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Bumfuck, Egypt

Posted by Bruce Kahl July 04, 2007In reply to Bumfuck, Egypt posted by ESC on July 04, 2007

Does anyone know the origin (or anything else, for that matter) of the phrase "Bumfuck, Egypt?"

I'm not finding it in the archives. It seems modern.

A very remote place. Usually considered vulgar. (I love when they say that.) Jocular. The first citation is 1972. U.S. Army. There is a second entry for "Bumblefuck." Also means a remote place. The date for that is 1989. From Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, A-G by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994. Page 310.

AKA Bumfuck,Idaho or Bumfuck,Iowa

Someplace hard to get to and generally undesirable;Some unknown location or
some small town in a remote place.

Also, any of the many extremely remote and inhospitable military outposts where U.S service men or women are assigned to serve.

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