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buggy

/bˈʌɡi/noun, adjective2 syllables

Buggy means: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.

Synonyms for buggy27

noun, as in a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse

roadster

adjective, as in informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco
and 9 more, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky, insane

adjective, as in infested with bugs

dirty, soiled, unclean

What does buggy mean?3

adjective

1

informal or slang terms for mentally irregular“it used to drive my husband balmy”

2

infested with bugs

noun

1

a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Buggy in a sentence

  • An alpha male is an untested, unstable, buggy, and incomplete version of a male.shekitten
  • The horse and buggy is now definitely out of date.CK
  • The graphical user interface is buggy and difficult to use.bretsky
  • The doctor arrived in his horse-drawn buggy.Hybrid
  • It's a very buggy game, so expect to clip through the walls and fall through the floor.sabretou
  • The horse-drawn buggy trundled along the narrow lane inexorably, forcing me to step to one side.Truthwatch3r
  • The buggy is in the baby's room.deniko
  • Lots of men take women buggy riding.CM

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of buggy

as a noun

plural
buggies

as a adjective

comparative
buggier
superlative
buggiest