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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.





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"Buggy" Quotes from Famous Books



... instance. Who, beside his old negro housekeeper, ever petted and coddled him? Who ever thought of setting him apart? Whoever asked if he were rested from his tiresome journey—journeys made not in comfortable coaches on the railroad, but in his buggy over all kinds of roads, at all times of day or night, in all sorts of weather winter and summer, rain and sleet and snow? Whoever 'Reverended' or 'Brothered' him? Oh no, he was only a man, a physician. It ...
— The Calling Of Dan Matthews • Harold Bell Wright
... to get used to having a pony-chaise," Mr. Argenter said very quietly and shortly. "If she wants to 'show a kindness,' and take 'other' girls to ride, there's the slide-top buggy and old Scrub. She may have that ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... answer the reins, and had smashed the cart against a house, which had seemed to have danced into the middle of the road for their diversion, - and, after having put back to The Bear, and prevailed upon that animal to lend them a nondescript vehicle of the "pre-adamite buggy" species, described by Sidney Smith, - that, much time having been consumed by the progress of this chapter of accidents, they did not reach Peyman's Gate until a late hour; and Mr. Verdant Green found that he was once more in difficulties. For ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede
... but "Bertrand the Lay Reader" drove a buggy with red wheels! To the infinite scandalization of the Parish—no one but "Bertrand the Lay Reader" drove a buggy with red wheels!—Fleet steps sounded suddenly on the path! Startled fists beat furiously on ...
— Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... the minute," said the rescued plunger; and he went down-stairs so full of mingled thankfulness and triumph that he mistook Doctor Farnham's horse for his own at the hitching-post two doors away, and was about to get into the doctor's buggy ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde


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