ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Buggy

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈbʌ.ɡi/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Buggy is a noun meaning A small horse-drawn cart.

Meaning

A small horse-drawn cart.

More Meanings

  1. A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
  2. A hearse.
  3. (UK, Western Pennsylvania) A pushchair; a stroller.
  4. (Canada, Southern US, Western Pennsylvania) A shopping cart or trolley.
  5. Infested with insects.
  6. (computing) Containing programming errors.
  7. Resembling an insect.

Example Sentences

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

Word Forms

Synonyms for buggy

Depending on context, synonyms include stroller, balmy, dirty, loony, soiled, insane.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include roadster, crackers, haywire, cracked, balmy, soiled.

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