different between buggy vs vuggy

English

Etymology

Origin unknown.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?.?i/
• Rhymes: -??i

Noun

buggy (plural buggies)

1. A small horse-drawn cart.
2. A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
3. A hearse.
   • 1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie

     Bring out the rubber tired buggy/Bring out the rubber tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back

4. (Britain) A pushchair; a stroller.
5. (Canada, Southern US) A shopping cart or trolley.

Synonyms

• (pushchair): stroller

Translations

Adjective

buggy (comparative buggier, superlative buggiest)

1. Infested with insects
2. (computing) Containing programming errors

   This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!

3. Resembling an insect
4. (slang) Crazy; bughouse
   • 2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades (page 106)

     You have to help me get out of here. They want to keep me longer, but I can't stay. This place is driving me buggy.

Derived terms

• baby buggy
• bugginess
• buggy eyes

Translations

References

• “buggy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English buggy.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /?b?.?i/
• Hyphenation: bug?gy

Noun

buggy m (plural buggy's, diminutive buggy'tje n)

1. A baby buggy, a pushchair, a stroller.
2. A buggy (small motor vehicle).

Derived terms

• strandbuggy

Adjective

buggy (not comparable)

1. Buggy, containing programming errors.

Inflection

French

Etymology

From English buggy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bœ.?i/

Noun

buggy m (plural buggies or buggys)

1. buggy (small vehicle)

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

vug +? -y

Adjective

vuggy (comparative more vuggy, superlative most vuggy)

1. (geology) Containing vugs.
   • 1962, Thomas A. Steven, James C. Ratté, Geology and Ore Deposits, Summitville District, San Juan Mountains, Colorado (Geological Survey Professional Paper 343), Geological Survey (U.S.) (publisher), page 41,

     Parts of the resistant veins have been strongly leached and consists^[sic] of vuggy, porous quartz ; elsewhere compact quartz has replaced most of the constituents in the original rock.

   • 1975, Robin G. C. Bathurst, Carbonate Sediments and Their Diagenesis, page 371,

     The diachronous layers under the lagoons, when traced seaward, become more and more vuggy, as cement is more patchily developed, and eventually pass into separate lumps (Taylor and Illing, 1969).

   • 1976, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Deep Sea Drilling Project, National Ocean Sediment Coring Program, Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Report, page 46,

     The basalt consists of a dark greenish-gray, aphyric, vesicular to vuggy altered rock that is diabasic and vesicular near the top, but becomes steadily coarser, more vuggy, and trachitic in texture in the lower part of the unit.