Etymology

Noun

1. A heretic.
2. Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.

   The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers' charter. (see Are judges politically correct?)

3. A foolish or worthless person or thing;

   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.

4. Someone viewed with affection: chap.

   How are you, you old bugger?

5. A damn, anything at all.

   I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.

6. Someone who is very fond of something

   I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.

7. A rough synonym for whippersnapper.

   What is that little bugger up to now?

Verb

1. To sodomize.

   To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s era Big Rock Candy Mountain)

2. To break or ruin.

   This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up.

1. To be surprised.

   Bugger me sideways! Bugger me, here's my bus. Well, I'm buggered!

2. To feel contempt for some person or thing.

   Bugger Bognor. (Alleged to be the last words of king George V of the United Kingdom in response to a suggestion that he might recover from his illness and visit Bognor Regis.)

3. To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.

   Bugger this for a lark. Bugger this for a game of soldiers.

4. To be fatigued.

   I'm buggered from all that walking.

Interjection

1. An expression of annoyance or displeasure.

   Bugger, I've missed the bus.

2. Cutesy expression of very mild annoyance.