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单词 rugger bugger
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rugger buggern.

Brit. /ˈrʌɡə ˌbʌɡə/, U.S. /ˈrəɡər ˌbəɡər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rugger n.2, bugger n.1
Etymology: < rugger n.2 + bugger n.1
slang.
An aggressively masculine (young) man who is dedicated to sport (frequently but not exclusively rugby), regarded as being boorish, chauvinistic, and given to rowdy drunken behaviour. Hence in more general and often less pejorative use: a rugby player or fan. Cf. bugger n.1 3a.In British use particularly associated with Rugby Union rather than Rugby League. Not used in North America.
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1966 G. Kersh Angel & Cuckoo 189 The half-arsed Dulwich College rugger-bugger she's been engaged to.
1970 Forum (Johannesburg) 6 ii. 59 Roared with laughter they did, foolishly as any rugger-buggers.
1984 Spectator 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.
1989 J. 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.
1991 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 27 Jan. 46/9 The Toucan Club is to reopen... But who for? Older ragers or young and rude rugger buggers?
1992 Rugby 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.
1999 J. 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.
2008 T. French Likeness 290 He wouldn't go to the Pav, he says it's full of rugger-bugger wankers and it gives him boarding-school flashbacks.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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