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▪ I. bugger, n.1|ˈbʌgə(r)|
Also 6 bowgard, bouguer.
[a. F. bougre:—L. Bulgarus Bulgarian, a name given to a sect of heretics who came from Bulgaria in the 11th c., afterwards to other ‘heretics’ (to whom abominable practices were ascribed), also to usurers. See bougre.]
†1. (With capital initial). A heretic: the name was particularly applied to the Albigenses. Obs. exc. Hist.
1340[see bougre]. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., The Buggers are mentioned by Matthew Paris..under the name of Bugares..They were strenuously refuted by Fr. Robert, a dominican, surnamed the Bugger, as having formerly made profession of this heresy.
2. One who commits buggery; a sodomite. In decent use only as a legal term.
1555Fardle Facions ii. x. 224 As rancke bouguers with mankinde, and with beastes, as the Saracenes are. 1587Turberv. Epitaphs & Sonn. Wks. (1837) 372 To serve his beastly lust..he will leade a bowgards life.
b. In low language a coarse term of abuse or insult; often, however, simply = ‘chap’, ‘customer’, ‘fellow’. Cf. baggage 7.
So in Fr.: ‘Bougre..terme de mépris et d'injure, usité dans le langage populaire le plus trivial et le plus grossier’. (Littré.)
1719D'Urfey Pills I. 59 From every trench the bougers fly. 1854M. J. Holmes Tempest & Sun. 203 ‘If I'd known all you city buggers was comin' I'd a kivered my bar feet’. 1881Evans Leicest. Gloss. s.v., ‘Mister, can ye fit this canny little bugger wi' a cap?’ said a mother to a shop⁓keeper of her little boy. 1929F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune I. v. 103 Not when there are two poor buggers dead, and five more not much better. 1934R. Blaker Night-Shift xx. 261 The words that had voiced the shock at the bottom of a startled heart..were ‘pore bugger’. 1955Times 27 Jan., A remark of the policeman to him was: ‘Don't argue, get those buggers out of here.’ 1969Listener 9 Jan. 53/3 Come and sit on my other side. Otherwise they will put me beside that bugger Oparin.
c. Something unpleasant or undesirable; a great nuisance. coarse slang.
1936‘G. Orwell’ Let. ? 16 Apr. (1968) I. 216 This business of class-breaking is a bugger. 1940Harrisson & Madge War begins at Home viii. 189 Heard one old lady say, ‘It's a bugger this dark!’ 1942Penguin New Writing XV. 28 Drilling before breakfast's a bugger, believe me.
d. = damn n. 2. coarse slang.
1922Joyce Ulysses 576, I don't give a bugger who he is. 1939Dylan Thomas Let. 2 Nov. (1966) 243, I don't care a bugger whether you won't or will. 1960F. Raphael Limits of Love i. iii. 32 It'd be a wonderful thing to have a magazine that just didn't give a bugger what it said about anyone.
e. bugger-all, nothing. (See all A. 8 f.) coarse slang
1937in Partridge Dict. Slang 103/1. 1961 I. Jefferies It wasn't Me! v. 63 ‘What did they offer to give you?’ ‘Bugger-all.’ 1967J. Cleary Long Pursuit ii. 39 Way out here in the middle of bugger-all, and you turn up!
▪ II. bugger, n.2 orig. U.S.|ˈbʌgə(r)|
[f. bug v.1 + -er1.]
One who installs a concealed microphone or ‘bug’.
1955H. Coburn in Front Page Detective June 65 Deputy Midyett, in charge of recording instruments..was..‘the chief bugger of Marin County’. 1966Ramparts Nov. 5 (heading), I was a burglar, wiretapper, bugger, and spy for the F.B.I. 1967R. M. Brown Electronic Invasion xi. 143 The so-called ‘expert’ buggers more often than not are led to believe that the transistors are malfunctioning or that a circuit wire has broken loose. 1973A. J. P. Taylor in Sunday Express 22 July 16/3 No doubt the buggers would have made a mess of it as they did at Watergate. 1983Daily Tel. 31 Mar. 15/5 Chris Serle was asking himself: ‘What technology is available to the bugger of today?’
▪ III. ˈbugger, v.
Also 7 buggar.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To commit buggery with. Also absol.
1598Florio Worlde of Wordes 39/1 Bardascia, a bardash, a buggering boy, an ingle. 1611Cotgr., s.v. Levretée. 1624 Capt. Smith Virginia v. 198. 1675 Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 279. 1681 Trial S. Colledge 42. a 1701 Sedley Wks. (1766) 126. 1868 Index Expurgatorius of Martial 49 You open your doors and bugger tall youths, Amillus. 1930E. E. Cummings Let. 12 Apr. (1969) 116 Hats off to thea orthodox flea who attempted to bugger a bee. 1965New Statesman 30 Apr. 687/1 Her German maid, whom he buggers. 1968Peace News 16 Feb. 8/3 Some were in..for homosexuality, which is still an offence in the Army... Usually they'd have done it to get out: it was a saying, you had to bugger your way out of the Army. 1968Observer 29 Sept. (Colour Mag.) 24/3 The thought of actually buggering a little boy is repulsive to me.
2. coarse slang.
a. = damn v. 5.
1794Sessions Paper 86/1 She said, b–st and b– gg–r your eyes, I have got none of your money. 1862A. M'Gilvray Poems (ed. 2) 21 Tho' Henderson, the sheriff-clerk, May damn, and swear, and buggar. 1867Rossetti Let. 14 Aug. (1965) II. 628 I'm on the right side of the hedge this time, and b–g–r his drawings! 1886Baumann Londinismen 17/2 Bugger (you)! geh' zum henker! 1897Shetland News 22 May (E.D.D. Suppl.), ‘Dat be bugger'd!’ I said, ‘Doo's shürly leein', Sibbie.’ 1923[see 2 b, below]. 1929F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune I. v. 92 ‘Cushy be buggered,’ said Minton angrily. 1936Dylan Thomas Let. 9 Mar. (1966) 168 Whatever I do now, bugger me it's literary. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 522 Buggered if I know! 1953S. Beckett Watt i. 42 Bugger these buttons! Ibid. 45 I'll be buggered if I can understand how it could have been anything else. 1967D. Pinner Ritual xix. 189 Bugger me, he thought, looking at the grin on his watch, it's three o'clock!
b. To mess up; to ruin, spoil. In pass., to be tired out.
1923J. Manchon Le Slang 74 Bugger! or bugger you! merde! Salaud! Ibid., Buggered off or buggered up, foutu. 1929F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune I. ii. 31 Buggered-up by a joy-ride in the train from Rouen to Méricourt. 1934J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) iii. 77 He's probably forgotten about it, and my going there will bugger things up proper. 1942F. Warnick Dialect of Garrett County, Maryland 4 Booger up, v. phr., to treat roughly (always used in past tense) ‘all buggered up’. 1947Coast to Coast 1946 216 We're buggered, too—been burnin' the floor boards orf the dunny. 1953Dylan Thomas Let. 31 Mar. (1966) 401, I hope I haven't boomily buggered the poems up. 1961A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo i. 32 No hippos in their natural lovely setting of the Severn or beavers buggering up the Broads. 1968H. C. Rae Few Small Bones ii. i. 72 He was so utterly buggered that he had no hunger left.
c. intr. With off: to go away, depart.
1922Joyce Ulysses 586 Here bugger off, Harry. There's the cops! 1945J. B. Priestley Three Men in New Suits iv. 63, I didn't come back for their bloody leavings. Bugger off! 1958P. Scott Mark of Warrior ii. 202 They sort of stared at the river a bit, then buggered off. 1969Private Eye 12 Sept. 14 Let's get up to palace, pick up O.B.E.'s and bugger off 'ome, like.
d. With about: (see quot. 1937); also with around. Also trans., to hound from pillar to post; to mess about with.
1929F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune I. iii. 87 We're just 'umped an' bumped an' buggered about all over..France. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 103/1 Bugger about, potter about; fuss; act ineffectually; waste time on a thing, with a person. Hence bugger about with, to caress intimately; interfere with (person or thing). 1946B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays 43 Pious Aeneas went buggering about the Aegean. 1957M. Kennedy Heroes of Clone iii. iii. 174 Do I then have to be buggered about by a lot of professors and critics..asking how I rate? 1961‘T. Hinde’ For Good of Company v. 56 It was properly buggered around when it came back. 1968J. Wainwright Web of Silence 12 Let's not bugger around being polite. |