bugger

Other forms of bugger

plural

buggers·

past tense

buggerred·

present participle

buggerring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bugger

What does bugger mean?

bugger means "someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bugger?

bugger has 2 syllables: bug-ger. The stress falls on "bug". In IPA it is /ˈbʌɡɚ/.

What is another word for bugger?

Close synonyms include sodomite, sodomist, sod, sodomize, sodomise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bugger a common word?

bugger is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.