Meaning

1 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, not comparable, vulgar)Used after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically negate the verb.

    Did he help? Did he buggery!

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 (suffix forming colloquialisms).

From bugger + y (suffix forming colloquialisms).

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Synonyms

2 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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