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bugger noun- a person who takes part in anal sex UK, 1555
A perfectly correct usage in legalese, otherwise considered vulgar. - a disagreeable person; often used as a term of abuse UK, 1719
- If the buggers get him, they’ll make me look like his favorite uncle. — Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game, p. 1, 1991
- a person, a regular fellow UK, 1830
- Did you manage anything, you crafty old bugger? — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 32, 1966
- Serious little bugger with their old-timey ideas about honor, the omerta–no talking, man, keep you mouth shut–all that brotherhood bullshit. — Elmore Leonard, Gold Coast, p. 19, 1980
- This doctor was a shifty booger though. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 110, 1991
- an unpleasant, very difficult or dangerous thing, project, episode, circumstance; a nuisance UK, 1918
- “That solo is a bugger to play,” Red said. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 91, 1961
- Well, I just swallowed the bugger ... soon it will take hold; I have no idea what to expect. — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed, p. 119, 18/19 February 1969
- The windshield’s cracked, it’s a bugger to drive / It starts making smoke over thirty-five — Ian Dury, Itinerant Child, 1998
▶ give a bugger to care, generally in a negative context UK, 1922- Just go off their heads and don’t give a bugger at that Cash and Carry[.] — Andrew O’Hagan, Personality, p. 43, 2003
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