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Bugger off

intj, verb, slang

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Intj
  1. 1
    Go away. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, emphatic, idiomatic, vulgar
  2. 2
    An expression of disagreement or disbelief. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, emphatic, idiomatic, vulgar

    "Bugger off! You're joking, aren't you?"

Verb
  1. 1
    To leave, go away, disappear. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial, emphatic, idiomatic, intransitive, vulgar

    "We tried to catch him, but he had already buggered off."

  2. 2
    leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Derived from bugger (idiomatic, obsolete, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “sodomite”, (idiomatic, vulgar, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “man”, especially in the colloquialism (idiomatic, dismissal, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) old bugger for “an old man”.

Etymology 2

Derived from bugger (idiomatic, obsolete, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “sodomite”, (idiomatic, vulgar, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) “man”, especially in the colloquialism (idiomatic, dismissal, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) old bugger for “an old man”.

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