bugger
French, verb/bœ.ɡe/
bugger is spelled B-U-G-G-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 85,597th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bugger is a French verb meaning “to malfunction, to glitch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manifester une anomalie de fonctionnement, un bug”.
What does bugger mean in English?
verb
- 1
to malfunction, to glitch
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Manifester une anomalie de fonctionnement, un bug. 2. Faire une erreur, une faute.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bugger
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- buggant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- buggé participle past
- bugge first-person indicative present
- bugges indicative present second-person
- buggons first-person indicative plural
- buggez indicative plural present
- buggent indicative plural present
- buggais first-person imperfect indicative
- buggait imperfect indicative singular
- buggions first-person imperfect indicative
- buggiez imperfect indicative plural
- buggaient imperfect indicative plural
- buggai first-person historic indicative
- buggas historic indicative past
- bugga historic indicative past
- buggâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bugger?
- /bœ.ɡe/
- \bœ.ɡe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bugger in French?
bugger appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).