Etymology

buggery

bug·gery
B3U1G2G2E1R1Y4

Today it means: Anal sex. Full definition →

English bugger ← Middle English bougre ← Old French bogre
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

buggery · noun1

From bugger + -y (nominal suffix).

buggery · adverb, interjection2

  1. Proto-Turkic*bulga-
  2. Proto-Turkic*bulgar
  3. Old Turkic𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰍𐰀 (b¹wl¹g¹a)
  4. Old Church Slavonicблъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ)
  5. Medieval LatinBulgarus
  6. Old Frenchbogre
  7. Middle Englishbougre
  8. Englishbugger
  9. English todaybuggery

From bugger + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.