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Buggy vs Huggy - What's the difference?

buggy | huggy |

As adjectives the difference between buggy and huggy

is that buggy is infested with insects while huggy is tending to hug; affectionate in a physical way.

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

    huggy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tending to hug; affectionate in a physical way.
  • * 2007 , Joseph Finder, Killer Instinct? , p. 58:
    • Gordy, who looks sort of like a bear cub, only not cute, is a very huggy person.
  • * 2004 , Lani Diane Rich, Time Off for Good Behavior? , p. 136:
    • I wasn't typically a huggy person, but I knew better than to argue with anyone in Bones's genetic line.
  • * 2001 , Joseph H. Berke, Beyond Madness: Psychosocial Interventions in Psychosis? , p. 197:
    • Sonia is an affectionate but not very huggy woman.