What's the difference between bugger and devil?

Bugger


Definition:

  • (n.) One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
  • (n.) A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There's a stunning atmosphere in Wembley tonight, one even the Sheffield Wednesday band can't bugger up.
  • (2) If they try, they invariably bugger up the punchline.
  • (3) If Rooney is having a bad game (as he did against Algeria) England are buggered.
  • (4) The ref blows for a free kick, but doesn't book the saucy bugger.
  • (5) Very rarely now, but it still does happen that some police officer still does think, ‘Bugger that, I won’t make the call this time.’ “If they then try to use any evidence they obtained from that Aboriginal person, we’re very confident that any court will exclude that evidence,” he said.
  • (6) ", seconds before splashing about in the sub-zero Atlantic muttering "bugger".
  • (7) Stoke City and England defender Neil Franklin was the first to think BUGGER THAT, and along with team-mate George Mountford, agreed a move to Santa Fe in the summer of 1950.
  • (8) Michael Buerk would be there, trying to calm things, and behind him, through the window, I could see the producer mouthing the words: 'Fuck the bugger!'
  • (9) The French left’s preference for in-your-face secularism and scatologically offensive satire goes back to the Jacobins, for whom the words “priest, bugger and fuck” were in the core political vocabulary.
  • (10) As the buggered ploughs and botched pottage mounted, any residual rose-tinted sentimentality flaked off like the skin of a psoriatic shire horse.
  • (11) I wandered down to the local shop, and mumbled something about cigarettes, and was served: it wasn't until a day or two later that I realised my speech had become a bit buggered-about-with as well.
  • (12) But he told me he was housemaster in a home and he would say they were bad buggers in there and you have to discipline them.
  • (13) In a gag over the former Have I Got News For You star reading out his bank details, Deayton inadvertently said: "Bugger, yes."
  • (14) The ones who, when faced with a massive terrifying conspiracy, will offer just a weary sniff of "bugger to that, chuck".
  • (15) In my best Australian, total buggeration.” Prideaux scoffed at the theory shared by some local people that big landowners secretly favoured HS2 because they will make millions.
  • (16) The bugger who stabbed me, I'm the fourth person he had stabbed."
  • (17) I went to fill, from the cold tap in the kitchen, the glass percolator, and my cuffs (now I come to think about it, they had been a real bugger) managed to catch two plates from the night before and send them, breaking, to the floor.
  • (18) Just kidnap the bugger, like they did to Eichmann,” he added in a comment, referring to the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who was captured in Argentina in 1960 and put on trial in Israel.
  • (19) As I stood just outside the ring of onlookers, a Ukip member leaned close to my ear and said, “If he went under a bus tomorrow, we’d be buggered.” On election day Ukip supporters were offered a glimpse of just such a future when Farage was injured in a light aircraft crash .
  • (20) If you're staying here, food and wine are included in the rate, and if you're here, you may as well stay because it's a bugger to get back to the coast after dark.

Devil


Definition:

  • (n.) The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
  • (n.) An evil spirit; a demon.
  • (n.) A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.
  • (n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.
  • (n.) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
  • (n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
  • (v. t.) To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
  • (v. t.) To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
  • (2) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
  • (3) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
  • (4) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
  • (5) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
  • (6) "The devil is in the detail and if the conditions are too much it could be very challenging to run it as a commercial operation," said one source.
  • (7) I do want to rule the world.” Bowie was also getting unhealthily interested in the occult; in her memoir, his then wife Angie Bowie describes how he was convinced that the indoor pool in their house in Doheny Drive was possessed by the devil , which led to the pair of them attempting an exorcism.
  • (8) Camille O'Sullivan In 2007, the sinister, humorous gem Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea spread like wildfire just after its opening, and you had to kill to get a ticket.
  • (9) Taking out such a deal was, in their view, tantamount to getting into bed with the devil – and certainly out of the question for a prudent financial journalist.
  • (10) Mitt Romney praises Trump after 'deal with the devil' dinner Read more “It’s not about revenge, it’s about what’s good for the country, and I’m able to put this stuff behind us,” Trump said in a television interview on NBC’s Today show on Friday.
  • (11) An entire generation has come to embrace the deflationary devil they know.
  • (12) Instead, Schieffer repeatedly pushed even Hayden to go further in his defense of the NSA and in his attacks on Snowden than Hayden wanted to, asking such tough "questions" like this one, about Obama's proposal to have a "devils' advocate in the FISA court: "BOB SCHIEFFER: Well-- well let me just cite an example and let's say that the NSA runs across something that they think an attack on the country is imminent-- "GENERAL MICHAEL HAYDEN: Right.
  • (13) Some tours take tourists to mask shops; we should be taking them to the mask makers, so that they get paid for their work directly.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A fearsome devil mask Photograph: Alamy The current government, which replaced Rajapaksa’s administration two years ago, has made a commitment to sustainable tourism.
  • (14) Meanwhile, a number of writers have publicly come out against the second deal – including Ursula Le Guin, who resigned from the Authors Guild amid accusations that it was making a "deal with the devil" and selling its members "down the river" .
  • (15) The official code of conduct for special advisers adopts legalistic terms to describe their key role as "devilling", or squirrelling away at all government policy and communications to ensure it toes the appropriate political line.
  • (16) Once Leveson has published, the debate will finally be at this level of detail because that is where the devil is.
  • (17) In addition, Tyson had told the Mail on Sunday : “There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the Devil comes home.
  • (18) Debbie Abrahams, shadow work and pensions secretary, said: “As ever with this government though, the devil is in the detail.
  • (19) The "Death Angels" believed they had a better chance of getting to heaven if they killed some of these "grafted snakes" and "blue-eyed devils".
  • (20) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.