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bumfuck

US/ˈbʌmˌfʌk/

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bumfuck adjective: undesirable or held in contempt.

Adjective

bumfuck (comparative more bumfuck or bumfucker, superlative most bumfuck or bumfuckest)

  1. (derogatory, slang, vulgar) Undesirable or held in contempt.
    • Someone, let's say Boris Yeltsin's bum-fuck girlfriend, is part of a syndicate—you know, Russian Mob, say.2003, Ken Morris, Man in the Middle, page 168
    • [Jackson Securities] did a ton of Internet crap before the sector went baballoo. You know, companies with [absolutely no value], but with dot com at the end of their name[s]. We take a million shares of Bum Fuck Dot Com at ten bucks. […]ibidem, page 78
  2. (derogatory, slang, vulgar) Isolated; far; remote.
    • So now, some kid from some village in the bumfuckest of global nowhere, has that library in their hands and they will do things with it.2024 April 1, u/vampy_bat- (OP), [deleted user] (quoted commenter), “Isn’t it insane we have the internet and like Phones and stuff?”, in r/CasualConversation, Reddit, archived from the original on...

Verb

bumfuck (third-person singular simple present bumfucks, present participle bumfucking, simple past and past participle bumfucked)

  1. (derogatory, slang, vulgar) To copulate anally; to fuck in the bum.
    • ‘Git outa the way,’ Monte said, ‘or I’ll hike back to the cop shop an’ tell ‘em you bum-fucked Duck Allsop.’1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 60

Noun

bumfuck (plural bumfucks)

  1. (derogatory, slang, vulgar) Anal sex.
    • I could really go for a good nasty bumfuck right now.
  2. (derogatory, slang, vulgar) An isolated place far removed from major cities.
    • Why the hell does your brother have to live out in bumfuck?
    • I had to park in bumfuck because all the good spots were taken.2009, Tony Thorne, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, page 73
    Synonyms:
    Timbuktu

Proper noun capitalized: Bumfuck

Bumfuck

  1. (US, vulgar) An imaginary place in the middle of nowhere.
    • One screwup and he could be splitting rocks on a chain gang somewhere in Bumfuck, Egypt.1991, William H. Labarge, Hornet's Nest, page 96
    • The point is the people who pay for the system are not incentive enough to get SEPTA's ass in gear. The incentive is coming from someone from East Bumfuck, Kansas going to the Rep. Convention who may or may not ride the subway.1999 April 19, Karen Byrd, “The offensiveness of SEPTA”, in phl.transportation (Usenet)

Synonyms of bumfuck

Forms of bumfuck

Adjective
comparativemore bumfuck
comparativebumfucker
superlativemost bumfuck
superlativebumfuckest
Verb
third-person singular presentbumfucks
present participlebumfucking
past participlebumfucked
pastbumfucked
Noun
pluralbumfucks
Proper noun
alternative formbumfuck
alternative formBumfuck, Egypt
alternative formBumfuck, Minnesota

Origin of bumfuck

From bum + fuck.

Words formed from bumfuck

Phrases with bumfuck

Questions about bumfuck

What does bumfuck mean?
Bumfuck means undesirable or held in contempt.
What part of speech is bumfuck?
Bumfuck can be an adjective, a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bumfuck?
Bumfuck is pronounced /ˈbʌmˌfʌk/ (US).

Words near bumfuck in the dictionary

  1. bumfoolery
  2. bumfreezer
  3. bumfreezer jacket
  4. bumfreezer jackets
  5. bumfreezers
  6. bumfuck
  7. bumfuck middle of nowhere
  8. bumfuck nowhere
  9. Bumfuck, Egypt
  10. Bumfuck, Idaho
  11. Bumfuck, Iowa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bumfuck (page history and authors); Bumfuck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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