The F-Word

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’member?” “BFD!” 2003 J. Cantor
Great Neck
552: And if they find me, sweetie, BFD, huh?
    BFE
noun
[
B
umfuck (or
B
umblefuck),
E
gypt]
Military & Students
. a very remote place; the middle of nowhere.
1989 P. Munro
U.C.L.A. Slang
20: Troy…lives out in B.F.E.…
Bum Fuck, Egypt
. 1991 Student slang survey:
BFE
—out in the middle of nowhere…Bumblefuck, Egypt. 1997 Student slang survey: Faraway place…
in b.f.e
. 2005
N.Y. Times
(June 1) B6: Most characters in “BFE” (the title is an abbreviation of a vulgar slang term for the middle of nowhere)…try to be positive.
    Bubblefuck
noun
[alteration of B UMBLEFUCK ]
a very remote place; B UMBLEFUCK . Usually used with
West
.
1993 “Fat Joe”
Another Wild Nigga from the Bronx
(rap song): I’m from the West Bubblefuck so fasten your seatbelts and buckle up. 1993
Re: Not all heterosexuals
…on Usenet newsgroup alt.homosexual (Dec. 31): I GO TO THE VILLAGE ANYTIME I FEEL LIKE IT AND YOU CAN STAY OVER THERE IN WEST BUBBLEFUCK . 1999 “Slick Rick”
2 Way Street
(rap song): Well I shot some there, then I copped some beer. And did a show up in West Bubble-fuck somewhere. 2004 “Black Artemis”
Explicit Content
79: I just know every other label’s out searching from here to Bubblefuck for the femaleEminem. 2007 V. M. Stringer
Dirty Red
79: They sure knew how to pick prison locations, out in the middle of West Bubblefuck. 2007 D. Stumpf
Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy
25: Other guys I knew who went into journalism had to spend five years grinding out the police blotter in West Bubblefuck.
    buddy-fuck
verb
Especially
Military
. to impose upon or betray (a close friend). Hence buddy-fucker, buddy-fucking, and as
noun
. Compare FUCK-YOUR-BUDDY WEEK .
1966
Folk-Speech
(Indiana University Folklore Archives): Denotes asking a friend for money.
Buddy-fuck
. 1968 C. Baker et al.
College Undergraduate Slang Study
89:
Buddy fucker, play
. Take someone else’s date away.
Buddy-fuck
. Take someone else’s date away. 1970 College student, age 21: At Fort Gordon [Ga.] last year I kept hearing
buddy-fucker
. It’s a guy who turns around and shafts people. 1972 College student, age 25: You
buddy-fuck
a guy like if you start going out with his girl without telling him.
Buddy-fucking
means letting somebody down or ripping them off. 1986 D. Tate
Bravo Burning
161: Wash your mouth out…buddyfucker. 1993 R. Shilts
Conduct Unbecoming
201: Everybody talked about the “buddy-fuckers” as those who turned in their friends were called. 2003 D. Lipsky
Absolutely American
iii. 237:
Blue Falcon
is a polite way to invoke the initials BF—a buddy fuck. It’s about the lowest form of behavior Huck can imagine.
    BUFF
noun
[
b
ig
u
gly (
f
at)
f
uck(er)]
U.S. Air Force
. a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. Also BUF.
1968 J. Broughton
Thud Ridge
32: BUF stands for big ugly fellows in polite conversation, but is suitably amplified in [fighter pilot] conversation.… The Strategic Air Command general… issued an edict that the B-52 “Stratofortress” was not to be referred to as a BUF. 1972 in J.C. Pratt
Vietnam Voices
510: 6 “Bufs” came in and rippled that road. 1972 Bob Hope at U.S. Air Force base in Thailand, on
CBS Evening News
(Dec. 22): This is the home of the B-52s. Also known as BUFFs—big ugly friendly fellows [laughter]. 1981
Time
(Mar. 16) 8: To air crews the B-52 is known as BUFF, a fairly loving acronym that stands for Big Ugly Fat Fellow. 1985 W. J. Boyne & S. L. Thompson
Wild Blue
517:
The BUFFs—
Big Ugly FatFuckers to the crews, Big Ugly Fat Fellows to the press. 1990 D. Poyer
Gulf
47: Got a wing of fifty Buffs movin’ in. 1991
Newsweek
(Feb. 18) 46/3: B-52 navigator Lt. David Rey compares the feeling of riding in the BUFF to going over an endless series of speed bumps. “Flying it is very tiring.” 2007
Atlantic Monthly
(Sept.) 91/2: This was in early 2002, during Operation Anaconda, and he was flying a B-52 Stratofortress—or BUFF (“Big Ugly Fat

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