Buggy

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /bÊŒ.É¡i/
• Rhymes: -ʌɡi

Origin

Full definition of buggy

Noun

1. A small horse-drawn cart.
• 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 2, I had occasion … to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return … I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, …, and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
2. A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
3. (UK) A pushchair; a stroller.
4. (Canada, southern US) A shopping cart or trolley.

Synonyms

• (pushchair) stroller

Adjective

1. Infested with insects
2. (computing) Containing programming errorsThis software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!
3. Resembling an insect

Derived terms

• baby buggy
• bugginess
• buggy eyes