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What does bugger mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) A heretic.
  2. (Britain law) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
  3. (pejorative) A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
  4. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A situation that causes dismay.
  5. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
  6. (slang, dated) A damn, anything at all.
  7. (slang, Britain) Someone who is very fond of something
  8. (slang, US) A whippersnapper.
Verb
  1. (vulgar, Britain) To sodomize.
  2. (slang, vulgar in Britain) To break or ruin.
  3. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To be surprised.
  4. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To feel contempt for some person or thing.
  5. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
  6. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To be fatigued.
Interjection
  1. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
  2. (slang, US, euphemistic, rare) Cutesy expression of very mild annoyance.
Noun
  1. One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
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