The word Bugger

[tgpo]

Is bugger, as in bugger off, a cuss word in the UK?? I've actually seen on some forums where people censor it like, bu**er off, and other variations. Is it a "bad" word?

[Will Hay]

Nah.
Where I come from you'd use it when you hit your thumb with the hammer...

"..Ouch, bugger!"

I've always one to use it as a friendly insult, so much so as I call my son it when he does something naughty...

'Oi, you, you little bugger, come here!"

..but my wife goes mad (she doesn't like it!)

I suppose my family has always veiwed the word as one of those swear words that isn't, if you know what I mean.
Will

[Will Hay]

Watch any movie with (that wanker) Hugh Grant in, he says it fifteen times a minute.
Actually, he says' "Oh bagger", but that's just poor old Hugh playing the same role over and over again.
Will

[tgpo]

I suppose my family has always veiwed the word as one of those swear words that isn't, if you know what I mean.
Will

Like my family, we don't mind the word pissed, as in Pissed Off, but I know other families that hate that word.

[Craig Tucker]

Don't say F*ck or Bugger

[Will Hay]

Don't say F*ck or Bugger

So, tw*t is no worse than f*ck where you come from then?

Anyway tgpo, I thought it was just a term for your nasal contents, no?
As you probably know those of us in the UK call those multi-coloured snippets of goo a 'bogie' (pronounced 'bow-gie').
Will

[Craig Tucker]

No, twat would come somewhere between F*ck and Bugger, a secondary swear word.

[tgpo]

Anyway tgpo, I thought it was just a term for your nasal contents, no?
As you probably know those of us in the UK call those multi-coloured snippets of goo a 'bogie' (pronounced 'bow-gie').
Will

That would be a booger.

[Craig Tucker]

And there are two pronunciations of the word bow

[Will Hay]

Anyway tgpo, I thought it was just a term for your nasal contents, no?
As you probably know those of us in the UK call those multi-coloured snippets of goo a 'bogie' (pronounced 'bow-gie').
Will

That would be a booger.

Ah-ha, I see.
I thought it was the same thing.
Will

[tgpo]

Yeah, here a bogie is an enemy aircraft that is on your tail trying to shoot you down.

[Craig Tucker]

Or a police car, isn't it.

[Treebeard]

what about the word sod. I hear oh sod off or sod it. is that casual slang or swearing?

[Craig Tucker]

I would not classify that as a swear word.

[tgpo]

I've never heard a cop car called a bogie before. Typically in the movies you hear, "You got a bogie on your tail" or something like that. Here we call them Cops, pigs, po-pos, flatfoots. Stuff like that. Of course in the Blues Brothers they were 'Rollers'.

[tgpo]

sod, what you lay down to produce your lawn.

[Craig Tucker]

Nah.
Where I come from you'd use it when you hit your thumb with the hammer...

"..Ouch, bugger!"

If I hit my thumb with a hammer it would be more like ;

Ouch, you f*cking twat.

[BJ_M]

Nah.
Where I come from you'd use it when you hit your thumb with the hammer...

"..Ouch, bugger!"

If I hit my thumb with a hammer it would be more like ;

Ouch, you f*cking twat. :lol:

would that be directed at the hammer or your thumb or at the sky ?

[Craig Tucker]

It would be directed at me

[tompika]

Name this movie?

[Craig Tucker]

Snatch ?

[tgpo]

Yeah, cool movie.

[i_am_dave]

In my wifes family,

Sh*t is allowed, but D*mn isn't, neither is the diminuitive 'Darn'

And of Course the 'F' word will always earn you a mean look.

Here is an interesting link about the 'F' word, be sure your headphones are on...

http://students.washington.edu/wfrenchu/Flash/Proper_Use_Of_English.swf

[tgpo]

We con't view flash here at work, but I'm guessing it's about the origin of "cuss" words. For example: For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Am I right, or am I way off???

[i_am_dave]

Nope, it talks about what a flexible word it is and tells of the many wonderful ways in which it can be used!

Quite funny!

[tgpo]

Like the George Carlon standup routine?

[i_am_dave]

Nope, more like Monty Python!!!!

[tgpo]

Nope, more like Monty Python!!!!

Hmmmm....I'll have to listen to that when I get home.

[fmctm1sw]

I'm guessing it's not. That dude on WWE used to say it all the time. Lord Steven Regal...

[pacmania_2001]

Bugger is used alot over here (Australia) and recently was the cause of some controversy.

One of our car manufacturer's (Toyota) used the word in a series of their advertising where various events would cause people to go "oh bugger". Anyway to cut a long story short, our friendly (but very prone to whinging) neighbours, New Zealand took offence to the word because they (and supposedly the literal meaning) of the word is to have sex with an animal.

Now, anyone with some knowledge about Australia/New Zealand knows that we love nothing more to give them a ribbing about them "loving" their sheep. In the end I believe Toyota pulled the ads in NZ but left them going in Australia were they were a bit of a fad.