Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Vulgar Sodomy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The crime of bestiality; sodomy.
Wiktionary
- n. UK Anal sex.
- n. Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as bestiality or necrophilia.
- n. A broken or damaged condition.
- n. An extreme condition.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman
Examples
“I first saw the term buggery in my Bar-Bri book in the criminal law section.”
“With that caveat, my limited experiences, as well as my conversations with various women, suggests that the epileptic jackhammer school of buggery is generally disfavored by women who enjoy anal sex.”
“I'm not sure where in buggery that establishing shot was made, but it wasn't here.”
“I just like the fact that he used the word buggery quite a bit.”
The Democratic Party's email attacking Jerome Corsi (author of the #1 selling anti-Obama book).
““Portyghee” crewmen were thought to lack skills, be physically inadequate, and be prone to moral degeneracy—another term for buggery.”
“Strictly speaking, sodomy has always been the word used for a male person sticking his male sexual organ in someone else’s rectal sphincter; buggery is also used as the term of art, although the posessor of the sphincter may also be an animal, in that case.”
“Sodomy, known as buggery in England and Wales, was made legal for consenting adults as recently as 1967.”
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
“English there is another term, "buggery," identical in meaning with sodomy, and equally familiar.”
“Assault with the intent to sexually assault someone also results in placement on the sex offender registry, as does incest, "buggery," peeping and kidnapping (unless no criminal sexual offense was performed, attempted or intended).”
“BARRIE, Ont. - A former chief Roman Catholic chaplain of the Canadian Forces is due in court today to sex-related charges, including "buggery" and indecent assault on a male.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘buggery’.
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NTDW2
yawp, amidships, smug, jounce, fallow, conscionable, polyp, whit, nouveau riche, palatial, encomiastic, exchequer and 182 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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Forgotten English 1
jacal, mastaba, lucarne, quoin, triglyph, gargarice, nimgimmer, phrenologize, fleam, eaglestone, toad eater, king's evil and 156 more...
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kingofbash's Words
bash, poleaxed, salacious, libertine, charlatan, aplomb, fortuitous, finagle, apoplectic, debutante, carte blanche, aardvark and 472 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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pcofdirt's Words
besmirched, befuddled, ai, sanguineous, antidisestablishm..., ablation, ascertain, ascerbic, aardvark, begot, benign, buggery and 118 more...
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fearraigh's Words
heretofore, seldom, cunt, calamity, overhead, phalanx, flunky, factotum, terrestrial, dormant, afflatus, periphery and 156 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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Vocabulary
My ever expanding vocabulary...
feuterer, abattoir, kibosh, sequin, shiftless, scrimshanker, sic, moniker, dogsbody, contranym, autoantonym, exhortation and 306 more...
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MacBean's Words
verisimilitude, antediluvian, schadenfreude, eviscerate, exsanguinate, onomatopoeia, aesthetic, apocryphal, aubergine, byronic, brouhaha, bordello and 523 more...
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sinequanon's Words
gormless, lugubrious, unctuous, hirsuit, arabesque, camphorous, gainsay, quinaba, quince, penchant, buggery, elocution and 1 more...
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slavonicisms
English borrowings from Slavic languages; in some cases, a word might be rooted in another language but entered English from a Slavic language (e.g. nihilism was popularized by Ivan Turgenev, as ни...
ukase, vampire, knout, slave, cravat, tsar, czar, buggery, nihilism, intelligentsia, kopeck, ruble and 30 more...
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Words I just don't like at all . . .
discharge, moist, coax, chastity, buggery, onomatopoeia, mushy, idyllic, pus, thwarted, smear, pithy and 19 more...
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ye olde volcabulary
Words of a bi-gone era that I love.
rapscallion, flimflam, tomfoolery, bamboozle, buggery, hornswoggle, hoodwink, scalawag, smithereens, moxie, flibbertigibbet, rabblerouser and 15 more...
Tweets
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brtom "Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14 Jan 27, 2007