Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) a euph. for fucking adj.

1922		A.E. Coppard ‘Broadsheet Ballad’ in O’Brien & Cournos Best British Stories 85: Let’s go and do a bit more on this ’bugging church or she won’t be done afore Christmas.
1949		H. Robbins Dream Merchant 212: You’re supposed to be a buggin’ hero.
1957		Laurents & Sondheim West Side Story I i: Here come the Jets, / Yeah! An’ we’re gonna beat / Ev’ry last buggin’ gang / On the whole buggin’ street!
1989		(con. 1960s) M. Kingston Tripmaster Monkey 71: We’re gonna beat every last buggin gang on the whole buggin street.

2. (US black/campus) in error, annoyed, upset.

1991		De La Soul ‘Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa’ 🎵 Lately you’ve been buggin / One your dookie earrings someone must be tuggin.
1991		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 2: buggin’ – wrong, unnecessarily angry.
1992		R. Price Clockers 112: Her old lady is buggin’. I mean, she wants this guy dead.
1996		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 2: bugging – disappointed, depressed: ‘I just found out that guy I like has a girlfriend. I’m so bugging.’.
2011		G. Hayward Corruption Officer [ebk] n.p.: I looked over at this crazy bitch and said, ‘You bugg’n!’.