buggery

English

Etymology

Wikipedia

The term buggery originated in medieval Europe as an insult used to describe the rumoured same-sex sexual practices of the heretics from the Buggre sect. This sect originated in medieval Bulgaria, where its followers were called bogomils, but when they spread out of the country they were called buggres (from ethnonym Bulgars).

Noun

buggery (countable and uncountable; plural buggeries)

1. (UK) Anal sex.
   • 1861, United Kingdom, Offences Against the Person Act 1861:

     Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery […] shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be kept in penal servitude for life or for any term not less than ten years.

2. Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as bestiality or necrophilia.
3. A broken or damaged condition.

   It's gone to buggery.

4. An extreme condition.

   It hurts like buggery. Run like buggery.