bugger

Meanings

Noun

• A heretic.
• Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
• A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
• A situation that causes dismay.
• Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
• A damn, anything at all.
• Someone who is very fond of something
• A whippersnapper, a tyke.
• One who sets a bug ; one who bugs.

Verb

• To have anal sex with, sodomize.
• To break or ruin.
• To be surprised.
• To feel contempt for some person or thing.
• To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
• To be fatigued.

Interjection

• An expression of annoyance or displeasure.

Related

Similar words

• bummer
• damn
• whoops

Origin

• From Middle English bougre ("heretic"), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus, used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various unnatural practices and perversions such as sodomy were ascribed. Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bulgar. Bulgar.
• From bug + -er.