bugger:
(plural: ‘buggers‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘u’ rhymes with the letter ‘u’ in “but”)
(two buggers — Hi bugger! How are you? — close friends)
a fellow man — a friendly term for someone close;
an ill-mannered and indecent man;
a person or thing considered to be useless, unpleasant or difficult;
a homo-sexual — a man having sex with another man or a woman having sex with another woman, and/or a person who has sex in an unnatural way; a sodomite/sodomist/sod;
a person whose job is to place (install) electronic bugs (‘Bug’, in this context, is a small device which, when fitted into a telephone or some other thing, helps people to listen to others’ private conversations secretly.)
Hi Bugger! How are you? Long time no see!
Tell him to stop being a silly bugger; we don’t tolerate such indecent behaviour in our hotel.
My ex-boss was undoubtedly a bugger; nobody works for him for more than a month!
The minister is very furious with his staff over his telephone bugging, and is asking the police detectives to find out the bugger who bugged his official telephone. (in this context, ‘bugging’ may be replaced by ‘tapping’, e.g. My phone is bugged. or My phone is tapped.)
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