buggier; buggiest
1
: infested with bugs
a buggy swamp
2
: characterized by bugs
especially
: containing many bugs
a buggy software program
plural buggies
1
: a light one-horse carriage made with two wheels in England and with four wheels in the U.S.
2
: a small cart or truck for short transportations of heavy materials
3
Synonyms
Examples of buggy in a Sentence
Adjective
It's too buggy out here—let's go inside.
Noun
He rode into town on his horse and buggy.
we'll need a new buggy if we have another baby
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This changed back in 2021, when Apple decided to start providing some security-only updates to older iOS versions to help people who were worried about installing an all-new potentially buggy OS upgrade.
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Adjective
Users will quickly abandon a product that is buggy or inconsistent, regardless of its other features.
—Dananjayan Thirumalai, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
This changed back in 2021, when Apple decided to start providing some security-only updates to older iOS versions to help people who were worried about installing an all-new potentially buggy OS upgrade.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2024
Noun
This is part of the company's years-long push to get rid of kernel extensions and to make drivers and other things run in user mode, where there's less of a risk of buggy code bringing down an entire system (the big CrowdStrike Windows crash?
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024
Google is working on a fix for a buggy Wear OS 5 update.
—Umar Shakir, The Verge, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Buggy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buggy. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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buggy
1 of 2 adjective
bug·gy
ˈbəg-ē 
buggier; buggiest
: full of bugs
it's too buggy outside
a buggy computer program
buggy
2 of 2 noun
plural buggies
1
: a light carriage having a single seat and drawn by one horse
2
: a hand-pushed carriage for a baby
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