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rugger bugger, n. slang (orig. S. Afr., now also Austral., Brit., and Irish English).
Brit. |ˈrʌgəˌbʌgə|, U.S. |ˈrəgərˈbəgər|, S. Afr. |ˈrʌgəˌbʌgə|
[‹ rugger n.2 + bugger n.1]
A boorish, chauvinistic, aggressively masculine (young) man who is fanatical about sport (frequently but not exclusively rugby), and habitually participates in drunken, boisterous social gatherings. Hence in more specific and often less pejorative use: a rugby player or fan. Cf. bugger n.1 2b.
1970Forum (Johannesburg) 6 No. 2. 59 Roared with laughter they did, foolishly as any rugger-buggers. 1975Fair Lady (Cape Town) 1 Oct. 67 The boy's father may have been, in local parlance, a ruggerbugger who did nothing more strenuous in the house than call for another beer. 1984Spectator 7 Apr. 32/3 Kenneth Branagh plays the king as a superannuated rugger-bugger,..an immature and possibly mad monarch in thrall to the second estate. 1989J. Hobbs Thoughts in Makeshift Mortuary 145 The student body divided quite neatly into four factions: the studious, the rugger buggers, the social set and the lefties. 1991Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 27 Jan. 46/9 The Toucan Club is to reopen... But who for? Older ragers or young and rude rugger buggers? 1992Rugby World & Post Oct. 67/3 As for the poor old majority of ordinary rugger buggers playing at club level [in South Africa].., well they have just been forgotten. 1999J. Poller Reach ii. 3 Up at Cambridge, I'd always thought of myself as different..neither a beblazered rugger bugger nor a dope-addled anarchist manqué. |