buggy
See also: Buggy
English
A horse and buggy.
A dune buggy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /bʌ.ɡi/
Audio (RP) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌɡi
Etymology 1
Origin unknown.
Noun
buggy (plural buggies)
- A small horse-drawn cart.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
- I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
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- A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
- 2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times:
- I casually let this information drop as our concierge drives us through the resort in a buggy, a frangipani flower tucked behind his ear. He promises to fix the bug problem and drops us off at the lobby.
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- A hearse.
- 1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie
- Bring out the rubber tired buggy/Bring out the rubber tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back
- 1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie
- (UK, Western Pennsylvania) A pushchair; a stroller.
- Synonym: stroller
- 2020 January 2, “New entrance at Finsbury Park”, in Rail, page 12:
- The wider station upgrade has provided lifts to the Piccadilly and Victoria lines, as well as Network Rail platforms, to make it easier for passengers with mobility needs, buggies or heavy luggage to use London Underground.
- (Canada, Southern US, Western Pennsylvania) A shopping cart or trolley.
Derived terms
- beach buggy
- buggy whip
- bundle buggy
- Concord buggy
- golf buggy
- horse and buggy
- Irish buggy
- Moon buggy
- punch buggy
- rubber baby buggy bumper
- struggle-buggy
Descendants
- → Gulf Arabic: بقي (bagi, “ATV”)
Translations
A small horse-drawn cart
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A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy
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pushchair — see pushchair
shopping cart — see shopping cart
Etymology 2
bug + -y
Adjective
buggy (comparative buggier, superlative buggiest)
- Infested with insects.
- (computing) Containing programming errors.
- This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!
- Resembling an insect.
- (slang) Crazy; bughouse.[1][2]
- 2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades (page 106)
- You have to help me get out of here. They want to keep me longer, but I can't stay. This place is driving me buggy.
- 2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades (page 106)
Derived terms
- baby buggy
- bugginess
- buggy eyes
Translations
infested with insects
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containing programming errors
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References
- https://books.google.com/books?id=qcUN85uT0m4C&pg=PT41
- https://books.google.com/books?id=h0mcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA117
Further reading
- “buggy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English buggy.
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˈbʏ.ɡi/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bug‧gy
Noun
buggy m (plural buggy's, diminutive buggy'tje n)
- A baby buggy, a pushchair, a stroller.
- A buggy (small motor vehicle).
Derived terms
- strandbuggy
Adjective
buggy (not comparable)
- Buggy, containing programming errors.
Inflection
| Inflection of buggy | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | buggy | |||
| inflected | buggy | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | buggy | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | buggy | ||
| n. sing. | buggy | |||
| plural | buggy | |||
| definite | buggy | |||
| partitive | buggy's | |||
French
Etymology
From English buggy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bœ.ɡi/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Noun
buggy m (plural buggies or buggys)
- buggy (small vehicle)
Further reading
- “buggy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.