different between bugger vs soda

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b???/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgar”), used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various unnatural practices and perversions such as sodomy were ascribed. Doublet of Bulgar.

Noun

bugger (plural buggers)

1. (obsolete) A heretic.
2. (Britain law) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.

3. (slang, derogatory, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
   • 1928, Frank Parker Day, Rockbound, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500721h,

     “I’ll take it out on dat young bugger,” he thought viciously.

   • 1947, James Hilton, So Well Remembered, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0600371h,

     Here the cheers and shouts of the gallery were interrupted by a shabby little man in the back row who yelled out with piercing distinctness: “Don't matter what you call ’im now, George. The bugger’s dead.”

4. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A situation that causes dismay.

5. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
   • 1946, Olaf Stapledon, Arms Out of Hand, in Collected Stories, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0601341,

     Good luck, you old bugger!

   • 1953 February-March, Henry Beam Piper, John Joseph McGuire, Null-ABC, in Astounding Science Fiction, Gutenberg eBook #18346,

     “And if Pelton found out that his kids are Literates—Woooo!” Cardon grimaced. “Or what we've been doing to him. I hope I’m not around when that happens. I’m beginning to like the cantankerous old bugger.”

6. (slang, dated) A damn, anything at all.

7. (slang, Britain) Someone who is very fond of something

8. (slang, US) A whippersnapper, a tyke.

Synonyms

• (sodomite): See Thesaurus:male homosexual and Thesaurus:fudge packer

Derived terms

• bugger factor

Translations

Verb

bugger (third-person singular simple present buggers, present participle buggering, simple past and past participle buggered)

1. (vulgar, Britain) To have anal sex with, sodomize.

   To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s era Big Rock Candy Mountain)

2. (slang, vulgar in Britain) To break or ruin.

3. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To be surprised.

4. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To feel contempt for some person or thing.

   Bugger Bognor. (Alleged to be the last words of King George V of the United Kingdom in response to a suggestion that he might recover from his illness and visit Bognor Regis.)

5. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.

6. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To be fatigued.

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

bugger

1. (slang, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) An expression of annoyance or displeasure.

Synonyms

• bummer
• damn
• whoops
• See also Thesaurus:dammit

Translations

Further reading

• The Origins and Common Usage of British swear-words

Etymology 2

From bug (noun) +? -er.

Noun

bugger (plural buggers)

1. One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.

Related terms

• buggee

French

Alternative forms

• beuguer

Etymology

bug +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bœ.?e/

Verb

bugger

1. (computing, also figuratively) to malfunction, to glitch

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written bugge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /?/ and not a “hard” /?/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

English

Etymology

From Italian soda, from Medieval Latin soda, from Arabic ??????? (?ud??).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?so?d?/
• Rhymes: -??d?

Noun

soda (countable and uncountable, plural sodas)

1. (uncountable) Sodium bicarbonate (usually baking soda).
2. (uncountable) Sodium carbonate (usually washing soda).
3. (uncountable) Sodium in chemical combination.
4. (uncountable) Carbonated water (water impregnated with pressurised carbon dioxide, originally made with sodium bicarbonate).
5. (chiefly US, regional, especially in the northeast, uncountable) Any carbonated (usually sweet) soft drink.
6. (chiefly US, regional, especially in the northeast, countable) A glass, bottle or can of this drink.
7. (card games) The first card in the dealing box in the game of faro, which is discarded to leave 51 cards in play.

Synonyms

• (drink, glass of this drink): carbonated drink, fizzy drink, fizz (UK), (fizzy) pop (Northern US, Canada), soda pop (US), soft drink, coke (Southern US), lemonade (Australia), thirst-buster (colloquial)

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• AOSD, ados, daos, dosa, odas

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English soda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.da/

Noun

soda m (plural sodas)

1. soda, soft drink

Derived terms

Further reading

• “soda” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ados, dosa, sado

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin soda, from Latin sodanum, Arabic ??????? (?ud??).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.da/

Noun

soda f (plural sode)

1. soda, sodium carbonate

   Synonym: carbonato di sodio

2. soda water

   Synonym: seltz

Etymology 2

Adjective

soda f

1. feminine singular of sodo, meaning solid and firm, synonymous with solida

Verb

soda

1. third-person singular present indicative of sodare

Anagrams

• dosa

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sota.

Noun

soda (genitive sovan, partitive sodua)

1. war

Synonyms

• voinu

Derived terms

• ydinsoda

Latvian

Noun

soda f (4th declension)

1. soda
2. natron

Declension

Noun

soda m

1. genitive singular form of sods

Verb

soda

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of sod?t
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of sod?t
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of sod?t
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of sod?t

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) suod?

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sota.

Noun

soda

1. (Salaca) war

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Italian sodo, possibly from Latin solidus (“solid”). The second sense is borrowed from English.

Noun

soda m (definite singular sodaen, indefinite plural sodaar or sodaer, definite plural sodaane or sodaene)

1. sodium carbonate
2. carbonated water, soft drink

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

soda n

1. definite plural of sod

References

• “soda” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin soda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.da/

Noun

soda f

1. (chemistry) soda (sodium carbonate)

   Synonym: w?glan sodu

Declension

Further reading

• soda in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• soda in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

soda f (plural sodas)

1. soda (carbonated water)
2. soda (sweet, carbonated drink)

   Synonyms: refrigerante, refresco

Related terms

• sódio

Verb

soda

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of sodar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of sodar

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sóda f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. soda (sodium carbonate)
2. soda (carbonated drink)

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?soda/, [?so.ð?a]

Noun

soda f (plural sodas)

1. soda (soft drink)

   Synonyms: gaseosa, refresco, (Chile) bebida

2. soda (sodium hydroxide)

   Synonym: sosa

3. (Costa Rica, Panama, rarely in United States) cheap, casual restaurant

Swahili

Etymology 1

From English soda.

Noun

soda (n class, plural soda)

1. soda (carbonated water)
2. soda (sweet carbonated drink)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (“black bile”) or from Persian.

Noun

soda (n class, plural soda)

1. melancholy

Swedish

Etymology

From Italian soda, probably from Arabic ???????? (suww?d).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²su?da/

Noun

soda c

1. soda, sodium carbonate

Declension

Synonyms

• natriumkarbonat

Related terms

• sodalut
• sodavatten

References

• soda in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• dosa, osad

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English solder.

Noun

soda

1. solder

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sota.

Noun

soda

1. war

Inflection