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buggy

1

[buhg-ee]

adjective

buggier, buggiest 
  1. infested with bugs.

    We spent one last muggy, buggy summer at the campsite up North, then started vacationing in the Southwest.

  2. Computers.Ģż(of software) containing errors or imperfections that reduce reliability, performance, or user experience.

    The game’s load times were slow, and the autosave was buggy.

  3. Slang.Ģżcrazy; insane; peculiar.



buggy

2

[buhg-ee]

noun

plural

buggies 
  1. a light, four-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage with a single seat and a transverse spring.

  2. (in India) a light, two-wheeled carriage with a folding top.

  3. baby carriage.

  4. Older Slang.Ģżan automobile, especially an old or dilapidated one.

  5. a small wagon or truck for transporting heavy materials, as coal in a mine or freshly mixed concrete at a construction site, for short distances.

  6. Metallurgy.Ģża car, as for transporting ingots or charges for open-hearth furnaces.

  7. any of various small vehicles adapted for use on a given terrain, as on sand beaches or swamps.

  8. British.Ģża light, two-wheeled, open carriage.

buggy

1

/ ˈ²śŹŒÉ”ÉŖ /

noun

  1. a light horse-drawn carriage having either four wheels (esp in the US and Canada) or two wheels (esp in Britain and India)

  2. short for beach buggy

  3. short for Baby Buggy See baby carriage

  4. a small motorized vehicle designed for a particular purpose

    golf buggy

    moon buggy

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

buggy

2

/ ˈ²śŹŒÉ”ÉŖ /

adjective

  1. infested with bugs

  2. slangĢżinsane

  3. informalĢż(of a system or machine, esp a computer program) containing errors or faults

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • bugginess noun
  • ˈ²ś³Ü²µ²µ¾±²Ō±š²õ²õ noun
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of buggy1

First recorded in 1690–1700; bug 1 + -y 1

Origin of buggy2

First recorded in 1750–60; of obscure origin
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of buggy1

C18: of unknown origin
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Greg Jackson, one of the facilities managers, takes me around in a golf buggy.

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The saga also won viewers' hearts with lighter moments that included Sean Bean, as gang leader Ronnie Phelan, leading a charge of golf buggies to the theme from the film Apocalypse Now.

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Bob Gurr, the designer of the monorail, the Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Haunted Mansion ā€˜doom buggies’ and more, isn’t slowing down.

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Bob Gurr, the designer of the monorail, the Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Haunted Mansion ā€œdoom buggiesā€ and more, isn’t slowing down.

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To get to the boring machine we are driven for an hour in a buggy in the tunnel.

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When To Use

What doesĢżbuggyĢżmean?

As an adjective, buggy means full of bugs or infested with bugs. This can literally refer to insects, as in a buggy swamp, or it can refer to the kind of bugs found in software or machines—glitches and programming errors.As a noun, buggy refers to a small, wheeled cart or other vehicle, especially a horse-drawn carriage (often called a horse and buggy). There are several different vehicles that can be called a buggy.Example: The beta version of the app is a little buggy, so we’ll need to do some additional testing before we release it to the users.

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