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1. [Brit, vulgar] Someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
   - sodomite, sodomist
    
2. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
   "only a bugger would do that";
   - rotter [Brit, informal], dirty dog [informal], rat [informal], skunk [informal], stinker [informal], stinkpot [N. Amer, informal], bum [N. Amer, informal], crumb [N. Amer, informal], lowlife [informal], scumbag [informal], so-and-so [informal], git [Brit, informal], scumbag [informal], sleazebucket [informal], toad [informal], scuzz [N. Amer, informal], sleazeball [informal], toerag [Brit, informal], sleazebag [informal], sod [Brit, informal], swine [informal], ratbag [Brit, informal], scuzzball [N. Amer, informal], scuzzbag [N. Amer, informal], scuzzbucket [N. Amer, informal], slimebag [informal], dirtbag [US, informal], slimeball [informal]

1. [Brit, vulgar] Practice anal sex upon
   - sodomize, sodomise [Brit]
    
2. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
   "I buggered the dinner and we had to eat out";
   - botch, bodge [Brit, informal], bumble, fumble, botch up, muff [informal], blow, flub [N. Amer, informal], screw up [informal], spoil, muck up [informal], bungle, fluff [informal], bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up [informal], foul up, mess up, butcher, goof up [informal], cock up [Brit, informal], balls up [informal], make a hash of [informal]

1. Exclamation of annoyance
   - blast, bother [Brit], botheration, bummer [informal], curses, dang [N. Amer, informal], damn, damnation, dammit [informal], damn it [informal], darn [informal], dash [Brit, informal], durn [US, dialect], drat [informal], hang [informal], tarnation [N. Amer, informal], shoot [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: buggered, buggering, buggers

Type of: copulate, couple, degenerate, deviant, deviate, disagreeable person, fail, go wrong, mate, miscarry, pair, perv [informal], perve [informal], pervert, unpleasant person

Encyclopedia: Bugger