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Bugger

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1936, OED Evaluation: Course slang

Something unpleasant or undesirable; a great nuisance

ExampleMeaning
The bucket went down and it went into the ground. It went into the road. Him and road (inc) coming down this ton and a half wagon on behind me. It took into the ground like that there. Bugger bent the motor all to rat shit and the steering wheel hit him in the stomach.
A bother/pain
ExampleMeaning
And apparently he was a bunch of English buggers down there and you do exactly what they say and you're supposed to read their mind. Apparently, I was told to come in Saturday and ah wash the dust off the cars and clean them all up for make- keep the sales going.
A bother/pain

bugger off

Parf of speech: Phrase, OED Year: 1922, OED Evaluation: N/A

To go away, depart.

ExampleMeaning
And he'd lie there until you come back and told him something different. The hens- there'd be half-a-dozen hens, they'd be in there. The dog will lie down. The hen will walk right past, eh? And bugger off around it again. Meanwhile the people are right there, watching it.
To go away, depart.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So when you were a kid was that your job, to go out and weed? Speaker: Oh y-- Interviewer: Weed the ground. Speaker: Well yeah, yeah. If they could find me, I would- Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: Maybe bugger off and fish you-know? Interviewer: (Gasps) Fishing stories! Tell us some fishing stories.
To go away, depart.

Buggy

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1773, OED Evaluation: N/A

A light one-horse (sometimes two-horse) vehicle, for one or two persons. Those in use in America have four wheels; those in England and India, two; in India there is a hood. (In recent use, esp. in U.S., India, and former British colonies.)

ExampleMeaning
Yeah, Jeff-Burns over here is the dairy man. He- he ah served this town with a hired man on a buggy. And ah- a horse and buggy with a- with a- um milk wagon. And ah, he'd- they served- served ah milk to anybody that wanted milk. And they were at the same church as us.
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But anyway, he had a good driving horse and a nice buggy and he stopped m-- to take a couple of them McCout girls, pick them up and take them home that night and the dad was one- get a hold of the buggy and- and two or three of them get a hold of the back of the buggy and ah was holding it there.
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Well I'll tell you- you- y-- if you're going anywhere then you had to- could use a horse and buggy and you had a pretty good driving horse. You always kept a good driving horse, something that would move.
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And Stanford just pulled out the whip and he just struck the horse one and it just went l-- like that and th-- the- the buggy stayed there and...
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Speaker: That was his mode of transportation. Interviewer: Holstein-steer? Speaker: W-- (inc) in a buggy.
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Yes and he ran it good too. He wouldn't- he wou-- his- ah brought him up here like (inc) to come (inc) come up here at night with his steer in the- in the buggy. He was- he was good.
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Well yeah. When he got older you-know I used- he wasn't able to harness the horse to go to town, so I used to go over and harness the horse for him and- and take him- get on the buggy and-Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Pick him up. And he'd let me drive right to there.
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So I would, ah, get books and then it got- what do you do with them? So I put them in a buggy- we had one old buggy that came from Merrickville, I guess, in the store and just put "free" on them. And then the buggy get kind of overdone so then we get the shelf out front and that's still going. It's amazing.
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Ah, and I think it was all done by horse and buggy type-thing, like, yeah, yeah. I believe that was how it was done.
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...and of course he wanted to visit so- but dad had to get back on the train so he sat there on that feet a-- in the buggy and went all up, up to the village of Pakenham chatting a mile a minute
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And my- I'm only about a mile-and-a-half from Pakenham. So Dad hopped on a train, then the very next morning came down to Pakenham and Sid-Arnolds, his- his friend met him with the horse-and-buggy at the- a-- and then at the at the station, he took him out to the farm and that- it was a no-go. Just didn't click, at all.
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She said, "I really think, and when we think about it, the one thing to do was get into a farm that's close enough that they can walk to high-school or you-know so- or- or drive to high-school on a horse-and-buggy but that was it. So as soon as he went out the door with his- they'll bring him and "Yes, we'll tell." And they got on the phone.
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He delivered it with the horse and cutter, or the horse and buggy.
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Imagine little girls, out by themselves, not afraid of anything. We'd go to the back and we'd see where the cherry trees had been, where the buggies were still there, the history of the f-- the whole farm. Just walking and wandering.
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Well, there's no other way to say it. Um, but the- the, ah, families would gather at, ah, the farm and, of course, beautiful summer times under the oaks and, ah, buggy rides. Grandma would have, I-don't-know, an old buggy there. I-mean, it would be the kind-of-thing from eighteen-hundreds. And the kids would make their own fun, like, jump into the buggy, let it run down the hill to the creek, you-know, jump back in again.
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Oh, just- he just a r-- ah down-to-earth redneck, he's a- he's ah very genuine and he just like to party and you-know, um so it was pretty ah great for us to be able to do that. I wasn't very old at the time but I was i-- I rode in the buggies and then i-- helped to look after the horses when we were down at the grounds and-stuff-like-that.
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