| 单词 | to bugger about |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bugger about to bugger about 1. transitive. To cause (someone) difficulty or inconvenience, esp. by acting unfairly or indecisively; to interfere or meddle with (something). Cf. to bugger around 3 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > ill-treat [verb (transitive)] tuckc888 tawc893 misbedeOE graithc1330 to fare fair or foul with1340 misusea1382 outrayc1390 beshrewc1430 huspelc1440 misentreat1450 mistreat1453 abuse?1473 to mayne evil1481 demean1483 to put (a person) to villainya1513 harry1530 mishandle1530 touse1531 misorder1550 worrya1556 yark1565 mumble1588 buse1589 crow-tread1593 disabuse1607 maltreat1681 squeeze1691 ill-treat1794 punish1801 tousle1826 ill-use1841 razoo1890 mess1896 to play horse with1896 to bugger about1921 slug1925 to give (a person) the works1927 to kick about or around1938 mess1963 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inconvenience > affect with inconvenience [verb (transitive)] trouble1516 misease1530 incommodatea1575 inconveniencea1656 run1697 incommode1702 disannul1794 disconvenience1821 to put about1825 to put out1851 to jerk around1877 to bugger about1921 to dick around1944 to fuck around1955 to bugger around1961 to screw around1967 to fuck about1975 to cock around1990 to dick about1996 to cock about2009 1921 Notes & Queries 5 Nov. 379/2 A more expressive form is ‘To be b—ggered about,’ to be given unnecessary drill or manoeuvres. 1929 F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune I. viii. 159 What's the cunt want to come down 'ere buggerin' us about for, 'aven't we done enough bloody work in th' week? 1937 C. Brooks Jrnl. 14 Mar. (1998) 191 I told Bell..that I was not going to be played with in this way—‘buggered about’ was the phrase—by old Sutton. 1999 Guardian 3 Sept. (Review section) 18/2 What's left are movies that got buggered about by internal studio politics. 2005 H. Mantel Beyond Black vi. 193 They'll only bugger you about. They're not reliable. 2. intransitive. To lounge about; to waste time; to act ineffectually; to behave in a frivolous or stupid way. Also occasionally: to engage in a love affair or associate romantically with. Cf. to bugger around 1 at Phrasal verbs 1.For a possible much earlier example see note in etymology section. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity trifle?a1400 loiterc1400 tiffc1440 tifflec1440 to pick a salad1520 to play the wanton1529 fiddle1530 dauntc1540 piddle1545 dally?1548 pittlea1568 pingle1574 puddle1591 to thrum caps1594 maginate1623 meecha1625 pudder1624 dabble1631 fanfreluche1653 dawdlea1656 taigle17.. niff-naff1728 tiddle1747 peddle1755 gammer1788 quiddle1789 muddle1791 browse1803 niddle1808 poke1811 fal-lal1818 potter1824 footer1825 putter1827 shaffle1828 to fool about1838 mike1838 piffle1847 mess1853 to muck about1856 tinker1856 bohemianize1857 to fool around1860 frivol1866 june1869 muss1876 to muddle about (also around)1877 slummock1877 dicker1888 moodle1893 to fart about1899 to fart about (or around)1899 plouter1899 futz1907 monkey1916 to arse around1919 to play around1929 to fuck around1931 tool1932 frig1933 boondoggle1935 to muck around1935 to screw around1935 to bugger about1937 to bugger around1939 to piss about1943 to dick around1948 to jerk around1953 fart-arse1954 to fanny around1969 slop1973 dork1982 to twat around (or about)1992 to dick about1996 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 103/1 Bugger about with, to caress intimately. 1943 L. Powys Let. 17 Sept. (1943) 306 We have buggered about long enough and nothing comes of it but whoring and Wars. 1971 K. Amis Girl, 20 iv. 143 Which recently knighted veteran conductor is buggering about with which teenage daughter of which prominent Fleet Street figure. 2006 Times (Nexis) 2 Jan. (Times2 section) 27 Will you please just stop buggering about and tell us which one of us did it? 3. intransitive. To interfere or meddle with. Cf. to bugger around 2 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > act in another's business or intervene [verb (intransitive)] > interfere or meddle entermeenec1449 intermit1456 intromit?a1475 intermeddle1477 intromeddle1524 to put (also have) an oar in every man's boat1542 to put (also stick, shove, etc.) one's oar in1542 to have a hand in the dish1551 pudder1624 mird?c1625 to mell or make with1634 potter1655 dabble1660 meddle1711 interfere1743 to bugger about1937 to bugger around1961 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 103/1 Bugger about with, to..interfere with (person or thing). 1939 S. O'Casey I knock at Door 225 If there was any more of this buggerin' about with the good name of the throops he'd let the Lord Lieutenant know all the details. 1987 Guardian 17 July 11/6 As long as nobody buggers about with the economy too much. 2005 Constr. News (Nexis) 20 Oct. People may say if the businesses are making money why bugger about with them. to bugger about —— to bugger about —— intransitive. To lounge about (a place); to waste time in; to mess about in. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] emptyeOE to tell the clock1527 idle1668 to kick one's heels1703 twirl1777 gammer1788 to twiddle one's thumbs, or fingers1846 to make (also do) kef1852 goof1932 doss1937 to sit on one's hands1939 to bugger about ——1946 to spin one's wheels1960 1946 B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays 43 Pious Aeneas went buggering about the Aegean. 1995 Observer (Nexis) 24 Dec. (Life Suppl.) 6/3 He's buggering about that square again. < as lemmas |
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