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bugger | bogger |

As nouns the difference between bugger and bogger

is that bugger is a heretic while bogger is someone associated with or who works in a bog.

As a verb bugger

is to sodomize.

As an interjection bugger

is an expression of annoyance or displeasure.

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

    External links

    * The Origins and Common Usage of British swear-words

    bogger

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone associated with or who works in a bog.
  • * 2000 Lorraine Heath. Never Love a Cowboy , page 51,
    • “I was a bogger afore the war—”
    “A bogger ?”
    “Yep. I was the one sent to get the cattle out of the muddy bogs and thickets.”
  • (Australia, slang) A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns). 1966 , Sidney John Baker, The Australian language , page 223.
  • (Ireland, derogatory) Someone not from a city.
  • (Ireland, derogatory) Someone not from Dublin (from outside the ).
  • (Newfoundland, Labrador) A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete. “bogger”], entry in 2004 [1990, George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, Dictionary of Newfoundland English .
  • (Australia, Western Australia, slang) Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground. “bogger”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, Australian words and their origins .
  • * 1962 , Bill Wannan, Modern Australian humour , page 176,
    • Polish Joe was a bogger , a man who shifted unbelievable quantities of dirt away from the face from which it had been blown, and into trucks for dumping in the underground bins each day.
  • (Australia, slang) A toilet.
  • (Northern England, derogatory, slang) Someone of the goth, skate, punk, or emo subculture.
    • Related terms
    * bogtrotter (Ireland) “Bog-Trotter”, entry in 1984 , Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, A dictionary of slang and unconventional English , 8th edition — Any Irishman whatsoever. * bog warrior (Ireland) * bogman (Ireland) * nipper-bogger (Australia)

    Etymology 2

    From bugger.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment''. “Bogger”, entry in 1990 , Leslie Dunkling, ''A dictionary of epithets and terms of address .
  • * 1986 , Ian Breakwell. Ian Breakwell's diary, 1964-1985 ,
    • "You bloody bogger ...!
  • * 1998 , Alan Sillitoe, The Broken Chariot ,
    • "You're a funny bogger', though. I never could mek yo' out. Ye're just like one of the lads, but sometimes there's a posh ' bogger trying to scramble out."
  • * 1992 , Alan Sillitoe, Saturday night and Sunday morning ,
    • "The dirty bogger ! He's got a fancy woman! Nine times a week!"

    References

    * British: ** 2005 , Simon Elmes, Talking for Britain: a journey through the nation's dialects . * Ireland: ** 2006 , Eric Partridge, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: A-I . ** 1983 , Irving L. Allen, The language of ethnic conflict: social organization and lexical culture .