buggery

Noun

Meaning

Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.

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In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery” as "heresy, sodomy.”. Thomas Szasz

FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery. Douglas Adams

Some states, e. g. "pregnant", are all-or-none, no intermediates. But sexual abuse has shades of grey, from violent buggery to mild touching. Richard Dawkins

Deleuze once famously described his method of interpreting philosophers as " buggery (enculage)", as sneaking behind an author and producing an offspring which is recognizably his, yet also monstrous and different. Source: Internet

Deleuze's buggery analogy is also cited by, among many others, Brian Massumi, A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia (MIT Press, 1992), p. 2; Slavoj Žižek, Organs without Bodies (Routledge, 2003), p. 48; Ian Buchanan, A Deleuzian Century? Source: Internet

For some years prior to 1993, criminal prosecution had not been made for buggery between consenting adults. Source: Internet

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