Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bugger! excl.

a synon. for damn! excl.

1931		E. Pound letter 21 Dec. in Read Letters to James Joyce (1968) 242: But you mustn’t now say ‘buggar’ nor / ‘bitch’ nor yet ‘bastard’ / Or the black maria will take you / To our howly prison-yard.
1946		R. Rivett Behind Bamboo 395/2: Buggero! swearword.
1953		K. Amis letter 3 Mar. in Leader (2000) 312: Oh, BUGGER. I do feel cross about this.
1965		E. Bond Saved Scene ix: Bugger!
1982		H. Beaton Outside In I i: Buggers!
1986		F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 144: Bugger – they must have given me the wrong bloody tape.
1999		Observer Travel 3 Oct. 9: Spring: dry. Bugger ... Back to the river.
2000		T. Udo Vatican Bloodbath 23: ‘Bugger!’ he mumbled as he fell forward into the Old Sod.