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bug·ger·y

 (bŭg′ə-rē, bo͝og′-)
n. Vulgar Slang
Sodomy.
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buggery

(ˈbʌɡərɪ)
n
anal intercourse between a man and another man, a woman, or an animal. Compare sodomy
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sod•om•y

(ˈsɒd ə mi)

n.
1. anal or oral copulation with a member of the same sex.
2. enforced anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex.
[1250–1300; Middle English sodomie < Old French. See Sodom, -y3]
sod`o•mit′i•cal (-ˈmɪt ɪ kəl) sod`o•mit′ic, adj.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.buggery - intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman
sexual perversion, perversion - an aberrant sexual practice;
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Translations

buggery

[ˈbʌgərɪ] Nsodomía f
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buggery

[ˈbʌgəri] nsodomie f
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buggery

nAnalverkehr m; (with animals) → Sodomie f
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buggery

[ˈbʌgərɪ] nsodomia
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References in periodicals archive ?
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves and Opposition leader Godwin Friday have noted the right of persons to challenge the laws that criminalise buggery in St.
He is charged with four counts of buggery with a boy under 16, 14 counts of indecent assault on a boy under the age of 16, and nine counts of inciting a boy under the age of 14 to commit an act of gross indecency.
He was convicted of offences of indecent assault, indecency, buggery, attempted buggery and attempted indecent assault.
Bennell, 64, denies 48 offences, including indecent assault, attempted buggery and buggery, relating to 11 complainants, aged between eight and 15, and alleged to have happened between 1979 and 1990.
Bennell, 64, denies offences of indecent assault, buggery and attempted buggery.
Bennell is charged with offences including indecent assault, buggery and attempted buggery on boys aged between eight and 14 years old.
Bennell is still due to stand trial on 48 charges, including 35 counts of indecent assault, 11 counts of buggery and two counts of attempted buggery.
He is charged with 55 offences, including 42 counts of indecent assault, 11 counts of buggery and two counts of attempted buggery said to have been committed between 1979 and 1991.
In March 1966, he got five years for buggery and indecent assault on one boy and a second indecent assault on a lad aged 12.
Gibson, 79, is alleged to have carried out three counts of indecent assault and a further count of buggery against a man aged 16 or over in Newton Aycliffe and Consett between 1977 and 1978.
Brian McIlwraith, aged 60, of Nuffield Close, Bicester, had denied 16 offences of indecent assault and a further offence of attempted buggery when he went on trial at Coventry Crown Court last week.
Talbot, 63, was arrested on suspicion of indecent assaults and buggery in relation to five former pupils at the Altrincham Grammar School for Boys.