英语词汇bugger的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bugger. Bugger in British English never means a child, as it does in American expressions like “he’s just a little bugger.” A bugger in England is only a sodomite and to bugger is to sodomize—in fact, use of the word in print was actionable in England for many years. Bugger in this sense, which is Ameri- can slang as well, derives, down a tortuous path, from the Medieval Latin Bulgarus, meaning “both a Bulgarian and a sodomite.” The word first referred to a Bulgarian and then to the Bulgarian Albigenses or Bulgarian Heretics, an 11th- century religious sect whose monks and nuns were believed to practice sodomy. Some historians claim that the charge of sodomy against these heretic dissenters was a libel invented with the approval of the Church. They had already been ban- ished from Bulgaria, were living in the south of France, and the trumped-up story caused the French to oust or extermi- nate them, too.

词汇	bugger
词源	bugger. Bugger in British English never means a child, as it does in American expressions like “he’s just a little bugger.” A bugger in England is only a sodomite and to bugger is to sodomize—in fact, use of the word in print was actionable in England for many years. Bugger in this sense, which is Ameri- can slang as well, derives, down a tortuous path, from the Medieval Latin Bulgarus, meaning “both a Bulgarian and a sodomite.” The word first referred to a Bulgarian and then to the Bulgarian Albigenses or Bulgarian Heretics, an 11th- century religious sect whose monks and nuns were believed to practice sodomy. Some historians claim that the charge of sodomy against these heretic dissenters was a libel invented with the approval of the Church. They had already been ban- ished from Bulgaria, were living in the south of France, and the trumped-up story caused the French to oust or extermi- nate them, too.
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