Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Defence of Duffer's Drift" in English language version.
1. (orig. US) a bloody fool. 1894 F.W. Benteen in Benteen-Goldin Letters 6 July (1991) 223: Besides being a 'C.P.' he was a 'B.F.' of first water.
B.F.'s approach to his human terrain would have spelled disaster [in the Iraq War]