Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One guilty of the crime of bestiality: vulgarly used as a general term of contumely, without reference to its meaning.
  • noun A collector of bugs or insects; an entomologist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
  • noun Low A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A heretic.
  • noun Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
  • noun slang, pejorative, UK, Australia, New Zealand A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
  • noun slang, UK, Australia, New Zealand A situation that causes dismay.
  • noun slang, UK, Australia, New Zealand Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
  • noun slang, dated A damn, anything at all.
  • noun slang, UK Someone who is very fond of something
  • noun slang, USA - West A rough synonym for whippersnapper.
  • verb vulgar, UK To sodomize.
  • verb slang To break or ruin.
  • verb slang, UK, Australia, New Zealand To be surprised.
  • verb slang, UK, Australia, New Zealand To feel contempt for some person or thing.
  • verb slang, UK, Australia, New Zealand To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
  • verb slang, UK, Australia, New Zealand To be fatigued.
  • interjection slang, UK, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
  • interjection slang, US, euphemistic, rare Cutesy expression of very mild annoyance.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb practice anal sex upon
  • noun someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)

Etymologies

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From French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus ("Bulgarian"), used in designation of heretics to whom various unnatural practices were ascribed.

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  • (liquor buggers us,

    nathless 'Human kind

    cannot bear very

    much reality')...

    - Peter Reading, 5x5x5x5x5, 1983

    July 4, 2008

  • Okay, I know what this word means according to dictionaries, but when a mother says it of her young, rambunctious boys (for example), that's certainly NOT the meaning she's ascribing.

    I'm looking for a synonym in the phrase "the poor buggers," that doesn't use the original word I was thinking of ("bastards") and does not sound British ("sods"). Any suggestions?

    I also found this interesting conversation.

    October 25, 2010

  • the poor blighters

    October 25, 2010

  • blighter is Brit too isn't it?

    If it's boys, maybe mites or tykes?

    Tough one.

    October 25, 2010

  • Poor little guys?

    October 25, 2010