noun
little or nothing at all
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I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all
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I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery
• Syn: ↑fuck all, ↑Fanny Adams, ↑sweet Fanny Adams
• Usage Domain: ↑obscenity, ↑smut, ↑vulgarism, ↑filth, ↑dirty word
• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain
• Hypernyms:
↑nothing, ↑nil, ↑nix, ↑nada, ↑null, ↑aught, ↑cipher, ↑cypher, ↑goose egg, ↑naught, ↑zero, ↑zilch, ↑zip, ↑zippo
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noun [noncount]
Brit informal + impolite : nothing at all
They were wearing bugger all!
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nothing at all; none at all
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There's bugger all on TV tonight.
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Well, she was bugger all help
(= no help at all).
Useful english dictionary. 2012.