Etymology

From bugger +‎ -essCategory:English terms suffixed with -ess#BUGGERESS.

Noun

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1. (rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#BUGGERESS, often humorousCategory:English humorous terms#BUGGERESS) a female bugger, in various senses
   • 1945 William Joyce, cited in Nigel Farndale (2005) Haw-Haw : the tragedy of William & Margaret Joyce (London: Macmillan) →ISBN p. 259

     Lucky buggeress. How I envy her.

   • 1964, Brian Friel, Philadelphia, Here I Come!:

     Rotten aul' snobby bitch! Just like her stinking rotten father and mother — a bugger and a buggeress — a buggeroo and a buggerette!

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   • 1972, Bruce Marshall, The Black Oxen: A Novel, London: Constable, →ISBN, pp. 190‑191:

     'Heaven knows what progress holds in store for the poor wee bugger.'
     'Perhaps it will be a poor wee buggeress.'
     A poor wee buggeress it was: Alison Catherine Pitcairn Duncan, born at half-past seven.

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2. (rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#BUGGERESS, derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#BUGGERESS) a sexually depraved woman
   • 1966, Charles Dyer, Staircase:

     My Mammie, closeted in that grazing home of vultures with an atrocious Belsen Buggeress stoking her up!

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   • 2004, Suzanne Desan, The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 108:

     The baker Charlotte Coquere testified that when she went to their house to tell LaFosse that she could no longer supply his wife bread without payment, she also reprimanded him for insulting his "honest wife in public" as “a damned buggeress, a slut, a whore."

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