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bugger up en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈbʌɡə(ɹ)ʌp/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈbʌɡəɹ ʌp/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, informal) To break or spoil something, or make it inoperative, useless etc.
    • Well, he only buggers up one sentence, and that's the first one. He says, 'Shut up, blek.' But from that point on, it was OK because I helped him with it. If I'd been there, I would have told him to say, 'Shut up, black', exactly the same as an American accent. 2016 March 15, David Dale, “John Jarratt talks new show Territory Cops and a murderous return in Wolf Creek”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
    • I've buggered up the sudoku somehow and can't finish it.
  2. (Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, informal) To injure or harm (someone).

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
buggered up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
buggered up Tense=Past lexicographic
buggers up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
buggering up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Descendants

bagarap · bagarap

Synonyms

booger up

Translations (8)

pl spartaczyć (to break or spoil something) · tpi bagarap (to break or spoil something) · pl partaczyć (to break or spoil something) · pl spieprzać (to break or spoil something) · cs zkurvit (to break or spoil something) · pl spieprzyć (to break or spoil something) · cmn 搞砸 (to break or spoil something) · tpi bagarapim (to break or spoil something)