buggeress
English
Etymology
From bugger + -ess
Noun
buggeress (plural buggeresses)
- (rare, often humorous) a female bugger, in various senses
- 1945 William Joyce, cited in Nigel Farndale (2005) Haw-Haw : the tragedy of William & Margaret Joyce (London: Macmillan) →ISBN p. 259
- Lucky buggeress. How I envy her.
- 1964, Brian Friel, Philadelphia, Here I Come!
- Rotten aul' snobby bitch! Just like her stinking rotten father and mother — a bugger and a buggeress — a buggeroo and a buggerette!
- 1972, Bruce Marshall, The Black Oxen: A Novel (London: Constable) →ISBN pp. 190‑191
- 'Heaven knows what progress holds in store for the poor wee bugger.'
- 'Perhaps it will be a poor wee buggeress.'
- A poor wee buggeress it was: Alison Catherine Pitcairn Duncan, born at half-past seven.
- 1945 William Joyce, cited in Nigel Farndale (2005) Haw-Haw : the tragedy of William & Margaret Joyce (London: Macmillan) →ISBN p. 259
- (rare, derogatory) a sexually depraved woman
- 1966, Charles Dyer, Staircase
- My Mammie, closeted in that grazing home of vultures with an atrocious Belsen Buggeress stoking her up!
- 2004, Suzanne Desan, The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France (University of California Press) →ISBN p. 108
- The baker Charlotte Coquere testified that when she went to their house to tell LaFosse that she could no longer supply his wife bread without payment, she also reprimanded him for insulting his "honest wife in public" as as “a damned buggeress, a slut, a whore."
- 1966, Charles Dyer, Staircase
Usage notes
Sometimes used as a translation of French bougresse.
Translations
- French: bougresse (fr) f