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Fucker”), as pilots call that hall-of-fame bomber, which made its debut in Vietnam.
    buffy
noun
[respelling of
BUFE
, for
b
ig
u
gly
f
ucking
e
lephant or variants]
Military
. a large ceramic elephant, commonly sold in South Vietnam as a souvenir.
Jocular
.
1973
N.Y. Post
(Jan. 15) 29: A buffy (rhymes with stuffy) is an enormous, glazed ceramic elephant.… The name derives from the acronym b-u-f-e, for bloody useless foul-word elephant. 1980 D. J. Cragg
Lexicon Militaris
55:
Buffie
. From the acronym BUFE,
B
ig
U
gly
F
ucking
E
lephants.
Buffies
were large ceramic elephants produced in vast quantities by South Vietnamese craftsmen for sale to Americans. 1982 J. Cain
Commandos
343: He took the roll of bills stuffed inside the white, ceramic “buffy” elephant. 1991 L. Trotta
Fighting for Air
98: Shipping Bufes home was as much a cliché as sending pink grapefruit from Florida.
    bufu
noun
[from
bu
tt-
fu
cker (or
bu
tt-
fu
cking)]
1.a. a homosexual man. Also as
adjective
. [Pronounced “Boo-foo.”]
1982 F. Zappa
Valley Girl
(pop. song): Like my English teacher…He’s like Mr. Bufu…He like flirts with all the guys in the class. 1982 L. Pond
Valley Girls’ Guide
50: Any dude who’d wear designer jeans
must
be bu-fu, right? 1986 C. Eble
Campus Slang
(Oct.) 4:
Mo
—a homosexual or someone who acts like one.… Also
Bufu
. 1989 P. Munro
U.C.L.A. Slang
25: He is so feminine, you can tell he’s a bufu. 2005
Homosexuality IS a Disease!
on
ADGBC Forums
(Nov. 23) (online): I think you underestimate boofoos[’] wileyness.
b. homosexual anal intercourse.
1982
The Tech
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Oct. 8) 4/2: It talked about bufu and mayonnaise and cock rings and all sortsof neat stuff. 1995 “Impotent Sea Snakes”
Chicks with Dicks
(pop. song): A penis-totin’ homo/With some bufu on the mind. 2002 D. Anderson
Sex Tips For Gay Guys
103: A bufu buddy is your basic steady lay. 2008
Death or Boofoo
on
eBaum’s World
(online): “You may pick one of two things death, or boofoo.” The first guy not knowing what boofoo is says “okay I pick boofoo.” The next thing he knows he is taken into a tent and is raped by a male indian.
2. = BUMFUCK .
1995
Help Finding Chicago Area Shows
on Usenet newsgroup rec. arts.marching.band.high-school (Oct. 14): I’m down here in Bufu, Missouri going to school. 2000
Re: Spam help
on Usenet newsgroup 24hoursupport.helpdesk (July 7): I’m sure they’re forging headers and bouncing off some inept admin’s server in bufu someplace. 2007
Appliance repair?????
on
Midwest F-Body Association Forum
(June 18): If you all…moved close to where I live you wouldn’t have these problems but when you live in bufu I can’t help ya.
    bugfuck
adjective
Chiefly
Military
. insane; crazy.
1970 D. Ponicsan
Last Detail
74: You two bastards are trying to drive me bug-fuck in the head, right? 1971 T. Mayer
Weary Falcon
11: If Charles doesn’t get you, you stand a fine chance of going bug-fuck. 1973 U.S. Navy veteran, age
ca
28: When you go nuts you go
bugfuck
. 1975 S.P. Smith
American Boys
130 [refers to
ca
1968]: May dead, Irwin dead, Brady bugfuck. 1979 J. Morris
War Story
161: My team would go bugfuck when I came back suggesting that we start bayonet drill. 1983 W. D. Ehrhart
Vietnam to Perkasie
199 [refers to Vietnam War]: I was gettin’ bug-fuck sittin’ around the CP all the time. 1987 D. Sherman
Main Force
83 [refers to 1966]: We figured you must be going bug-fuck by now, so I came to give you a ride back to Camp Apache. 1991 H. Nelson & M. A. Gonzales
Bring Noise
167: Law enforcement officials across the country went bug-fuck. 1993 W. Gibson
Virtual Light
25: Then Sgt. Valdez went post-traumatic in stone bugfuck fashion, walking into a downtown tavern and clipping both kneecaps off a known pedophile. 2007 A. Theroux
Laura Warholic
xlvii. 790: But now she seemed utterly bugfuck, bewildered and unhinged.
    bugfucker
noun
a man with a ridiculously small penis; (
hence
) a