bugger off

UK offensive — phrasal verb with bugger

/ˈbʌɡ.ər/

/-ɚ/ verb [T]

Definition

› to leave or go away, used especially as a rude way of telling someone to go away: By the time I got there you two had already buggered off! Bugger off, will you?

(Definition of bugger off from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that they are not worth having

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