2. Adjective. (slang) In trouble; in a bad situation. ¹
3. Adjective. (Australia NZ slang) Tired, worn-out, exhausted. ¹
4. Verb. (past of bugger) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Buggered
1. bugger [v] - See also: bugger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buggered
Literary usage of Buggered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"1965 “rm buggered if I'll apologize to that Yankee bastard. ... When I reached
the trenches I was pretty well buggered —Raymond Gardner, The Australian, ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... at noone day before the Church, buggered a Mule, all applauding it, and crying
out that it might be luckie, which often at other times wee have sighed ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... at noone day before the Church, buggered a Mule, all applauding it, and crying
out that it might be luckie, which often at other times wee have sighed ..."
4. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"... them as has dirty uniforms —has a buggered smart eye to pick out a feller as
knows his biz, and they see at onct as how Canvas and me ..."
5. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1836)
"If the party buggered be within the age of discretion (which is generally reckoned
the age of 14), it is no felony in him, but in the agent only. ..."
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