Meaning

3 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable)Anal sex.

  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable)Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as homosexuality, bestiality or necrophilia.

  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, slang, uncountable)A broken or damaged condition.

    It's gone to buggery.

More definitions
  • intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Buggery and sodomy are synonyms for anal intercourse.

  2. Buggery is good, actually.

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Origin

From bugger + -y (nominal suffix).

From bugger + -y (nominal suffix).

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Forms

plural: buggeries
Singularbuggery
Pluralbuggeries

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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