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Bugger Off

Definition: Bugger Off

Bugger Off

Verb

1. Leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Bugger Off

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Multilingual Slang

Catalan (que et donin pel cul), Galician (vai lava-la cona). (references)

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Synonyms: Bugger Off

Synonyms: buzz off (v), fuck off (v), get (v), scram (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Bugger Off

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Screenplays

Bugger off! (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

Difficult to tell the heir to the throne to bugger off because you've got a party to go to. (The Tall Guy; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bugger Off

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bugger off

5
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Modern Translation: Bugger Off

Language Translations for "bugger off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zhdukem (die, disappear, fall away, go down the drain, grow dim, melt, merge, ooze, scram, vanish), ua mbath (abscond, break away, buzz off, skedaddle). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فر من المعسكر (buzz off), ‏هرب من المعسكر (buzz off). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vypadnout (come off, come out, drop out, fall out, go out, make off, push off), odprejskni (buzz off, hop it). (various references)

   

French

  

foutre le camp (buzz off). (various references)

   

German

  

leine ziehen, abhauen (bunk, chop off, clear out, hew off, piss off, push off, scarper, scoot, scram, skip off, slash, to scoot, to scram, vamoose). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"פוך לא"ים. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kopj le (beat it). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uggerbay offay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

смыться (buzz off), испариться. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odjebi. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rajar (brag, chatter, cleave, crack, gash, slander, slit, split, tear), largarse (buzz off, clear off, decamp, get, hop off, light out, lump it, make away, make off, pack away, pack off, pop off, push off, scat, scoot, scram, sheer off, shove along, shove off, skiddoo, skip off, slink away, slink off, slip away, split, take off, walk off). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ออกไป (kick off). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yaylanmak (hop it, hop off, scat, spring), toz olmak (do a fade-out, make oneself scarce, skive off, take a powder, whisk away), gitmek (apply, betake oneself to, depart, fare, give, go, go away, go together, head, head for, hop it, hop off, repair, resort, roll, run, steer for, step, strike out, take one's way, take to, to go, turn to, wend one's way, work in with). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bugger Off

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-f-f-g-g-o-r-u"

-3 letters: bouffe, brogue, buffer, bugger, fogger, goffer, gouger, rebuff, ruboff.

-4 letters: befog, bourg, buffo, erugo, forge, gofer, gorge, gouge, grego, gruff, gurge, offer, rogue, rouge, ruffe.

-5 letters: berg, boff, bore, buff, burg, ergo, euro, forb, fore, four, froe, frog, frug, goer, gore, grog, grub, grue, guff, ogre, robe, roue, rube, ruff, urge.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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