Bugger vs Null - What's the difference?
bugger | null |
(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.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between bugger and null
is that bugger is bloke, fellow, chap while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bugger
English
Noun
(en noun)- The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers ? charter. (see
Are judges politically correct?
)
- ''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 .
Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500721h,
- “I?ll take it out on dat young bugger ,” he thought viciously.
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.”
- 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 ?
Gutenberg Australia eBook #0601341,
- Good luck, you old bugger !
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 .”
- 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
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.