buggery:
1. An/the act of anal-copulation ; the practice sodomy . See anal-copulation for synonyms. 3. An exclamation expressing shock or dissatisfaction, Oh, buggery! I broke a nail .
Etymology: From medieval Latin Bulgaris , Bulgars, who were regarded as a heretic people who, allegedly, practiced sodomy .
Quotes:
(1) W.B. Yeats: ' Love has pitched her mansion in the place of excrement .'
(2) St. Augustine: 'Inter faeces et urinem nascimur.' (We are born between feces and urine.)
(3) Robert Reisner. Graffiti. Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing : 'Fuck scatology .'
(4) Ibid.: ' Homosexuality is a pain-in-the-ass . '
(5) Atoon (Gedde Watanabe) about the sumo wrestlers ogling his ass , and Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks) in Volunteers (1985):
-- Atoon: ' Don't say nothing more. They want to use me like a woman .'
-- Lawrence: ' Well, you'll just have to show them you can take-it like a man .'
See Also: 3-Bs, buggerclaw, buggers grips, buggers handles
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