Also 7 buggar. [f. prec. sb.]
trans. To commit buggery with. Also absol. Hence Buggering ppl. a.
1602. S. Patrike, trans. Estate of the Church, 44. Hee held in his Pallaice three hundreth Concubines, and three hundreth buggering boyes.
1607. R. C[arew], trans. Estienne’s World of Wonders, 54. He would haue abused his owne son Robert, and that he had made a buggering boy of him, if he had not drawne his dagger at him, and so escaped. Ibid., 336. The Churches that were made for holy deeds, Are soyled by these buggering Ganimedes.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Levretée.
1624. Capt. Smith, Virginia, V. 198. Three of the foulest acts were these: the first for the rape of a married woman, which was acquitted by a senselesse Iury; the second for buggering a Sow, and the third for Sodomy with a boy, for which they were hanged.
1675. Cotton, Poet. Wks. (1765), 279. Thou bugger’st then the Goats, I doubt.
1681. Trial S. Colledge, 42. Speaking of the King, he said, He came of the Race of Buggerers, for his Grandfather, King James, buggered the old Duke of Buckingham.
1685. Ringrose, Bucaniers Amer., II. IV. 121. William Cook, servant unto Captain Edmund Cook, confessed that his Master had oft times Buggered him in England, leaving his Wife and coming to bed to him the said William. That the same crime he had also perpetrated in Jamaica; and once in these Seas before Panama.
a. 1701. Sedley, Wks. (1722), 100.
| Phrine, as odious as Youth well can be, | |
| The Daughter of a Courtier in High Place, | |
| Met with a buggering Mass, that cou’d not see; | |
| His Blindness she, and that excus’d her Face. |
