buggery

bug·gery
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/ˈbʌɡəɹi/

noun

Anal sex.

“It's gone to buggery.”

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heckfuckbuggersodomyanal sexanal intercourse
OriginEnglish bugger ← Middle English bougre ← Old French bogre →
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Meanings

buggery1

nounbuggery (countable and uncountable, plural buggeries)

plural buggeries

  1. CommonwealthIrelandUKcountableuncountableAnal 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.

    1861, United Kingdom, Offences Against the Person Act 1861
  2. CommonwealthIrelandUKcountableuncountableAny sexual act deemed against nature, such as homosexuality, bestiality or necrophilia.

    Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable Crime of Buggery, committed either with Mankind or with any Animal, 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.

    1861, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 61”, in Offences against the Person Act 1861^(Offences against the Person Act 1861), page 833
  3. CommonwealthIrelandUKcountableslanguncountableA broken or damaged condition.

    It's gone to buggery.

buggery2

adverbbuggery (not comparable)
  1. CommonwealthIrelandUKcolloquialnot comparablevulgarUsed after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically negate the verb.

    Did he help? Did he buggery!

    Synonyms: heck, fuck

interjection
  1. CommonwealthIrelandUKslangvulgarSynonym of bugger.

    Synonyms: bugger

Synonyms & antonyms

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

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heckfuck

interjectionSynonym of bugger.

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bugger

More synonyms by meaning

nounintercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman

Similar
sodomyanal sexanal intercourse
Broader
perversionsexual perversion
Also see
anal intercourseanal sexfucksodomy

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

buggery · noun

From bugger + -y (nominal suffix).

Full word history & related roots →

buggery · adverb, interjection

  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. Englishbuggery

From bugger + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms).

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Cite this entry
APA

buggery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buggery

MLA

“buggery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buggery. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “buggery,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buggery.

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