buggy

English

A horse and buggy.

A dune buggy.

Etymology

Origin unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʌ.ɡi/
• Rhymes: -ʌɡi

Noun

buggy (plural buggies)

1. A small horse-drawn cart.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.

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. (UK) A pushchair; a stroller.
   • 2020 January 2, “New entrance at Finsbury Park”, in Rail, page 12:

     The wider station upgrade has provided lifts to the Piccadilly and Victoria lines, as well as Network Rail platforms, to make it easier for passengers with mobility needs, buggies or heavy luggage to use London Underground.

5. (Canada, Southern US) A shopping cart or trolley.

Synonyms

• (pushchair): stroller

Translations

A small horse-drawn cart

• Bulgarian: кабриолет m (kabriolet)
• Finnish: vaunut (fi), rattaat (fi), kärryt (fi)
• French: calèche (fr) f
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• Maori: paki
• Norman: tchéthiole f (Jersey), cariole f (Guernsey)
• Yiddish: פור m (fur)

A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy

• Bulgarian: бъги n (bǎgi)
• Finnish: mönkijä (fi)
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• French: quad (fr) m
• Portuguese: bugue (pt) m

pushchair — see pushchair

shopping cart — see shopping cart

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. Crazy; bughouse

Derived terms

• baby buggy
• bugginess
• buggy eyes

Translations

infested with insects

• French: infesté (fr) m
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• Turkish: böcekli (tr)

containing programming errors

• Czech: chybový m
• Finnish: buginen
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• French: buggé (fr) m
• Portuguese: bugado (pt)

References

• “buggy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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

1. baby buggy

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French

Etymology

From English buggy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bœ.ɡi/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

buggy m (plural buggies or buggys)

1. buggy (small vehicle)

Further reading

• “buggy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.