Bigger vs Bugger - What's the difference?
bigger | bugger |
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* 1812 , A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts (Walter Scott, John Somers), page 146:
* , chapter=5
, title= (nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.
* {{quote-book, 1871, Julian Leep, A Ready-Made Family, volume=1, page=322, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=mny99S_fR4AC&pg=PA322, edition=2009 ed.
, passage=She's in along with mother, talking about the college; it's to be biggered , sir. }}
* {{quote-book, 1971,
, passage=But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.}}* {{quote-news, 2002, August 5, Mark Gibbs, IBM and PwC: Rhyme and Reasons, Network World, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=4hgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT69, page=69
, passage=The money they splurged to the board's delight
Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight}} (obsolete) A heretic.
Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
(slang, pejorative, UK, Australian, NZ) A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
* 1928 , Frank Parker Day, Rockbound ,
* 1947 , James Hilton, So Well Remembered ,
(slang, UK, Australian, NZ) A situation that causes dismay.
(slang, UK, Australian, NZ) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
* 1946 , Olaf Stapledon, Arms Out of Hand'', in ''Collected Stories ,
* 1953 February-March, ,
(slang, dated) A damn, anything at all.
(slang, British) Someone who is very fond of something
(slang, USA - West) A rough synonym for whippersnapper.
(vulgar, British) To sodomize.
To break or ruin.
(slang, British, Australian, NZ) To be surprised.
(slang, British, Australian, NZ) To feel contempt for some person or thing.
(slang, British, Australian, NZ) To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
(slang, British, Australian, NZ) To be fatigued.
(slang, British, Australia, New Zealand, coarse) An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
(slang, US, euphemistic, rare) Cutesy expression of very mild annoyance.
As verbs the difference between bigger and bugger
is that bigger is to make or become bigger while bugger is to sodomize.As an adjective bigger
is comparative of big.As a noun bugger is
a heretic.As an interjection bugger is
an expression of annoyance or displeasure.bigger
English
Adjective
(head)- That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger , and most stronger party,
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
Verb
(en verb)citation
I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.}}
Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight}}
See also
* biggersbugger
English
Noun
(en noun)- The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers ? charter. (see
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- ''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 .
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- “I?ll take it out on dat young bugger ,” he thought viciously.
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- Here the cheers and shouts of the gallery were interrupted by a shabby little man in the back row who yelled out with piercing distinctness: “Don't matter what you call ?im now, George. The bugger ?s dead.”
- So you're stuck out in woop-woop and the next train back is Thursday next week. Well, that's a bit of a bugger .
- How are you, you old bugger ?
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- Good luck, you old bugger !
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- “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 .”
- I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
- I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
- What is that little bugger up to now?
Derived terms
* bugger factorVerb
(en verb)- To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s era )
- This computer is buggered'''! Oh no! I've '''buggered it up.
- Bugger''' me sideways! '''Bugger''' me, here's my bus. Well, I'm '''buggered !
- 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.)
- Bugger''' this for a lark. '''Bugger this for a game of soldiers.
- I'm buggered from all that walking.
Derived terms
* bagarapim (Pidgin, derived from bugger up ) * bugger off * bugger up * bugger that for a joke * buggerer(s) * buggery * bugger all * play silly buggersInterjection
(en interjection)- Bugger , I've missed the bus.
- Oh, bugger --
Synonyms
* bummer * damn * whoops * See alsoExternal links
*The Origins and Common Usage of British swear-words