The F-Word (8 page)

2
. to victimize cruelly.

1980
Samisdat
XVII. 75: Since “world order” has traditionally consisted of the haves alternately plundering and ass-fucking the have-nots unchallenged, we shall not miss it.
1995
H. Stern
Miss America
433: I’m getting the worst ass fucking in history. It’s happening in front of the world.
1998
E. Reid
If I Don’t Six
43: There’s always someone out to ass-fuck you. Watch out for yourself.
2006
S. M. Stirling
Meeting at Corvallis
471:
You
got greedy, and yeah,
we
got collectively ass-fucked.
2007
P. Morris
Guardians
viii. 41: That’s what happened with the Preznit and Saddam Hussein, and we all know who wound up getting assfucked on that particular occasion.

batfuck
adjective & adverb

crazy. Cf.
batshit
.

1977
F. Stanford
Battlefield where the Moon says I Love You
in I. Reed
From Totems to Hip-Hop
(2003) 330: While you’re at it tell her she’s bat fuck too.
1991
D. Grinstead
Promises of Freedom
302: [He] got a Marine killed because he set up a patrol wrong; then the major went batfuck in another crisis.
2005
S. Monette
Mélusine
423: I needed to start walking again. It was either that or go batfuck nuts.

beans and motherfuckers,
see under
MOTHERFUCKER
.

bearfuck
noun

Military.
a confused or disappointing undertaking.

1983
K. Miller
Tiger the Lurp Dog
92 [refers to Vietnam War]: The mission turned out to be another disappointing bearfuck.
2005
D. DeFrain
Salt Palace
viii. 80: I was in Palermo for most of mine. F.I.G.M.O., you know? A real bear-fuck start-to-end, if you know what I mean.

bends and motherfuckers,
see under
MOTHERFUCKER
.

BFD
noun
[see BFD,
interjection
]

something important; a big deal.—usually in negative contexts.

1992
H. Childress
Reality Bites
(film script) 75:
Lelaina
. I’m only taking this [money] so you won’t get in trouble—And it’s just a loan,
okay?
Patty
. Cool your pits—It’s not a B.F.D. You can have it.
2000
Out
(Aug.) 30: In 1981…an STD…was not a BFD.
2008
S. King
Duma Key
157: I tell you what, Eddie, if this is such a BFD to you, then
you
confront him!

BFD
interjection
[
b
ig
f
ucking (or
f
at)
d
eal]

“so what?” “who cares?”

1971
H. Dahlskog
Dictionary of Contemporary & Colloquial Usage
7:
BFD, b
ig
f
at
d
eal, an ironic comment meaning “What’s so great about that?”
1981
J. Harrison
Warlock
16: “You were thinking about sex.” “B.F.D., Sherlock.”
1988
J. Brown & C. Coffey
Earth Girls Are Easy
(film): “There’s a UFO in my pool. A
UFO
.” “BFD.”
1988
P. Fonda, on
Unauthorized Biography
(Fox-TV): He was very angry that I had destroyed his honeymoon—
BFD!
1992
J. Mowry
Way Past Cool
12: “I the first, ’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 female
Eminem.
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 Fat
Fuckers 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 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 sorts
of 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.