buggery
Criminal carnal knowledge
Buggery is anal intercourse, a term that appears in legal and historical contexts.
British law long criminalized buggery between men.
In casual speech, buggery survives mainly in expressions like What the buggery? or Run like buggery (run very fast).
These uses are vulgar but mild, the original meaning faded to mere emphasis.
Excessively fastidious
- intercourseCommunication or sexual connection
- penetrationEntry into something
- sodomyCriminalized sexual act
- sodomiteOne practicing condemned acts
carnal · act · relations · bestiality · homosexuality · consensual · nonconsensual · assault
Criminalized sexual act
- felonySerious criminal offense
- indictmentFormal charge from jury
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- convictionFirmly held belief
sentence · incarceration · defendant · verdict · statute · criminalization · decriminalization · penal
Statutes criminalizing particular sexual behaviors
- colonialOf occupied territories
- VictorianOf a prim era
- ecclesiasticalRelating to church matters
- canon lawReligious institutional regulations
Oscar Wilde · reform · persecution · punishment · execution · pillorying · imprisonment
Violating moral law
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- perversionCorruption or deviant distortion
- viceBad habit or deputy
impurity · shameful · unnatural · reprehensible · turpitude · obscenity · lewdness · corruption
Mark of dishonor
- forbiddenNot allowed
- unmentionableToo shameful to discuss
- unspeakableBeyond verbal expression
- scandalousMorally offensive or shocking
verboten · anathema · ostracism · shame · disgrace · hushed · secretive · closeted
anal
Excessively fastidious
- intercourseCommunication or sexual connection
- penetrationEntry into something
- sodomyCriminalized sexual act
sodomite · carnal · act · relations · bestiality · homosexuality · consensual · nonconsensual · assault · coercion
sodomy
Criminalized sexual act
- felonySerious criminal offense
- indictmentFormal charge from jury
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
conviction · sentence · incarceration · defendant · verdict · statute · criminalization · decriminalization · penal · unlawful
sodomy laws
Statutes criminalizing particular sexual behaviors
- colonialOf occupied territories
- VictorianOf a prim era
- ecclesiasticalRelating to church matters
Oscar Wilde · canon law · reform · persecution · punishment · execution · pillorying · imprisonment
sinful
Violating moral law
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- wickednessMoral corruption or evil
- perversionCorruption or deviant distortion
vice · impurity · shameful · unnatural · reprehensible · turpitude · obscenity · lewdness · corruption · degeneracy
stigma
Mark of dishonor
- forbiddenNot allowed
- unmentionableToo shameful to discuss
- unspeakableBeyond verbal expression
scandalous · verboten · anathema · ostracism · shame · disgrace · hushed · secretive · closeted · repugnant
buggerycoitus
Sexual joining of bodies
marital relations · conjugal relations · missionary position · chastity · celibacy
- buggered offLeft abruptly, informally
- bugger offRude dismissal command
- bugger allBritish term meaning nothing
- buggering upRuining through incompetence
- bugger upRuin or spoil
- buggered upBadly damaged or broken