bugger

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   British vulgar term for a person or thing; to spoil or tire out

   That stubborn old bugger refuses to retire.

2. 2
   verb

   to damage or spoil something (vulgar British slang)

   One careless mistake can bugger the whole arrangement.

Multiword verbs with bugger

• bugger off Phrasal verb C2+

  to go away, used as a rude British command

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Simplified etymology

Bugger originally meant “heretic,” from Old French bougre and ultimately Latin Bulgarus “Bulgarian.” The term particularly associated Bulgarians of the Orthodox Church with heresy and was applied in English to the Albigensian heretics; its sexual sense arose in the 16th century from an association between heresy and forbidden sexual practices.

From Middle Dutch bugger or Old French bougre ('heretic, sodomite'), from Medieval Latin Bulgarus ('Bulgarian'), originally denoting members of an Eastern Orthodox heretical sect accused of sodomy.

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