buggery

3 definitions found

buggery - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Buggery \Bug"ger*y\, n. [OF. bougrerie, bogrerie, heresy. See
     Bugger.]
     Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
     [1913 Webster]

buggery - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  buggery
      n 1: intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or
           woman [syn: sodomy, buggery, anal sex, anal intercourse
           ]

buggery - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  BUGGERY, crim. law. The detestable crime of having commerce contrary to the 
  order of nature, by mankind with mankind, or with brute beasts, or by 
  womankind with brute beasts. 3 Inst. 58; 12 Co. 36; Dane's Ab. Index, h. t.; 
  Merl. Repert. mot Bestialie. This is a highly penal offence.