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单词 buggerlugs
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buggerlugsn.

Brit. /ˈbʌɡəlʌɡz/, U.S. /ˈbəɡərˌləɡz/
Forms:

α. 1800s– bug-a-lug, 1800s– bugalug, 1800s– buggerlug, 1900s– buggalug, 1900s– buggerlugg.

β. 1800s– bug-a-lugs, 1800s– bugalugs, 1800s– buggerlugs, 1900s– buggalugs, 1900s– buggerluggs.

Origin: Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bug n.1, a- prefix3, lug n.1
Etymology: Perhaps < bug n.1 + a- prefix3 + lug n.1 Perhaps compare earlier bugaboo n.The word appears to have been influenced in form and sense by association with bugger n.1 and (in β. forms in sense 2) with the plural of lug n.2
slang (originally Nautical).
1. In singular. Chiefly English regional (Dorset) and in form bugalug. A likeness or model of a person, typically a person who is hated; an effigy. Also occasionally: something contemptible or undesirable. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > that which is contemptible
buggerlugs1839
sordid1863
dog shit1944
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation
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1839 Wabash Enquirer (Terre Haute, Indiana) 23 Aug. 3/4 Stout's statue of Queen Victoria..was completely destroyed..having slipped..into the hold of one of the Boston packets, whither it was destined... The editor of the Boston Gazette has thus lost his chance of falling in love with her buggerlug!
1886 W. Barnes Gloss. Dorset Dial. 52 Bug-a-lug, an effigy, a bugbear. A scarecrow or gally-bagger. It means a bug or bugbear on a pole; a-lug meaning on a lug or pole.
1910 Standard 5 Feb. 8/4 Scenes from ‘The Dynasts’ were performed... The firing of the beacon on Rainborrow, when the false alarm of Bonaparte's invasion was received, and the burning of Napoleon's ‘bugalug’ on Durnover Green.
1923 Anode 14 Feb. 30 Try and make 1923 a fresher, cleaner year than the diseased bugalug we're howling out now.
1983 G. Morley Smuggling in Hampshire & Dorset, 1700–1850 xi. 174 On more than one occasion an over-zealous Customs Officer was warned off permanently by having..his ‘bugalug’, or effigy, burnt in front of his house.
2. Chiefly humorous. An annoying or foolish person. Usually as an affectionate form of address or mild term of reproof. Occasionally in singular. Now chiefly British regional, Australian, and New Zealand.
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1861 Life & Adventure in S. Pacific xxv. 268 Shiver my timbers! old buggerlugs, if you don't come to terms pretty soon, I'll treat you to a salt-water bath.
1945 H. McCrae Let. 9 Jan. (1970) 161 So, my dear good kind buggerlug, that is that; but I luffs you just the sime.
1980 E. Cameron Beyond Silence xii. 86 ‘What's a buggerlugs..?’ ‘Well..lugs are ears. And we used to call other kids that when I was little—stupid kids with big ears who were always barging in where they weren't wanted.’
1998 L. Donegan Maybe it should have been Three-iron vi. 54 His quintessentially Marxist analysis of the relationship between a caddy and a player—‘He pays the wages, bugger lugs’—had been both accurate and enlightening.
2012 Guardian (Nexis) 2 June (Weekend Suppl.) 11 So, it's been a year since Buggerlugs was born. It feels as though I should be taking a moment to reflect on the transformations wrought, the life lessons learned, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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