Editing Bugger (section)

==Derived terms==
===Bagarapim===
{{Wiktionary|bagarapim}}
"'''Bagarap'''" (from "buggered up") is a common word in Pacific pidgins such as [[Tok Pisin]] of [[Papua New Guinea]], [[Brokan]] (Torres Strait Creole) of Australia and Papua and others, meaning "broken", "hurt", "ruined", "destroyed", "tired", and so on, as in Tok Pisin "kanu i bagarap", Brokan "kenu i bagarap", "the canoe is broken" or Tok Pisin/Brokan "kaikai i bagarap", "the food is spoiled". Tok Pisin "mi bagarap pinis" ("me bugger-up finish") means, "I am very tired", or "I am very ill", while the Brokan equivalent, "ai pinis bagarap", is more "I'm done in", "I'm finished/I've had it".<ref>[http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/PNG/MIHALIC/M71/LetterB/bagarap.htm Bagarap] in ''The Jacaranda dictionary and grammar of Melanesian pidgin'' by F. Mihalic (1971). Accessed 21 January 2009.</ref> The term was put to use in the album ''Bagarap Empires'' by [[Iain Campbell Smith|Fred Smith]], which was made to capture the peace process in [[Autonomous Region of Bougainville|Bougainville]], an island province of [[Papua New Guinea]]; in a number of the songs he uses [[Melanesian languages|Melanesian]] [[pidgin]], the language used in Bougainville and elsewhere.

===Little buggers===
"Little buggers" means children, a term so familiar in the United Kingdom that there is a series of professional teaching manuals with titles that start "Getting the buggers to ..."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.suecowley.co.uk/books.html |publisher=suecowley |title=Sue Cowley Bookshop |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419182842/http://www.suecowley.co.uk/books.html |archive-date=19 April 2015 |access-date=6 July 2017 }}</ref>

===Bugger about===
"To bugger about" means to mess around, to do something ineffectively.<ref name="Quinion">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-emb1.htm|title=Embuggerance|last=Quinion|first=Michael|work=World Wide Words|access-date=2009-02-23}}</ref>

===Bugger all===
{{Wiktionary|bugger all}}
"Bugger all" means "nothing", as in ''You may not like paying taxes, but there's bugger all you can do about it'' and ''The police are doing bugger all about all this aggro that's going on''. See also ''[[fuck all]]'', ''[[sweet FA]]'', and ''Llareggub'' ("bugger all" spelled backwards, a fictional Welsh town in Dylan Thomas' radio play ''[[Under Milk Wood]]'').

===Bugger me===
The phrase "bugger me" is a slang term used for a situation that has yielded an unexpected or undesirable result.

Common usage includes "bugger me dead" and "bugger me blind".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mcguinnessonline.com/australia/aussie_sayings1.htm|title=Aussie Sayings|publisher=McGuinnessOnline|access-date=2011-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110315073947/http://www.mcguinnessonline.com/australia/aussie_sayings1.htm|archive-date=2011-03-15|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Bugger's muddle===
Colloquial military term for a disorderly group—either assembled without formation or in a formation that does not meet the standards of the commentator: "just form a bugger's muddle", "there's a bugger's muddle of civvies hanging around the gate", "Get that bugger's muddle of yours fallen in properly".

===Bugger off===
{{Wiktionary|bugger off}}
The phrase "bugger off" is a slang or dismissive term meaning "leave".

===Buggery===
{{Wiktionary|buggery}}
The word ''buggery'' today also serves as a general expletive (mild, moderate or severe depending on the context and company), and can be used to replace the word ''bugger'' as a simple expletive or as a [[simile]] in phrases which do not actually refer literally in any sense to buggery itself, but just use the word for its informal strength of impact, e.g., ''Run like buggery'', which is equivalent to ''Run like hell'' but would be regarded by most listeners as more obscene.

=== Embuggerance ===
[[Eric Partridge]] defined ''embuggerance factor'' as "a natural or artificial hazard that complicates any proposed course of action". It was reportedly British military slang in the 1950s.<ref name="Quinion"/> [[Terry Pratchett]] used the word in this sense when he referred to his [[Alzheimer's disease]], which had prevented him from attending conventions, as "the Embuggerance".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://discworld.com/the-embuggerance/ |title=The Embuggerance.. |work=Discworld.com |date=3 July 2014 |access-date=13 September 2020}}</ref>

=== Play silly buggers ===
{{Wiktionary|play silly buggers}}
To act in a stupid or reckless manner. (Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)