3. An exclamation expressing shock or dissatisfaction, Oh, buggery! I broke a nail. Etymology: From medieval Latin Bulgaris , Bulgars, who were regarded as a heretic people who, allegedly, practiced sodomy.
Quotes:
(1) W.B. Yeats: ' Love has pitched her mansion in the place of excrement.'
(5) Atoon (Gedde Watanabe) about the sumo wrestlers ogling his ass, and Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks) in Volunteers (1985): -- Atoon: ' Don't say nothing more. They want to use me like a woman.' -- Lawrence: ' Well, you'll just have to show them you can take it like a man.'
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(Noun)
superlative in colloquial usage, extreme situation, excessive