See rugger bugger on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Chosen for the rhyme.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "rugger buggers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "rugger bugger (plural rugger buggers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Australian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English reduplications",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English rhyming compounds",
"parents": [
"Rhyming compounds",
"Compound terms",
"Rhyming phrases",
"Terms by etymology",
"Phrases",
"Lemmas",
"Multiword terms"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "South African English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone who is fanatical about sports, especially rugby union, and who can be loud and unpleasant to other people."
],
"id": "en-rugger_bugger-en-noun-BN1y~bgO",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"fanatical",
"fanatical"
],
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"rugby union",
"rugby union"
],
[
"loud",
"loud"
],
[
"unpleasant",
"unpleasant"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, South Africa, Australia, derogatory) Someone who is fanatical about sports, especially rugby union, and who can be loud and unpleasant to other people."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"South-Africa",
"UK",
"derogatory"
]
}
],
"word": "rugger bugger"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Chosen for the rhyme.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "rugger buggers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "rugger bugger (plural rugger buggers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"British English",
"English countable nouns",
"English derogatory terms",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English reduplications",
"English rhyming compounds",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"South African English"
],
"glosses": [
"Someone who is fanatical about sports, especially rugby union, and who can be loud and unpleasant to other people."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"fanatical",
"fanatical"
],
[
"sports",
"sports"
],
[
"rugby union",
"rugby union"
],
[
"loud",
"loud"
],
[
"unpleasant",
"unpleasant"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, South Africa, Australia, derogatory) Someone who is fanatical about sports, especially rugby union, and who can be loud and unpleasant to other people."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"South-Africa",
"UK",
"derogatory"
]
}
],
"word": "rugger bugger"
}
Download raw JSONL data for rugger bugger meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.