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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
buggery
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beating was on the agenda, certainly, but buggery very definitely was not.
▪ Moreover, convictions for non-consensual buggery of a male over 16 are less than frequent.
▪ Moreover, proof of non-consent on a charge of buggery or indecent assault is likely to become harder.
▪ The Committee is thus opposed to any form of integration between the three offences of rape, indecent assault and buggery.
▪ The old offence of buggery has, however, been retained.
▪ The penalty for an act of buggery against a boy was life imprisonment.
▪ They've added a rape scene, an act of buggery, and lots of violence that was not in the book.
▪ They acquitted him of three further charges of indecency and one of buggery.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buggery

Buggery \Bug"ger*y\, n. [OF. bougrerie, bogrerie, heresy. See Bugger.] Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
buggery

mid-14c., "heresy," from Old French bougrerie, from bougre "heretic" (see bugger (n.)). Later "unnatural intercourse" with man or beast, "carnalis copula contra Naturam, & hoc vel per confusionem Specierum;" from bugger (n.) + -y (4).

Wiktionary
buggery

n. 1 (context British English) anal sex. 2 Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as bestiality or necrophilia. 3 A broken or damaged condition. 4 An extreme condition.

WordNet
buggery

n. anal intercourse committed by a man with a man or woman [syn: sodomy, anal sex, anal intercourse]

Wikipedia
Buggery

The British English term buggery is very close in meaning to the term sodomy, often used interchangeably in law and popular speech. It may also be a specific common law offence encompassing both sodomy and bestiality.

Usage examples of "buggery".

Mom had provided Homer with a vision of how his alleged buggery would be treated and, doubtlessly, cured.

To add insult to injury, a gross, loathsome creature, whose only accomplishments consist of wine-swilling and buggery, sends me a so-called war herald.

Murder most foul, alarums and excursions, theft, buggery, barratry, incomplete perfusion!

Sheldrake, had got a Fourth in History and was only chosen for his present post because he was a member of the Freemasons, or that the yapping little cocker spaniel of a man who tried to teach us football had been dismissed from a job at Borstal for suspected buggery and even and this was a story which lasted with considerable embellishments throughout the whole of one long, wet summer term that the angry string bean of a man who taught us French had been a close friend of Burgess and Maclean and lived in daily terror of being arrested as an old Cambridge leftie and still-active Soviet spy.

But is also bad, Robin, because is obvious that buggery program is all bugged to hell.

No trifling sexual peccadillo, no boyhood adventure in buggery or mutual masturbation, no incestuous snuggling with his mildly protesting mother, but rather an intellectual crime, the most damning of all.

Since Iraq's microwave transmitters are already bombed to buggery and its radio signals are being intercepted by Allied intelligence, the landlines are Saddam's last link.

He's at the bottom of the stairs, the carpets are worn to buggery and he's got his neck broken.

But by now he had drunk a further pint of grog, and this time he said, 'I don't know what you think about this buggery lark, sir.

He handled every kind of case--land transfers, trespass, admiralty, marine insurance, murder, adultery, rape, bastardy, buggery, assault and battery, tarring and feathering.

Cuntish public-school drop-outs, dropped out for being too thick, having long hair or dirty boaters, unseaming new boys in multiple buggery, getting caught too many times with an impermissible number of hockey sticks up their bums.