Bugger vs Bloody - What's the difference?
bugger | bloody |
(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.
Covered in blood.
* , Act 5, Scene 1, 2008 [1947], Forgotten Books,
* 2011 , , analysis of Act 2 Scene 1,
Characterised by bloodshed.
* Shakespeare
* 1845 , , 2008,
* 2007 , Lucinda Mallows, Lucy Mallows, Slovakia: The Bradt Travel Guide ,
(AU, NZ, UK, colloquial, mildly, vulgar, not comparable) Used as an intensifier.
* 1994 , , Lord of Chaos , page 519,
* 2003 , ,
* 2007 , James MacFarlane, Avenge My Kin , Book 2: A Time of Testing,
(AU, NZ, British, mildly, vulgar) Used to intensify what follows this adverb.
To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.
To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent.
As a noun bugger
is bloke, fellow, chap.As an adjective bloody is
covered in blood.As an adverb bloody is
(au|nz|british|mildly|vulgar) used to intensify what follows this adverb.As a verb bloody is
to draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.bugger
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
bloody
English
Alternative forms
* bloudy (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.
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- And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall, / Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.
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- They plan to walk to the market-place, showing their bloody hands and swords and declaring ‘Peace, freedom and liberty!’
- There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.
- Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
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- I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the bloody scenes that often occurred on the plantation.
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- The story of Elizabeth Bathory is one of the bloodiest in history.
- Try to keep those bloody' women's '''bloody''' heads on their ' bloody shoulders by somehow helping them make this whole mad impossible scheme actually work.
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- You are not to go asking anyone about who killed that bloody dog.
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- “You bloody fool, I could?ve stabbed you in the heart,” David said in mock anger, and then smiled widely.
Synonyms
* (covered in blood) bleeding, bloodied, gory, sanguinolent * (intensifier) bally, blasted, bleeding (chiefly British cockney), blinking, blooming, damn, damned, dang, darned, doggone, flaming, freaking, fricking, frigging, fucking, goddam / goddamn, goddamned, godforsaken (rare), wretched, rotten * See alsoDerived terms
* bloody hell * bloody oath * bloody mary * bloody warrior * give someone a bloody noseAdverb
(en adverb)- 1994:' '', 109 - "Dice are no ' bloody good," David said.
