Buggery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  buggery
       n : anal intercourse committed by a man with a man or woman
           [syn: {sodomy}, {anal sex}, {anal intercourse}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.