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Bigger vs Bugger - What's the difference?

bigger | bugger |

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)
  • (big)
  • * 1812 , A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts (Walter Scott, John Somers), page 146:
  • That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger , and most stronger party,
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= 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)
  • (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, citation
  • , 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}}

    See also

    * biggers

    bugger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A heretic.
  • Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
  • The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers ? charter. (see Are judges politically correct?)
  • (slang, pejorative, UK, Australian, NZ) 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.
  • * 1947 , James Hilton, So Well Remembered , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0600371h,
  • 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.”
  • (slang, UK, Australian, NZ) A situation that causes dismay.
  • 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 .
  • (slang, UK, Australian, NZ) 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, , 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 .”
  • (slang, dated) A damn, anything at all.
  • I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
  • (slang, British) Someone who is very fond of something
  • I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
  • (slang, USA - West) A rough synonym for whippersnapper.
  • What is that little bugger up to now?

    Derived terms

    * bugger factor

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (vulgar, British) To sodomize.
  • To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s era )
  • To break or ruin.
  • This computer is buggered'''! Oh no! I've '''buggered it up.
  • (slang, British, Australian, NZ) To be surprised.
  • Bugger''' me sideways! '''Bugger''' me, here's my bus. Well, I'm '''buggered !
  • (slang, British, Australian, NZ) To feel contempt for some person or thing.
  • 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.)
  • (slang, British, Australian, NZ) To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
  • Bugger''' this for a lark. '''Bugger this for a game of soldiers.
  • (slang, British, Australian, NZ) To be fatigued.
  • 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 buggers

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (slang, British, Australia, New Zealand, coarse) An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
  • Bugger , I've missed the bus.
    Oh, bugger --
  • (slang, US, euphemistic, rare) Cutesy expression of very mild annoyance.
  • Synonyms

    * bummer * damn * whoops * See also