Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

buggered

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English

Syllables: bug-gered
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Broken; not properly functioning.

Slang

adj

In trouble; in a bad situation.

Slang

adj

Tired, worn-out, exhausted.

British usage; Slang

adj

damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)

Slang

verb

simple past and past participle of bugger

Example Sentences

"Your telly is buggered, best get it fixed."
"It's well and truly buggered now; you may as well throw it out."
"One of the bands that caused my knee to get even more buggered at the last Epitapth (from too much dancing)."
"I'm sorry, but the tax system is more buggered than that..."
"I used to have the unit istalled in a renault 5 in a vertical postion, from which the unit was great - never skipped once even on the most buggered cd's i had and the worst roads i could find."
"The police caught you on CCTV, now you're really buggered."

Etymology

From the verb bugger.

Usage

Slang
British usage

Inflected Forms

more buggered (comparative) most buggered (superlative)

Derived Forms

unbuggered

Synonyms

fucked kaput stuffed in for it all in done in exhausted

Questions

What does buggered mean?: Broken; not properly functioning.
Where does buggered come from?: From the verb bugger.

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