buggy

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌ.ɡi/

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡi

Origin unknown.

buggy (plural buggies)

1. A small horse-drawn cart.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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.
   • 2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     I casually let this information drop as our concierge drives us through the resort in a buggy, a frangipani flower tucked behind his ear. He promises to fix the bug problem and drops us off at the lobby.

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. (UK, Western Pennsylvania) A pushchair; a stroller.

   Synonym: stroller

   • 2020 January 2, “New entrance at Finsbury Park”, in Rail, page 12:

     The wider station upgrade has provided lifts to the Piccadilly and Victoria lines, as well as Network Rail platforms, to make it easier for passengers with mobility needs, buggies or heavy luggage to use London Underground.

5. (Canada, Southern US, Western Pennsylvania) A shopping cart or trolley.

• → Gulf Arabic: بقي (bagi, “ATV”)
• → Unami: mpàki

From bug + -y.

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. (slang) Crazy; bughouse.^[1][2]
   • 2011, Beverley Armstrong-Rodman, Nightmare in the Everglades, page 106:

     You have to help me get out of here. They want to keep me longer, but I can't stay. This place is driving me buggy.

   • 2022 July 3, Kalley Huang, “The Rise of the 0.5 Selfie”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 July 2025:

     Posting the selfies on Instagram, where limbs are noodly or eyes are buggy, is meant to be silly, making it seem like the photographers take themselves — and social media — less seriously.

• bugginess
• buggy eyes

• “buggy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Borrowed from English buggy.

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈbʏ.ɡi/

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• Hyphenation: bug‧gy

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

1. a baby buggy, a pushchair, a stroller
2. a buggy (small motor vehicle)

buggy (not comparable)

1. Buggy, containing programming errors

From English buggy.

• IPA^(key): /ba.ɡi/

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buggy m (plural buggies or buggys)

1. buggy (small vehicle)

• “buggy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Unadapted borrowing from English buggy.

• Homophones: bug, (Brazil) bugue

buggy m (plural buggies or buggys)

1. dune buggy

   Alternative form: (Brazil) bugue

• “buggy”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “buggy”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026