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Noun: buggy  bú-gee
  1. A small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse
    - roadster
     
  2. [N. Amer] A handcart that holds groceries or other goods while shopping
    - shopping cart [N. Amer], shopping trolley [Brit], trolley [Brit], trundler [NZ]
     
  3. A small open-topped motor vehicle
Adjective: buggy (buggier,buggiest)  bú-gee
  1. [N. Amer, slang] Informal or slang term meaning 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 [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], doolally [Brit, slang], dippy [slang], daffy [slang], nutsy [N. Amer, slang], potty [Brit, slang], daft as a brush [Brit, slang], round the twist [Brit, slang], wacko [slang], dumbass [N. Amer, slang], bughouse [N. Amer, slang], cuckoo [slang], mental [slang], barking mad [Brit, slang], barking [Brit, slang]
     
  2. Infested with bugs
     
  3. (computing) having software errors

Derived forms: buggier, buggies, buggiest

See also: dirty, insane, soiled, unclean

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

Encyclopedia: Buggy