bugger up
English
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Verb
bugger up (third-person singular simple present buggers up, present participle buggering up, simple past and past participle buggered up)
- (Britain, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, informal) To break or spoil something, or make it inoperative, useless etc.
- I've buggered up the sudoku somehow and can't finish it.
- Synonym: (Southern US) booger up
- 2016 March 15, David Dale, “John Jarratt talks new show Territory Cops and a murderous return in Wolf Creek”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
- 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.
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: bagarap
Translations
to break or spoil something
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