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buggery

noun
/ˈbʌɡəɹi/

Etymology

From bugger + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms).

  1. derived from блъгаринъ — “Bulgarian”
  2. derived from Bulgarus — “Bulgar”
  3. derived from bougre
  4. inherited from bougre
  5. suffixed as buggery — “bugger + y”

Definitions

  1. Anal sex.

    • Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery […] shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be kept in penal servitude for life or for any term not less than ten years.

  2. Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as homosexuality, bestiality or necrophilia.

  3. A broken or damaged condition.

    • It's gone to buggery.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Used after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically…

      Used after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically negate the verb.

      • Did he help? Did he buggery!

    2. Synonym of bugger.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA