Forms: 4 bugerie, 6 buggerye, -arie, -orie, boggery, bowgery, bockery, Sc. bewgrye, 6–7 buggerie, 6– buggery, 8– -ary. [f. as prec.: see -ERY.] † a. Abominable heresy. Obs. b. Unnatural intercourse of a human being with a beast, or of men with one another, sodomy. Now only as a technical term in criminal law.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron., 320. Þe Kyng said & did crie, þe pape was heretike … and lyued in bugerie.
1514. Fitzherb., Just. Peas (1538), 125 b. It is enacted that the vice of buggorie committed with man kynd or beast be adjudged felonie.
1552. Lyndesay, Monarche, 3473. That self Syn of Sodomye, and most abhominabyll bewgrye [v.r. bowgre].
1667. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., I. (1684), 41. The sin of Buggery brought into England by the Lombards.
1754. Edwards, Freed. Will, III. vii. 187. The most horrid crimes, Adultery, Murder, Buggery, Blasphemy, &c.
1861. Act 24 & 25 Vict., c. § 61. The abominable crime of buggery, committed either with mankind or with any animal.
B. attrib. or as adj.
1643. R. O., Man’s Mort., vi. 49. Christ dyed not for the rationall part seperated from the materiall, nor the materiall from the rationall, if there should be such Buggery births.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 23. A buggery fool.
