Expanded vocabulary.

A few weeks ago while listening to Love Lines on the radio, they had an English woman call in. Somehow the term "buggering"was used followed by a brief explanation of the meaning of the word. My jaw dropped in horror. I then proceeded to laugh out of sheer embarrassment. I had up till then erroneously thought that the word meant "a beating" and had been threatening co-workers in a cockney accent that if they didn't do as I say they would get "a good buggering".