Bumfuck, Egypt n.
(US milit./campus) a very distant and/or insignificant place.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | oral testimony q. in HDAS I (1994) 310/2: They probably sent those records out to Bumfuck, Egypt. | |
 | Res Gestae xlix/1: Your grades are admirably suited for determining whether you will [...] pound the pavements in South Bumfuck, Indiana chasing ambulances. | |
| Bad Communist 197: ‘I been in Egypt around here myself the last couple years.’ ‘Pardon?’ The old fellow grins inexplicably. ‘Bum fuck Egypt’. | |
| Tourist Season (1987) 316: High-school bands from Bumfuck, Iowa. | |
| Sl. U. 35: B.F.E./B.F.A. the boondocks, a very far away place [...] [Butt Fucking Africa]. | |
| Sl. and Sociability 36: Two kinds of shortening reduce words to letters. The dominant type in college slang is initialism, which names the individual letters: BFE (bum fucking Egypt) ‘in the middle of nowhere, far away’. | |
| Da Bomb 🌐 2: B.F.E.: An expression used to emphasize the fact that something or someone is very far away from you. The expression means Bum Fucked Egypt. | |
| Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 bumfuck n 1. an imaginary place. [Ibid.] butt-fucking Egypt adj 1. inconveniently far away. Often abbreviated BFE, sometimes called ‘bum-fuck Egypt.’ (‘Man, you parked way out in butt-fucking Egypt!’). [Ibid.] east butt-fuck 1. inconveniently far away. Also used is the less offensive east bumble-fuck. (‘You live way out in east butt-fuck.’). [Ibid.] Egypt n 1. a very distant place. See also butt-fucking Egypt. (‘I’m not going to his party – he lives way out in Egypt.’). | |
| Cryptonomicon 115: You are going to be in West Bumfuck, Arkansas, riding in the Memorial Day parade. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | People (Sydney) 5 July 9: Born in Ames, Iowa, just out of Bumfuck Junction, Iowa. Broke into showbusiness in 1993 by appearing as Miss April in a Motormag calendar. | |
| Sick Puppy 122: I wouldn’t have to fly to Bumfuck, Africa, or wherever. | |
| ADS-L 5 June 🌐 Even though I claim to be a North Carolinian, I’d never heard this; my friend didn’t give me a gloss in his first email and I took it for a synonym of ‘East Bumfuck’ (which he thought hilarious). | |
| On the Whispering Wind 112: They blow their wad [...] on long circuitous cab rides, as Cassidy describes them, ‘from East Jesus to West Buttfuck.’. | |
| Hard Feelings 193: Now you drag me out to Butt-Fuck New Jersey for some pointless lineup. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Observer Rev. 15 Jan. 5/3: Fourteen hours later, the bus pulled up outside an army barracks – ‘someplace in Bumfuck, Texas.’. | |
| Money Shot [ebook] I was doing recruiting trips out to strip clubs in bumfuck nowheresville, sniffing out fresh talent anywhere I could find it. | |
| Hilliker Curse 9: Bumfuck, Wisconsin, was a drag. | |
| Thrill City [ebook] He wasn’t doing me any favours leaving me in bum-fuck South Australia. | |
| Viva La Madness 283: She’s a tourist — American I’d wager [...] from Bumfuck, Idaho. | |
| On the Bro’d 98: Tali’s family’s crib [...] was out in buttfuck wherever [ibid.] 229: I was mad scared that we were going to bite it and get smashed to paste in bumfuck Iowa [ibid.] 291: ‘[S]he’s just lived here in buttfuck nowhere on a mountain’. | |
| Donnybrook [ebook] Wanted to know what Deputy Sheriff Whalen thought he was doing, searching abandoned houses down in bum-fuck. | |
| My Life as a Foreign Country n.p.: in the middle of nowhere, ‘bum fuck Egypt’ as Barnes often put it [etc.]. | |
| Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] Our humble destination in the middle of bum-f**k nowhere. | |
| Rough Trade [ebook] [I]t was in the middle of the night in Bumblefuck, Massachusetts. | |
| ipetitions: Bring Victoria Bitter (VB) to the USA!! 4 Dec. 🌐 I am currently in the middle of butt f**k nowhere in New Mexico. | |
| Squeeze Me 262: ‘How has he not been transferred to Bumfuck, Alaska?’. | |
| Widespread Panic 7: I had a squaresville home life in bumfuck Massachusetts. |