Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bugger"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bugger \Bug"ger\, n. [F. bougre, fr. LL. Bulgarus, a Bulgarian,
and also a heretic; because the inhabitants of Bulgaria were
infected with heresy. Those guilty of the crime of buggery
were called heretics, because in the eyes of their
adversaries there was nothing more heinous than heresy, and
it was therefore thought that the origin of such a vice could
only be owing to heretics.]
1. One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
2. A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful
disparagement. [Low]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bugger
n : someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male
who engages in anal copulation with another male) [syn: {sodomite},
{sodomist}, {sod}]
v : practice anal sex upon [syn: {sodomize}, {sodomise}]
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