Editing Bugger (section)

===Verb===
As a verb, the word is  used in Commonwealth English to denote sodomy. In Great Britain, the phrase "Bugger me sideways" (or a variation of this) can be used as an expression of surprise. It can also be used as a [[synonym]] for "broken", as in "This PC's buggered" (similar to the verb ''[[Brick (electronics)|bricked]]''); "Oh no! I've buggered it up"; or "It's gone to buggery". In Anglophone Southern Africa, Australia, Canada and Britain, "buggered" is colloquially used to describe something, usually a machine or vehicle, as broken.

The phrase "bugger off" (''bug off'' in [[American English]]{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}) means to go, or run, away; when used as a command it means "go away" ("get lost" or "leave me alone") and can also be used in much the same type of relatively offensive manner.

"I'm buggered", "I'll be buggered" and "bugger me" are used [[colloquial]]ly in Great Britain (and often in New Zealand and Australia as well) to denote or feign surprise at an unexpected (or possibly unwanted) occurrence. "I'm buggered" can also be used to indicate a state of fatigue. In this latter form it found fame in New Zealand in 1956 through rugby player Peter Jones, who—in a live post-match radio interview—declared himself "absolutely buggered", a turn of phrase considered shocking at the time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edenparkresidents.org.nz/newsdisplay.asp?id=52|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014095831/http://www.edenparkresidents.org.nz/newsdisplay.asp?id=52|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 14, 2008|title=For more than a century it has been a Garden of Eden ablaze with sporting colour...|publisher=Eden Park Residents Association|first=Kevin|last=Norquay|date=November 11, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4689466a26572.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120920004539/http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4689466a26572.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 September 2012|title=If you wish upon a star, make sure you are awake|date=11 September 2008|work=[[The Southland Times]]|access-date=22 September 2011}}</ref>

It is famously alleged that the last words of [[George V of the United Kingdom|King George V]] were "Bugger [[Bognor Regis|Bognor]]", in response to a suggestion that he might recover from his illness and visit Bognor Regis.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/3764523.stm|title=When Bognor earned its 'Regis'|date=1 June 2004|work=BBC News online|access-date=19 March 2018|language=en-GB}}</ref> Variations on the phrase "bugger it" are commonly used to imply frustration, admission of defeat or the sense that something is not worth doing, as in "bugger this for a lark" or "bugger this for a game of [[tin soldier|soldiers]]".