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Buggy vs Bugly - What's the difference?

buggy | bugly |

As adjectives the difference between buggy and bugly

is that buggy is infested with insects while bugly is exceptionally ugly.

As a noun buggy

is a small horse-drawn cart.

buggy

English

Noun

(buggies)
  • A small horse-drawn cart.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy , turned and drove out of town.}}
  • A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
  • (UK) A pushchair; a stroller.
  • (Canada, southern US) A shopping cart or trolley.
  • Synonyms

    * (pushchair) stroller

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Infested with insects
  • (computing) Containing programming errors
  • This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!
  • Resembling an insect
  • Derived terms

    * baby buggy * bugginess * buggy eyes

    bugly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (label) Exceptionally ugly.
  • *1896 , David Macbeth Moir, Conjugal Amenities :
  • She has immense white teeth that snap, and a bugly bonnet, with one dismal ostrich feather wobbling sternly on end.
  • *2000 , Richard Spears, NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions :
  • I have never seen such a bugly guy in my life!
  • *2010 , Denise Mina, Still Midnight :
  • “For every ugly there's a bugly .” She smiled.