Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a general negative adj.

1683		Dialogue between a Yorkshire Alderman and a Salamanca Doctor 1: Thou Buggering, Brazen-fac’d, Lanthorn-jaw’d, Tallow-chap’t Leviathan.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy II 155: Let Pilk and Shute by sham’d, / Let bugg’ring Oats be damned.
1926		K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 50: The dirty, boggerin’ cows!
1930		(con. 1917) ‘W.W. Windstaff’ ‘A Flier’s War’ in Longstreet Canvas Falcons (1970) 273: These buggering British.
1933		S. O’Casey Within the Gates ii: Bellow goodbye to the buggerin’ lot.
1941		P. Larkin letter 16 Apr. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 12: Likewise, the ‘New Year Poem’ which I enclose too is buggering fine.
1954		K. Amis letter 3 Jan. in Leader (2000) 356: This, with buggering term starting next week – what do they think we are? teachers? – is a cow and no mistake.
1962		S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 202: The bloody beggars had cut out [...] the buggering sods are on their own arse.
1976		(con. 1944) J. Braine Waiting for Sheila (1977) 52: Fuck the – the – bloody – buggering – thing!
1993		(con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 83: That bloody buggering Welsh windbag he don’t change his tune much.
2000		Guardian Education 21 Mar. 47: Clive called it mise-en-scene or ‘buggering prop shifter’.
2002		J. Cameron Hell on Hoe Street 143: There is rival [...] There is bloody buggering Jamil Khan Jamal!