When I was still in junior school, our team lost badly at football. I went home and told my parents we were well and truly buggered. (That’s what Jamie had said and I thought it sounded appropriately drastic.) Mum gasped and sternly said my name, and Dad firmly said that I shouldn’t use that word. I asked why not. Very patiently, he explained to me what it meant. I was a little taken aback and did indeed stop using that word.
I think in British English buggered literally means to have received anal intercourse and figuratively means for everything to have gone wrong for you. Synonym for shafted.
I’ve never heard it used in reference to sexual crimes against animals, so I don’t think “usually” is right.
When I was still in junior school, our team lost badly at football. I went home and told my parents we were well and truly buggered. (That’s what Jamie had said and I thought it sounded appropriately drastic.) Mum gasped and sternly said my name, and Dad firmly said that I shouldn’t use that word. I asked why not. Very patiently, he explained to me what it meant. I was a little taken aback and did indeed stop using that word.
I don’t get it, what does it mean? Well and truly buggered sounds very polite to me.
Anal intercourse (usually between human and animal)
Wow, TIL…
I thought it just meant “bothered”…
I don’t think the animal bit is right.
I’m not too buggered about it. I mean bothered.
What?! Dad didn’t mention animals, just “some men”.
That’s why I said usually.
I think in British English buggered literally means to have received anal intercourse and figuratively means for everything to have gone wrong for you. Synonym for shafted.
I’ve never heard it used in reference to sexual crimes against animals, so I don’t think “usually” is right.
I learned it from my British parents and wasn’t until I was a adult that I heard it was used for non human/animal anal sex.
They used it in a way to mean “go away” (as in go get fucked by a dog).
Shafted has in implication being wrongful. So when my dad told us to bugger off, he wasn’t saying we were getting shafted.
I guess it means whatever the person saying it wants it to mean.
In all fairness, it the British peoples’ fault for coming up with goofy names for non goofy matters.
May apologise on behalf of my people. I shall endeavour to only call it rectal intercourse from now on.