bugre (s.xiii1)
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bugre (s.xiii1)

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  FEW:  bulgarus 1,606a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  bolgre 8,337c TL: bougre 1,1099 DEAF:  bougre  DMF:  bougre 1  TLF:  bougre  OED:  bugger n.1  / bougre n.  MED:  bougre n.  DMLBS:  Bulgarus 223b
bogre,  bohogre,  bougre,  bucre  9248 (Y)  

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1demonymBulgar: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Ne remaindra neis un qu’il peusse baillier Que toz vif nel face as Bohogres (var. (S: c.1400) Bougres ) escorcier  2152
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  Symeon, roi dé Bugres  266.10
2heresytheol.heretic: 
( 1256; MS: c.1300 )  Li bougres e li mescreanz [...] A Belzebuc et a Plutun Firent sacrifise e dun  183
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  herite est e bugre dreit  9248
( 1283 )  jo (=Archbishop of Canterbury) maund verité loyal, e si nul vous fet autre chose entendre, il est bugre  ii 619
3sodomite: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Sy jo ne voys [delés les femmes]. C’est un bugres  47.9
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