bugger – English noun declension

English noun forms of bugger

Noun: bugger
Singularbugger
Pluralbuggers

Sample Sentences

  • The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.
  • He's a silly bugger for losing his keys.
  • The bugger’s given me the wrong change.
  • My computer's being a bit of a bugger.
  • 1928, Frank Parker Day, Rockbound, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500721h,
  • “I’ll take it out on dat young bugger,” he thought viciously.
  • Here the cheers and shouts of the gallery were interrupted by a shabby little man in the back row who yelled out with piercing distinctness: “Don't matter what you call ’im now, George. The bugger’s dead.” [1947, James Hilton, So Well Remembered, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0600371h:]
  • So you're stuck out in the woop-woop and the next train back is Thursday next week. Well, that's a bit of a bugger.
  • How are you, you old bugger?
  • 1946, Olaf Stapledon, Arms Out of Hand, in Collected Stories, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0601341,
  • Good luck, you old bugger!
  • 1953 February-March, Henry Beam Piper, John Joseph McGuire, Null-ABC, in Astounding Science Fiction, Gutenberg eBook #18346,
  • “And if Pelton found out that his kids are Literates—Woooo!” Cardon grimaced. “Or what we've been doing to him. I hope I’m not around when that happens. I’m beginning to like the cantankerous old bugger.”
  • I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
  • I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
  • What is that little bugger up to now?

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Turkic *bulga-der.
3. Proto-Turkic *bulgar
4. Old Turkic 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 (b¹wl¹g¹a)
5. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
6. Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
7. Proto-Slavic *-inъ
8. Old Church Slavonic -инъ (-inŭ)
9. Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ)der.
10. Medieval Latin Bulgarusder.
11. Old French bogrebor.
12. Middle English bougre
13. English bugger
14. From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgar”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ, “Bulgarian”), used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various sexual practices such as anal sex were ascribed. Doublet of Bulgar. See: Middle English Nouns 'bougre'.

Verbs referencing "bugger"

Hungarian Nouns buzi, Spanish Nouns bujarrón, Spanish Nouns bugarrón.