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Buggy   /bˈəgi/   Listen
noun
Buggy  n.  (pl. buggies)  
1.
A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle. (Eng.) "Villebeck prevailed upon Flora to drive with him to the race in a buggy."
2.
A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top. (U.S.)
Buggy cultivator, a cultivator with a seat for the driver.
Buggy plow, a plow, or set of plows, having a seat for the driver; called also sulky plow.



adjective
Buggy  adj.  Infested or abounding with bugs.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Buggy" Quotes from Famous Books



... "bless your heart, mother, don't you s'pose I know a buggy and a carryall when I ...
— Jewel - A Chapter In Her Life • Clara Louise Burnham

... When the approaching buggy came out of the dusk she saw what she had been expecting, Colonel May driving a powerful chestnut, and, with him, Bob Hart; not so great in stature, but resembling the older man in grace and manner as though he might in fact have been ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... up Bruggabrong, Bin Bin East and Bin Bin West, bought Possum Gully, a small farm of one thousand acres, and brought us all to live near Goulburn. Here we arrived one autumn afternoon. Father, mother, and children packed in the buggy, myself, and the one servant-girl, who had accompanied us, on horseback. The one man father had retained in his service was awaiting our arrival. He had preceded us with a bullock-drayload of furniture and belongings, which was all father ...
— My Brilliant Career • Miles Franklin

... liked Ben. There was that about his primitive strength which appealed to the untamed in them as his gentleness appealed to their softer side. He liked the girls, too, and could have had his pick of them. He teased them all, took them buggy riding, beaued them about to neighbourhood parties. But by the time he was twenty-five the thing had narrowed down to the Byers girl on the farm adjoining Westerveld's. There was what the neighbours called an understanding, though perhaps he had never actually asked the Byers ...
— Half Portions • Edna Ferber

... a long blanket stalked athwart an open space; but there was such poverty of drama in the spectacle at the distance we were keeping that we were glad of so much as a shirt-sleeved contractor driving out of the stockade in his buggy. On the heights overlooking the enclosure Gatling guns were posted at three or four points, and every thirty or forty feet sentries met and parted, so indifferent to us, apparently, that we wondered if we might get nearer. ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells


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