In Strine, “buggery” has two everyday senses that have almost nothing to do with the word’s literal legal meaning (anal intercourse) elsewhere in the English-speaking world: 1) a fictitious, faraway place, roughly equivalent to “the middle of nowhere” or “hell”; 2) an impolite but mild way of telling someone to go away: “go to buggery.” オージー英語では、”buggery” には日常的な二つの意味があり、他の英語圏で使われる本来の法律用語(男色行為)とはほぼ無関係になっている。①「どこか架空の遠い場所」で、”the middle of nowhere”(何もない場所)や”hell”(地獄)に近いニュアンス。②相手に「消えろ」と言う、やや無礼だが軽い言い方、、、”go to buggery.” Example “He can go to buggery for all I care.” (もう知ったこっちゃない、あいつなんて消えちまえばいい。) Scale of Roo-dness: 🦘🦘 Moderate When Aussies Use It Among friends, family, and even on daytime television — Australia’s ABC ran a comedy panel show literally titled Club Buggery in the 1990s, which is a fair sign…