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BUGGER

Volume 4 · 58 words · 1810 Edition

or BUGGERER, came afterwards to be used for a Sodomite; it being one of the imputations laid, right or wrong, on the Bulgarian heretics, that they taught, or at least practised, this abominable crime.

(Bulgarius), is also a denomination given to ulcers; ulury being a vice to which the same heretics are said to have been much addicted.