Synonyms for bugger

Most common

devil · sodomist · booger · scamp · screw

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Interjection

Verb

Definitions

1. n. 1

   Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.

   The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.

2. n. 2

   A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.

   My computer's being a bit of a bugger.

3. interj. 1

   An expression of annoyance or displeasure.

   Bugger, I've missed the bus.

4. v. 1

   To have anal sex with, sodomize.

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

Related words

Word family

buggery

Phrases

bugger off bugger up bugger all bugger about give a bugger bugger around bugger me bugger me backwards

Forms

Plural

buggers → devils, sodomites, sodomists, fucks…

Past participle

buggered
e.g. buggered → sodomized, pedicated…

Example sentences

• devil Don't shoot the devil in the back. You might miss.
• booger He put a booger in his mouth, yuck!
• scamp George Hunt, you're an infernal scamp!
• screw Do you tighten a screw clockwise or anticlockwise?

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

cow¹, elf¹, sod¹, imp¹, wag¹

4 letters

shit¹, fuck¹, damn¹, rats¹, minx

5 letters

devil², screw¹, rogue¹, joker², rowdy², pixie², knave¹, scamp

6 letters

fucker², whoops¹, bummer², rascal², booger

7 letters

bastard², buffoon², ruffian, hoodlum², buggery

8 letters

mischief², hooligan³, sodomite, sodomize³, sodomist, sodomise, pedicate

9 letters

prankster²

10 letters

motherfuck

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (devil² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

pédé

Italiano

frocio

Español

homosexual

Català

marieta