Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to wander around.

1953		Baker Aus. Speaks.
1980		Canberra Times (ACT) 9 Feb. 13/7: See; what did I tell you — could have saved ourselves a lot of buggerising around.
2002		S. Maloney Something Fishy (2006) 127: No point in continuing to buggerise around in the dark.

2. to mess about with.

1953		Baker Aus. Speaks.
1966		J. Patrick Inaptua 142: All the ropes are off except the one you’re buggerizing about with.
1970		Canberra Times (ACT) 21 Nov. 12/8: What do you bloody expect? When you go buggerising around with the landscape like this it stands to bloody reason you're going to cop something crook.
1991		Canberra Times (ACT) 23 Mar. 62/3: We almost gave it away, buggerising around with the scrums.
2002		cipherfunk.org 🌐 Unfortunately the Athlon didn’t survive nearly as well with the ‘new’ default optimizations, then it proceeded to miscompile i387.c and buggerize with the asm bits.

3. to waste time, to stall, to be unhelpful.

1953		Baker Aus. Speaks.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 22/1: buggerise about aimless messing about; eg ‘Stop buggerising about and get on with the game, will ya.’.
1996		(ref. to WWII) Keith Watt ‘Australians Remember World War 2’ 🌐 Oh, no, it was properly organized, you couldn’t buggerize around. You had to be 18. It was in properly organized units.
2005		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 63: These days people sit and chat [...] and buggerise about [...] like a bunch of grannies at a garden party.

4. to make someone’s life miserable or in some way difficult.

1953

Baker Aus. Speaks.