Assorted buggers and annoyances – a light bite

By Baldmichael Theresoluteprotector’sson

Apr 02, 2025

In my anagramming of people’s names I found some who included the word ‘bugger’.

Now the word has some differing meanings depending on the context. As Wikipedia says

Bugger or buggar can at times be considered as a mild swear word. In the United Kingdom the term has been used commonly to imply dissatisfaction, refer to someone or something whose behaviour is in some way inconvenient or perhaps as an expression of surprise. In the United States, particularly in the Midwest and South, it is an inoffensive slang term meaning "small animal".

From

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugger

Of course bugs are insects so a bugger might be taken to mean in some quarters someone who studies them, an entomologist.

And then there are those who place electronic bugs as surveillance equipment.

Wikipedia explains the derivation thus:

It is derived from Anglo-Norman bougre, from Latin Bulgarus, in reference to Bulgaria, from which the Bogomils, a sect labeled by church authorities as heretics, were thought to have come in the 11th century, after other "heretics" to whom abominable practices were imputed in an abusively disparaging manner. (The word Bogomil itself is not etymologically related.)

The word bugger also relates to sodomy, anal sex between men, sodomy being derived from Sodom of biblical infamy.

Anyway, here are some ‘buggers’ I found.

George Bush, father and son

George Herbert Walker Bush, 41^st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993.

George Walker Bush, the 43^rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

Both were president during two wars against Iraq when Saddam Hussein was in power.

‘bugger’ is not the longest single word anagram but they can be

- hoes bugger

- hose bugger

- shoe bugger

Which makes the mind boggle. In event we can say

- So he bugger

Father is also a Herbert, but if we check the shared full names, George Walker Bush, we can have

- oh sleek war bugger

Like father, like son then.

Guy Burgess

Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era.

From

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Burgess

The two longest single word anagrams are ‘buggers’ and ‘buggery’. We can get

- USS buggery

- bugger Susy

He was a homosexual. Perhaps this is not surprising.

In fact as a Soviet double agent this is most suitable from his full name.

- cissy comrades funny bugger

Pete Buttigeig

Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, U.S. politician who served as the 19th United States secretary of transportation from 2021 to 2025 as part of Joe Biden’s cabinet.

We can get this from Peter Buttigeig.

- it petite bugger

Petite might be pushing it, but he is not so tall and relatively slim.

And he is a homosexual. So a descriptive anagram.

Greta Thunberg

By Kushal Das - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=158392120

A Swedish environmental activist. There are various phrases.

- then art bugger

- then rat bugger

- her attn bugger

- earth NT bugger

- hat rent bugger

But perhaps the best is

- the rant bugger

Here is she at her finest.

"How dare you?" - Emotional Greta Thunberg attacks world leaders

Sep 23, 2019

Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe, his full name, was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017.

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe

We have to use his full name to find the word ‘bugger’ but we can get

- am be liberator bugger

As he was seen as a liberator for many this is appropriate.

- I am late bugger robber

The word ‘late’ is used of someone who has died. As he apparently had a vast wealth at the time of his death this is also suitable.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7434753/Robert-Grace-Mugabes-1BILLION-property-empire.html

Summary and final thoughts

There you have a few buggers. Perhaps they may have been programmed by their names for what they were or are. Your thoughts are welcome.