Green’s Dictionary of Slang

the vagina.

1602

Dekker Satiromastix III i: If I might ha my wil, thou shouldst not put thy spoone into that bumble-broth (for indeede Ide taste her my selfe).

1. club-footed, used as a general insult implying a lack of co-ordination; thus bumble-foot v., to stumble; also, see cites 1908, 1939, 1948 in fig. use.

1838		W. Holloway Dict. of Provincialisms 21/2: Bumble-Footed, Having a thick lumpish foot.
1846		Sydney Morn. Herald 3 Oct. 3/5: [of cattle] Red and white heifer, branded like M right rump, bumble-footed.
1862		H. Kingsley Ravenshoe II 162: He being drunk, and bumble-footed too, lost his balance.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1893		Age (Melbourne) 12 Apr. 9/7: He retaliated by calling him a ‘bumble-footed old —’.
1916		Forft Wayne Jrnl-Gaz. (IN) 12 Aug. 1A/1: The only alarm clock the fsmily had was a bumble-footed rooster.
1929		Joplin Globe (MO) 3 Oct. 12/1: ‘What’s the matter with that gang of limber-backed, paralyzed, bumble-footed gorillas? Shake a leg, you Congo Kaffirs!’.
1936		Hope Star (AR) 25 Apr. 2/5: You can scarecly hold your balance, let alone a brimming Martini, when a bumble-footed tiger comes rubbing against your knees.
1942		Poughkeepsie Eagle-News 20 Jan. 11/7: |Bumble-footed fielders and lock-wristed hitters.
1951		Chicago Dly Trib. 23 Dec. 4:8/4: Bumble-footed Matt Carson [...] stumbled with our turkey on the graveled walk.
1966		R.E. Alter Carny Kill (1993) 86: I reeled to the left and bumble-footed down three steps.
1975		Sydney Morn. Herald 7 June 14/3: Was he bumble-footed, which could mean a fractured skull on the concrete floor.
1976		Cincinnati Enquirer (OH) 26 May 8/3: A likeable, uncoordinated, bumble-footed clutz.
1984		Sydney Morn. Herald 29 Oct. 55/1: Tunes that even the most bumble-footed Arthur murray recruit could saw around to.

2. (Aus./US) incompetent.

1908		Sun. Times (Perth) 26 July. 65/2: Another bumble-footed philanthropist .
1939		Chicago Trib. 17 June 10/2: Our bumble-footed city fathers [...] are doing their best to help the liquor business committ suicide.
1948		Age (Melbourne) 21 Aug. 5/1: Crawling to every bumble-footed staff officer.
1952		Pittsburgh Press (PA) 25 July 18/2: He was the most bnumble-footed, gullible politician of the century.
1968		Sydney Morn. Herald 14 July 30/3: Was the mayor being bumble-footed or shrewd in his tough talking about student protests?

1. (US campus) anywhere categorized as very far away.

1989		P. Munro Sl. U.
2000		L.G. Taylor Créolité 146: At his feet sat Jerome Garnier, a professor at the Université de Bumblefuck.
2013		D.M. Bell Hecate’s Own 71: ‘We’re in East Bumblefuck. There isn’t exactly a Comfort Inn nearby’.

2. a fool.

1994		T. Kakonis Shadow Counter 343: Not to say what he got in mind for the bumblefuck and her, after.
2006		C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 261: ‘The guy’s bullshitting, Mr. Skinner.’ [...] ‘I don’t have time for this bumblefuck.’.
2015		S. King Finders Keepers (2016) 80: To those two bumblefucks, the value of Rothstein’s output since 1960 was just a misty maybe.

(UK Und.) a fool.

a.1790

H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795).