Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given to several species of carriages or gigs.
- noun In coal-mining, a small wagon used for transporting coal from the working-face to the gangway.
- Infested with bugs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Infested or abounding with bugs.
- noun engraving A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.
- noun U.S. A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.
- noun a cultivator with a seat for the driver.
- noun a plow, or set of plows, having a seat for the driver; -- called also
sulky plow .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small horse-drawn
cart - noun A small motor
vehicle , such as adune buggy - noun UK A
pushchair ; astroller - noun informal A
shopping cart ortrolley - adjective Infested with
insects - adjective computing Containing programming
errors - adjective Resembling an insect
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- adjective infested with bugs
- noun a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse
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Examples
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They had a cafe, and the man had what he called a buggy, and he'd load it with sandwiches and bring it through the mill, and we could buy sandwiches off of it.
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They had a cafe, and the man had what he called a buggy, and he'd load it with sandwiches and bring it through the mill, and we could buy sandwiches off of it.
Oral History Interview with Eunice Austin, 1980 July 2. Interview H-107. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Eunice Austin Eunice Austin 1980
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Sad that living the way we did for thousands of years until someone figured out how to put a motor in a buggy is considered “radical.”
Waldo Jaquith - Elimination of the Automobile from Towns 2008
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I chose the porcelin buggy you see here, in pink, from another store, and put the flowers in it.
Make Mine Pink 2007
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I chose the porcelin buggy you see here, in pink, from another store, and put the flowers in it.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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A true classic, if you like cringingly cheesy and clumsily macho - and the dune buggy is a really classy touch.
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Finally Jim brought the buggy from the hotel, and they picked up their lighter parcels.
Mates at Billabong 1911
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In a word, they are "buggy" - and thus, other scientists would find it impossible to replicate their experimental results.
Right Wing Nut House 2009
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The guy in the buggy was a tough one to believe too but the ending was the best.
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Ms. DEARIE: But I liked the song, and I could sort of relate to that being from the country and the horse and buggy, which is something I always liked.
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