали, будь ласка. — deniko
Translations
2 languagesDeutsch
to leave, go away, disappear:
Origin
Derived from bugger (idiomatic, obsolete, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “sodomite”, (idiomatiDerived 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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Forms
buggers off, buggering off, buggered off, buggered off| Base form | bugger off · to bugger off |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | buggers off |
| Present participle | buggering off |
| Past simple | buggered off |
| Past participle | buggered off |
irregular
Phrasal verbs
4 phrasal verbsSynonyms
3 synonymsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Phrasal verbs: introduction — Because it is a phrasal verb