bugger /bugˈər/

1. Someone guilty of buggery
2. A term of abuse for a man or child, often quite colourless or even kindly (vulgar sl)
3. A rogue, scamp, applied inoffensively to a child or animal (US)
4. A difficult or unpleasant task, etc (vulgar sl)

1. To practise buggery with
2. (the following all vulgar sl) to exhaust
3. To frustrate, ruin the plans of
4. To spoil, prevent success in (also with up)

To go away quickly

Used to express annoyance

buggˈery noun

Anal intercourse between a man and another man, a woman, a child or (law) an animal

bugger all noun

None, nothing

buggˈer-all adjective

No, none

bugger about or around

1. To potter about, do nothing useful
2. To mess (someone) about

don't or couldn't give a bugger

Couldn't care less

like buggery

1. Furiously, frenziedly
2. Used to express strong disagreement

play silly buggers

To behave foolishly

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