buggersome

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English

Etymology

From bugger +‎ -some.

Adjective

buggersome (comparative more buggersome, superlative most buggersome)

  1. Characteristic or typical of a bugger; characterised or marked by buggery
    • 1963, D. A. Kinsley, Allen Edwardes, Death rides a camel:
      "[...] The gay Afghan is a buggersome man!" [...]
    • 2010, Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo:
      That Reeda had noticed Riley's nose, and that Riley had commented upon his mother's ankles did not pass Cy by without first clipping him like a buggersome fingernail on the back of an earlobe.
    • 2015, Kuldeep Saluja, The Unofficial Joke book of Holland:
      A buggersome rancher named Reap
      Remarked as he ravished a sheep,
      “I'm hoping I shall
      Someday hump a gal,
      But they're neither as tight or as cheap!”