buggy

Origin unknown.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bʌ.ɡi/
• Rhymes: -ʌɡi

buggy (plural buggies)

1. A small horse-drawn cart.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.

2. A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
3. A hearse.
   • 1920's arr: Jimmie Rogers Frankie and Johnnie

     Bring out the rubber tired buggy/Bring out the rubber tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back

4. (Britain) A pushchair; a stroller.
5. (Canada, Southern US) A shopping cart or trolley.

• (pushchair): stroller

buggy (comparative buggier, superlative buggiest)

1. Infested with insects
2. (computing) Containing programming errors

   This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!

3. Resembling an insect
4. Crazy; bughouse[1][2]

• baby buggy
• bugginess
• buggy eyes

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buggy m (plural buggy's, diminutive buggy'tje n)

1. baby buggy

From English

• IPA^(key): /bœ.ɡi/

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buggy m (plural buggies or buggys)

1. buggy (small vehicle)

• “buggy” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).