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buggery

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Editorial note

It embrittles most metals, leaks like buggery and is not very dense (ie, it needs to be heavily compressed).

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Quick take

(Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Anal sex.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of buggery gathered in one view.

noun

(Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Anal sex.

noun

(Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as homosexuality, bestiality or necrophilia.

noun

(Commonwealth, UK, Ireland, slang) A broken or damaged condition.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for buggery.

noun

(Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as homosexuality, bestiality or necrophilia.

See also: sodomy, anal-intercourse

adverb

(Commonwealth, UK, Ireland, vulgar, colloquial) Used after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically negate the verb.

See also: sodomy, anal-intercourse

Example sentences

1

It embrittles most metals, leaks like buggery and is not very dense (ie, it needs to be heavily compressed).

2

They hurt like buggery, but they've never done me serious damage and this behaviour suggested a different approach might work.

3

Gold buggery articles are like one of the four horsemen of the web site apocalypse.

4

People probably levelled the same argument against Socrate's [reported by Plato and Xenophon] denouncement of the buggery of juveniles by older men.

5

First week hurt like buggery, 2nd week felt great, 3rd week I really started to ache in my legs bad.

6

Aids and many other STDs are spread chiefly by buggery.

7

Probably because it is so clean and free of buggery.

8

I was under the impression that the original Buggery Act was motivated religiously, and that Wilde was prosecuted under that Act (maybe amended).

9

Likewise buggery laws are routinely ignored by law enforcement.

10

Not petty IP theft, but geopolitical buggery.

11

It was absolutely stupid and unjust (since most upper classes were involved in buggery in school anyways) - but calling it bigoted is like saying 'it was so yellow of them to do'.

12

Still, I concede your point that buggery and physical child abuse at an industrial scale isn't especially creative and just the usual dull grind played out again and again.

Quote examples

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Chrome and Safari are definitely "designer" browsers, while IE is still slow as buggery.

2

While the Marquis de Sade had an unusual penchant for buggery (which was illegal at the time) and blasphemy (also illegal), he himself was certainly not "diseased of the mind".

3

How bloody naff is that but it bled like buggery and a 1" flap of finger flapped for a while and needed stitches at A&E (for Americans - that's where you pop in and a few hours later pop out, all patched up without a credit card being involved).

4

At what point a small potential risk for everybody is worth QoL benefits for a relative few, is the main point of contention (the second largest probably being a mix of “is the risk really a risk anyway?” or “but you'll be fingerprinted to buggery & back anyway so what difference does this bit-or-few of data really make?”).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use buggery in a sentence?

It embrittles most metals, leaks like buggery and is not very dense (ie, it needs to be heavily compressed).

What does buggery mean?

(Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) Anal sex.

What part of speech is buggery?

buggery is commonly used as noun, adverb.