Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sodomy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The crime of bestiality; sodomy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK
Anal sex . - noun Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as bestiality or necrophilia.
- noun A broken or damaged condition.
- noun An extreme condition.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman
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Examples
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I first saw the term buggery in my Bar-Bri book in the criminal law section.
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With that caveat, my limited experiences, as well as my conversations with various women, suggests that the epileptic jackhammer school of buggery is generally disfavored by women who enjoy anal sex.
Matthew Yglesias » Stay Classy, Conservative Blogosphere 2007
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I'm not sure where in buggery that establishing shot was made, but it wasn't here.
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I just like the fact that he used the word buggery quite a bit.
The Democratic Party's email attacking Jerome Corsi (author of the #1 selling anti-Obama book). Ann Althouse 2008
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“Portyghee” crewmen were thought to lack skills, be physically inadequate, and be prone to moral degeneracy—another term for buggery.
A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
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Strictly speaking, sodomy has always been the word used for a male person sticking his male sexual organ in someone else’s rectal sphincter; buggery is also used as the term of art, although the posessor of the sphincter may also be an animal, in that case.
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Strictly speaking, sodomy has always been the word used for a male person sticking his male sexual organ in someone else’s rectal sphincter; buggery is also used as the term of art, although the posessor of the sphincter may also be an animal, in that case.
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Sodomy, known as buggery in England and Wales, was made legal for consenting adults as recently as 1967.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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English there is another term, "buggery," identical in meaning with sodomy, and equally familiar.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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Assault with the intent to sexually assault someone also results in placement on the sex offender registry, as does incest, "buggery," peeping and kidnapping (unless no criminal sexual offense was performed, attempted or intended).
brtom commented on the word buggery
"Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 27, 2007