bugger

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I think he's been got at by the other bugger, the Welsh windbag with the bushy eyebrows.

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  1. noun Vulgar Slang A sodomite.
  2. noun Slang A contemptible or disreputable person.
  3. noun Slang A fellow; a chap: "He's a silly little bugger, then” (John le Carré).
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  • Them as reckon you're not the victim at all but some other bugger is, someone who's either been jailed or in your case killed. —  Reginald Hill
  • They reckon that what's happened to this other bugger is your fault. —  Reginald Hill
  • It was also an unnervingly shoogly big bugger, and Beadie was terrified they'd collapse the thing, so he suggested a change of position. —  Also by Christopher Brookmyre
  • In fact, the bugger was as excited about it as he was 276 Gilmore hadn't just agreed, he'd pulled out all the stops. —  Also by Christopher Brookmyre
  • There's no way of telling you; you have to experience it, but the glory of it, if you like, the comfort of it, the reassurance ... not that I'm interested in reassuring people - bugger that. —  Bronx Banter
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  1. Middle English bougre, heretic, from Old French boulgre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus; see Bulgar.

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  1. from Middle English bougre, a heretic, from Old French bougre, bogre, a heretic, from Middle Latin Bulgarus, a Bulgarian, also, as a common noun, a heretic, the Bulgarians being accused of heresy. The popular detestation of “heretics” led to the use of Old French bougre, etc., a heretic, in the later sense.
  2. from bug, v. i., + -er.
 

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