Bugger/bugger me/ buggered

Bugger, on its own, or as in 'bugger me' is a mild British expletive of annoyance or surprise that dates in this sense from the mid-20th century. 'I'm buggared' expressing fatigue, and 'buggered' meaning broken or non-functional, date from around the same time. Bugger/buggery in the sense of sodomite/sodomy is very much older, and dates from the 13th century, deriving from the Normsn French bougre. which originally referred to a sect of heretics who practised buggery/sodomy.