Buggery Is Australia’s Favourite Place That Doesn’t Exist…Sort Of
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…
