What's the difference between bugger and ruin?

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.

Ruin


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
  • (n.) Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or an army; the ruin of a constitution or a government; the ruin of health or hopes.
  • (n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like.
  • (n.) The state of being dcayed, or of having become ruined or worthless; as, to be in ruins; to go to ruin.
  • (n.) That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction.
  • (n.) To bring to ruin; to cause to fall to pieces and decay; to make to perish; to bring to destruction; to bring to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow.
  • (v. i.) To fall to ruins; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
  • (2) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
  • (3) It trickled back to me somehow that, ‘Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!
  • (4) A procedure is described for the rapid determination of putrascine, spermine and spermidine in ruine and whole blood.
  • (5) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
  • (6) Conference, five years ago this motion would have ruined my life.
  • (7) But illegal action will only ruin any chance of dialogue with Tehran.
  • (8) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
  • (9) In Niki Savva’s book The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government, Credlin has even been compared to Wallis Simpson, a deeply weird analogy.
  • (10) "While the country is sunk in misery, families are ruined and children are growing up in poverty, this guy turns up and we pay €91m for him.
  • (11) Anuraj Sivarajah, online editor of the newspaper, said he was very clear who was to blame for the attacks and arson that has brought the newspaper near financial ruin.
  • (12) In 1995 8,000 people whose lives were ruined by the Montserrat volcano settled in Britain.
  • (13) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
  • (14) Even the avuncular governor of the Irish central bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, was forced to admit that pumping up to €70bn of taxpayers' money into the ruined banks "doesn't score highly on fairness" when he announced the fifth bailout on Thursday.
  • (15) Three thousand cheers for Will Self ( Has English Heritage ruined Stonehenge?
  • (16) But Denton’s attempts to apply extreme openness to others could cost the ruin of his company.
  • (17) His torturers accused him of passing on to British officials information about previous beatings at the hands of state officials and other human rights abuses, to ruin diplomatic relations between the two countries, he said.
  • (18) As Google states, it is definitely in the company’s best interest to get its first smartglass customers to behave, as “breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers”.
  • (19) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
  • (20) But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer.