Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to go away; esp. in imper. bugger off, go away.

1922		Joyce Ulysses 559: Here bugger off, Harry.
1931		(con. 1918) E.W. Springs Rise and Fall of Carol Banks 202: Then for the first time in his life he addressed me in slang. ‘I gotta—I gotta begger off,’ he stammered.
1933		Gibbons (con. 1918) Truth About the Legion 205: [T]he sergeant called us up for the very last time of all and presented us each with a railway voucher and a pound on account of back pay and gratuity. We could now as he put it B— Off .
1947		J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 184: Matey’d taken one look at the map and buggered off towards his bike.
1953		K. Amis letter 21 Jan. in Leader (2000) 308: He buggered off as soon as the meeting was over.
1955		L.F. Engler ‘Gloss. Air Force Sl.’ in AS XXX:2 117: BUG OUT; BOOGER OFF; LEAP OFF, v. phr. Leave suddenly and rapidly.
1960		A. Burgess Right to an Answer (1978) 59: All right, if you don’t like it, bugger off.
1962		A. La Guma Walk in the Night (1968) 64: All right, the rest of you can bogger off.
1968		G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 104: I’ve seen him when eveybody else has buggered off home.
1968		A. Burgess Enderby Outside in Complete Enderby (2002) 335: Now bugger off and buy yourself a shave.
1976		C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 522: She’s buggered off with Maguire, I suppose.
1978		R. Caron Go-Boy! 55: The biggest guy [...] spat on Rocko’s hand, snarling ‘Bugger off!’.
1979		C. Dexter Service of all the Dead (1980) 95: ‘What happened to Paul Morris?’ [...] ‘Beggered off with Joseph’s wife, like as not.’.
1987		M. Bail Holden’s Performance (1989) 311: Now bugger off, I’ve got work to do.
1996		P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Danny’s dead. Bugger off.
1998		G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 333: And it was a day or two later Heather buggered off.
2000		Observer 9 Jan. 28: Still, rather extremely glad to be buggering off on holiday.
2004		T. Winton ‘Family’ in Turning (2005) 172: Leaper chucked his board and wetsuit into the old HK and buggered off to White Point.
2005		H. Mantel Beyond Black 133: I was crying and swearing and shouting [...] ‘Bugger off back where you came from’.
2012		Independent 24 Jan. 36/1: I waited for her to bugger off.
2018		R. O’Neill ‘Ocker’ in The Drover’s Wives (2019) 181: He buggered off quick sticks when she showed him Croc’s [i.e. a dog] pearlies.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 312: [He] had kindly accepted defeat and buggered off.
2023		C. Reithauser Mysteries of the Great City 15: Becca tells him, in no uncertain terms. to bugger off.