1. A small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse
   "They took a romantic ride in a horse-drawn buggy";
   - roadster
    
2. [N. Amer] A handcart that holds groceries or other goods while shopping
   "She pushed the buggy down the aisle, filling it with groceries";
   - shopping cart [N. Amer], shopping trolley [Brit], trundler [NZ], trolley [Brit], cart [N. Amer]
    
3. A small open-topped motor vehicle
   "They rented a buggy to explore the beach"

1. [N. Amer, slang] Insane, strange, eccentric or stupid
   "it used to drive my husband buggy";
   - balmy [archaic, slang], barmy [slang], bats [slang], batty [slang], bonkers [slang], cracked [slang], crackers [slang], daft [Brit, slang], dotty [Brit, slang], fruity [slang], haywire [slang], kooky [slang], kookie [slang], loco [slang], loony [slang], loopy [slang], nuts [slang], nutty [slang], round the bend [slang], around the bend [slang], wacky [slang], whacky [slang], daffy [slang], dippy [slang], doolally [Brit, slang], wacko [slang], daft as a brush [Brit, slang], potty [Brit, slang], round the twist [Brit, slang], dumbass [N. Amer, slang], nutsy [N. Amer, slang], barking mad [Brit, slang], mental [slang], barking [Brit, slang], bughouse [N. Amer, slang], cuckoo [slang]
    
2. Infested with bugs
   "The old mattress was buggy and needed to be replaced"
    
3. (computing) containing software errors or glitches
   "The buggy program kept crashing unexpectedly"
    
4. Infested with or attracting bugs (insects)
   "The buggy campsite was uncomfortable due to the mosquitoes"

Derived forms: buggier, buggiest, buggies

See also: dirty, insane, soiled, unclean

Type of: carriage, cart, equipage, go-cart, handcart, pushcart, rig

Encyclopedia: Buggy