Today’s new entry:
BFD noun [see BFD, interjection] something important; a big deal.—usually in negative contexts.
The interjection BFD had already been in, with quotations from the early 1970s. This new entry is for the equivalent noun. The earliest example I could find was from the 1992 shooting script for the movie Reality Bites; Stephen King is another one of the sources cited.
This is a sample definition of one of the many (over 120) new entries from the third edition of The F-Word. In the time leading up to publication, I will be featuring one such entry a day. In the book itself, these definitions will be supplemented with a number of quotations showing the use of the word or phrase (which is the whole point of a historical dictionary of this sort). In other words, this is only a teaser!