Definition of "bugger" in inglés

noun

1. (obsolete) A heretic.

2. (UK law) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.

   • The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.

3. (slang, derogatory, Commonwealth, Hawaii) A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.

   • He's a silly bugger for losing his keys.
   • The bugger’s given me the wrong change.
   • My computer's being a bit of a bugger.
   • 1928, Frank Parker Day, Rockbound, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500721h, “I’ll take it out on dat young bugger,” he thought viciously.

4. (slang, Commonwealth, Hawaii) A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.

   • So you're stuck out in the woop-woop and the next train back is Thursday next week. Well, that's a bit of a bugger.

5. (slang, Commonwealth, Hawaii) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.

   • How are you, you old bugger?
   • 1946, Olaf Stapledon, Arms Out of Hand, in Collected Stories, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0601341, Good luck, you old bugger!
   • 1953 February-March, Henry Beam Piper, John Joseph McGuire, Null-ABC, in Astounding Science Fiction, Gutenberg eBook #18346, “And if Pelton found out that his kids are Literates—Woooo!” Cardon grimaced. “Or what we've been doing to him. I hope I’m not around when that happens. I’m beginning to like the cantankerous old bugger.”

6. (slang, dated) A damn, anything at all.

   • I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.

7. (slang, Commonwealth) Someone who is very fond of something

   • I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.

8. (slang, UK, US) A whippersnapper, a tyke.

   • What is that little bugger up to now?

verb

1. To have anal sex with, sodomize.

   • To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s era Big Rock Candy Mountain)

2. (slang) To break or ruin.

   • This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up.

3. (slang) Expressing contemptuous dismissal of the grammatical object.

   • Bugger Bognor. (Alleged to be the last words of King George V of the United Kingdom in response to a suggestion that he might recover from his illness and visit Bognor Regis.)
   • Oh, bugger this! I'm going out for a beer instead.

interjection