THE F-WORD

EDITED BY JESSE SHEIDLOWER

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The F-word / edited by Jesse Sheidlower. -- 3rd ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-19-539311-8
1.   Fuck (The English word) 2.   English language--Semantics.
3.   English language--Etymology. 4.   English language--Obscene words.
I.  Sheidlower, Jesse.
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’Tis needful that the most immodest word
Be looked upon and learned
—Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II

CONTENTS

Foreword by Lewis Black

Introduction

Introduction to the Third Edition

Acknowledgments

The F-Word

Foreword

Fuck

It is an honor and a privilege to be asked by the esteemed Oxford University Press to write the introduction to this wondrous book about the most important and powerful word in the English language. This is like a dream come true. A scholarly publisher of worldwide prestige has blessed this most sacred, most descriptive, most moving of all words.

“Fuck is a sacred word?” you ask.

Fucking A right it is. It is a word that one should not utter because it is such a terrible word of epic proportions, a word whose mere utterance is a sin. A fucking sin, can you imagine? That’s how fucking important fuck is.

And because it’s a sin, using it is so enticing to the young that when they hear it for the first time they are spellbound. And when they use it for the first time, that F and the U bang so deliciously against the hard K, ripping through the lips, it’s as if a caged animal has been unleashed. They feel that they have taken that first mighty step toward adulthood. Some of them may even repeat it over and over, testing to see if God will strike them down for saying it. It’s a word you don’t use in polite conversation or in front of your parents, which makes it even more glorious when chewed on and spit out in the schoolyard or in the bowels of the basement.

I can’t remember the first time I actually used the word myself, but I remember the feeling I had. I am convinced it is akin to a newly converted Christian when he cries out his first hallelujah. What bliss! What joy! What freedom!

Fuck, I believe, is one of the few words in the English language with true medicinal qualities. It clears our heads of the cobwebs that our bosses, our politicians, and our pundits seem to spin with their tired words and useless clichés. I am certainly no doctor, but I believe that judicious use of the word in times of extreme stress or irritation can work wonders for your colon, blood pressure, and central nervous system. It even works as an antidepressant. The word is so efficient, it’s like a miracle drug. One quick guttural expulsion is all you need (or sometimes two or three if things are really bad).

If this power isn’t enough to make fuck the language’s best word ever, remember there is no other word that is so spectacularly utilitarian. Fuck can work as a noun, a verb, an adverb, an adjective. And for many of us—and you New Yorkers know who you are— fuck isn’t even a word, it’s a comma. It can be placed at the end of a sentence to add emphasis to an idea. It can go at the end of a word to give it more punch. It even can be put in the middle of an existing word, giving it extra authority and impact. It’s an unbe-fucking-lievable word. Its gifts are too numerous to mention.

Now I must leave you as you enter the world that is Fuck.

You are fucking lucky to be here.

It’s almost utopian.

Lewis Black, New York, March 12, 2009

Introduction: About the F-Word

Etymology: Where It’s From

The word fuck definitely did not originate as an acronym, as many people think. Acronyms are extremely rare before the 1930s, and etymologies of this sort—especially for older words—are almost always false. (The word posh does not come from “Port Outward, Starboard Home,” cop is not from “Constable On Patrol,” and tip is not from “To Insure Promptness.”) To this editor’s knowledge, the earliest suggestion of an acronymic etymology for fuck appears to be in the New York underground newspaper The East Village Other, on February 15, 1967: “It’s not commonly known that the word ‘fuck’ originated as a medical diagnostic notation on the documents of soldiers in the British Imperial Army. When a soldier reported sick and was found to have V.D., the abbreviation F.U.C.K. was stamped on his documents. It was short for ‘Found Under Carnal Knowledge.’” The more usual variant along these lines is “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge,” abbreviated to fuck and allegedly worn on a badge by convicted adulterers, rapists, or prostitutes in some mythical Olden Tymes; other variants include “Found in Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” (specifically for adulterers) and “Forced Unsolicited Carnal Knowledge” (for rapists).

The other common acronym is “Fornication Under Consent of the King,” said to have been some form of license granted by a monarch, often specifically to repopulate the country after a plague. This variant is first found in 1970, in the May issue of Playboy: “My friend claims that the word fuck originated in the 15th Century, when a married couple needed permission from the king to procreate. Hence, Fornication Under Consent of the King. I maintain that it’s an acronym of a law term used in the 1500s that referred to rape as Forced Unnatural Carnal Knowledge.”

In reality, fuck is a word of Germanic origin. It is related to words in several other Germanic languages, such as Dutch, German, and Swedish, that have sexual meanings as well as meanings such as ‘to strike’ or ‘to move back and forth’. Ultimately these words represent a family of loosely related verbs having the structural form f + a short vowel + a stop (a consonant such as k, d, g, or t, in which the flow of air from the mouth is briefly interrupted), often with an l or r somewhere in between. These words have the basic meaning ‘to move back and forth’, and often the figurative sense ‘to cheat’. English examples of this family—all found later than fuck—are fiddle, fidget, flit, flip, flicker, and frig.

The English word was probably borrowed in the fifteenth century from Low German, Flemish, or Dutch, though the word is found earlier in English than its equivalents in these languages. There is no way to know for sure which language is the ultimate source. Fuck is not an Anglo-Saxon word—the term “Anglo-Saxon” refers to the earliest period of English (now usually called Old English), before around AD 1100—and fuck is simply not found this early.

There are various claims that certain words in Old or Middle English represent early examples of fuck, but these are usually unprovable. For example, Carl Darling Buck, in his 1949 Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, cited a 1278 example of the name “John le Fucker.” However, he did not cite the source of this name, and no one has found a reference to it. More important, even if the source is authentic, there are many other possibilities for the name (the word fulcher ‘soldier’ being the most likely) other than an early example of fuck. However, if the bird name WINDFUCKER noun (or FUCKWIND noun) is ultimately related, it is interesting to note an occurrence of the surname Ric Wyndfuk and Ric Wyndfuck de Wodehous, found from 1287 in documents related to Sherwood Forest, which may show another form of the bird name. Use in the sense of “to strike” could perhaps also be reflected by the surname Fuckebegger (also 1287); perhaps compare the Anglo-Norman surname Butevilein (literally ‘strike the churl or wretch’), found in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

The relevance of superficially similar words in other languages— Latin futuere, for example—is small. Though the Latin word is vulgar and means ‘to copulate’, is it almost certainly not related to fuck, owing to complicated linguistic reasons that are beyond the scope of this introduction. Theories attempting to tie the word to words in other languages, sometimes via a proposed Indo-European root meaning ‘to strike’, are also uncertain.

Despite the importance of the F-word, scholars have yet to discover an example of fuck (or any of its Germanic relatives) before the late fifteenth century. The lateness of this evidence for the word may have more than one explanation. One possibility is simply that the word isn’t much older than that, that it was a new development at that time. The usual Middle English word for sexual intercourse was swive—a word that itself was considered vulgar—and fuck could have arisen to take its place as it became more rare. Another possibility for fuck is that the word carried a taboo so strong that it was never written down in the Middle Ages. The fact that its earliest known appearance in English, around 1475, is in a cipher lends surprising, though limited, support to this interpretation.

Since many of the earliest examples of the F-word come from Scottish sources, some scholars have suggested that it is a Norse borrowing, Norse having a much greater influence on the northern and Scottish varieties of English than on southern dialects. But the 1528 example at FUCKING adj. sense 1—found in that common source of bawdy jokes, a marginal note to a manuscript—and the pre-1500 ciphered example are both from England, proving that fuck was not restricted to Scotland in its earliest days. The explanation for the profusion of Scottish examples might be simply that the taboo against the word was less strong in Scotland.

Taboos against particular words or types of speech are not new. There is no shortage of evidence from the earliest times in England that certain forms of speech were restricted. As far back as the seventh century, there are records of a law from Kent reading, “If anyone in another’s house…shamefully accosts him with insulting words, he is to pay a shilling to him who owns the house.”

Curiously, the proposed etymology as an acronym does at least have a touch of realism about it. When purported acronymic origins are suggested, the original phrase usually sounds artificial, not like some real phrase in the language that would be common enough to be abbreviated. And so it is with “for unlawful carnal knowledge”—it has the ring of something that is made to sound like a stilted legal expression. But in fact, “unlawful carnal knowledge” is found in legal sources going back quite some time. The full phrase is first found in the South African Law Journal, volume 46, in 1929: “One of the latest instances occurred in the case of Alfred Ayles, sentenced at the Central Criminal Court in 1928 to seven years’ penal servitude for unlawful carnal knowledge of a child.” And the phrase “unlawful carnal knowledge” as used in definitions of rape under English Common Law can be found in Britain’s Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, and is still present in Northern Ireland’s current statute on sex offenders, the Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 2795 (N.I. 15) and the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1994: “procuring unlawful carnal knowledge of woman by threats or false pretences or representations or administering drugs…unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl under 17 years of age” and others. Even earlier, this formula was found in criminal statutes throughout the southern United States, where rape was defined as “the unlawful carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will.” Such language is attested from the 1870s and 1880s from Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, and Texas. All this evidence for the phrase still does not mean that the word fuck derives from this or any other acronym; it does not. However, it is notable that the story is at least not completely absurd.

In the category of folk etymology, a recent development has been the popularity of the “pluck yew” story, which conflates the origin of fuck with an earlier piece of folklore about the origin of the offensive backhand two-finger gesture (the British form of what is usually an extended middle finger in America). According to the original form of the tale, before the battle of Agincourt in 1415 (immortalized in Shakespeare’s Henry V) the French taunted the English longbowmen by waving two fingers at them, saying that those fingers—used to pull back the bowstring—could never defeat the mighty French. After the English longbowmen rather convincingly demonstrated their superiority (10,000 French dead to a mere 29 Brits, in Shakespeare’s exaggerated count), the English responded by waving their two fingers back at the French in the now familiar gesture. The recent twist has been to use the fact that longbows were traditionally made of yew to claim that the act of drawing back the bowstring was called “plucking yew,” and thereby to assert that the victorious English not only waved their fingers at the French but shouted “We can still pluck yew! Pluck yew!” at them. A convenient sound change and a respelling brings us to the familiar phrase “fuck you.” This story, totally ludicrous in any version, was popularized on the NPR show Car Talk, where it was meant as a joke; it spread on the Internet in the 1990s as a serious explanation.

The Taboo Status of Fuck

The demand for bawdy humor meant that in the past, as now, writers found ways to use certain words even if such words were prohibited by social conventions. In Shakespeare, for instance, one can find two clear references to cunt. In Twelfth Night (Act II, scene v), Olivia’s butler Malvolio receives a letter written by Maria but in Olivia’s handwriting. Analyzing the script, Malvolio says, “By my life this is my lady’s hand. These be her very C’s, her U’s and her T’s and thus makes she her great P’s.” With the and sounding like “N,” Shakespeare not only spells out cunt, but gets a pun on pee in there as well. And more famously, in Hamlet (Act III, scene ii) the prince uses the phrase “country matters” in a manner clearly alluding to cunt (Hamlet’s next crack is about what “lie[s] between maids’ legs”).

Though Shakespeare never actually uses fuck itself, his plays contain several examples of probable puns or references to the word. A Latin grammar lesson in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Act IV, scene i) gives us the focative case (punning on the vocative case, used for direct address), followed up immediately with a raft of lewd wordplay, including sexual puns on Latin words and references to various English words for the sexual organs. In Henry V (Act IV, scene iv) the notoriously bawdy Pistol threatens to “firk” an enemy soldier; though firk does have a legitimate sense ‘to strike’, which is appropriate here, it was used elsewhere in the Elizabethan era as a euphemism for fuck, and it is quite likely that Shakespeare had this in mind as well. In several places Shakespeare refers to the French word foutre, which is the literal (and also vulgar) equivalent of fuck; the most notable is this passage in Henry V (Act III, scene iv), in which Princess Katherine is having an English lesson:

KATHERINE. Comment appellez-vous les pieds et la robe? [What do you call le pied and la robe?]

ALICE. De foot, madame; et de cown [a French pronunciation of gown; these English words sound like the French words foutre ‘fuck’ and con ‘cunt’].

KATHERINE. De foot et de cown? O Seigneur Dieu! Ils sont les mots de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique! [Dear Lord! Those are bad-sounding words, wicked, vulgar, and indecent!]

Shakespeare elsewhere (2 Henry IV Act V, scene iii) has Pistol say, “A foutra for the world and worldlings base!” and in at least one place (Merry Wives of Windsor Act II, scene i) he uses foot as a probable pun on foutre. As the Henry V passage shows, Shakespeare was well aware that this word was vulgar—at least in French—and there is a good possibility that these examples are intended to represent the taboo English word fuck.

Though the evidence clearly shows that fuck was considered vulgar in Shakespeare’s time, it’s hard to tell just how bad it was. But we have a remarkably informative example from the late seventeenth century of the word’s status from a source unexpected in this early era: pornography. Though the amount of truly explicit English erotica before the Victorian era is small, there are exceptions, one of which is the 1680 The School of Venus, a translation of an earlier French work. This graphically illustrated book—surviving in only a single copy, in the Bayerischer Staats-bibliothek in Munich—is presented in the style of a dialogue between a sexually experienced older woman and her young niece, a format (common especially in the eighteenth century) allowing highly explicit discussions to appear in the guise of instruction. The author of this work appears to have been unusually interested in language: at one point the characters discuss the precise differences in meaning among occupy, fuck, swive, incunt, and other verbs, and elsewhere the older woman explains why men use offensive words like cunt during intercourse. And the reader is also treated to a clear statement of how offensive the word fuck was:

There are other words which sound better, and are often used before Company, instead of Swiving and Fucking, which is too gross and downright Bawdy, fit only to be used among dissolute Persons; to avoid scandal, men modestly say, I kissed her, made much of her, received a favor from her, or the like.

Certainly the word was considered literally unprintable except in obscure, secret, or privately printed publications throughout the nineteenth century. Important early authors known to have used the word include Lord Rochester in the seventeenth century and Robert Burns in the late eighteenth century; Burns was probably the latest important author known to use the word before the twentieth century, and he uses it only in Merry Muses of Caledonia, a bawdy manuscript intended for private circulation only. Even Captain Francis Grose—a friend of Burns—in his Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785 and later editions; the word was expunged from the 1811 edition by a different compiler) felt compelled to spell it f–k.

In a striking example of the unfamiliarity of some Victorians with bawdy vocabulary, we see that the poet Robert Browning egregiously misunderstood one common word. He encountered the couplet “They talked of his having a Cardinal’s hat,/They’d send him as soon an old nun’s twat,” in a seventeenth-century poem. Erroneously believing from this passage that the word referred to a part of a nun’s habit, Browning wrote of “Cowls and twats” in his 1848 poem Pippa Passes.

This does not imply that fuck was unused, of course. John Farmer and W. E. Henley’s monumental Slang and Its Analogues (privately printed; the volume with fuck appeared in 1893) included the use of fucking as both an adjective and an adverb, described respectively as “A qualification of extreme contumely” and “a more violent form of bloody.” These are labeled “common,” despite the fact that this editor has been able to discover hardly any earlier examples of this sense outside Farmer and Henley’s dictionary. No doubt this and various other senses were common but unprinted for some time previously. While there seem to be a large number of new senses that are first found around World War I, it seems likely that these were in use earlier, and their appearance in the 1910s is more a result of weakening taboos than of an actual increase in the number of words coined in that era.

For although fuck may have been strictly taboo in mainstream usage in the nineteenth century, it was extremely common in the flourishing world of Victorian pornography. Many explicit F-words are found in such sources from the 1860s onward, often in ways that are scarcely different from the hard-core pornography of the present day. And research in the past ten years has shown that various forms or senses that were thought to have come later were indeed in use in the nineteenth century.

In two remarkable incidents, fuck even found its way into the very proper London Times in that prudish era. Reporting a speech delivered by Attorney General Sir William Harcourt, the Times printed on January 13, 1882:

I saw in a Tory journal the other day a note of alarm, in which they said, “Why, if a tenant-farmer is elected for the North Riding of Yorkshire the farmers will be a political power who will have to be reckoned with.” The speaker then said he felt inclined for a bit of fucking. I think that is very likely.

It took the stunned editors four days to run an apology for what must have been a bit of mischief at the typesetter:

No pains have been spared by the management of this journal to discover the author of a gross outrage committed by the interpolation of a line in the speech of Sir William Harcourt reported in our issue of Monday last. This malicious fabrication was surreptitiously introduced before the paper went to press. The matter is now under legal investigation, and it is hoped that the perpetrator of the outrage will be brought to punishment.

And later that year, on June 12, 1882, the following advertisement appeared: “Every-day Life in our Public Schools. Sketched by Head Scholars. With a Glossary of Some Words used by Henry Irving in his disquisition upon fucking, which is in Common Use in those Schools.”

Changing Standards

Different kinds of language have been considered incendiary at different times. Several hundred years ago, for example, religious profanity was the most unforgivable type of expression. In more recent times, words for body parts and explicitly sexual vocabulary have been the most shocking: in nineteenth-century America even the word leg was sometimes considered indecent; the proper substitute was limb. Now racial or ethnic epithets are the scourge; one prominent professor told U.S. News & World Report in 1994 that if she used fuck in class, no one would bat an eye, but that she would never dare to use any racial epithet in any context.

Today it seems that the taboos against the F-word are weaker than ever. While a few publications still refuse to print fuck regardless of the circumstances, the word can be found quite easily in most places. The more literary magazines have printed fuck for some time, but now even Newsweek and Time have used the un-censored word; the publication of the Starr Report in the New York Times, and a notable comment from Vice President Cheney in the Washington Post, has meant that even the proper papers consider fuck fit to print. Even commercial television, though still subject to FCC regulations, is becoming more open in its use.

The unpredictable nature of live television has allowed fuck to slip past would-be censors. Kenneth Tynan, then the Director of the National Theatre, was the first to manage this in England, in a November 13, 1965, appearance on the late-night satirical talk show “BBC-3.” Asked whether he would stage a play where sexual intercourse was depicted on stage, he replied, “Well, I think so, certainly. I doubt if there are any rational people to whom the word ‘fuck’ would be particularly diabolical, revolting or totally forbidden. I think that anything which can be be printed or said can also be seen.” This provoked a huge reaction in England, with the BBC being forced to apologize and politicians attempting to remove Tynan from his post, remove the head of the BBC from his post, and to prosecute Tynan for using obscene words in public. Tynan quickly made a less-than-conciliatory public statement that he “used an old English word in a completely neutral way to illustrate a serious point, just as I would have used it in similar conversation with any group of grown-up people.”

There were other such incidents, but the most notorious took place in an interview with the seminal punk band the Sex Pistols on December 1, 1976, conducted by Bill Grundy on Thames Television’s Today program. First, referring to a large advance the band had received from their record company, guitarist Steve Jones said, “We’ve fuckin’ spent it, ain’t we?” As the interview was winding down, Grundy encouraged the band to “say something outrageous.” Jones obliged with “You dirty fucker!” to which Grundy replied, “What a clever boy,” and Jones casually replied, “What a fucking rotter.” Of the next-day newspaper reaction, the singer Elvis Costello later said, “It was a great morning—just to hear people’s blood pressure going up and down over it.” Grundy was suspended and EMI threatened to drop the band, though others, including Vivienne Westwood, complained of hypocrisy, arguing that it was only the band’s image that provoked such a strong response to a word that was in wide use.

The NBC live comedy show “Saturday Night Live” has seen the word used on a number of occasions, perhaps most notably on February 21, 1981. Charles Rocket, playing J. R. Ewing in a sketch based on the TV show “Dallas,” said “It’s the first time I’ve ever been shot in my life. I’d like to know who the fuck did it.” (Three weeks later, Rocket was fired, though with the show slumping at the time, others in the cast were let go as well.) And on the same show, the musical guest Prince sang “fighting war is such a fucking bore.” In 1993 Bono, the lead singer of the rock group U2, used the word during a live broadcast of the Grammy Awards. In sports, powerful microphones have picked up and transmitted various examples, and players have used the word in televised interviews, with differing reactions. In the celebratory rally after the Philadelphia Phillies won the 2008 World Series, second baseman Chase Utley said in front of a packed stadium, “World Champions. World fucking Champions!” But follow-up interviews with viewers—many of them with their children—revealed that most people were excited rather than upset by this.

Fuck in Print

The earliest known publication of fuck in the United States appears to be in a legal case, in a fascinating decision. The case, heard in the Supreme Court of Missouri in 1846, concerned a man who had been accused of having sex with a mare, and who successfully sued for slander. The verdict was appealed, and in its rejection of the appeal, the court wrote:

The slanderous charge was carnal knowledge of a mare, and the word “fuck” was used to convey the imputation. After the verdict for the plaintiff, a motion made in arrest of judgment, for the reason that the word used to convey the slander, was unknown to the English language, and was not understood by those to whom it was spoken.… The motion was overruled, and Edgar appealed.

Because the modesty of our lexicographers restrains them from publishing obscene words, or from giving the obscene signification to words that may be used without conveying any obscenity, it does not follow that they are not English words, and not understood by those who hear them; or that chaste words may not be applied so as to be understood in an obscene sense by every one who hears them.

In other words, fuck was well known and understood, so the fact that it wasn’t in dictionaries was irrelevant.

Curiously, this same tack was attempted in another slander case, in one of the very few other examples of fuck in nineteenth-century U.S. legal sources, and with the exact same outcome. In an 1865 case in the Supreme Court of Indiana, the court wrote:

Rebecca Kelley sued the appellant in the court below for slander. The words charged are, “I have f--ked Rebecca Kelley one hundred times.” “I have screwed Beck Kelley one hundred times.” It is claimed that the words charged do not import whoredom, and are not actionable per se. We think otherwise. The word “f--ked,” although not to be found in any vocabulary of the English language, is as well understood as any other English word.

Despite these legal examples—and there are really very few in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—it seems that the word may not have been openly printed in a literary source in the United States until 1926, when it appeared once, and seemingly without generating any controversy (the word is still included in the book’s tenth printing), in Howard Vincent O’Brien’s anonymously published Wine, Women and War, his diary of the years 1917–19. It is worth noting that he used it in a figurative sense and was explicitly quoting an Australian soldier (see the 1918 quote at FUCKING adj. sense 2).

Fuck is found repeatedly in James Joyce’s Ulysses, first published in book form in 1922 and circulated through clandestine copies in the United States for some time before a court decision in 1933 allowed the book’s legal entry. Judge John Woolsey specifically addressed the obscene words in his verdict: “The words which are criticized as dirty are old Saxon words known to almost all men and, I venture, to many women, and are such words as would be naturally and habitually used, I believe, by the types of folk whose life, physical and mental, Joyce is seeking to describe.”

It took far longer for D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover to be approved by the courts, partly because of its more frequent use of obscene words, and partly (particularly in England) because of its depiction of an affair between a working-class man and an aristocratic woman. When an American court finally approved its publication in 1959, the judge also discussed the dangerous words. Federal Judge Frederick van Pelt Bryan wrote in his decision: “Four-letter Anglo-Saxon words are used with some frequency…this language understandably will shock the sensitive minded. Be that as it may…the language which shocks, except in a rare instance or two, is not inconsistent with character, situation or theme.” The decision was upheld by an appellate court in 1960. At the same time, the English had created a new law, the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, which strengthened the law against pornography, at the same time allowing a publisher to escape prosecution by proving that a given work had literary merit. Penguin published the book in 1960, and the five-day trial, featuring testimony from a number of prominent academic critics, produced a not-guilty verdict. The Guardian and The Observer, in their coverage, printed “fuck” with no asterisks or dashes.

In 1971 the Supreme Court ruled that fuck could be protected political speech in Cohen v. California. This case overturned a 1968 conviction for “disturbing the peace” against an antiwar protestor who wore a jacket with the words “FUCK THE DRAFT” on it. John Marshall Harlan II noted in his decision that “one man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric,” arguing that a state cannot censor its citizens merely for the sake of civility.

The language writer Hugh Rawson observes that trials of this sort often avoid mentioning the words at issue. After Lenny Bruce’s 1963 obscenity trial in Chicago, Bruce described the prosecutor’s commenting, “I don’t think I have to tell you the term, I think that you recall it…as a word that started with a ‘F’ and ended with a ‘K’ and sounded like ‘truck.’ “ A 1981 indecency trial in Maine contained the ruling “that no obscene words should be uttered in court, and that the principal word in question should be referred to simply as ‘the word.’ “ Even in 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in FCC v. Fox referred only to “the F-Word or the S-Word” in its summary of the case.

It was not until the 1950s and ’60s that fuck was frequently printed in full in mainstream fiction and nonfiction, usually in nonliteral senses. Norman Mailer was persuaded to substitute the invented spelling variant “fug” in his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, published to great acclaim in 1948; on the other hand, a mere three years later, James Jones was able to use the correctly spelled fuck in 1951 in From Here to Eternity, for which he won the National Book Award, though the reported 258 examples of fuck in the manuscript were cut back to a mere 50 in the final book. Many Americans found both of these novels about World War II shocking, despite the fact that their dialogue accurately reflected the way soldiers really spoke.

With the liberating attitudes toward personal freedom that developed in the 1960s and ’70s, the use of fuck grew still more. Though upholders of mainstream proprieties still largely frowned on the use of the word, the uninhibited behavior of many of the younger generation forced people to pay attention. Some notable examples of the time include the rise to popularity of the comedian Lenny Bruce, and his many trials for obscenity along the way; the inclusion of fuck in a general dictionary, for the first time since 1795; Country Joe leading the throngs at Woodstock in the “fuck cheer” (“Gimme an F!…”); and the inclusion of fuck, spelled out in full, in large-circulation periodicals. Harper’s first used the word— and in a sexual sense, no less—in its issue of April 1968 (cited in this dictionary at FUCK verb sense 1.b.).

Fuck also began to appear in some popular music then. There had been occasional examples earlier—a number of surprisingly bawdy blues lyrics exist—but perhaps the most prominent by a major performer was in a cover of the Louis Armstrong song “Ol’ Man Mose” by the bandleader Eddy Duchin in 1938. The verse goes, “(We believe) He kicked the bucket and ol’ man Mose is dead, / (We believe) Ahh, fuck it! / (We believe) Buck-buck-bucket. / (We believe) He kicked the bucket and ol’ man Mose is dead.” The pronunciation is extremely clear.

George Carlin’s famous “Seven Dirty Words” was not only one of the funniest comedy routines of the era, but it also led to an important Supreme Court decision about obscenity. The routine first appeared on his 1972 album Class Clown, in a track entitled “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television”; the words were fuck, shit, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, piss, and tits. (These words were not in fact banned at the time; the notion was merely a conceit of Carlin’s.) An extended version of this monologue, “Filthy Words,” appeared on his 1973 album Occupation: Foole, and this version was broadcast, uncensored, on the New York radio station WBAI, part of the Pacifica radio group. A man driving with his son heard the routine and complained to the FCC. The FCC, while not sanctioning Pacifica at that time, reserved the right to do so in the future. Pacifica successfully appealed this decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals; the FCC appealed to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the FCC in 1978. That decision, FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, established the regulation of indecency in American broadcasting. Carlin’s routine was acknowledged to be indecent, though not obscene, yet the Court recognized that because of “the pervasive nature of broadcasting,” the medium deserved less First Amendment protection than other forms of communication. The FCC was therefore given broad discretion to determine in which contexts material was obscene, and to restrict the broadcasting of such material during hours when children were likely to be listening. In a follow-up case, FCC v. Fox, decided as this book was going to press in April 2009, the Supreme Court ruled 5–4 that the FCC did have the authority to impose strong fines even for the “fleeting” use of unscripted expletives on TV. This case had been prompted by several large fines the FCC levied against live TV programs where the producers claimed that they could not have anticipated the language of the partipants.

The major newsmagazines, Time and Newsweek, were also slow to get into the act of using fuck in print. Newsweek was earlier; the first appearance there was in the issue of October 8, 1984, in an excerpt from Lee Iacocca’s memoir in which he recalls a conversation with Henry Ford II: “We’ve just made a billion eight for the second year in a row. But mark my words, Henry. You may never see a billion eight again. And do you know why? Because you don’t know how the fuck we made it in the first place!”

The word seems to have first appeared in Time on September 29, 2000, in a remembrance of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau: “One memorable afternoon in the House of Commons he sat at his desk while the Tories attacked him, and then, with exaggerated mouth movements, he responded almost silently: ‘Fuck off.’ “ (See the entry for FUDDLE-DUDDLE in this dictionary.)

It took a bit more time for the word to penetrate the pages of the august The New Yorker. The editorship of Tina Brown was credited—more usually, faulted—with that journal’s frequent use of the word, and though writers did use it with increasing frequency under Ms. Brown, in fact fuck appeared there, spelled in full, more than once during the editorship of her predecessor, the puritanical William Shawn. Calvin Trillin quoted a Nebraska farmer: “Goddam fuckin’ Jews!… They destroyed everything I ever worked for!” (March 18, 1985), and Bobbie Ann Mason used the word in a short story: “Maybe you have to find out for yourself. Fuck. You can’t learn from the past” (June 3, 1985). The current editor, David Remnick, continues to allow the word to appear as necessary, and it is not uncommon in fiction, reportage, or even editorial text.

Major American newspapers were typically slow to include fuck for any reason (in Britain, as we have seen, the coverage of the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case led to the word’s appearance in several papers there). The Los Angeles Times first used it in 1991, in an article about an attempted coup in Moscow that quoted Gorbachev shouting “Fuck off!” at some conspirators. The Washington Post’s first use was in 1992, in a direct quote about the final days of a death-row inmate.

Next came the remarkable appearance of fuck, spelled in full, in the pages of the New York Times (and many other newspapers). The Times’s policies on offensive language are usually quite conservative, often to the extent that articles specifically about obscene words do not provide enough information for the reader to determine what the article is about. But in 1998, having committed itself to printing the Starr Report, the Times was obligated to include the money passage on page B6 of its issue of September 12: “Ms. Lewinsky said she wanted two things from the President. The first was contrition: He needed to ‘acknowledge…that he helped fuck up my life.’”

Another notable political use led to a prominent appearance of fuck in the Washington Post. In 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney, exasperated with a political opponent, told him, on the floor of the Senate, to fuck himself. The Post ran an article about the encounter on June 25, with more sly wit than one is accustomed to see in political reporting: “The exchange ended when Cheney offered some crass advice. ‘Fuck yourself,’ said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency.” Though Cheney and the Republican Party were often said to be in favor of civil exchanges—the same day as this encounter, the Senate had passed the Defense of Decency Act— the Vice President defended his statement, claiming that it made him “feel better.” The Post’s editor personally approved the appearance of the word, on the grounds that Cheney’s remark had appeared in public and “not in a casual way,” though the paper’s ombudsman felt that the “heartbeat” retort was “smart-alecky.”

In Britain, the earliest use in Parliament was apparently in 1982, when Labour MP Reg Race referred in the House of Commons to advertisements for prostitutes that read, “Phone them and fuck them.” Hansard, the official publication of Parlimentary transcripts, rendered the word as “f***.”

The F-Word in Movies

In other media, the word has slipped in on occasion, but it seems that in the movie world, no one even tried to have fuck uttered on the screen until people were ready for it. The abandonment of the Hays Code, the censorship guidelines agreed to by major motion picture studios, in 1968, effectively allowed the word to be used in studio films, and its first appearance in mainstream movies was in 1970. During a football game in the antiwar black comedy MASH, one of the MASH linemen says to an opponent, “All right, bud, your fucking head is coming right off.” Also in 1970, Myra Breckenridge, a sexually frank film based on Gore Vidal’s novel, used the word several times; this film, often regarded as one of the worst ever made, had little influence.

Though 1970 was the first time fuck appeared in a major film, it had earlier been used in several avant-garde productions. A 1967 Irish production of Joyce’s Ulysses, featuring a script taken almost entirely from the book itself, used the word; the film was not allowed to be shown in general release in Ireland until 2000. The 1967 British film I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname, which portrayed a disillusioned advertising executive who drops out of corporate life, also used fuck in the dialogue; in the United States the film was denied an MPAA seal of approval because of a scene implying oral sex between the executive and his mistress. And yet again in 1967, D. A. Pennebaker’s documentary about Bob Dylan, Dont Look Back, shows Dylan drunkenly asking, “Who threw that fucking glass in the street? Who threw it? I’m not going to get fucking blamed for that.”

A number of films are regarded as extreme in the number of times fuck has been used in them. Until recently, it was very difficult to get more than an impressionistic idea of frequency. But there are now several Web sites devoted to tracking the uses of obscenity in film—usually intended for parents to determine how appropriate a film is for children—and so a more accurate breakdown is possible.

The standout among all mainstream films is, appropriately, the 2005 documentary Fuck, a film about the word itself (in which this editor had a minor role), which used a form of fuck 824 times in 93 minutes, for an average of 8.86 uses per minute. In second place, and with the highest number of uses in a narrative film, is 1997’s Nil by Mouth, written and directed by the actor Gary Oldham, about a lower-class family in London, which had 428 fucks. Martin Scorsese’s 1995 Casino rounds out the top three with 398. Other high-ranking films include Summer of Sam, Menace II Society, and Goodfellas. Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, often regarded as exceptionally vulgar, make the list down at numbers 20 and 21, with 269 and 265 fucks, respectively.

The F-Word in Titles

It should not be surprising that the appearance of fuck in titles, band names, and the like is a relatively recent phenomenon. Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “The Big Space Fuck” was published in Harlan Ellison’s 1972 anthology Again, Dangerous Visions; Vonnegut later claimed that it was “the first story in the history of literature to have ‘fuck’ in its title.” This is not strictly true. The earliest work of any sort with fuck in the title is apparently the 1879 erotic work A New and Gorgeous Pantomime Entitled Harlequin Prince Cherrytop and the Good Fairy Fairfuck, or the Frig, the Fuck and the Fairy (cited in this dictionary as Harlequin Prince Cherrytop). In “proper” literature, Ed Sanders’s underground Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts, which began publication in 1962, is likely the earliest. Similarly the poet Douglas Blazek, one of the founders of the “Mimeo Revolution” of self-published poetry, published Fuck Off Unless You Take Off That Mask in 1969.

In 1968, the British writer J. G. Ballard published a pamphlet entitled Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan, written as a scientific paper analyzing Reagan’s psychosexual appeal. When this paper was included as an appendix to his 1970 collection The Atrocity Exhibition, Doubleday, Ballard’s American publisher, pulped the entire printing.

The practical difficulty of using fuck in a title is that most mainstream publications, even today, will not be able to write about it. It is not clear what the intended title is of Greg Araki’s 1993 gay-themed film Totally F***ed Up; the title is thus in its own advertising material, but the title may be meant to be spelled without any asterisks. Arthur Neresian’s 1997 novel The Fuck-Up is perhaps one of the more prominent nonunderground works of this type, but Mark Ravenhill’s 1996 play Shopping and Fucking was also notable. Shocking for its sexually violent content as well as its title, the play has received various forms of treatment from different publications. When the New York Times reviewed a 2005 New York revival, too prominent to ignore, it used Shopping And.…

The earliest use of fuck in the title of a scholarly paper, according to the MLA bibliography, is Roger Luckhurst’s “Shut(ting) the Fuck Up: Narrating Blue Velvet in the Postmodernist Frame,” published in 1989 in the journal Bête Noire. The first scholarly paper to be titled “Fuck” exclusively seems to be one by Christopher M. Fairman, a professor at Ohio State, first published in 2006 as the Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series No. 59. The paper analyzes various legal implications of the use of the word.

The F-Word in Dictionaries

The first appearance of fuck in a dictionary was in John Florio’s Worlde of Words, a comprehensive Italian-English dictionary published in 1598—before any monolingual dictionary of English had yet appeared. It was one of five synonyms given to translate the Italian word fottere; the others were jape, sard, swive, and occupy. Fuck was first included as a main entry, in its proper alphabetic place, in Stephen Skinner’s Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae (1671), a dictionary of English etymology that was written in Latin.

Samuel Johnson’s immediate predecessor, Nathan (or Nathaniel) Bailey, listed the word, with a Latin definition, in his 1721 Universal Etymological English Dictionary. Bailey’s popular 1730 follow-up, the Dictionarium Britannicum, contained the curious note that it was “a term used of a goat”; this odd limitation may have been intended to mitigate the inclusion of the word (words inappropriate to humans might be allowable if referring to animals) and not as an indication of actual usage. Samuel Johnson excluded it from his great dictionary in 1755, but he made a conscious decision to omit vulgar words, so the absence of it from his dictionary does not indicate the word’s rarity. Still, the word’s omission provided one of the great dirty-words-in-dictionaries anecdotes: when complimented by a lady for having left out this and other offensive words, Johnson is said to have replied, “No, Madam, I hope I have not daubed my fingers. I find, however, that you have been looking for them.”

The last general dictionary of this era to include fuck seems to have been John Ash’s New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1775, and still containing the word in its 1795 second edition. Ash—a Baptist minister—called it “a low vulgar word,” and defined it as “to perform the act of generation, to have to do with a woman.” Ash also included cunt in both editions of his dictionary, also marked as vulgar and defined as “the female pudendum.” After Ash, it was to be 170 years until fuck again appeared in a general dictionary.

In the late Victorian era, the great slang dictionary of the time, John Farmer and W. E. Henley’s Dictionary of Slang and Its Analogues, featured extensive treatments of cunt and fuck in volumes published in 1891 and 1893, respectively. The entries included compounds, phrases, and numerous dated quotations. Though the volumes were privately published for subscribers only, Farmer’s original printer refused to print the second volume of the work after seeing the nature of the contents, and Farmer took him to court to recover the costs of switching printers at such short notice. Despite the claim that the work served a historical and scholarly purpose, the jury, shocked by the extent of the obscene vocabulary, found for the defendant.

Even in the twentieth century the presence of fuck in specialized dictionaries has caused problems. The slang lexicographer Eric Partridge included over a dozen F-words in the first edition of his Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, but he spelled the word “f*ck.” In spite of this, his compilation, in that and its various later editions, generated protests to the police, school authorities, and libraries; as late as the 1960s special permission was needed to view it in some libraries. In his etymological dictionary Origins, published in 1958, Partridge added a second asterisk to make the word a potentially less offensive “f**k.” The missing letters were restored to the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in its Supplement of 1967.

Other large general dictionaries cannot be seriously faulted for omitting the word, given the tenor of the times. The next major dictionary to miss its chance was Webster’s Third New International Dictionary in 1961. Groundbreaking in its approach to slang and colloquial language—for which it was harshly condemned by many critics—the Third did include cunt, and had set a fuck entry into type, but the officers of the G. & C. Merriam Co. vetoed it at the last minute. (The linguist Mario Pei criticized the dictionary’s “residual prudishness” in a review.)

Similarly inhibited was Random House, whose 1966 Random House Dictionary of the English Language was the other great dictionary of the 1960s. Jess Stein, the editor-in-chief, told the New York Times about a meeting he convened with the company’s editorial and sales staff to discuss cunt and fuck: “When I uttered the words, there was a shuffling of feet, and a wave of embarrassment went through the room. That convinced me the words did not belong in the dictionary, though I’m sure I’ll be attacked as a prude for the decision.” Stein did not have to wait long to be proven right on the last point: a mere two weeks later, on September 30, the Times’s own book reviewer wrote, “Unfortunately, a stupid prudery has prevented the inclusion of probably the most widely-used word in the English language. The excuse here, no doubt, is ‘good taste’; but in a dictionary of this scope and ambition the omission seems dumb and irresponsible.”

Only the previous year, the British Penguin English Dictionary, edited by G. N. Garmonsway, had become the first general English dictionary to include fuck since Ash’s 1795 second edition. The entry—“ludicrously brief,” in the words of OED editor Robert Burchfield—consisted in its entirety of “(vulg) (of males) have sexual intercourse (with).” In America the honor of first inclusion fell to the 1969 American Heritage Dictionary—ironically, given the otherwise conservative approach that dictionary took to language issues. The treatment was reasonably full, with five verb senses, two noun senses, and adjective and adverb entries. All were labeled “Vulgar.”

The words cunt and fuck had been kept out of the Oxford English Dictionary—the F entries were edited in the 1890s—though by the time the editors made it to W in the 1920s, they decided to enter windfucker as a name for the kestrel. Eric Partridge reported a discussion with C. T. Onions, one of the OED’s editors, about why the earlier editors had left out cunt and fuck. Onions: “They considered the two unspeakables to be also unprintables…and although I cannot speak for Craigie, I do myself think them beyond the pale of all decency .… I wouldn’t have liked my own children to find these words in a volume on my library shelves.” Partridge countered by observing that people would never find the words if they didn’t already know to look for them, to which Onions grudgingly answered, “Yes, perhaps, perhaps, but I still think the OED was right to ban them.”

The omission of these words had been objected to at least as early as 1934, when the linguist A. S. C. Ross (now best known for the concept of “U and non-U” language, popularized by Nancy Mitford) reviewed the first OED Supplement (1933) in the scholarly journal Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. Ross wrote,

As regards the latter [i.e. “obscene” words] there appears to have been a definite policy of omission; it certainly seems regrettable that the perpetuation of a Victorian prudishness (inacceptable [sic] in philology beyond all other subjects) should have been allowed to lead to the omission of some of the commonest words in the English language.… Often the words are attested from an early period and their omission from the NED [as the OED was then called] has sometimes led to the anomaly of their not appearing in the standard etymological dictionaries either.

Some other comprehensive scholarly dictionaries had included these words. The Middle English Dictionary published a full treatment of cunte in 1961; fuck is not attested in Middle English and thus could not have been included. There are very brief entries for fuck and some derivatives in the section of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue that appeared in the late 1940s, but the citations consisted only of bibliographic references, without the quotation text itself, forcing readers to go to the library if they wanted to see the context.

Fuck and cunt finally entered the OED in 1972 with the publication of the first volume (A–G) of A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary. When Robert Burchfield accepted the editorship of the Supplements in 1957, he thought that “the time had not yet come” to include the word, but he eventually changed his mind. After consulting scholars around the globe and drafting entries for the words, Burchfield wrote to the Delegates of Oxford University Press that the draft entries were “based on the printed evidence which, though scanty in some centuries, is substantial enough to permit the compilation of articles comparable in quality with those for other words of similar date.” And in 1968 the Delegates, as well as the Proctors of the University of Oxford itself, approved the inclusion of the two words in recognition that “standards of tolerance have changed and their omission has for many years, and more frequently of late, excited critical comment.”

Euphemism and Taboo Avoidance

As one can see from the entry for EFF in this book, the use of the first letter of fuck as a euphemism for the word itself arose by the 1920s at the latest. There are earlier precedents for this dodge. In H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), the librettist Sir W. S. Gilbert alludes to the use of damn:

Though “Bother it” I may?
Occasionally say,
I never use a big, big D.

A fascinating—and much earlier—parallel is found in classical Latin, as David L. Gold has shown in a recent article. In his Menippeae, Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) writes psephistis dicite labdeae. The sense of the first word in this context is not known, but the next two words are clear: they are an allusion to the Latin idiom laecasin dicere “to tell (someone) to go to hell,” which literally means “to tell (someone) to suck,” and is based on , a vulgar Greek verb for fellate. (Labdeae is the word for lambda, the Greek letter L.) An English translation of the Varro quote, then, would be something like “Tell him to go S himself!”

Of course, all this is not to suggest that the expression “the F-word” is modeled on a Latin phrase, or even on a Gilbert and Sullivan comedy. But the two usages illustrate the same device: the name of the first letter of a vulgar word euphemistically standing for that word.

The expression four-letter word is first found in 1897 and was well enough established by the 1930s to be used in Cole Porter’s classic lyric “Anything Goes” in 1934: “Good authors, too, who once used better words/Now only use four-letter words/Writing prose/Anything goes.” (The related expression four-letter man, indicating a “man who can be described by a four-letter word [usually shit, but sometimes goof, bore, or dumb]” was common in the 1920s.) With both eff and four-letter word in use in the 1930s, it would not be too surprising if the F-word were used at that time as well. However, the earliest example of which the editor is aware is not until the early 1950s, and that was in an academic journal, discussing the publication of Lady Chatterley’s Lover (see the entry for F-WORD in this dictionary). The later evidence, however, suggests that it was still mainly used as a childish euphemism—another reason to believe that it may have been used earlier, since words such as these are seldom written down.

The use of the F-word increased throughout the 1970s and ’80s, and eventually the suffix –word began to be used freely with the first letter of a word—any word—to be avoided. There are occasional examples from the early 1980s of, for instance, the L-word for “ lesbian,” but this practice did not really peak until the mid- to late-1980s. By this time it was often jocular, as in the L-word for “love” or “ liberal,” or the T-word for “taxes,” but serious examples were also used: the N-word for “nigger.” This combining form of the suffix -word, finally liberated from association with fuck, appeared by itself in general dictionaries by the early 1990s.

The trick of spelling out the word fuck is not new. When the singer Britney Spears released a single called “If You Seek Amy,” with the song title spelling out “F-U-C-K me,” in 2009, it was viewed as shocking, with parents registering complaints and so forth, despite the fact that phrases of this sort have been around for centuries, including, as we have seen, in Shakespeare. In Ulysses, James Joyce made the same pun with the bit of doggerel, “If you see Kay. / Tell him he may. / See you in tea. / Tell him from me,” thus managing to spell out cunt as well. Take that, Britney!

Indeed, the trope is well established among musicians. The blues pianist Memphis Slim recorded a wistful song about his lost girlfriend, called “If You See Kay,” in 1963. In 1977, lo-fi pioneer R. Stevie Moore released his “If You See Kay,” a lopingly heartbroken revenge song that concludes: “If you see Kay you.” The title was used, less wistfully and less heartbrokenly, by the Canadian rock band April Wine, on their 1982 album Power Play (sample lyrics: “She had the look of need / Like ‘Give it to me’/I decided I should take a chance”). The pop-punk band Poster Children released a ragged, raucous version on their 1990 Daisychain Reaction. The Norwegian punk band Turbonegro released the slick and poppy “If You See Kaye,” performed in English, in 2005. Aerosmith used the line in a lyric in their 2006 song “Devil’s Got a New Disguise.” (In 1991, Van Halen released the album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, though this was surely not intended to be even remotely subtle.) One of the catchiest recent iterations of this trope comes from the Irish band The Script, which released its “If You See Kay” on MySpace. In a 2009 interview, the band explicitly acknowledged its debt to James Joyce—whom they helpfully identify as “a literary god in Ireland”—noting the use of the gag in Ulysses.

In all of these cases, the performers are letting the double-entendre work for them; this is not the case with Britney, whose use of the phrase is not a pun. There is only one possible way to interpret it, since the lyric itself makes no sense in context: “All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy.” The use of Amy in this context does seem to be new, though.

Aside from the the use of initial letters, the use of euphemisms for fuck itself is also long established. This dictionary includes a number of euphemisms for fuck that are used as phonetic substitutions for the word, with frig being both early, and also used in a very wide variety of constructions.

As we have seen, when Norman Mailer published The Naked and the Dead in 1948, he was persuaded by his publisher to use the spelling fug, leading to the story that Tallulah Bankhead (or, in some versions of the anecdote, Dorothy Parker) approached Mailer at a party and said “So you’re the young man who can’t spell fuck.” (Of course this spelling was never intended to be any kind of a true mask.)

Another form of avoidance was the use of typographical markers to show that certain letters in a word are to be omitted. The earliest known example of this practice is from 1680, in a poem by John Oldham entitled “Upon the Author of a Play call’d Sodom,” where the word turd has the vowel replaced by a dash. Richard Ames’s 1688 “Satyr Again Man” includes a number of typographically bleeped words, including bl–d for ‘blood’, w–nds for ‘wounds’ (both only when used as oaths; in their normal senses they are written out in the usual way), and G-d and d-mn. By 1698 we have our first example of the bleeped fuck; see the quote at FUCK v. sense 1.c. in this dictionary.

Such dashes were common throughout the eighteenth century; by the nineteenth century (if not earlier), asterisks were pressed into service. The 1857 example in this dictionary at FUCKING adj. sense 2 is striking in its combination of dashes (to partly obscure the less offensive word bitch) and asterisks (to entirely obscure a word that we must conclude is fucking).

This Dictionary and Its Policies

Selection of Entries, and Inclusion Policy

This book contains every sense of fuck, and every compound word or phrase of which fuck is a part, that the editor believes has ever had broad currency in English. It does not contain words meaning ‘to have sex’ or ‘to victimize’ that are used, often unconsciously, as euphemisms for fuck, such as lay, screw, shaft, or do it. However, it does include euphemisms for fuck that directly suggest, in sound and meaning, the word itself: thus the inclusion of freaking, foul up, mofo, and others. These words are typically used as direct replacements for fuck.

In earlier editions of this book, priority was given to American English; indeed, in its first edition, forms not found in America were excluded entirely. However, the text is now much more wide-ranging, thanks to the editor’s access to the files of the OED: uses that are specifically British, Australian, or Irish are included in their own right, and a very large number of quotations have been added from non-American sources to illustrate all entries, not just those associated with a particular national variety. The reader will thus find vastly more British examples (including Welsh and especially Scottish in addition to English), and also quotations from Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, South Africa, and elsewhere.

Preference has been given to words found in actual use, though the editor did find it necessary to consult other dictionaries or word lists. For earlier uses, where evidence from written sources is sparse, a dictionary quotation may represent a genuine use that is simply unattested elsewhere. But in many cases, words that are found only in dictionaries are joke words, made up as a lark, and there is no way of gauging their true currency; compilers of slang dictionaries put them in because they find such words amusing, or because they can’t verify whether the words are truly in use and want to be safe by being completist. For example, the World War II snafu gave rise to a number of other words with the fu element, including janfu, snefu, and tarfu, and fubar and its relations. Certain specialized dictionaries or glossaries of World War II language contain many more examples, but we have no written or spoken evidence of actual use. This suggests that these words were never used seriously, but treated only as jokes. Thus this dictionary does not include tasfuira ‘things are so fucked up it’s really amazing’, among others.

The availability of massive full-text databases, as well as Google and other search engines, has, perhaps contrary to expectations, greatly complicated the decision-making process. Even a quick look at, say, www.urbandictionary.com will show that there are very many words or phrases with fuck that are not included in this dictionary. Opening the book up to every word or compound for which examples can be found on the Internet would make it very much longer than it is now, with uncertain benefits. The editor has thus done his best to try to determine which of these is most likely to be in truly broad circulation. In general, examples from printed sources have been given preference over online examples. Uses from popular movies or television shows have also received preferred treatment, though even some prominent examples from these genres did not make the cut. Though the song “Uncle Fucka,” from the 1999 movie South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, is a brilliant work and won an MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Performance, uncle fucker was not included; there was simply no evidence for a broad use of the term.

A partial list of terms that have been excluded includes clothes-fuck ‘a difficulty in deciding what to wear’; figure-fucking ‘altering financial documents; “cooking the books” ’; fuck eyes ‘sexually flirtatious glances’; fuck lips ‘the labia’; fuckomania ‘rampant sexual desire’; fuck-stain ‘a foolish or offensive person’; fuck udders ‘a woman’s breasts’; and fuckwaddery ‘the nature of being a fuckwad; stupidity’.

The editor encourages readers to write in with suggestions for words that are omitted, especially if there is solid evidence for their genuine use, for possible inclusion in future editions.

The Entries

The entries in this book are arranged alphabetically, letter by letter. A word may be shown as a main entry more than once, depending on its use as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, interjection, or infix (a word, such as -fucking-, inserted within another word or set phrase, forming such other words as absofuckinglutely).

Within an entry, numbered senses are ordered by the date of the first citation, as are the lettered subsenses within a numbered sense. This allows the historical development of the senses to be clearly seen.

Phrases using fuck or a derivative are listed alphabetically at the end of the main entry; some phrases may be listed as part of a definition in the main body of the entry. Phrases are preceded by the pointing-middle-finger symbol () for clarity.

Cross-references to other words in this volume are given in SMALL CAPITALS. Cross references to phrases are given in italic type and specify the main entry word where the phrase may be found.

Certain citations have been placed in square brackets to indicate that the example does not show, or does not clearly show, the use of the word it is meant to illustrate, but provides a parallel or prefiguring use. Examples are the first quotation for CFM, which contains the full form come fuck me but not the abbreviation itself; the first two quotations for fuck the dog under DOG noun, which use “feed” and “walk” instead of fuck, with no way to tell whether these were euphemisms or unrelated uses; and finger-frig, almost a hundred years earlier than the first actual quotation for FINGER-FUCK.

Field labels, such as Military or Black English or British, describe the group or subculture of people who use the word (not necessarily those to whom the word applies). The choice of labels was made on the basis of the evidence, and it is not intended to be limiting. The presence of a label should not imply that the word is used exclusively by the designated group, or that persons using such words have real ties to the group.

The Examples

Each entry in this book is illustrated with a number of examples of the use of the word in context—quotations from books and magazines, movies or television, the Internet, and sometimes even from speech. These examples, called citations (or cites for short) by dictionary editors, have several purposes: to demonstrate that a word or sense has actually been in use; to show the length of time it has existed; to show exactly how it has been used; and so forth.

In every case, the first citation given is the earliest one that the editor has been able to find. The last citation is, within reason, the most recent example available. Only a few F-words are truly obsolete and therefore have no recent example. The dates provide important evidence for the use of a word. We may discover that although fuck around ‘to play or fool around’ is recorded only from the early twentieth century, the similar use of frig is found in the late eighteenth. Therefore, that sense of fuck itself may be just as old but simply unrecorded owing to the vulgarity of the term.

Every example is preceded by its bibliographic source. Most of the sources may be found in a good research library, though some are from manuscripts or other sources kept in the files of the Random House Reference Division or the Oxford English Dictionary. The examples taken from speech were collected by the editor, or in some cases by researchers for Random House; the date refers to the year in which the example was actually collected. Online examples can be found in expected places: Usenet quotations are archived at Google Groups; ones from electronic editions of newspapers will be at the Web site of those papers; etc.

The date shown for each citation is the date when we believe the word was actually written or used. This is usually the same as the publication date. Occasionally, when a passage (or the entire book) is known to have been written at an earlier date, that date will be given instead. In most such cases the year of publication is given in parentheses after the title. This is also the case when the quotation was taken from a later edition of a book, but with the expectation that the quotation was present in an earlier edition: The date of the original edition will be given, with the later edition in parentheses after the title. When a book or magazine is quoting an earlier source, the word “in” appears after the date: 1528 in Notes & Queries.

Jesse Sheidlower, New York

Introduction to the Third Edition

The F-Word was first published in 1995. There were various extensive changes introduced in the Second Edition of this book, which was published in 1999. Most prominently, the original edition included only F-words that were in use in America; the Second Edition added entries for British and Australian and other uses. It also added a variety of new quotations, including some famous ones that were of interest, and added some words and senses that had been missed.

This Third Edition introduces a vastly larger number of changes. The dictionary text is about twice as large as the Second Edition, and well over 100 new words and senses have been added. A significant number of existing entries have been antedated—that is, earlier examples have been found, showing that a word has been in use for longer than we once thought. All this has been made possible in large part because of the increased availability of online resources. The second major factor is the editor’s move to the Oxford English Dictionary, and thus his access to its files.

There have been a number of other changes. A broad effort has been made to fix the bibliographic information. Titles have been regularized, and where possible given in their full form. Initials have been added to the names of most authors. Dates assigned to books have been regularized; parenthesized dates have been added to editions of letters or journals, later editions of works, and other cases where the date given for the quotation does not correspond to the publication date of the book in which it was found.

The quotations have been a particular focus of the work. Thousands have been added to this edition. The editor has tried to broaden the range of evidence as much as possible. The geographic range has been expanded, so that, for example, British authors are quoted even for terms that are originally American, and quotations have been added from South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, and elsewhere (a typical practice is to quote from “minority” regions only for terms associated with those regions). A number of uninteresting quotations have been deleted if they could be replaced with better ones from a similar date, and many quotations were added because the editor found them interesting or amusing.

The use of full-text databases has also allowed many existing entries to be expanded or split up. Many entries had parts of speech combined, so that the definition of a word found chiefly as a verb, but with a single noun example, would lump the two uses together. Now, with more noun uses, this use could be split off into its own entry. Examples of this process include CUNT-FUCK noun, which previously had only a single quotation from 1998, from a Usenet newsgroup devoted to erotic stories, but has now been expanded into a full-fledged entry, with four quotations covering the range of 1879 to 2002; FUCKWITTED adjective, previously part of FUCKWIT noun but now on its own; FUGLY noun, separated from the adjective; and SPORT FUCK noun, upgraded from the verb. Similarly, some entries that were subsumed under others have been elevated. Thus the phrases fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke and fuck you and the horse you rode in on were both in the earlier editions, but merely thrown in with other, less frequent phrases. But it was clear that these should be given individual treatment.

In many other cases, existing entries have been expanded with new senses or parts of speech. The original entry for ASS-FUCK had a single example of ‘an instance of victimization’ for the noun; there are now a number of quotations for this sense, as well as a new noun sense ‘a despicable person’ and a new verb sense ‘to victimize’. The noun BUTTFUCKER, previously included under BUTT-FUCK verb, is now an entry in its own right, with both the literal sense and the figurative ‘despicable person’. The adjective FUCK-FACED, previously only recorded in the sense ‘having an ugly face’, now has two additional senses, ‘tired’ and ‘drunk; shit-faced’. BFD, in previous editions only present as an interjection, now has a noun equivalent, and the adjective and adverb FUBAR now has a verb.

The bulk of the additions consist of entirely new words. Some are non-American forms that the editor had missed, including the British eff and blind under EFF verb, FANNY ADAMS, fuck knows under FUCK verb, and HEADFUCK in senses related to confusion; the Canadian FUDDLE-DUDDLE; the Australian FARK; the Irish FECK. Some are initialisms, many now chiefly associated with the world of online communication, such as FOAD, OMFG, STFU, and especially the now mainstream MILF. But most are simply new or newish developments, or older terms that were rare enough to have been omitted before but for which substantial evidence is now available. A smattering of the many such new entries includes ARTFUCK, F-BOMB, FLAT FUCK, FRAK, I wouldn’t fuck her with your dick under FUCK verb, FUCKABILITY, FUCKFRIEND, FUCKLESS, FUCK MACHINE, FUCKSHIT, HATE-FUCK verb, PIGFUCK, THROAT FUCK, and UNFUCKED.

A small number of entries have been deleted entirely. While there are still examples of words or senses with only one quotation (suggesting that they are not and never have been very common), the decision to remove existing entries of this sort was not undertaken lightly. The deleted examples include give-a-fuck ‘one’s sense of motivation or enthusiasm’, an apparently unique variant of the itself rare give-a-shit; fucking used interjectionally to indicate hesitation, which was perhaps an example of overextrapolation by a dictionary compiler; and fuck-ox, a military term for a Vietnamese water buffalo, a further example of which could not be found even in extensive searches of Vietnam War literature. It is possible that additional items could have been removed as well, but a conservative approach seemed best.

Acknowledgments

This book would not have been possible without the help of a large number of people across a long span of time. Of course all errors are my own fault.

For the earlier editions, Bernard W. Kane was indefatigable in providing buckets of useful suggestions; John Simpson generously sent me several citations from the files of the Oxford English Dictionary; Fred Shapiro’s wizardry with database searches yielded a large number of updatings and important additions to the text; James Rader of Merriam-Webster sent early examples of several terms I had difficulty tracking down. My former colleagues at Random House provided assistance and support of various flavors.

Professor Anatoly Liberman was kind enough to share his detailed researches into the etymology and bibliography of fuck. His entry on the word in the Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology is by far the most comprehensive treatment of the etymology of fuck ever published.

H. Bosley Woolf generously sent me a copy of his privately printed pamphlet The GI’s Favorite Four Letter Word, the earliest published work devoted solely to our word.

James Lambert, editor of the Macquarie Book of Slang, was kind enough to provide extensive citations from Australia and New Zealand in addition to many quotations from often obscure British and American sources. I am grateful for his continued help with this edition. He has been a friend for many years, despite the fact that we have never met in person.

My close friends and colleagues Jonathon Green and Tom Dalzell, slang lexicographers extraordinaire, were extremely generous in every way, personally and professionally. I am as grateful to them for their hospitality over the years as I am for their willingness to share painstakingly collected evidence from their own extensive collections.

For help with certain terms, and for specific editorial advice, I am grateful to Daniel Menaker, Jennifer Dowling, Judy Kaplan, Sarah Burnes, Jeremy Kareken, Charles Levine, Sam Pratt, Alison Biggert, Arnold Zwicky, Barry Popik, William Monahan, Edward Hutchinson, Stephen Berg, Andrew Cohen of Newsweek, Aaron Barnhart, Michele Tepper, and the Old and Young Hats of AFU GmbH.

More recently I must thank members of the American Dialect Society mailing list, especially Bill Mullins, Neal Whitman, John Patrick, John Baker, Wilson Gray, and Mark Peters for their detailed suggestions. Michael Adams has been a good friend and a patient colleague; his book Slang: The People’s Poetry is the best treatment of an unwieldy subject. Adrian Flynn took time away from his studies to hit the library on my behalf. Ben Zimmer has been extremely generous and helpful over the years; along with Fred Shapiro he is the best database plunderer I’ve ever encountered. Larry Horn, Arnold Zwicky, and Ron Butters gave much useful advice. David Simon corresponded with me about eye-fuck, and graciously sent me original shooting scripts of his brilliant show The Wire.

I am extremely grateful to my colleagues at the Oxford English Dictionary. In particular, I would like to mention Chief Editor John Simpson; Robert Faber, who supported my work on this project more than he had to; Michael Proffit, for many years of close support and friendship; and Graeme Diamond, with whom I revised the OED’s entries for fuck and its relations. It is a rare and humbling pleasure to work in an environment with so many brilliant and dedicated people.

At Oxford University Press, my thanks to Ben Keene, for early editorial support; Damon Zucca and Grace Labatt, for helping bring the project to completion; Jess Lawson, for her production wizardry; Vin Dang for the interior design; Mary Araneo and Steve Cestaro in Production; Purdy for his unstinting publicity efforts; Amy Tiedemann and Kim Craven in Marketing for long-time enthusiasm; and above all to Casper Grathwohl for his approval and support of the book.

Ira Silverberg, my friend and agent (in that order), has been supportive for so long and for so little reason that I can’t even begin to express my appreciation.

I received technical support from a number of different sources. Thanks especially to Adam Turoff for extensive help with the XML and XSLT used to produce the book, and for his constant availability to help with complicated issues. A shout-out to all of my colleagues on the Catalyst web framework. Perrin Harkins was extremely generous with his vast knowledge of programming. Paul Steiner at OUP provided ideal support, belying the stereotype of the IT drone. Nonpersonal thanks for some of the underlying technologies go out to Richard Stallman, Larry Wall, and Linus Torvalds, among many others.

This editor, and all students of the F-word, owe an enormous debt to the late Professor Allen Walker Read for his work on the word. Professor Read has made many hugely important contributions to the study of English; he is perhaps best known for his research on O.K. But his 1934 article “An Obscenity Symbol” is the pioneering study of the word; without his exhaustive research, we would know far less about this most significant word. His 1974 follow-up, “An Obscenity Symbol After Four Decades,” admirably adds forty years of study to our knowledge.

Jonathan Lighter is the greatest slang lexicographer in history. It has been a deep honor to work with him and I continued to be humbled by his astonishing abilities at research, sense division, and defining. There has not been a single entry I have ever worked on that he could not have done better.

And finally, my immense love and gratitude to Sarah Lang, who showed me that I could be happy.

Jesse Sheidlower, New York, March 2009

A

absofuckinglutely adverb

absolutely. Compare -FUCKING-, infix.

1921 Notes & Queries (Nov. 19) 415 [refers to WWI]: The soldier’s actual speech…was absolutely impregnated with one word which (to use it as a basis for alliteration) the fastidious frown at as “filthy”.… Words were split up to admit it: “absolutely” became “abso—lutely.” 1945 S. J. Baker Australian Language 258: Transconti-bloody-nental, abso-f—g-lutely, inde-bloody-pendent. 1970 C. Major Dictionary of Afro-American Slang 19: Absofuckinglutely: without doubt. 1973 W. T. Huggett Body Count ch. viii: That’s right, Carlysle, that’s abso-fucking-lutely right. 1985 D. Bodey F.N.G. 224: “Like, don’t it seem like the time has gone fast now?” “Abso-fuckin’-lutely.” 1995 N.Y. Observer (Apr. 24) 19: “Remember me?”.… “Abso-fucking-lutely.” 2002 J. Thompson Wide Blue Yonder ii. 147: He was nuts. Absofuckinglutely. 2008 New York Magazine (Aug. 11) 31: I decided to e-mail Liz Rosenberg, Madonna’s publicist since fuh-evah…to see if she would…talk about celebrities and plastic surgery. “Absofuckinlutely,” she wrote back.

AMF interjection

“adios [or aloha], mother fucker”; good-bye; the finish. Jocular.

1963 in P. Tamony Motherfucker 7: “A.M.F.… adios mother fucker,”…“goodbye friend.” [1966 M. Braly On the Yard 120: And that’s adios mother fuckers.] 1973 McA. Layne How Audie Murphy Died in Vietnam (unpaged): A.M.F. Adios mother fahckers. 1980 D. J. Cragg Lexicon Militaris: AMF. Adios (or Aloha) Motherfucker. 1988 K. Kijewski Stray Kat Waltz 286: You’re outta here. Just like that. Leaving us behind and everything. Not thinking about us or anything. Just AMF. 2001 R. Martini Hot Straight & Normal 17: Alpha Mike Foxtrot—Acronym for “Adios, My Friend.” Also seen as initials, “AMF.” Other terms may be used for the “M,” and “F.” 2003 D. Farris Lie Still 179: “I will not be able to snatch your ass back from the fire if the GME committee says AMF.” “AMF?” “Adios, Mutha Fucka.”

artfuck noun

1. an artistic person, especially one who is elitist or pretentious.

1987 B. E. Ellis Rules of Attraction 110: I turn back to our table, with the Art Fucks because they seem less boring. 1999 M. Estep Soft Maniacs 121: The way I look, it’s hard to tell if I’m some deliberately disheveled successful artfuck or just a down-and-out guy. 2004 J. A. Juarez Brotherhood of Corruption 2: Their parents are loaded, so they can afford to be art fucks. Escaping responsibility, if you ask me. 2005 Houston Press (June 23) (Nexis): I just think he’s one of the most pretentious art fucks I’ve ever encountered.… He thinks he’s some amazing human being and talks down to so many kids.

2. something (especially a piece or style of music) that is pretentiously artistic. Often as adjective.

1993 “The Virgin Prunes” (album title): Artfuck: A compilation of rarities. 1997 D. Waller in D. Snowden Make Music go Bang! 123: The industrial-strength art-fuck Screamers didn’t sound anything like the hippy-hippy shake-shake Nerves. 2001 Village Voice (Nov. 27) 64/1: From jackhammer fuzz-romps to well-constructed rapid-fire raveups to art-fuck synth-pop. 2004 C. Eddy in Village Voice (Dec. 1) C77: The eight more hipster-oriented units whose current releases are among those happily hyped below may well have a hard time supporting such proudly post-graduate artfuck endeavors through four long years of the ownership society.

ASAFP adverb

“as soon as fucking possible”; immediately.

1977 P. Tauber Last Best Hope 406: It’s got to be hand-carried—ASAFP. 1985 J. Hughes Weird Science (film): I want you out of here ASAFP! 1990 P. Munro Slang U. 23: A.S.A.F.P. as soon as possible, or sooner. 2005 Variety (Sept. 19) 73: Tough-as-nails boss Colonel McNulty (Dennis Hopper), a can-do guy who wants stuff done “ASAFP.”

ass-fuck noun

1. an act of anal copulation.

1940 J. Del Torto Graffiti Transcript (Kinsey Institute): Make date for assfuck. 1941 G. Legman in G. V. Henry Sex Variants II 1157: Ass-fuck…An act of pedication. 1974 “Linda Lovelace” Diary 66: He gave me the best ass-fuck I’ve ever had. 1975 C. Skinner Carol’s Curious Passion 60: It was no use talking to Bert. For he was carried away with his ass fuck. 1976 J. Johnson Oriental Festival 136: I want to give you a tremendous ass fuck. 1981 S. Hite Hite Report on Male Sexuality 530: The afterglow of a good ass-fuck can last for days. 2004 T. Bentley Surrender 164: Now I just want a three-hour ass-fuck where I give him all my power, he takes it, and takes me to visit God.

2. an instance of cruel victimization; a terrible situation.

1977 P. Schrader Blue Collar 14: No way he was gonna take this assfuck forever. 1987 B. Massumi trans. G. Deleuze & F. Guattari Thousand Plateaus Foreword x: What got me by during that period was conceiving the history of philosophy as a kind of ass-fuck, or, what amounts to the same thing, an immaculate conception. I imagined myself approaching an author from behind and giving him a child that would indeed be his but would nonetheless be monstrous. 2005 D. H. Wilson Pseudo-City 209: You called life an assfuck. 2008 Gawker (Oct. 31) (online): Apparently, they hadn’t been paying insurance premiums either and people who went to the doctor in November or December were being denied their claims because they had no idea they weren’t insured any longer. One big giant ass fuck, basically.

3. a despicable person.

2000 S.F. Weekly (Mar. 1) (Nexis): So thank you SF Weekly for giving this stupid ass fuck of a human the time for this story. 2003 E. Shade Eyesores 127: I pushed Shitwad into a sand trap and kicked sand in his face. I called him a dirty pissant little ass-fuck. 2004 “Minister Faust” Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad 362: Next time I tell you ass-fucks what I want done, I want it done, and I want it done right. 2007 B. Frazer Hyper-Chondriac 98: I’m surprised this Bikram assfuck allows anyone to even use the temperature of 105 degrees without winding up in court.

ass-fuck verb

1. to engage in anal copulation [with].

[1866 Romance of Lust IV 361: We had not as yet…indulged even in bottom-fucking the women.] 1940 J. Del Torto Graffiti Transcript (Kinsey Institute): Want to be assfucked. 1941 G. Legman in G. V. Henry Sex Variants II 1157: Ass-fuck…To pedicate. 1971 D. Rader Government Inspected Meat 105: Get ass-fucked like a bender by a butching lover. 1974–77 L. Heinemann Close Quarters 184: She would…ass-fuck. 1984 W. D. Ehrhart Marking Time 66: Pam, that old boyfriend of yours—you…even ass-fuck the guy! 1992 Madonna Sex (unpaged): That’s what ass-fucking is all about. It’s the most pleasurable way to get fucked. 1998 Sick Puppy Comix (No. 8) (Sydney, Australia) 21: You gotta write about sweet, tender little girlies getting arsefucked like cheap little whores! 2005 “Noire” G-Spot 36: He held me down and ass-fucked me until I thought I would die.

2. to victimize cruelly.

1980 Samisdat XVII. 75: Since “world order” has traditionally consisted of the haves alternately plundering and ass-fucking the have-nots unchallenged, we shall not miss it. 1995 H. Stern Miss America 433: I’m getting the worst ass fucking in history. It’s happening in front of the world. 1998 E. Reid If I Don’t Six 43: There’s always someone out to ass-fuck you. Watch out for yourself. 2006 S. M. Stirling Meeting at Corvallis 471: You got greedy, and yeah, we got collectively ass-fucked. 2007 P. Morris Guardians viii. 41: That’s what happened with the Preznit and Saddam Hussein, and we all know who wound up getting assfucked on that particular occasion.

B

batfuck adjective & adverb

crazy. Cf. batshit.

1977 F. Stanford Battlefield where the Moon says I Love You in I. Reed From Totems to Hip-Hop (2003) 330: While you’re at it tell her she’s bat fuck too. 1991 D. Grinstead Promises of Freedom 302: [He] got a Marine killed because he set up a patrol wrong; then the major went batfuck in another crisis. 2005 S. Monette Mélusine 423: I needed to start walking again. It was either that or go batfuck nuts.

beans and motherfuckers, see under MOTHERFUCKER.

bearfuck noun

Military. a confused or disappointing undertaking.

1983 K. Miller Tiger the Lurp Dog 92 [refers to Vietnam War]: The mission turned out to be another disappointing bearfuck. 2005 D. DeFrain Salt Palace viii. 80: I was in Palermo for most of mine. F.I.G.M.O., you know? A real bear-fuck start-to-end, if you know what I mean.

bends and motherfuckers, see under MOTHERFUCKER.

BFD noun [see BFD, interjection]

something important; a big deal.—usually in negative contexts.

1992 H. Childress Reality Bites (film script) 75: Lelaina. I’m only taking this [money] so you won’t get in trouble—And it’s just a loan, okay? Patty. Cool your pits—It’s not a B.F.D. You can have it. 2000 Out (Aug.) 30: In 1981…an STD…was not a BFD. 2008 S. King Duma Key 157: I tell you what, Eddie, if this is such a BFD to you, then you confront him!

BFD interjection [big fucking (or fat) deal]

“so what?” “who cares?”

1971 H. Dahlskog Dictionary of Contemporary & Colloquial Usage 7: BFD, big fat deal, an ironic comment meaning “What’s so great about that?” 1981 J. Harrison Warlock 16: “You were thinking about sex.” “B.F.D., Sherlock.” 1988 J. Brown & C. Coffey Earth Girls Are Easy (film): “There’s a UFO in my pool. A UFO.” “BFD.” 1988 P. Fonda, on Unauthorized Biography (Fox-TV): He was very angry that I had destroyed his honeymoon—BFD! 1992 J. Mowry Way Past Cool 12: “I the first, ’member?” “BFD!” 2003 J. Cantor Great Neck 552: And if they find me, sweetie, BFD, huh?

BFE noun [Bumfuck (or Bumblefuck), Egypt]

Military & Students. a very remote place; the middle of nowhere.

1989 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 20: Troy…lives out in B.F.E.… Bum Fuck, Egypt. 1991 Student slang survey: BFE—out in the middle of nowhere…Bumblefuck, Egypt. 1997 Student slang survey: Faraway place…in b.f.e. 2005 N.Y. Times (June 1) B6: Most characters in “BFE” (the title is an abbreviation of a vulgar slang term for the middle of nowhere)…try to be positive.

Bubblefuck noun [alteration of BUMBLEFUCK]

a very remote place; BUMBLEFUCK. Usually used with West.

1993 “Fat Joe” Another Wild Nigga from the Bronx (rap song): I’m from the West Bubblefuck so fasten your seatbelts and buckle up. 1993 Re: Not all heterosexuals…on Usenet newsgroup alt.homosexual (Dec. 31): I GO TO THE VILLAGE ANYTIME I FEEL LIKE IT AND YOU CAN STAY OVER THERE IN WEST BUBBLEFUCK. 1999 “Slick Rick” 2 Way Street (rap song): Well I shot some there, then I copped some beer. And did a show up in West Bubble-fuck somewhere. 2004 “Black Artemis” Explicit Content 79: I just know every other label’s out searching from here to Bubblefuck for the female Eminem. 2007 V. M. Stringer Dirty Red 79: They sure knew how to pick prison locations, out in the middle of West Bubblefuck. 2007 D. Stumpf Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy 25: Other guys I knew who went into journalism had to spend five years grinding out the police blotter in West Bubblefuck.

buddy-fuck verb

Especially Military. to impose upon or betray (a close friend). Hence buddy-fucker, buddy-fucking, and as noun. Compare FUCK-YOUR-BUDDY WEEK.

1966 Folk-Speech (Indiana University Folklore Archives): Denotes asking a friend for money. Buddy-fuck. 1968 C. Baker et al. College Undergraduate Slang Study 89: Buddy fucker, play. Take someone else’s date away. Buddy-fuck. Take someone else’s date away. 1970 College student, age 21: At Fort Gordon [Ga.] last year I kept hearing buddy-fucker. It’s a guy who turns around and shafts people. 1972 College student, age 25: You buddy-fuck a guy like if you start going out with his girl without telling him. Buddy-fucking means letting somebody down or ripping them off. 1986 D. Tate Bravo Burning 161: Wash your mouth out…buddyfucker. 1993 R. Shilts Conduct Unbecoming 201: Everybody talked about the “buddy-fuckers” as those who turned in their friends were called. 2003 D. Lipsky Absolutely American iii. 237: Blue Falcon is a polite way to invoke the initials BF—a buddy fuck. It’s about the lowest form of behavior Huck can imagine.

BUFF noun [big ugly (fat) fuck(er)]

U.S. Air Force. a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. Also BUF.

1968 J. Broughton Thud Ridge 32: BUF stands for big ugly fellows in polite conversation, but is suitably amplified in [fighter pilot] conversation.… The Strategic Air Command general… issued an edict that the B-52 “Stratofortress” was not to be referred to as a BUF. 1972 in J.C. Pratt Vietnam Voices 510: 6 “Bufs” came in and rippled that road. 1972 Bob Hope at U.S. Air Force base in Thailand, on CBS Evening News (Dec. 22): This is the home of the B-52s. Also known as BUFFs—big ugly friendly fellows [laughter]. 1981 Time (Mar. 16) 8: To air crews the B-52 is known as BUFF, a fairly loving acronym that stands for Big Ugly Fat Fellow. 1985 W. J. Boyne & S. L. Thompson Wild Blue 517: The BUFFs— Big Ugly Fat Fuckers to the crews, Big Ugly Fat Fellows to the press. 1990 D. Poyer Gulf 47: Got a wing of fifty Buffs movin’ in. 1991 Newsweek (Feb. 18) 46/3: B-52 navigator Lt. David Rey compares the feeling of riding in the BUFF to going over an endless series of speed bumps. “Flying it is very tiring.” 2007 Atlantic Monthly (Sept.) 91/2: This was in early 2002, during Operation Anaconda, and he was flying a B-52 Stratofortress—or BUFF (“Big Ugly Fat Fucker”), as pilots call that hall-of-fame bomber, which made its debut in Vietnam.

buffy noun [respelling of BUFE, for big ugly fucking elephant or variants]

Military. a large ceramic elephant, commonly sold in South Vietnam as a souvenir. Jocular.

1973 N.Y. Post (Jan. 15) 29: A buffy (rhymes with stuffy) is an enormous, glazed ceramic elephant.… The name derives from the acronym b-u-f-e, for bloody useless foul-word elephant. 1980 D. J. Cragg Lexicon Militaris 55: Buffie. From the acronym BUFE, Big Ugly Fucking Elephants. Buffies were large ceramic elephants produced in vast quantities by South Vietnamese craftsmen for sale to Americans. 1982 J. Cain Commandos 343: He took the roll of bills stuffed inside the white, ceramic “buffy” elephant. 1991 L. Trotta Fighting for Air 98: Shipping Bufes home was as much a cliché as sending pink grapefruit from Florida.

bufu noun [from butt-fucker (or butt-fucking)]

1.a. a homosexual man. Also as adjective. [Pronounced “Boo-foo.”]

1982 F. Zappa Valley Girl (pop. song): Like my English teacher…He’s like Mr. Bufu…He like flirts with all the guys in the class. 1982 L. Pond Valley Girls’ Guide 50: Any dude who’d wear designer jeans must be bu-fu, right? 1986 C. Eble Campus Slang (Oct.) 4: Mo—a homosexual or someone who acts like one.… Also Bufu. 1989 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 25: He is so feminine, you can tell he’s a bufu. 2005 Homosexuality IS a Disease! on ADGBC Forums (Nov. 23) (online): I think you underestimate boofoos[’] wileyness.

b. homosexual anal intercourse.

1982 The Tech (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Oct. 8) 4/2: It talked about bufu and mayonnaise and cock rings and all sorts of neat stuff. 1995 “Impotent Sea Snakes” Chicks with Dicks (pop. song): A penis-totin’ homo/With some bufu on the mind. 2002 D. Anderson Sex Tips For Gay Guys 103: A bufu buddy is your basic steady lay. 2008 Death or Boofoo on eBaum’s World (online): “You may pick one of two things death, or boofoo.” The first guy not knowing what boofoo is says “okay I pick boofoo.” The next thing he knows he is taken into a tent and is raped by a male indian.

2.= BUMFUCK.

1995 Help Finding Chicago Area Shows on Usenet newsgroup rec. arts.marching.band.high-school (Oct. 14): I’m down here in Bufu, Missouri going to school. 2000 Re: Spam help on Usenet newsgroup 24hoursupport.helpdesk (July 7): I’m sure they’re forging headers and bouncing off some inept admin’s server in bufu someplace. 2007 Appliance repair????? on Midwest F-Body Association Forum (June 18): If you all…moved close to where I live you wouldn’t have these problems but when you live in bufu I can’t help ya.

bugfuck adjective

Chiefly Military. insane; crazy.

1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 74: You two bastards are trying to drive me bug-fuck in the head, right? 1971 T. Mayer Weary Falcon 11: If Charles doesn’t get you, you stand a fine chance of going bug-fuck. 1973 U.S. Navy veteran, age ca28: When you go nuts you go bugfuck. 1975 S.P. Smith American Boys 130 [refers to ca1968]: May dead, Irwin dead, Brady bugfuck. 1979 J. Morris War Story 161: My team would go bugfuck when I came back suggesting that we start bayonet drill. 1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 199 [refers to Vietnam War]: I was gettin’ bug-fuck sittin’ around the CP all the time. 1987 D. Sherman Main Force 83 [refers to 1966]: We figured you must be going bug-fuck by now, so I came to give you a ride back to Camp Apache. 1991 H. Nelson & M. A. Gonzales Bring Noise 167: Law enforcement officials across the country went bug-fuck. 1993 W. Gibson Virtual Light 25: Then Sgt. Valdez went post-traumatic in stone bugfuck fashion, walking into a downtown tavern and clipping both kneecaps off a known pedophile. 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlvii. 790: But now she seemed utterly bugfuck, bewildered and unhinged.

bugfucker noun

a man with a ridiculously small penis; (hence) a contemptible person.

1973 Zap Comix (No. 6) (unpaged): Needle Dick the Bug Fucker. 1977 J. Sayles Union Dues 20: “Hey, Needledick, check anybody’s oil lately?” “Needledick the Bug-Fucker!” 1966–80 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 345: Then that dirty bohemian bug-fucker…puts the screws to us. 1990 A. Steele Clarke County, Space 102: Screw that…I’m the only judge and jury you’re getting here, bugfucker.

bull fuck noun

cream gravy (sometimes as a thick stew) or custard, fancied to resemble the semen of a bull.

[1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark American Thesaurus of Slang 100: Gravy: Bull shit, come,…gism]. 1961 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 5) 1019: Bull-fuck. Custard: Canadian railroad-construction crews: since ca1910. 1966–67 in Dictionary of American Regional English I 445 [in sense “cream gravy”]. 1971 C. C. Adams Boontling 180: Bull fuck…A thick gravy containing chopped meat. 1991 A. R. Killingbeck U.S. Army Privates, Sergeants, Fire & Smoke 40 [refers to 1953]: “Make a bullfuck.”…I watched the stew become thicker. “Soldier, that is what is known as a bullfuck.”

Bumblefuck noun [alteration of BUMFUCK]

a very remote place. Jocular.

1989 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 26: Bumblefuck…any faraway little town. 1990 U.S. student slang survey: Bumblefuck—a word used to describe a location that is very far away or out in the country. “I can’t believe we drove all the way to Bumblefuck to go to this party.” 1991 R. Spears Slang & Euphemism (abridged edition 2) 62: Bumblefuck…a primitive and rural place; podunk. 1999 S. Turow Personal Injuries 23: Like two goofs from East Bumblefuck, Mort and I put all the pieces together. 2005 J. Mitchard Breakdown Lane 63: He can’t spend too much, because, though he practices law where he lives now, he doesn’t make a lot because he basically lives in Bumblefuck, Egypt.

bumblefuck noun

a bumbling person; a fool.

1997 S. Shem Mount Misery vii. 204: “My two older kids always called me a ‘bumblefuck’.” “What’s a bumblefuck?” “A slow, overly cautious driver.” 2004 S. Grafton R is for Ricochet xiii. 139: “I can help with that,” I said, mentally cursing the bumblefuck FBI agent who jumped the gun on us. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 217: I can get you past the primary systems, but then what are you two bumblefucks going to do?

Bumfuck noun

Military & Students. a very remote place.—used with a placename, esp. in Bumfuck, Egypt. Also Bumfuckistan. Jocular. See also BFE, BUMBLEFUCK.

1972 Sgt. E-6, U.S. Army: They probably sent those records out to Bumfuck, Egypt. 1974 P. Kingry Monk & Marines 31: When they asked… whether he would…volunteer for Vietnam, he said he would volunteer for Bumfuk, Egypt, first! 1983 C. Eble Campus Slang (Nov.) 1: Bumfuck—the worst place: We had to park in Bumfuck, Egypt. 1986 J. Cain Suicide Squad 20: Together, they’ll come up with some place beyond Bumfuck, Egypt, to send my sorry ass. 1999 N. Roberts Inner Harbor xx. 319: I don’t have all day to hang around this bumfuck town. 2001 T. H. Culley Immortal Class iv. 84: I could see five or six enormous radio towers…like the antennae of the Death Star—very bizarre, very bum-fuck Florida, really. 2006 C. Langston Bicoastal Babe vi. 46: It’s one thing to smoke the house in a white Chanel pantsuit, but it’s another thing to imagine the housewives in Bumfuck, Ohio, trying to copy the same look at their local Wal-Mart. 2006 J. P. Othmer Futurist 12: Eastern Bumfuckistan. 2008 New York Magazine (June 2) 40/1: I am from Bumfuck, France, okay?…I wanted to kill myself…because nothing happened. So I moved to Paris.

bumfuck noun

1. an act of anal intercourse.

1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 4: Crumb fuck, bum fuck, not another peaceful minute. 1996 Face (Apr.) 3/3 (table): Fancy a blow-job in Zaire or a bum-fuck in Bangladesh? Tough. As our guide to prohibited sexual practices shows, what turns you on can turn off the authorities and land you in a rather unpleasant prison cell. 2002 R. Coover Adventures of Lucky Pierre 145: A rush of speeded-up highlights from old movies—rapes and seductions, birchings, bumfucks, facials, and fistings.

2. a despicable person; an idiot; wretch.

1979 Easyriders (Dec.) 6: A pretty crafty way…to get us bumfucks to read your rag cover to cover. 1981 Easyriders (Oct.) 47: Cut loose some of those bumfuck, hardluck losers. 2000 R. Bingham Lightning on Sun 116: Dwayne grew more agitated. He didn’t like the sound of this bum-fuck country cracker knocking his vehicle. 2005 S. Amick Lake, River & Other Lake viii. 42: As far as Mark could tell, there were three types of outsiders you could be if you didn’t happen to get born and die in Weneshkeen, like the rest of these bumfucks his dad seemed to want to fit in with.

bumfuck verb

to have anal intercourse with. Hence bumfucker, noun.

ca1866 Romance of Lust 269: The very fine bum-fucking his adorable wife had the art of giving him. 1880 Pearl (May): My ridicule of his ignorance made him quite ashamed of his want of knowledge, especially when I introduced him to the delights of bum-fucking, and he faithfully promised me that when Her Ladyship returned, he would insist upon his marital rights over every part of her person. ca1890 My Secret Life VIII. iv.: She didn’t hesitate to say she should like to be bum-fucked again. “Just to try if there is any real pleasure in it.” ca1890 My Secret Life VIII. xi.: In after years she was the most complacent creature, and did with me everything excepting bum fucking. 1967 N. Mailer Why Are We in Vietnam?: You… been bum fucking the wrong cunt. 1969 P. Louÿs Mother’s Three Daughters 77: You can bum-fuck her in any posture of your choice; you can come in her mouth. 1973 T. Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow 547: His name was Frank, his hair curled away from his face, his eyes were rather sharp but pleasant, he stole from American Army depots, he bum-fucked me and when he came inside me, so did I. 1975 Ribald (Sydney, Australia) (May 29) 10: Titles included “Tongue Teacher”; “The Bumfuckers”; “The House of the Golden Showers.” 1993 Saturday Night (Toronto) (July–Aug.) 35/2: He says he remembers being “bum-fucked” by an “uncle” when he was four “but it was no big deal, the sort of thing all kids go through.” 1996 Vertigo (Sydney, Australia) (No. 3) 12: Anal intercourse: buggery, sodomy, arse-fucking, bum-fucking. 2002 J. W. Nichol Midnight Cab 112: Did you pull out your wee-wee? Did you go all wet? Did you try to bum-fuck that boy?

Buttfuck noun

a very remote place.—usually used with a placename. Jocular. See also BFE, BUMBLEFUCK.

1999 Independent (London) (May 2): All Americans will tell you at first meeting where they come from and who their parents were, even if it’s (a) Buttfuck, South Dakota and (b) brothel-keepers. 2005 The Pitch (Kansas City) (Nov. 3): The 80-second commute from his manse in West, West Buttfuck, Missouri, to downtown St. Louis. 2006 Observer (July 16) (Music Mag.) 29: If Timberlake stood on a musical precipice last time around, trying to convince the world he was more than some Buttfuck, Tennessee boy-band soon-to-be-has-been, he stands on even more of one now with FutureSex.

butt-fuck noun

1. an act of anal copulation.

1971 H. Dahlskog Dictionary of Contemporary & Colloquial Usage 11: Butt fuck, v.… To engage in anal intercourse.—[also] n. 1981 National Lampoon (Apr.) 39: Let’s go to my place for brunch and a buttfuck. 1997 N.Y. Press (Aug. 27) 18: “I need a buttfuck now!” screamed an overpierced male in fluorescent green Speedos. 2002 I. Welsh Porno 374: It hits me like an iron fist in the chest that in this global communications village somehow, in some way, my father’s going to see me getting a butt-fuck.

2. an instance of victimization; an unfortunate event.

1986 L. Heinemann Paco’s Story 128: Iwo Jima was a sloppy, bloody butt-fuck. 2000 R. Meltzer Whore Just Like Rest 136: At times it was like being the lone mocker in a room full of newsfolks cheerleading Reagan’s buttfuck of Grenada. 2004 C. Hiaasen Skinny Dip 256: He…could smell a butt fuck coming a mile away, and he’d never stand still for it.

butt-fuck verb

1. to copulate with anally. Also in extended use. Compare earlier BUTTFUCKER.

1971 D. Rader Government Inspected Meat 72: I liked to get buttfucked. 1975 J. Wambaugh Choirboys xii. 296: I hear when Carolina was living with that Greek bartender he used to butt-fuck her all the time. 1976 J. Vasco Three-Hole Girl 186: It hurts so good. Oh, you butt-fuck me so good! 1979 H. Crews Blood & Grits 122: Said if I’d butt-fuck him, he’d take me out there on the train and innerduce me. 1983 R. Eilert For Self & Country 272 [refers to 1968]: You’re butt-fucking each other then. 1985 D. Dye Run Between the Raindrops 129: Their…buddy has just been butt-fucked by a B-40 [rocket] or some such nonsense. 1990 D. Poyer Gulf 186: The warriors grab the first missionary…[and] butt-fuck him. 1997 A. Bourdain Chef’s Night Out in K. Williamson Rovers Return (1998) 134: I felt like I had suddenly and inexplicably, put on a fluppy crepe and organza cocktail dress, a rubber clown nose, roller skates, wheeled out into the center of Times Square, and allowed myself to get butt-fucked by a procession of crack-heads and circus freaks. 2001 M. Spitz We Got the Neutron Bomb 112: I have gotten butt-fucked, but never in jail. I did it on the street for the money. 2004 T. Bentley Surrender 13: Butt-fucking is more intimate than pussy-fucking.

2. to victimize.

1979 Maledicta III 55: Males in particular…who have been denied promotion, given low grades…been fired, jilted [etc.]…commonly relate that they have been screwed, fucked,…butt-fucked…and so on. 1981 J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome 240: He’ll be back to being butt-fucked by those bogus producers. 1982 J. M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley 491: Gettin butt-fucked. 1988 J. Stuart Die Hard (film): I’m not the one who just got buttfucked on national TV. 1999 D. Mitchell Ghostwritten 221: If he… chooses to sell us up the river, we will be royally butt-fucked from here to Windsor. 2007 R. N. Patterson Exile 177: The Zionists have been butt-fucking the Palestinians for the last three generations.

buttfucker noun

1. a person who engages in anal copulation.

1962–68 B. Jackson In the Life 324: Everybody was “Old Butt-Fucker” to him. 1990 A. Parfrey Apocalypse Culture (revised edition) 203: With all the buttfuckers and drug addics having cival rights when they have aids; this makes the other 50% of the country half a citizen; we have no rights. 1995 New York Press (Mar. 8) 67: Dr. Jack Morin, author of the Buttfucker’s Bible, Anal Pleasure and Health. 2005 Exit (South Africa) (Feb.) 26/2 (advt.): Primrose Wanted: Active butt-fucker 18–40 GM/Bi VWE no hang-ups for 3somes with GWMs 35/45 our place.

2. a despicable person.

1973 H. S. Thompson Letter (Oct. 19) in Fear & Loathing in America (2000) 552: How many more mesas will you have to sell to those corporate butt-fuckers at The Institute? 1999 T. Parker et al. South Park (film script) 137: Ay! Don’t call me fat, buttfucker. 2008 J. Strong Drawn from Life 90: “Well, what would you know, buttfucker?” Mac said. It was one of their routines. Pete came back with, “Well, what would you know, muffdiver?” “Well, what would you know, horsedick?”

C

celebrity-fucker noun

a person, typically a young woman, who engages in promiscuous sexual intercourse with filmstars or other celebrities; (broadly) a hanger-on among celebrities. Compare STARFUCKER.

1968 T. Wolfe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 224: “You need all the big names you can get, to get the crowd out.” “Well, that’s what you get for being celebrity fuckers.” 1969 J. Susann Love Machine 124: Falling all over the guest star. She’s living up to her title: the Celebrity Fucker. 1970 J. Bouton Ball Four 218: A stew [i.e. stewardess] can come under the heading of class stuff, or table pussy, in comparison with some of the other creatures who are camp-followers or celebrity-fuckers. 1972 R. A. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words s.v. plaster-casters: A celebrity-fucker (the word was coined by writer-editor John Wilcock) is a young woman who will fuck anybody as long as he’s famous. 1974 P. K. Dick Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said 53: Do you think I slept with them because they were famous? Do you think I’m a CF, a celebrity fucker? 1986 R. Campbell In La-La Land 232: I thought he was just a celebrity fucker, you know. 1993 R. Watson Niagara 22: Not women on the rebound, not women punishing their husbands, not women trying to make their boyfriends jealous, not celebrity fuckers, not women seeking publicity. 1997 G. Plimpton Truman Capote 269: She [sc. Lillian Hellman] was always such a celebrity fucker. 2004 New York Observer (Nov. 24) 1: I’d hate to see it go in for more interviews, author photographs, publishing news, even the gossip—anything that cuts down on anything devoted to the review of books.… I hope it won’t go that way, but the whole culture is going that way, in a celebrity-fucker direction.

CFM adjective [come fuck me]

(of an article of clothing, especially shoes) intended to invite sexual advances. Also as noun, a sexually provocative item of clothing. Compare FUCK-ME, adjective.

[1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 53: Come fuck-me’s…overly tight pants.] 1990 P. Munro Slang U 56: All her other clothes were preppy, but she had a C.F.M. skirt on. 1998 Personal letter to editor (Aug. 26): Out west, sexy boots worn by ladies are known as CFMs. 1998 Revised: Svengali, on Usenet newsgroup alt.tv.x-files.creative: Her legs …were nicely highlighted by the type of shoes Scully had once jokingly referred to as CFM shoes. 2001 B. Thacker Rule No. 5—No Sex on the Bus 176: They would spend six months standing in bars with their CFM shirt on. 2002 Spectator (May 25) 18: The bride had forsaken her patent-leather, white-and-lilac “cfm” shoes with the six-inch heels in favour of Nike “air-heels” in which she danced enthusiastically. 2005 J. Coburn Reinventing Mona 113: The group burst into wild applause when Violet stumbled on her five-inch CFM heels and momentarily lost her balance.

charity fuck noun

= MERCY FUCK.

1978 J. D. Macdonald Empty Copper Sea 47: He described the awkward union which he terms “the charity fuck.” 1986 P. Anderson Lords of the Earth 369: I don’t want your charity…That’s what it’s called, you know. A charity fuck. 1993 J. Varley Steel Beach 344: If there’s a worse kind of sex than the charity fuck, I haven’t heard about it. 2001 A. Wall School of Night 268: I sort of stumbled into her. I reckon it must have been a charity fuck, to be honest. 2005 M. Musto in Village Voice (Jan. 11) (Nexis): Worst Partygoer: A nebbish who cranes his head to find someone better, when you were only talking to him as a charity fuck anyway.

chicken-fucker noun

a depraved or disgusting fellow.—usually used with baldheaded. Also: a man who prefers to copulate with boys. [The 1984 quotation is euphemistic.]

1953 in G. Legman Rationale of Dirty Joke 20: Suddenly two bald-headed men enter, and the parrot says, “You two chicken-fuckers come out in the hen-house with me.” 1970 M. Mirsky Proceedings of the Rabble 159: “Chicken fuckers!” shouted the Maine men. Taking up their own guns, they began picking off Mississippi dogs. 1976–79 H. G. Duncan & W. T. Moore Green Side Out 276 [refers to ca1960]: All right ya bald-headed chicken fuckers, I want this area policed the fuck up. 1967–80 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 387 [refers to Korean War]: Heave in the first shovelful…and run like a baldheaded chicken-fucker. 1984 S. Terkel “Good War” 397 [refers to WWII]: “I’m gonna have you shot.”…“You baldheaded so-and-so, go ahead and shoot.” 2002 R. B. Parker Widow’s Walk xxxii. 163: “Nathan Smith was a serious chickenfucker.”…“He was drawn to young boys?” “Early adolescent when he could get them.”

clusterfuck noun

1. an orgy.

1965 East Village Other (Oct.) 2/3: As soon as they legalize “pornies” I’ll be the first producer to hit the neighborhood theatres with my now in progress epic film entitled “Mongolian Cluster Fuck!” 1967–68 N. von Hoffman We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against 182: Oh, those big cluster fucks! I can’t stand them. 1968 “A. D’Arcangelo” Homosexual Handbook 115: You may see many of the people at your “do” only at other “cluster fucks,” having nothing in common with them but a taste for orgies. 1969 G. D. Bartell Group Sex 134: One advantage of open versus closed swinging, according to most of our informants, is the possiblity of “three-on-one” or “gang bang” (sometimes called “clusterfuck”) activity. 1972 R.A. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 69: Cluster Fuck—Two men copulating simultaneously with the same woman. 1975 G. Legman No Laughing Matter 754: The cheap hippie “group-grope” and “cluster-fuck.” 1977 National Lampoon (Aug.) 50: Well, they’re usually pretty wrapped up in a cluster-fuck with the photo models. 1986 J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 699: I’m startin’ to feel like the bottom man in a Mongolian cluster fuck. 2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand xxi. 115: Pete saw cartoons and FBI text. Hate and smut—a coon named Bayard Rustin—a queer cluster-fuck.

2. Military. a bungled or confused undertaking or situation; mess; (also) a disorganized group of individuals.

1969 in B. E. Holley Vietnam (1993) 143: These are the screwups that the American public rarely hears about. They happen often enough over here that we have a term for them—“cluster-fuck”! 1974 New York City man, age 27: A clusterfuck was a big expression in [the N.Y. National Guard] in 1969. It meant any time people were standing around outside of a regular formation. They’d say, “What the hell is this clusterfuck?” “Break up this clusterfuck.” 1982 J. M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley 42: This place looks like a giant clusterfuck. Ibid. 137: We gonna get this clusterfuck up in the air? 1983 K. Miller Lurp Dog 222 [refers to Vietnam War]: Shame to piss up a clusterfuck target like this. 1985 D. Dye Run Between the Raindrops 42: The rest is up for grabs. This place is a cluster-fuck. 1986 J. Thacker Finally the Pawn 135 [refers to 1970]: What you’re going to have is an A number one clusterfuck. 1986 J. C. Stinson & J. Carabatsos Heartbreak Ridge 146: “What’s your assessment of this alert?”…“It’s a clusterfuck!…marines should be fighting, not…filling out request forms for equipment they should already have, Sir.” 1988 P. J. O’Rourke Holidays in Hell 218: “Mongolian Cluster Fuck” is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event. 1991 D. Simon Homicide 82: Allowing a herd of new recruits to graze through a crime scene had all the makings of what detectives and military men like to call a clusterfuck. 1999 C. Brookmyre One Fine Day in Middle of Night 136: This whole op is from page one of the cluster-fuck recipe book. 2006 New York Magazine (Apr. 17) 36/1: Says one bitter paparazzo: “The whole thing was a giant cluster-fuck, a total waste of time.”

3. Originally Military. a bungler; idiot.

a1987 C. Bunch & A. Cole Reckoning for Kings 284 [refers to Vietnam War]: He’s a clusterfuck. 2006 A. Davies Goodbye Lemon ii. 115: That clusterfuck Musser gets sixty grand a year up and down a goddamn telephone pole. He didn’t get that job because he’s a supergenius either.

cluster-fuck verb

1. to participate in an orgy; (also) to gang-bang.

1971 J. F. Hunter Gay Insider vii. 134: In the bird sanctuary…you can cluster-fuck with relative impunity. 2002 J. Ashbless Divine Torment (2007) 131: I’ve tried to tone it down, to make do with the lighter stuff. But it doesn’t give me a rush the way being cluster-fucked in a latrine does. 2003 C. McCann Dancer 243: Fucking in the rest rooms and fucking in the baths, fist-fucking, toe-fucking, finger-fucking, cluster-fucking, not to mention rimming, a regular fuckfest.

2.a. Originally Military. to congregate or behave in a disorganized manner.

1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 162 [refers to 1967]: All those amtracs clusterfuckin’ around the CP yesterday—Charlie knew somethin’ was up. 1999 M. Foley Have a Nice Day xxii. 277: It was the worst Pay-Per-View match that I have ever been in, and the fans knew it.… I got that same feeling in Orlando that night as we cluster fucked to a symphony of silence, but I waited on the ring apron until the feeling went away.

b. to victimize; to doom; (also) to make confused or disorganized.

1996 R. Marcinko & J. Weisman Green Team 310: The schedule I’d carefully calculated was now OBE—in other words, Overtaken By Events—and we were clusterfucked. 2000 K. W. Nolan Ripcord 429: Everybody just went in their own direction.… We became totally clusterfucked. 2001 J. L. Burke Bitterroot 141: The shorter version is I got cluster-fucked eight ways from breakfast and that broad is living on a horse ranch bought with my money. 2001 O. West Sharkman Six 47: Sir, this is going to get clusterfucked, we don’t play it right. If the press gets hold of this, we’re dead. 2007 J. L. Burke Tin Roof Blowdown v. 30: This lamebrain not only out-smarted you, he cluster-fucked you six ways from breakfast. 2007 P. F. Hamilton Dreaming Void 180: Is it a bunch of crap, or are we all going to get cluster-fucked by the Void?

cunt-fuck noun

a sexual act involving the vagina, esp. an act of heterosexual vaginal intercourse.

1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 4: Cunt fuck, front tuck, he shall never once begin it. 1967 N. Mailer Why Are We in Vietnam? 155: Walk in on them in an unlocked bathroom and you can have a two minute red-hot steaming ass blubber wet slap-dizzy oceanic cunt fuck. 1998 Nubile Treat, on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories (Oct. 1): It was a first-class cuntfuck, and they dug it as much as the ass-fuck they’d seen before. 2002 B. McAvera Yo! Picasso! 55: Oh I know he’s not great in the cunt-fuck department…never was…but it doesn’t really matter.

cunt-fuck verb

to engage in any form of sexual activity involving the vagina, esp. to engage in heterosexual vaginal intercourse (with).

ca1890 My Secret Life IX. vi.: It was at a time of my life when straight forward cunt fucking was all I cared about. 1908 Way of a Man with a Maid 151: Alice and Connie flew into each others’ arms—too excited to rush to the couch, they fell on the soft thick carpet and madly cunt-fucked each other till their feelings were relieved. 1966 A. Wainhouse & R. Seaver trans. Marquis de Sade 120 Days of Sodom 634: The Duc cunt-fucks one servant and Rosette at the orgies and ass-fucks the same servant, ass-fucks Rosette too. 1990 Footlicker 80: I can’t cuntfuck with men. Won’t ever again. 1994 N. Baker Fermata 135: Smiling again at the traffic because they couldn’t know the supreme full-pelvic cuntfucking she was giving herself. 2003 R. Gordon Undying Lust 106: “A right little slut,” Rod rejoined, his swinging balls meeting Mick’s as he cunt-fucked Wendy.

D

deck noun

In phrase:

fuck the deck, U.S. Marine Corps. to perform push-ups on command.

1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 32 [refers to 1966]: Fuck the deck, piggy!…Push-ups!

DILLIGAF interjection

“do I look like I give a fuck?”

1973 S. A. Rowan They Wouldn’t Let Us Die (ed. 2) 27: We had a guy named Dilligaf—DILLIGAF—Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck? And that was his attitude; so Dilligaf was his name. The favorite [North Vietnamese] guard of all. 1996 D. Underhill & H. Curtis Miramichi Dictionary: Diligaf. Famous bar in the village of Blackville, about twenty miles south of Miramichi City. Translated, Dilligaf means: Does It Look Like I Give a F---. 2007 S. Hyde Darkside Zodiac at Work 157: A T-shirt with the…logo, DILLIGAF (Do I look like I Give a F@?%?).

dog noun

In phrase:

fuck [or occasionally screw or finger] the dog

1. to loaf on the job, especially while pretending to be hard at work; fool around; idle; waste time. [The 1918 and 1919 quotations presumably euphemize this expression.]

[1918 in M. Sullivan Our Times V 328: F.T.D.: Feeding the dog. The supposed occupation of a soldier who is killing time.] [1919 H.S. Warren 9th Co. 35: The Engineer’s Dictionary…Walking the dog—Soldiering on the job. When one is caught at it he is said to have stepped on the puppy’s tail.] 1935 J. Conroy World to Win 201: One of the first things you gotta learn when you’re f—n’ the dog…is t’ look like you’re workin’ hard enough t’ make yer butt blossom like a rose. Rattle templets, beat with a hammer on a beam, but do somethin’. If the boss ketches you f—n’ the dog while you’re helpin’ me, he’ll eat me up blood raw. 1939 A. C. Bessie Men in Battle 331: They were “fucking the dog,” spending what money they had. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark American Thesaurus of Slang 490: Fuck the dog, to loaf on the job. 1948 W. Guthrie Born to Win 19: I’ll do all I can to stay alive and argufying, alive and kicking, alive and flurking the dog. 1954 International Journal of Psycho-Analysis XXXV 351: This was followed by a four-month period of “funking,” “fucking the dog,” characterized by drinking, missed hours, tardiness, and “sponging” on mother. 1962 E. Stephens Blow Negative 54: Those apes are screwing the dog all day long up there. 1967 W. Crawford Gresham’s War 125: “And meantime?” “Frick the dog, I reckon.” 1967 K. Kolb Getting Straight 70: Until you said that, I thought you’d been screwing the dog on this project. 1977 J. Sayles Union Dues 58: You let me catch you fuckin the dog again, so help me, you’ll be some sorry characters. 1978 T. Alibrandi Killshot 146: “You bet our entire stake on this one match?” “You got it, kid. No sense fucking the dog. We came to gamble, remember?” 1984 K. Weaver Texas Crude 93: Fuckin’ the dog and sellin’ the pups. Wasting time and loafing on the job. 1986 J. C. Stinson & J. Carabatsos Heartbreak Ridge 125: You hotshots are “fingering the dog” and you wind up killin’ every swinging dick in this platoon.2003 M. Atwood Oryx & Crake 328: Now quit fucking the dog and let us in.

2. to bungle; blunder.

1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 144 [refers to WWII]: Saunders, I don’t know what I’m going to do with you…You’ve gone and fucked the dog again. 1985 J. T. Heywood Taxi Dancer 34: But he had “screwed the dog by the numbers.” He had failed to conserve fuel and he had forgotten about their bombs. 1998 Graydon Carter, in N.Y. Press (Oct. 21) 17: I gave you the opportunity of a lifetime and you fucked the dog. 2005 A. Miller Coast of Akron 313: Last time I was here, the Indians fucked the dog during the ’97 World Series.

dogfuck noun

trouble.—used with the.

1978 W. Groom Better Times Than These 30: We’re really in the dogfuck now.

dogfuck verb

to engage in copulation with a male partner entering from the rear, especially anally.

1967–80 E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 235: Dog fuck. Engage in anal intercourse. 1981 L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1987) 348: When they were done dogfucking they sprawled back awhile to rest and pant. 1986 in R. Chapman New Dictionary of American Slang: Including how to 69 and dogfuck. 2008 Deadspin.com (July 11): If I were an Arizona State fan and I wanted to go double agent as a way to get my team fired up? The banner sounds like a pretty good plan. Personally, I’d go with, “Hey Dawgs, Herschel is dog-fucking your wife right now. Enjoy Tempe.”

double fuck noun

an act of intercourse in which two people simultaneously copulate with a third person.

ca1866 Romance of Lust 218: Bringing his stiff-standing prick against the root of mine, pressing it well down, he gently shoved forward, and gradually sheathed himself within the well-stretched and capacious orbit of my aunt, who winced a little in pretended pain, but who, by the grip she immediately gave to the double fuck within her, showed how much gratified she was. ca1890 My Secret Life VIII. iii.: I thought of the double fuck without the washing, of the prick in my mouth, and then felt ashamed.—“I must have been screwed and so excited that I did not know what I was about, I shall never do that again, and hope he won’t tell Sarah.” 1998 Suzifest ’98, on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories.moderated (Oct. 26): Todd and James were going to give Suzi an old fashioned double-fuck.… They would “double-fuck” her from behind…a cock in her pussy, with another stuffed up her ass. 2007 K. Rockwood Very Private Secretary 81: He doubted if Mona desired such a double-fuck and, he strongly suspected, he wouldn’t be capable of it anyway.

double-fuck verb

1.a. (used as an imprecation or oath); God damn.—an emphatic form of FUCK, verb, definition 4a.

1966 R. Fariña Been Down So Long 244: Double-fuck the letter. 1971 J. Sandford Down & Out in Britain 49: “Fuck you!” shouts the bearded man by the hot plate. “Double fuck you!” shouts another man back. 1997 A. Hoffman Here on Earth 37: As usual, the thoroughbred looks right through him. “Fuck you too.” Hollis is astounded at how damn haughty a horse can be. “Double fuck you.” 2002 J. McGahern That They May Face Rising Sun 75: At the foot of the ladders Patrick Ryan was slumped low but his breathing was growing easier. “Double fuck those for fucken cunts of bees,” he cried out. 2004 N.Y. Observer (Jan. 26) 2: Fuck South Dakota. Fuck New Mexico. Double-fuck Oregon. 2006 C. Adrian Children’s Hospital 66: A few things her brother might have said ran through her head—Double-fuck you, bitch!

b. (used as an emphatic form of FUCK, verb, in other senses).

1982 A. Lane & W. Crawford Vals (film script for ‘Valley Girls’) (rev. draft) 78: Then fuck off! Yeah…double fuck off!!!1991 M. R. Zubro Sorry Now? 4: “Double and triple fuck,” Buck swore. 1998 Dallas Observer (May 14) (Nexis): The way I’ve always been musically is very selfish—I could only do what I like. I can’t sit there and go, “Oh, I think people will like this,” because you’re kind of double-fucked. You don’t like what you’re doing, and people don’t like it, then you got nothing. 2006 Adweek (Feb. 13) (Nexis): God, did I double-fuck that one up: overwritten, overproduced, over-not-funny, over-not-relevant, overboring, overstupid—over-everything, except over-good. 2007 S. King Blaze 348: I knew I was fucked, double-fucked, I was dead-ass-fucked in the pouring rain.

2. to engage in a DOUBLE FUCK (with).

1984 B. Baker Sally’s Anal Punishment 161: His brain buzzed with the ecstatic wonder of doublefucking both women. 1995 Sydney Star Reporter (Australia) (Nov. 9) 30 [personal ad]: Seek submissive guy to 30 to be double fucked & abused. 1998 (quotation at DOUBLE FUCK, noun). 2001 Playboy (Feb.) 41: Later she asked to be “double fucked” with me in her vagina and my friend in her ass.

double-fucking adjective

= FUCKING, adjective.—used for emphasis.

1929 R. Graves Good-Bye to All That 79 [refers to 1917]: The Bandmaster, who was squeamish, reported it as: “Sir, he called me a double-effing c—.” 1945 in Verbatim (Autumn, 1989) 6: Double [fucking]…Embellished or emphatic [form] of fxxxing. 1991 M. Tolkin Rapture (film): No double-fuckin’ way would I stop. 2007 C. Adair White Heat 137: Damn, and double-fucking damn. That trail was now cold. No fingerprints on file, no form of ID.

drug-fucked adjective

Originally Australian. intoxicated by drugs. Compare FUCKED, adjective, definition 1.

1991 Arena (Sydney) (No. 8) 13: When you’re that drug-fucked, a piece of navel lint can have occult significance. 1996 Catalog (Summer Extra) 9: Drew Barrymore…the world’s wildest drug-fucked child starlet. 1996 Capital Q Weekly (Sydney) (Mar. 29) 11: Three hundred drug-fucked and horny gay men. 1997 Rants (Sydney) (Oct. 23): Fuck you, yer dumb drug-fucked bitch! 2001 AXM (Aug.) 126/2: Closer to Heaven, although popular by word of mouth—especially with the brilliant Frances Barber as the drug-fucked club diva “Billie”—had not done too well with the critics. 2007 New Yorker (Dec. 17) 40/3: 1974. Bowie was absolutely drug-fucked. That’s when he was living on peppers and milk.

dry fuck noun

1. a simulated act of copulation, usually while fully clothed.

1938 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 104: Maybe you’ll…get a dry fuck. 1965 J. Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words & Phrases 68: Dry Fuck…The act of two lovers rubbing up against each other while clothed and in public, as while dancing, etc., which results in great excitation and, in some cases, orgasm. 1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 71: Dry Fuck…n. The simulated act of sexual intercourse with clothes on. 1971 B. B. Johnson Blues for Sister 101: A professional virgin…The kind that always denied you penetration. A dry fuck. 1975 T. Williams Memoirs 27: They would give her what was then called “a dry fuck.” 1981 S. Hochman Playing Tahoe 124: Rev was the kind of guy you fell for in high school on a dry fuck in the back of a Chevrolet. 2003 L. Begley Shipwreck 58: Let’s take our clothes off. She shook her head vehemently. I got the point. She wanted a dry fuck.

2. something that is exceedingly tedious or disappointing.

1945 in T. Williams Letters 177: If only Margo could get something of this quality into “The Project.”…It is a dry fuck, really! 1972 Gram Parsons in B. Fong-Torres Hickory Wind 5: I’ve some sort of “rep” for starting what (I think) has turned out t’be pretty much of a “country-rock” (ugh!) plastic dry-fuck. 1998 S. Firestone Airless Spaces 58: It was a dry fuck, every word painful and laborious. 2005 D. DeFrain Salt Palace 82: “Was a bit of a dry fuck really, all that.” “What? The Church?” I say.

dry-fuck verb [compare earlier synonym dry-bob]

to simulate sexual intercourse without penetration; to engage in a DRY FUCK with. Also used figuratively.

[1935 J. O’Hara in Selected Letters 106: Write something…that will help you get rid of the bitterness you must have stored up against all those patronizing cheap bastards in that dry-fucked excrescence on Sharp Mountain.] ca1937 in T. Atkinson Dirty Comics 106: Try to dry-fuck the hostess who is the big shot’s sweetie. 1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 20: Dry-Fuck.v. To rub stomach, thighs, and genitals together in an erotic manner while dancing. Popular in collegiate circles…U.S., 1925—. 1954 C. Himes Third Generation 243: Now seeing him in the arms of a sweet young girl she was scalded with jealousy. “What kind of dryfucking shit is this?” she screamed. 1958–59 L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 156: As long ago as the twenties dancing was considered “dry fucking” by the cognoscenti who regarded it as something for sub-teenagers only. 1965 D. A. Ward & G. G. Kassebaum Women’s Prison 99: That’s more or less a bulldagger’s…kick, this dry fucking. 1969 J. Briley Traitors 133: They had had a spell of intense sessions holding hands in the library and dry-fucking against the back wall of her sorority. 1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 71: Dry fuck…Go through the motions of sexual intercourse without entering the vagina, usually with clothes on. 1982 C. Bukowski Ham on Rye (2001) xxv. 111: You ought to try dry-fucking, Morrie, it’s great! 1983 E. Dodge Dau 110: They dry-fucked in the pre-dawn darkness. 1991 D. Jenkins Gotta Play Hurt 37: Heike…dry-fucked the rear fender. 2000 Seattle Weekly (Jan. 20) (Nexis): A dreadlocked couple is dry-fucking. 2000 A. L. Kennedy Everything You Need 361: The mutter and jump of manuscripts as they jerked off their watery efforts inside his mind, as they wasted his intelligence, as they dry-fucked his privacy.

duck noun

In phrase:

fuck the duck, to loaf; fuck the dog under DOG. See also fuck a duck under FUCK verb.

1968–77 M. Herr Dispatches 57: I met a man in the Cav who’d been “fucking the duck” one afternoon, sound asleep in a huge tent. 1978 H. Selby Requiem for a Dream 31: Well let’s stop fucking the duck and figure out how we can pick up the bread. 1979 L. Heinmann, in TriQuarterly (Spring) 180 [refers to Vietnam War]: He was taking one of his famous naps—fucking the duck, we called it.

dumbfuck noun

a contemptibly stupid person. Also as adjective.

1946–50 J. Jones From Here to Eternity 531 [refers to 1941]: Shut up you dumb fuck Turniphead you. 1966 Folk Speech (Indiana University Folklore Archives): Denoting someone’s stupidity. Dumb fuck. 1970–71 J. Rubenstein City Police 427: You know why that dumb-fuck sergeant has Smith drive him? 1973 TULIPQ (coll. B.K. Dumas): Dingbat; super dumb fuck. 1980 P. Conroy Lords of Discipline 150: I want you to rack that chin into your beady, ugly neck, dumbfuck. a 1987C. Bunch & A. Cole Reckoning for Kings 151: Of all the dumb-fuck things to do. 1991 G. Dyer But Beautiful 46: The English bitch yelling, the cops yelling too.—Lemme get at this dumbfuck. 1998 Sick Puppy Comix (Sydney, Australia) (No. 8) 18: It’s not a demon it’s nicotine you dumb fuck! 2000 R. Barger et al. Hell’s Angel iv. 61: The dumb-fuck politicians didn’t even consider that’s how the everyday person controls their car. 2007 A. Bay Embrace the Suck 38: Puzzle Palace, a high-security or intelligence site, or a headquarters located in a high-security area… Usually a derogatory term. (“What do those dumbfucks at the Puzzle Palace say now?”). 2007 J. Hayes Precious Blood 122: In the future, try and watch just who the fuck you’re pointing your dumb-fuck cadet fingers at!

Dutch fuck noun

an act of lighting one cigarette from another.

1948 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 3) 1039: Dutch f**k. Lighting one cigarette from another. Forces’: 1940 +. 1974 New York City man, age 23: A Dutch fuck is when you light someone’s cigarette with your own. 1993 J. Meades Pompey 457: She flinched ever after at the light of lighters, matches, the intimacy of shared flame; even a Dutch fuck frightened her. 1997 A. MacAndrew Bits of String 151: “Give us a light, Harry please.”…“It’ll have to be a Dutch fuck,” Harry answered, handing over his cigarette.

E

eff or F

1. (a partial euphemism for) FUCK in various senses and parts of speech.

1929 R. Graves Good-Bye to All That 79 [refers to 1917]: The Bandmaster, who was squeamish, reported it as: “Sir, he called me a double-effing c—.” 1931 E. E. Cummings I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big: I will not kiss your f.ing flag. 1931 J. Hanley Boy 252: Tell the effin bosun there’s only the crew’s stuff here now. 1945 E. Hemingway Letter (Apr. 2) in Selected Letters (1981) 579: You’ll hear I’m a phony, a liar, a coward, maybe even a Man of Honor. Just tell them to Eff off.1950 E. Hemingway Across the River and into the Trees 78: “Eff Florence,” the Colonel said. Ibid. 173: You would eff-off, discreetly. 1959 B. Cochrell Barren Beaches of Hell 130: They’ve come closer to solving the recreation problem than anyone else in this effing division. 1961 J.A. Williams Night Song 152: “Effyou, man,” Yards said. 1961 H. Ellison Memos from Purgatory 43: Turn that effin’ thing off before I put a fist through it. 1965 R. Hardman Chaplains Raid 34: An effing chaplain’s assistant! 1965 N. Simon Odd Couple III: “We’re all out of Corn Flakes. F.U.” It took me three hours to figure out that F.U. was Felix Ungar. It’s not your fault, Felix. It’s a rotten combination. 1967 D. Taggart Reunion 189: You effin well know it. 1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 76: F. you—Fuck you. Ibid. 77: F—ing v. Fucking; having sexual intercourse. Ibid. 78: F—ing around… Goofing off. 1973 W. Overgard Pieces of a Hero 61: Where in the effin hell have you been? 1977 N.Y. Post (Mar. 18) 37: With the language sensitivity of one who knows what will and will not get on TV he later asked: “Am I being effed around, or not?” He actually said “effed.” a1984 in W. Terry Bloods 127: What the F was I there for? 1987 Newsweek (Mar. 23) 58: Don’t F with him. Ibid. 63: He says he F’d you up. Ibid. 65: Stay the F out of the way. Ibid. 73: He said F the doctors. 1991 L. Bing Do or Die iv. 81: I looked crazy back at him, and I said, “Eff, yo’ set and eff yo’ dead homeboys.” 1993 Washington Post (Sept. 3) A8: What the f are you doing here? 1998 N. Hornby About a Boy viii. 52: “You should’ve told her to…”—she looked around to see whether Marcus, the strange kid they were apparently stuck with for the day, was still listening—“…to eff off.” 2008 Entertainment Weekly (Dec. 19) 31: Charlie “Slim” Hendrick, a don’t-eff-with-me ex-con, returns home to find that his sweetie has moved on and his bitter brother has gambling debts.

2. British. to use the word “fuck”; chiefly in phrase:to eff and blind to swear frequently; to use strong language.

1943 M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 31: They’d eff and blind till yer ear-’oles started ter frizzle. 1959 A. Wesker Chicken Soup with Barley i. ii: He started effing and blinding and threw their books on the floor. 1965 J. Gaskell Fabulous Heroine 50: He would argue and eff in an intellectual ecstasy all afternoon. 1977 J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend in Bar Mitzvah Boy & Other Television Plays (1987) 178: First Woman: Well, they haven’t the time really, fair’s fair. It’s a full-time job is boozing all day. Second Woman: I believe they were paralytic in the Miners Arms. Effing and blinding. You’d think they’d ban them … but they won’t. First Woman: Mrs Danby said the police were round to them three o’clock this morning. Disturbing the peace. 1981 W. Foley Back to Forest in Forest Trilogy (1992) 309: In winter he effed and blinded the queueing customers who were making life hard for him and his assistant fryer. 1989 J. Galloway Trick is to Keep Breathing (1991) 26: A man and a woman shouting, effing and blinding and the little girl starts screaming. 1995 M. Amis Information 48: Even the Asians and West Indians who lived there had somehow become saxonized—they loped and leered, they peed, veed, queued, effed and blinded, just like the locals. 1999 L. Hird Born Free xiv. 109: A bairn starts screaming up the back and I hear the mother effing away, smacking it. 2003 C. Birch Turn Again Home iii. 47: She’d turned up at Edmund and Isabel’s blind drunk in the middle of the afternoon. Disgusting! Effing and blinding she was in front of the children.

em-eff variant of M.F.

eye-fuck verb

to gaze at lecherously; ogle. Also: (especially Military) to stare at, especially with hostility; (hence, Military) to look around.

1916 H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I 79: Eye Fuck—To stare and leer at a woman. 1971 P. Barnes Pawns 69: The DI’s have picked out the recruits who don’t look sharp, who fall behind in the runs, or are caught “eye-fucking.” (“Eye-fucking” is a heinous crime in Marine Corps boot camp. It consists of moving one’s eyeballs to the side while standing at attention.) 1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 77: Eye fuck (late ’60s)…to stare holes through someone. 1980 M. Baker Nam 36: Smokey catches the dude looking at him out of the corner of his eye. He says, “Are you eye-fucking me, boy? I don’t want your scuzzy eyes looking at me.” 1980 J. DiFusco et al. Tracers 12: While maggots are at attention, they will not talk, they will not eye-fuck the area, they will listen to me and only me! 1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 30 [refers to 1966]: You will not talk. You will not eye-fuck the area. Ibid. 32: You eye-fuckin’ me, sweetpea? You wanna fuck me, scum? 1988 J. Norst Colors 17: Killer Bee…was… eye-fucking McGavin. 1991 J. T. Ward Dear Mom 5 [refers to 1968]: You will stand at attention, eyes forward. I don’t want you eyefucking me or the area. 1991 D. Simon Homicide 260: And damned if he didn’t always come back with some pieces of information about the dead man. Any other detective would get eyefucked and maybe cursed, but Worden somehow managed to take the corner boys beyond that. 1997 D. Simon & E. Burns Corner 16: Three of the plainclothesmen stand over them, shouting; a fourth stands in the street, eyefucking the crews on the Mount Street corners. 2000 E. Reid Midnight Sun 29: Her boyfriend, a tattooed biker, stood nearby…making sure we weren’t eyefucking her. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 155: The daughters of tourists in their sherbet-colored minis getting eyefucked by vendedores.

F

F variant of EFF.

face-fuck verb

= MOUTH-FUCK. Hence face-fucker noun.

1972 “Coop” Sexy Southern Boy 66: He was lying on his back now, letting me do all the work, just enjoying it, rather than face-fucking me, like he’d done the first time. a1980 About Time: Anthology of California Prison Writing 19: One million days filled with cumdrunk bitches who facefuck and rimshot and tonguebathe. 1983 R. N. Boyd Joint Sissies in Sex behind Bars (1984) 56: Gary was a real face-fucker; it was hard to catch my breath while doing him. 1990 S. Morgan Homeboy xlvi. 277: Billy had grabbed Magdalena by the hair and lifted her around and slammed her up against the cage’s wire mesh, which he clutched to facefuck her. 1999 R. T. Davies Queer as Folk: Scripts (Episode 4) 113 (stage direction): Quickly, Stuart gets Nathan on to his knees, face-fucks him. With one hand on the back of Nathan’s head, Stuart reaches out to balance himself. 2006 R. Kick Everything You Know about Sex is Wrong 120/2: They want to open their throat, get facefucked, and swallow a load of cum.

fan-fucking-tastic adjective

wonderful; fantastic. See -FUCKING-, infix, for related forms.

1970 T. Southern Blue Movie 108: Tony was delighted. “Fan-fucking-tastic!” 1971 National Lampoon (Aug.) 26: Just groove on those colors! Fan-fucking-tastic! 1976 A. Schroeder Shaking It Rough 78: “Fan-fucking-tastic!” Corso whistles in astonishment. 1977 D. Bredes Hard Feelings 42: He said “Fan-fucking-tastic!” over and over. 1981 R. Graziano & R. Corsel Somebody Down Here Likes Me Too 156: Frankie…is fanfuckintastic! 1988 M. Atwood Cat’s Eye 298: Fan-fuckin’-tastic. 1989 C. Hiaasen Skin Tight xxiii. 248: “Swell,” said Mur-dock. “That means it’s only what?—another four, five hours in the mud. Fanfuckingtastic. By then it’ll be good and dark too.” 1993 M. Crichton Disclosure i. 56: I am pleased to report…that as of half an hour ago, The Corridor is fan-fucking-tastic. 2004 J. Moore Dot.homme xiv. 171: “Isn’t this fan-fucking-tastic, Jess!” she’d shrieked above the music, spinning me around until I felt utterly sick.

fanny verb

British. (a euphemism for FUCK around verb). Usually as fanny about.

1971 J. Leasor Love-All iv. 62: We haven’t much time to fanny about. 1996 P. Gregory Perfectly Correct 246: I’m not accustomed to being fannied about. I don’t like this will-you won’t-you stuff, Lou. You said you’d come for the weekend and I want you there with me. 2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty xxxix. 159: That’s three years wasted. Three years! If I hadn’t spent all that time fannying around in lecture halls I’d be twenty-seven now instead of thirty! 2004 Independent (Apr. 8) (Review section) 13/1: I took the family to Cowley Manor in Gloucestershire at the weekend, and having fannied around for 20 minutes in London deciding what to pack, eventually decided to go in what I was wearing. 2008 Guardian (Aug. 30) 7: It is time to end the British habit of fannying about with Olympic football.

Fanny Adams verb [euphemism for FUCK ALL noun, after Fanny Adams, young English girl murdered in 1867]

British = FUCK ALL noun. Usually used with sweet.

1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dialect 22: F.A., ‘Fanny Adams’, or ‘Sweet Fanny Adams’—nothing; vacuity. 1930 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang of the British Soldier 123: F.A. Sometimes lengthened into Sweet F.A. or bowdlerized into Sweet Fanny Adams. Used to mean ‘nothing’ where something was expected. 1949 J. R. Cole It was so Late 61: What do they do? Sweet Fanny Adams! 1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy 15: You’ll order sweet fanny adams from outside, and never you mind the regulations, I’ll regulate you. 1978 B. Ashley Kind of Wild Justice (2002) 92: There was sweet Fanny Adams around here, only mud and slippery wood, and stink. 1983 J. H. Heminway No Man’s Land 5: I was no ruddy star and I knew sweet Fanny Adams about acting, but I did have fun. 1990 M. Leigh Life is Sweet in Naked & Other Screenplays (1995) 145: So what you been doin’ all mornin’? Sweet Fanny Adams, as usual. 1999 S. Perera Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet xiv. 186: “You sound like my mum.” “And you’re going to end up like her: working your fingers to the bone for sweet Fanny Adams.” 2002 J. Diski Stranger on a Train 112: You’re completely drunk, you are drunk as a horse’s arse and you know sweet fanny adams about the little people. You are a fraud.

fark verb

Chiefly Australian. (a partial euphemism, in various senses, parts of speech, and derived forms, for) FUCK.

1971 J. Hibberd Stretch of the Imagination 23: (He continues [gardening] for a while, then stops suddenly, in pain and bent over at a fixed angle at the hips.) Faaarrk. 1983 D. Foster Plumbum ii. 56: “When it somes to drumming, you’d make a good panel beater.” “Farkin’ hell!” 1992 Picture (Sydney) (Feb. 5) 26/1: Experts reckon that now our bastard drought has broken, roaches will breed like buggery and we’ll stand no farkin’ chance. 1994 Picture (Sydney) (Feb. 5) 14/2: And if this year’s show is anything to go by, that’ll be a dead farkin’ cert. 1996 Tracks (Sydney) (June) 51/2: Faark! (Sorry, I had to say that ’cause this word is a major part of Australian surfer’s dialect.) 1998 Hairball Goulash (Wodonga, NSW) 26: They did walk and they di[d] see in each other that words could not express how beautiful these dirty grotty streets in this farked up hostile world looked to them… 1998 Hairball Goulash (Wodonga, NSW) 26: Tanith, and her typewriter put this zine together, and it is so farken cool. 2001 Touch (Dec.) 127/1: So Touch Magazine is back. Thank fuck. It’s about farking time that the best magazine made its late but welcome spectacular entrance on the market. 2003 K. Kuitenbrouwer Way Up iv. 62: Jane Rae, Joanie and I went for a walk so we could smoke up, farking freezing.

F-bomb noun

the word FUCK or one of its variants or compounds, esp. with reference to it as a shocking or inappropriate term. Often in to drop the F-bomb.

1988 Newsday (New York) (Aug. 11) i. 144/3: That was when I used to use the F-bomb. 1991 Boston Globe (Jan. 11) (Sports section) 31: It looked like I was calling him everything in the book.… I dropped the F-bomb a few times. 1995 Denver Post (June 11) B 10/3: I tried not to say any F-bombs with my mom there. 2000 Sporting News (Oct. 23) 54: 4… Times (at least) lip readers with an aversion to the f-bomb would have blushed if they watched Games 3 and 4 of the NLCS. 2002 A. St. John in Village Voice (Aug. 28) 159/4: When he got a questionable call late in the fifth set against Hewitt, he launched an atypical F-bomb on the umpire and promptly pissed away what was left of the match. 2006 Philadelphia Inquirer (May 7) B4/5: Two years ago, Vice President Cheney dropped the f-bomb on Sen. Patrick Leahy on the Senate floor, then defiantly said, “I feel better now.” 2008 Sports Illustrated (Dec. 19) 16: Of course, with no restrictor plates on anyone’s mouth, the language can get hotter than a brake pad at Martinsville—Stewart’s f bomb-laden exchange with crew chief Greg Zipadelli at Indy in July being Exhibit A.

feck verb

Irish. (a partial euphemism, in various senses, parts of speech, and derived forms, for) FUCK. [Popularized on the Father Ted TV series.]

1980 “H. Leonard” Life I. 24 Feck off, that’s not yours. 1989 H. Leonard Out After Dark: I went on clinging to the wall until old Fanning made feck-off gestures of great savagery. 1993 D. Purcell Falling for a Dancer: “Fecker,” said Hazel passionately. “That’s all he is, a fecker. I can’t stand the sight of him.” 1995 P. Boland Tales from a City Farmyard: Some little fecker of a kid pinched the bum off me. 1998 M. McDonagh Beauty Queen of Leenane (play): Feck! 1999 F. McCourt ’Tis xvii. 136: He’s over by the coal range with a mug of tea and all he does is smoke cigarettes and cough till he’s weak, clutching at himself and laughing, These feckin’ fags will kill me in the end. 2003 J. Mullaney We’ll be Back 33: It’s a dangerous path to go down, but what the feck do I know? I’m only a football fan who’s dropped out of the rat race with ill health.

fed up adjective

In phrase:

fed up, fucked up, and far from home, Military. disgusted, helpless, and far from one’s home. Compare fucked [up] and far from home under FUCK, verb.

1936 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English 269: In the [First World War], a military [catch phrase] ran, fed up, f**ked up, and far from home. 1977 P. Caputo Rumor of War 93 [refers to 1965]: The Marines are all in the same state of mind as I, “fed-up, fucked-up, and far from home.” 1979–81 C. Buckley Steaming to Bamboola 207: “Fucked up, fed up, and far away from home,” he snorted. 1984 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 8) 383: Fed-up, fucked up, and far from home…still being used by the WWI Tommies’ soldier-grandsons, 1970s. 1984 A. Burgess Enderby’s Dark Lady 84: Fed up, fucked up and far from home. 1998 A. Sillitoe Broken Chariot 98: When the six hundred men were moved from place to place, an exercise of seeming pointlessness, all complained at being fed up, fucked up, and far from home.

ferk verb

(a partial euphemism for) FUCK in various senses and parts of speech. Sometimes jocular.

ca1929 Collection of Sea Songs 43: Perkin you’re shirkin your ferkin. 1945 T. Lea Peleliu Landing 15: It’s the ferking night time I don’t like, when them little ferkers come sneakin’ into your lap. 1946–51 J. Jones From Here to Eternity ch. xxi [refers to ca1940]: Ah, what’s the difference? They all the ferkin same. Five cents of one, a nickel of the other. 1965 in G. Legman New Limerick 4: He jerked ’em, and ferked ’em. 1977 J. Hersey Walnut Door 56: She raved for several hours, keening most of her threnody not at Macaboy, whom she addressed exclusively as you ferking shithead, but at her dear dead daddy. 2007 K. Tout By Tank 87: Bloody SS. Shit on you, rotten buggers. Shooting our colonel. Why don’t you ferk off back home and shoot bleeding Hitler.

fiddlefuck verb

to play or fiddle about; FUCK AROUND.—usually used with around. Also (in 1974 quotation) as noun.

1949 W.S. Burroughs Letter (Jan. 16) in Letters of William S. Burroughs (1993) 35: When his neglect takes the form of deserting her without funds (what money she has did not come from him), and expecting me to take over until such time as he gets tired of fiddle fucking around N.Y. and decides to come down here, it ceases to be a personal matter between him and his wife. 1974 R. Stone Dog Soldiers 321: Some of you birds think I’m down here to play fiddle fuck around. 1973–77 J. Jones Whistle 506 [refers to WWII]: It was strange, all right, and he didn’t fiddlefuck around. 1979 J. Hurling Boomers 84: I’m not going to fiddle-fuck around ’til those pricks come out of the office. 1985 D. Dye Run Between the Raindrops 192: Can’t fiddle-fuck around on the perimeter. 1990 G. G. Liddy Monkey Handlers xix. 322: Better to get ahead than fiddle-fuck along like this. 2002 New Yorker (July 15) 73/3: She was all reticence and demurrals—no drink, no dinner, no nothing.… The mournful fraülein desired them to stop fiddle-fucking, order dinner or go away. 2008 Guardian (Feb. 16) (Saturday Comment section) 32/3: But we’ll let an editor fiddlefuck all over with it [sc. a novel].

In phrase:

be fiddlefucked to be damned.

1976 P. Atlee Last Domino Contract 52: This is Korea’s nuclear reactor one…and I’ll be fiddle-fucked if I understand why it hasn’t fallen down yet.

fiddlefucking adjective

= FUCKING, adjective.

1974 P. Roth My Life as a Man 19: I guaranfuckingtee you gentlemen, not one swingin’ dick will be leavin’ this fiddlefuckin’ area to so much as chew on a nanny goat’s tittie.

fiddler’s fuck noun

a damn; fuck noun, definition 2.a.; in phrase: not make a fiddler’s fuck, not make any difference. [The 1932 quotation is euphemistic.]

1932 V. F. Nelson Prison Days & Nights 25: We could all rot to death, and they wouldn’t give a fiddler’s so-and-so for us. 1961 H. Selby Room 187: They ain’t worth a fiddlers fuck. 1973 W. Crawford Stryker 91: I don’t give a fiddler’s fuck about jurisdictional disputes, ace. 1976 P. Atlee Last Domino Contract 175: A shamed patriot…ain’t worth a fiddler’s fuck. 1978 H. Selby Requiem for a Dream 183: Why didn’t make a fiddler’s fuck. 1979 G. Wolff Duke of Deception 236: I didn’t care a fiddler’s fuck where my father was. 1984 W. J. Caunitz One Police Plaza 22: I don’t give a fiddler’s fuck what the Forensic boys like. 2000 T. Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates 87: You come along on your bleeding errand, oblivious, unmindful, not caring a fiddler’s fuck, and fall into it, just bloody stumble into it, roses and whistles.

fiddly-fuck noun

= FIDDLER’S FUCK.

1973 New York City man, age 25: Do you think I give a fiddly-fuck? 1992 S. King Dolores Claiborne (1993) 62: I didn’t know what’d happen to her or who would take care of her, but right then I didn’t care a fiddlyfuck.

In phrase:

play fiddly-fuck, to fool around.

1964–66 R. Stone Hall of Mirrors 305: I didn’t come out to play fiddly fuck. 2001 S. King Dreamcatcher xiii. 453: We don’t think they will come again, or at least not for awhile. They played fiddly-fuck for half a century before getting this far. 2006 S. King Lisey’s Story 289: He was coming around and you were still out there playin fiddly-fuck in the shed.

fifteen fucker noun

Army. punishment under Article 15 of the Army Code of Conduct.

1981–89 R. Atkinson Long Gray Line 295: Each of them was reprimanded, fined $300, and given an Article 15—an administrative punishment known within the ranks as a Fifteen Fucker—“for conduct totally unbecoming an officer.” 2004 P. Maslowski Looking for a Hero iii. 73: At 6:00 am on May 1 Joe missed reveille formation, resulting in a Fifteen Fucker that sentenced him to forfeit $163 for one month.

FIGMO [“ fuck it, got my orders,” with variations] interjection & adjective

Military. (used as an expression of contempt or dismissal). Also FUIGMO. Compare FUJIGMO. Jocular.

1962 F. Harvey Strike Command 101: Everybody in the Air Force is familiar with the expression a man about to ship out to some new duty station gives those about him who have some insane notion that they’ll get some useful work out of him. It is “FIGMO!”…the expression which…[he] delivers at his new duty station…is FIGMO spelled backward, or OMGIF! 1968 J.D. Houston Between Battles 212: Once he knows [he is scheduled to rotate], he goes FUIGMO—fuck u, I got my orders. At the PX he buys a FUIGMO button. 1969 C. C. Moskos American Enlisted Man 144: Rather, the attitude is typically, “I’ve done my time, let the others do theirs.” Or, as put in the soldier’s vernacular, he is waiting to make the final entry on his “FIGMO” chart—fuck it, got my orders (to return to the United States). 1969 Current Slang I & II 32: Figmo…“forget it, I’ve got my orders.”—Air Force Academy cadets. 1983 J. Groen & D. Groen Huey 102 [refers to 1971]: Roger and John were among the few remaining…who were not figmo (fuck it, got my orders). Ibid. 105: You’re figmo…I’ll send them. 2005 D. DeFrain Salt Palace viii. 80: I was in Palermo for most of mine. F.I.G.M.O., you know?

fingerfuck noun

an act of masturbation of the vagina or anus.

[1884 Randiana 31: The easy transition from a kiss to a feel, from a feel to a finger frig, and eventually by a more natural sequence to a gentle insertion of the jock.] 1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 77: Finger fuck…n. Stimulation of the female sex organs with the finger. 1978 J. Webb Fields of Fire 228: This bastard wants to kill me for a damn fingerfuck. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet xiv. 443: Sometimes she lazily played at adolescent sex, all finger-fucks and blow-jobs; more often she just came at you like Octopussy, all arms and legs and whoops-a-daisy. 2005 “Noire” Candy Licker viii. 78: I told them all about the finger fuck he gave me on the dance floor.

fingerfuck verb

to masturbate the vagina or anus [of].

a1793 R. Burns Merry Muses 29: She m—s like reek thro’ a’ the week,/But finger f—s on Sunday, O. ca1866 Romance of Lust 197: Anything but finger-fucking. a1890–91 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues II 398: Finger-fucking…masturbation (said of women only). 1916 H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I 84: Finger fucking—to induce a sexual spasm in a woman by digitation. 1921 in E. Cray Erotic Muse 195: There she saw her lovin’ boy/finger-fucking Nellie Bly. 1945–48 Marianas Collection (unpaged): I started finger fucking myself. 1964 in H. Huncke Huncke’s Journal 4: Licking—eating—jerking off and finger fucking. 1965 C. Bukowski Letter (Feb.–Mar.) in Screams from Balcony: Selected Letters (1998) 135: Who knows about the boss finger-fucking the secretary in the stock room? 1968 P. Roth Portnoy’s Complaint 143: She wants you to finger-fuck her shikse cunt till she faints. 1970 R. Byrne Memories non-Jewish Childhood 157: I get tired of finger-fucking Wanda Farney all the time. 1970 G. Cain Blueschild Baby 53: Boy and girl flirting in hall shadowkiss and finger fuck. 1971 H. Dahlskog Dictionary of Contemporary & Colloquial Usage 23: Fingerfuck, v. Vulgar. To arouse (someone) sexually by vaginal or rectal stimulation with the finger. 1976 J. Johnson Oriental Festival 139: I’m gonna…slip my finger inside your hot ass.… Maybe I should give you a little finger fucking. 1983 Playboy (Aug.) 88: He claims that he is obsessed with sex, that he has done it with animals, that he’s finger-fucked his cat. 1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 103: Despite her frantic pleas I refused to go any further than finger-fucking until she had signed on the dotted line. 1996 Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Apr. 23) 74: Then he finger-fucks her on a roller coaster. 2000 New Yorker (Sept. 4) 48/3: Then you got guys standing around…talking about how they finger-fucked you and your yin-yang made their hands smell like tuna fish. 2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers xi. 512: “Finger-fuck me then, you heavenly boy-man,” she brayed to be heard in the hall.

fist-fuck verb

Especially Homosexuals. to insert the hand into the rectum or vagina for sexual stimulation. Also as noun.

[1971 (see quote at FIST-FUCKING noun definition 2).] 1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 81: Fist fuck. The extended process of inserting a fist to the elbow anally. 1978 R. Price Ladies’ Man 224: That guy’s into getting fist fucked…right up the ass. Right up to the elbow. Can you believe that? 1978 L. Kramer Faggots 216: You probably still want me to fist-fuck you, don’t you?.… I could never understand why you liked to get fist-fucked and don’t like to get regular fucked. 1984 H. Gould Cocktail 91: He liked to put on mesh stockings…and get fist-fucked. 1991 J. Barth Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor 368: He aspired one day to fist-fuck Sindbad the Sailor in his half an ass. 1995 New Statesman (Aug. 4) 41: Each month’s curse earned her a beating on the bedpost, a fistfuck for failure, exposure on the platform at the march past. 1995 Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Dec. 12) 31: For a grand finale she got fistfucked by a ring-wearing “gypsy” lady while deep-throating a 13-inch dick. 2002 W. Self Dorian x. 144: “His gut,” he said of one patient, “was punctured by some guy fist-fucking him.”

fist-fucker noun

1. a man or boy who is a frequent masturbator.—used contemptuously.

1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 168 [refers to WWII]: Corporal Solly, you old-fashioned fist-fucker, why don’t you come out of that orderly room and get some air in your ass sometimes? 1969 H. S. Thompson Letter (Dec. 6) in Fear & Loathing in America (2000) 223: Never, under any circumstances, have I been shit on so totally as I was in the course of this Playboy/Killy thing. That whole goddamn magazine is a conspiracy of anemic masturbators.… scurvy fist-fuckers to the last man. 1974 E. Thompson Tattoo 111: I feel plumb sorry for you poor Wichita fistfuckers…got nothin to fuck there but their fists. 1984 A. R. Sample Racehoss 266 [refers to 1960s]: Nelly Nuthin, Proud Walker, Bow Wow, and Fistfucker were…dunces. 2006 U. Chatterjee Weight Loss 150: Spilling his precious seed six times a day like a fourteen-year-old fistfucker.

2. Homosexuals. a practitioner of FIST-FUCKING, definition 2.

1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 81: Fist fuckers…those who practice fist fucking. 1973 Oui (July) 73: Fist Fuckers of America: Their clenched-fist gestures are often an internal expression. 1985 J. Dillinger Adrenaline 213: How about Fistfucker Beach? 1993 Folio (Oct. 15) 57: The organizers [of a gay-rights march in Washington, D.C.] didn’t want the Fist Fuckers of America marching down Pennsylvania Avenue. 1999 “Eurydice” Satyricon USA 94: The natives patronize corsetries, boutiques that sell Würtenburg wheels, Victorian parlors, Edwardian attics, “handballing soirées,” “electroplay charity fund-raisings.” The streets brim with Gender Variant Folk, Granddaddies and G-spot Mommies, bulldaggers, adult babies, PVC boy-toys and sex-maids, and infinite combinations thereof (top-femme-hookers, butch-bottom-cocksuckers, androgynous leather doggies, radical bi fistfuckers). 2008 J. D. Lichtenberg Sensuality & Sexuality across Divide of Shame 12: He reported a dream in which a clear stand-in for me was identified as a fist fucker.

3. a despicable or contemptible fellow.

1977 in H.S. Thompson Shark Hunt 602: If that treacherous fist-fucker ever comes back to life, he’ll wish we’d had the good sense to nail him up on a frozen telephone pole.

fist-fucking noun

1. male masturbation.

ca1890 My Secret Life VI. i.: All day spite of the relief I had given myself by fist fucking, I was as lewd as I could be, mad to see more of her. ca890–91 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues II 402: Fist-fucking…masturbation. 1916 H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I 85: Fist fucking—masturbation.

2. Especially Homosexuals. insertion of the hand into the rectum or vagina for sexual stimulation.

1971 J. F. Hunter Gay Insider iii. 36: Kim, when worked up, did like rough treatment. He specifically wanted to be plowed hard, preliminary to fist fucking. 1972 (quotation at FIST-FUCKER, definition 2). 1973 Oui (July) 75: We spent some time discussing fist fucking (“it can be dangerous”). 1981 Film Comment (May) 21: Oriental beheadings and Occidental gay fistfuckings. 1984 R. J. Avrech & B. De Palma Body Double (film): No animal acts, no fist-fucking, and absolutely no coming in my face. 1988 R. Shilts And the Band Played On II. ii. 24: “It looks like that guy has his arm up the other guy’s ass.” “He does have an arm up his ass”.… “That’s fist-fucking,” the psychologist said. 1989 S. Chapple & D. Talbot Burning Desires 260: Videos that did not stop at fist-fucking. 1992 Whole Earth Review (June 22) 94: “Is ‘perineal massage’ really fist fucking?”…“Of course.”…A hand going inside my pussy is…exciting. 1997 L. Yablonsky Story of Junk 39: Her specialty was gay male erotica; the idea of fist-fucking gave her a charge. 2001 P. Burston Shameless viii. 114: Dressing up in drag? Fist fucking? He already knew that David found his father attractive. What if the E turned his father into a sex maniac? Would he be able to resist David’s advances?

flak

Military Aviation. (a jocular euphemism for) FUCK.

1961 G. Forbes Goodbye to Some 120 [refers to WWII]: The 38’s will get the flak out of there. 1963 E. M. Miller Exile 57: “Flak you, fellows,” he said as the door slammed.

flat fuck noun & verb

among lesbians: a sexual act in which two women lie prone face to face and rub and stimulate each other; (as verb) to perform this act.

ca1890 My Secret Life IX. vii.: French women were much more free spoken than the English, who mostly said they disliked to touch another woman’s cunt, which I believed was a lie. One or two only, said they’d had a flat fuck with a friend, and what harm was there? ca1890 My Secret Life IX. ix.: Putting them on the top of each other I wanted them to flat fuck—Nelly refused, tho Sophy was ready for it, half screwed when she came and more so now, for I’d taken a bottle of gin with me. However they laid belly on belly with thighs wide apart, their mottes touching, cunt wigs entwining, but clitoris did not touch clitoris. 1970 R. Blake Porno Movies 169: She got to opening up the other girl’s pussy and they did a flat fuck together. 1980 Maledicta IV. 197: This practice may best be seen amongst lesbians…who prefer soixante-neuf to a flat fuck. 1998 S. Waters Tipping Velvet xviii. 415: “I said,” came a girl’s voice, “‘I only does that sort of thing, sir, with my friends.’ ‘Emily Pettinger,’ he said, ‘said you let her flat fuck you for an hour and a half’—which is a lie, but anyway, ‘Flat fucking is one thing, sir,’ I said, ‘and this quite another. If you want me to —her’”—here she must have made a gesture—“‘you shall have to pay me for it, rather dear.’”

flipping adjective & adverb

Chiefly British. (a euphemism for) FUCKING adjective & adverb.

1911 D. H. Lawrence White Peacock II. ix. 347: Ain’t it flippin’ ’ot? 1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident i. 2: Flipping heroes, ain’t we all? 1957 J. Kerouac Letter (Mar. 19) in Selected Letters 1957–69 14: In the original version there was no flipping confession and everyone read it and naturally didn’t miss it. 1959 Spectator (Nov. 20) 713/3: While terms of approval…change rapidly with the fashion, terms of disapproval (blinking…flippin’ awful…) show very little alteration. 1987 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder the Third in R. Curtis et al. Black-Adder 311/2: Mysterious Northern beauty, Miss Amy Hardwood, comes to London and spends flipping great wodges of cash. 2002 N. Walker Blackbox 180: Dan told him to mind his own flipping business.

flying adjective

In phrases:

flying fuck, a damn; the least bit.—usually used in negative, with give. Also in euphemistic variants.

[a1850 (see quotation at fuck, noun, definition 1a). 1946–51 J. Jones From Here to Eternity [refers to 1941]: I don’t give a flyin’ fuck. 1953. Brossard Bold Saboteurs 30: They did not give a flying hoot. 1956 H. Ellison Deadly Streets 190: Tony didn’t give a flying damn. 1967 in H. Ellison Sex Misspelled 154: I…don’t give a flying shit what time you were behind your desk. 1973 R. M. Brown Rubyfruit Jungle 67: I don’t give a flying fuck what you do. 1974 V. C. Strasburger Rounding Third & Heading Home 12: Who gives a flying fuck, Junior? 1980 P. Conroy Lords of Discipline 297: He wouldn’t have given a flying crap about this city. 1984 W. D. Ehrhart Marking Time 19: Most…weren’t worth a flying fuck. 1985 K. Finkelman Head Office (film): He doesn’t give a flying shit about Stead-man’s position. 1992 M. Crichton Rising Sun 227: Older people don’t give a flying fuck, John. 1995 E. White Skinned Alive 9: He didn’t give a flying fuck about the Crowd. 1997 A. Proulx in New Yorker (Oct. 13) 79: And I don’t give a flyin fuck. 2005 M. H. Smith Delicious xi. 152: He didn’t give a flying fuck about the Bellagio’s water fountain.

[go] take a flying fuck, get away! go to hell! Also in euphemistic and elaborated variants, especially take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.

1926 L. H. Nason Chevrons 73 [refers to 1918]: Me, I’d tell ’em to take a flyin’ fling at the moon. 1929–30 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 271: I hadn’t the nerve/to…tell/them all to go take a flying/Rimbaud/at the moon. 1932 Miller & Burnett Scarface (film): “They said you could take a flyin’—” “That’s enough of that!” 1934 W. Saroyan in J. North New Masses (1969) 93: I didn’t obey my mother or my teachers and I told the whole world to take a flying you-know-what. 1935 J. Conroy World to Win 64: Go take a flyin’ jump at a gallopin’ goose for all o’ me. 1936 S. Kingsley Dead End 706: Well, go take a flyin’ jump at ta moon! 1938 J. O’Hara in Selected Letters 140: I say go take a flying fuck at a galloping r—ster. 1939 B. Appel Power-House 165: If this’s the Hamilton Dectective Agency it can take a flyin’ trip to the moon. 1941 C. Brackett & B. Wilder Ball of Fire (film): Tell the D.A. to take a flyin’ jump for himself. 1944 B. Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird 105: You can take a flying one at a rolling one. 1949 A. I. Bezzerides Thieves’ Market 122: He can go take a flying frig at himself. 1949 R. Pirosh Battleground (film) [refers to WWII]: Tell him to take a flyin’ leap at a rollin’ doughnut. 1952 C. Himes Stone 238: How would you like to take a flying frig at yourself? 1961 J. Brosnan Pennant Race 48: Brosnan, you take a flying leap at my —. 1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 415: And you and your colored problems can take a flying frig at the moon. 1966 “T. Pendleton” Iron Orchard 40: You take a flyin’ bite at my ass! 1968 G. Swarthout Loveland 169: “Go take a flying jump at a rolling doughnut!” I hollered. 1968 K. Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five 147 [ref. to WWII]: Go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.… Go take a flying fuck at the moon. 1971 L. Cameron First Blood 119: Why don’t you go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? 1972 R. A. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 107: Take a flying Philadelphia fuck in [sic] a rolling doughnut. 1972 Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC-TV): I told him to go take a flying leap. 1977 M. Torres in R. P. Rettig et al. Manny iv. 115/2: Why don’t you take a flying fuck at Mickey Mouse? 1979 J. Hurling Boomers 13: I…just told him to take a flyin’ fuck at a rollin’ doughnut. 1979 W. P. McGivern Soldiers of ’44 185 [refers to WWII]: Why don’t you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? 1966–80 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 117: Go take a flyin’ fuck at a rollin’ doughnut. Ibid. 408: You go take a flyin’ fuck at the moon. 1983 S. King Christine 296: Tell him to take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. 1985 J. Briskin Too Much Too Soon 264: Tell ’em to go take a flying fuck. 1988 D. DeLillo Libra 93: Take a flying fuck at the moon. 1995 A. J. Holt Watch Me 204: I told the Narc to take a flying fuck at himself. ca1999 F. Darabont Green Mile (film script) 99: No salesmen in the middle of the night!… Tell them to take a flying fuck. 2005 M. H. Smith Delicious 219: He struggled to repress his burning desire to tell this fat Samoan asshole to take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. Instead, he held up his hands.

FNG noun [fucking new guy]

Especially Military. a person who is a newly arrived member, especially of a combat unit. [Most quotations refer to the Vietnam War.]

1966 N.Y. Times Magazine (Oct. 30) 104: F.N.G. designates a “foolish new guy.” 1966 E. Shepard Doom Pussy 217: Major Nails says several FNGs believe it. 1972 T. O’Brien Combat Zone 73: Look, FNG, I don’t want to scare you. 1980 M. Baker Nam 54: Who the hell was I? This rather quiet, slightly older FNG. 1983 L. Van Devanter & C. Morgan Home Before Morning 80: “And what’s an FNG?” “What else?…A Fucking New Guy.” 1983 J. Groen & D. Groen Huey 7: Rather than look like FNGs, fucking new guys, including officers, suffered their anxieties quietly. 1985 J. McDonough Platoon Leader 65: Despite…his disdain for new guys (“FNGs” he would mutter under his breath),…he was the most respected member of the platoon. 1995 Newsweek (May 8) 8: FNG: F—ing New Guy; the latest crew hire. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confidential 226: Externs from culinary school, working for free as a “learning experience”—which by itself translates to “lots of work and no money”—are quickly tagged as FNG (Fucking New Guy), or Mel for mal carne (bad meat). 2004 Observer (Apr. 18) 21: More than half the girls don’t last a day. New staff are referred to as FNGs—Fucking New Guys—until they sort themselves out.

FO noun & verb

Especially Military. = FUCK-OFF, noun & verb.

1945 American Speech (Dec.) 262: F.O., to avoid work. 1948 N.Y. Folklore Quarterly (Spring) 20. 1957 E. Brown Locust Fire 14a [refers to WWII]: I’m an R.O., you F.O. 1974 V. C. Strasburger Rounding Third & Heading Home 132: F.O., Carter. 1983 J. Groen & D. Groen Huey 98: “Just CA for a few months and then FO.” Cover your ass and then fuck off. 1988 O. Clark Diaries (1998) p. lxxvi, Nikki Waymouth flaunting her mammories—“Well, that’s it, you can all F.O. now.”

FOAD interjection [see FUCK OFF verb definition 1]

“Fuck Off And Die.”

1987 “Broken Bones” (title of rock album): F.O.A.D. 1993 IMHO - HELP! on Usenet newsgroup alt.business.multi-level (Dec. 4), citing The BBS_USER Unofficial Acronym List v1.9: FOAD - F *** Off And Die. 2004 AutoWeek (Nov. 8) 32: Public sentiment that so far is running 10-to-1 opposed, judging by public comment on NHTSA’s website.… Another comment was more succinct: “FOAD.” 2005 The Sun (London) (June 21) (Nexis): Shocked Niall Farrell was appalled to receive the four-letter tirade—contained in the acronym FOAD—which was first spotted by his 15-year-old daughter Mairead.

force-fuck verb

Especially Politics. to rape. Also figurative.

1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 90: Force-fuck…to rape a man’s anus. 1976 T. Teal trans. Suzanne Brogger’s Deliver Us from Love 122: All the women who copulate to keep peace in the house are the victims of rape. All our grandmothers who just “let it happen” were essentially force-fucked all their lives. 1987 Nation (May 30) 722: MacKinnon’s bluster is stunning.… Since women are presumed “force-fucked,” sexuality is presented in the light of Marx’s theory of work. 1992 P. Hamill in Playboy (Jan. 1993) 138: According to Dworkin, all women are “force-fucked,” either directly through the crime of rape or by the male power of mass media, by male economic power or by the male version of the law.

forget verb

Originally Black English. to hell with; damn; FUCK, verb, definition 4a.

1969 Elementary English XLVI 495: F’get you, honky! 1983 Reader’s Digest Success with Words 85: Black English…forget it = “emphatic phrase expressing negation, denial, refutation.” 1980–89 J. E. Cheshire Home Boy 105: Forget you, shit-for-brains. 1990 Simpsons (Fox-TV): Forget you, pal! Thanks for nothin’! 1995 (see quotation at FUCK-YOU MONEY). 1997 M. Groening et al. The Simpsons: Complete Guide 117/1: Krusty. Now boys, ah, the network has a problem with some of your lyrics. Would you mind changing them for the show? Anthony. Forget you, clown. 2003 Gazette (Montreal) (Feb. 20) A4/3: I thought, “(Forget) this, I’d rather be written about than doing the writing.”

fork verb

to hell with; damn; FUCK, verb, definition 4a.

1954–60 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang: Fork You…Euphemism for fuck you. 1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 88: Camp: “Fork you, Rose, we’re doing it my way!” a1990 B. Raspberry in A. Parfrey Apocalypse Culture (1990) (rev. ed.) 241: If you really thought white people are trying to force you to use these things [sc. drugs]—you don’t like white people, and you don’t want ’em to do it—fork them! Tell ’em to go to hell! 1997 A. Neiderman Dark 251: “Go fork yourself,” he said. Maggie smiled with confusion.

fouled-up adjective

Originally Navy & U.S. Marine Corps. confused, chaotic, or disorganized; (broadly) mistaken; (also) stupid or worthless. [Frequently regarded as a euphemism for FUCKED UP.]

1942 Time (June 15): The Army has a laconic term for chronic befuddlement: snafu, situation normal; all fouled up. 1942 Leatherneck (Nov.) 145: Fouled Up—mixed up, confused. 1942 Yank (Nov. 11) 4: Navy [slang]…Foul, or foul up—Trouble or being in trouble or to get someone in trouble. Thus, if a sailor gets all fouled up with a skirt, he’s got babe trouble. 1943 Saturday Evening Post (Mar. 20) 86: Those knuckle-heads are all fouled up. 1944 P. Kendall Service Slang 23: All fouled up…messed up. 1945 in California Folk Quarterly V (1946) 390: Fouled up like an ensign’s sea bag is the commonest [U.S. Navy simile]. 1940–46 McPeak Navy Slang Manuscript: You’re as fouled up as a man overboard in dry dock…as a mess-cook drawing small stores…as a marine at fire drill. 1947 J. C. Higgins Railroaded (film): Somebody’s all fouled up! 1948 W. Manone & P. Vandervoort Trumpet on the Wing 157: Aw, I don’t want to go out to ol’ Cali-fouled up-ornia and mess with those square people out there. 1949 Grayson & Andrews I Married a Communist (film): We’re trying to get some sense into a fouled-up situation while there’s still time. 1956 M. M. Boatner Military Customs & Traditions 125: Fire Call. A confused situation or formation. “All fouled up like a fire Call.” 1960 C. Simak Worlds 43: It was all just this side of crazy, anyhow. No matter how fouled up it was, Steen seemed satisfied. 1964 H. Rhodes Chosen Few 57: I’ve been in this fouled-up place for almost four years straight now and I don’t think I can or want to get used to it. 1967 W. Crawford Gresham’s War 7 [refers to Korean War]: I called him Goat, for fouled-up like Hogan’s goat, which he was. 1968 W.C. Anderson Gooney Bird 124: The whole thing is insanity. More fouled up than an Ethiopian fire drill. 1967–69 Foster & Stoddard Pops 1: I’ve always wanted to write down what I know about the times in New Orleans. Some of the books are fouled up on it and some of the guys weren’t telling the truth. 1977 R. S. Parker Effective Decisions 2: Some cynics might say, “It’s all society’s fault. That’s the real reason our lives are all fouled up.” 1981 J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 21: Wooley earned a reputation for running the most fouled-up ticket and credential operation in modern Republican history. 1984 L. Fawcett & B. J. Greenwood UFO Cover-Up v. 76: Was it a fouled up administrative effort or was the Coast Guard suppressing information? Or was it both? 1992 R. Price Blue Calhoun 28: In my fouled up head, I thought that would hurt her even worse. 1998 Total Football (Aug.) 93/1: Colombia, the most fouled-up country in the footballing firmament, managed to forget its fear just enough to knock Tunisia out of the World Cup. 2000 B. Blech Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning Yiddish 19: That was truly making a mishmash, a real fouled-up state of things, of the word mishmash. 2006 P. Anthony Stork Naked 154: Demon Xanth would lose, and Stymy would remain a hopelessly fouled-up low-echelon stork.

foul-up noun

1. Originally Navy & U.S. Marine Corps. a blunder leading to a state of confusion or inefficiency; (also) a state of confusion brought about by ineptitude or inefficiency; (also) a mechanical malfunction. [Frequently regarded as a euphemism for FUCK-UP, definition 1.]

1943 in R. Sherrod Tarawa 82: Orders…never came because of the radio foul-up. 1944 Newsweek (Feb. 7) 61: Janfu: Joint Army-Navy foul-up. Jaafu: Joint Anglo-American foul-up. 1945 J. Bryan Carrier 139: There’s been a foul-up. 1958 J. Thompson Getaway (1994) vii. 80: Checkroom attendants were always losing things.… Nothing ever happened, naturally, to a two-dollar suitcase with a few bucks worth of clothes in it. But let the bag contain something hot—money or jewelry or narcotics, or part of a dismembered corpse—and sure as shootin’ there was a foul-up. 1958 A. Hailey & J. Castle Runway Zero-Eight 109: There’s a foul-up on the phones in the press room. 1959 R. G. Fuller Danger! Marines at Work 143: “That’s the history of the rock, doll,” she was told. “Always a foul-up somewhere.” 1971 M. Dibner Trouble with Heroes 44: The foul-up was especially galling to this bunch because ten days earlier the landing had been smooth and undetected. 1986 F. Walton Once They Were Eagles 8: There he ran into a bureaucratic foulup: he couldn’t get back into the Marine Corps. 1991 G. Burn Alma Cogan ix. 190: I had worked the script up over many weeks with my parents… (I had to get it right first time; there was no overdubbing; any foul-up was going to cost them money). 2000 J. Simpson Mad World, My Masters viii. 275: Receive an emollient letter from Alastair Campbell. Not an apology, certainly, but then I didn’t expect one: governments never apologize. But he’s sorry it happened, and I get the impression he feels it was all a foul-up from their side. 2006 A. J. Zerries Lost Van Gogh 180: I never showed up at the school district office to sign the employment papers. A foul-up in the system delayed our benefits from the government.

2. Especially Military. a bungler or misfit. [Frequently regarded as a euphemism for FUCK-UP, definition 2.]

1945 in M. Chennault Up Sun! 136: I know what you foulups were up to. 1954–60 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang: Foulup…A person who makes frequent blunders. 1964 J. Pearl Stockade 70: I should have known better than to trust that foul-up Larkin. 1965 S. Linakis In Spring the War Ended 293: These foul-ups are kids mostly. 1966 P. Derrig Pride of the Green Berets 144: Even if he is a short-timer we can’t afford even one foul-up in the outfit. 1978 H. Berry Make the Kaiser Dance 361: The CO would have the dental officer make out a form saying that Lieutenant Foulup needed a lot of work on his teeth. 1987 D. da Cruz Boot 49: You’re the worst bunch of foul-ups it’s ever been my misfortune to have inflicted on me. 1995 R. Didinger Game Plans for Success 130: Hey, this guy is a foul-up. We can’t trust him. 2006 J. Lutz Chill of Night 44: “She’s a foul-up?” “More a don’t-give-a-damn type. Mind of her own.”

foul up verb

1. Originally Navy & U.S. Marine Corps. transitive. to bring into confusion; mix up; confound; botch; ruin; in phrase: foul up the detail, Military. to bungle. [Frequently regarded as a euphemism for FUCK UP, definition 1.]

1942 (quotation at FOULED-UP). 1943 in R. R. Rea Wings of Gold (1987) 76: I fouled up a navigation quiz completely. 1944 F. Wakeman Shore Leave 21: You know damn well she’s in Hartford, making those Pratt-Whitney engines you foul up. 1946 S. Wilson Voyage to Somewhere 108: They’ve just fouled up the mails. I don’t doubt she’s writing. 1949 A. I. Bezzerides Thieves’ Market 198: She’s always fouling us up. 1949 “R. MacDonald” Moving Target 82: I’m fouled up. Why should I foul you up? 1952 L. Uris Battle Cry 132 [refers to WWII]: You guys have been fouling up field problems like a Chinese firedrill. Reisch & Breen Niagara (film): It’ll be all right if I don’t foul it up. 1953 H. G. Felsen Street Rod 83: We’d clobber the first guy that fouled us up by racing or being reckless on the roads. 1955 J. McGovern Fräulein 170: You’re in charge here, and I never try to foul you up. 1957 A. Myrer Big War 150 [refers to WWII]: Somebody fouled up the detail, that’s for sure. 1958 W. B. Plageman Steel Cocoon 55: A guy like that is a jinx. He could foul us all up. Don’t you see that? Ibid. 165: He fouled it up!…We almost had it, just perfect, and he fouled it up! 1958 L. F. Cooley Run for Home 343: The sonuvabitch nearly fouled up the whole detail. 1966 Rose The Russians Are Coming! (film): You’re gonna foul up the whole detail! 1966 J. Christopher Little People 179: And you’re determined to foul it up if you can. 1971 N. Capaldi Art of Deception 95: He might easily fit both categories and hence foul up the classification again. 1971 K. W. Keith Long Line Rider 91: He put black pepper behin’ ’em to foul up the dogs. 1971 J. N. Rowe Five Years to Freedom 402: My screwed-up additions to the map had done some good, even if they hadn’t fouled Charlie up completely. 1989 C. Stoll Cuckoo’s Egg 275: By 11:30, I’d fouled up two programs—what had worked an hour ago wasn’t working now. 1996 K. Hafner & M. Lyon 181: To all but the initiated the scenarios book was fairly incomprehensible, and it was easy to foul up the system. 2001 J. Picoult Salem Falls 292: As laboratory technician, Arthur Quince had enough trouble trying to keep afloat at Duncan Pharmaceuticals without investigators coming along to foul up the rhythm of his day.

2. Originally Navy & U.S. Marine Corps. intransitive. to become confused, especially to blunder into or cause trouble; fail through confusion or ineptitude; go wrong or awry. [Frequently regarded as a euphemism for FUCK UP, definition 4.]

1944 New Yorker (May 6) 26: Look how we fouled up on maneuvers. 1946 S. Wilson Voyage to Somewhere 197: Pretty soon all the crew will know that to get a transfer, all they have to do is foul up. 1951 J. Kerouac On the Road: The Original Scroll (2007) 141: When Neal came out Justin gave him one more chance. But Neal fouled up again. 1954 E. Hunter Blackboard Jungle 27: They’d come to within a term of graduation, and they…didn’t want to get thrown out of school for fouling up at this late stage of the game. 1956 M. Wolff Big Nickelodeon 243: You fouled up and the old man came and took the kid. 1958 in R. Schwitzgebel Streetcorner Research 21: We want to know why kids foul up and why they do the other things they do. 1964 R. Newhafer Last Tallyho 135: If anything fouls up, he wants to be there. 1965 S. Linakis In Spring the War Ended 292: I don’t like to see a G.I. foul up. 1970 T. Thackrey Thief 295: Only my tipsters had fouled up again. 1978 J. Lee 13th Hour 21: If anything can foul up, it will. 1972–79 T. Wolfe Right Stuff 265: Please, dear God, don’t let me foul up. 1985 M. Atwood Handmaid’s Tale 176: The system had fouled up before, but a few phone calls usually straightened it out. 1992 Spectator (Dec. 19) 33/1: I couldn’t understand what he was saying, but I could see he was nervous. He fouled up several times, and each time he got more upset. 2004 I. Johansen Blind Alley 320: You shouldn’t forget. You fouled up.… Maybe you’ll learn something from it.

four Fs noun [partially punning on 4F, draft status for a person physically unfit to serve]

a motto for sexual behavior: “find ’em, fool ’em, fuck ’em, and forget ’em.” Also variants. Also as fuck ’em and forget ’em (with variants) without four Fs.

[1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse 29: No one ever got rich letting suckers keep their dough. My motto is “find them, fool them, and forget them!”] [1941 Macaulay & Wald Manpower (film): You’re talkin’ to the guy who finds ’em, feeds ’em and forgets ’em.] a1942 in A. B. Hollingshead Elmtown’s Youth 422: The five F’s —“find ’em, feed ’em, feel ’em, f—’em, forget ’em.” 1953 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark American Thesaurus of Slang (ed. 2) 325: The four F’s, high-pressure romancing—find ’em, fool ’em, frig ’em, and forget ’em. a1961 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 5) 1096: Four F method, the. This is the lower-deck’s allusive synonym (C.20) of its sexual motto, find, feel, f **k and forget, itself current since ca1890. 1965 Playboy (Nov.) 67: The Four F’s. 1966 S. Harris & L. Freeman Lords of Hell 30: What a sportsman mean when he say weaving the four F’s is—you got to find you chick and you got to fool her and you got to frig her and forget her! 1974 J. Lahr Hot to Trot 7: Melish, baby, the Four F’s are forever.… find ’em. Feel ’em. Fuck ’em. Forget ’em. 1978 S. Kopp End to Innocence 58: I aspired to the macho four Fs of my generation: find ’em, feel ’em, fuck ’em and forget ’em. 1978 W. Brown Tragic Magic 23: He could find them, fool them, feel them, fuck them, and forget them with exceptional agility. 1986 J. Ciardi Good Words 118: Find ’em, fool ’em, fuck ’em, and forget ’em.… I was first drilled to these orders in WWII and received them as essential GI pitch. 2006 L. Pitts Becoming Dad 196: Don’t let any one of them tie you down. Follow the “four F’s”: find ’em, feel ’em, fuck ’em, forget ’em.

fox noun

In phrase:

hotter than a fresh-fucked fox in a forest fire, extremely hot (in any sense). Jocular.

ca1950 in T. Atkinson Dirty Comics 197: Betty! This guy’s got me hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire. 1973 TULIPQ (coll. B.K. Dumas): Horny…Hotter than a fresh-fucked fox in a forest fire. 1974 E. Thompson Tattoo 264 [refers to 1940s]: It’s a bitch down there. Hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire. 1974 R. Blount 3 Bricks Shy 307: I’m hotter than a freshly fucked fox in a forest fire. 1977 S. Gaines Discotheque 268: It’s hotter in here than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire. 1980 J. Ciardi Browser’s Dictionary 41: Hot as a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire. 1988 D. Dye Outrage 125: Locker room wisdom held churchmen’s daughters were “hotter’n a freshly fucked fox in a forest fire.” 1997 E. Little Another Day in Paradise 14: The cops are looking all over for ya, you’re hotter than a freshly fucked fox in a forest fire. 2006 C. Grabenstein Slay Ride 313: These bastards are going to swing around and start shooting at you the second you pull in. It’ll be hotter than a fresh-fucked fox in a forest fire. Copy?

fox around verb

(used as a euphemism for FUCK AROUND, verb, sense 2).

1938 R. Chandler Big Sleep 108: So all you did was not report a murder that happened last night and then spend today foxing around so that this kid of Geiger’s could commit a second murder this evening. 1998 B. R. Johnson Woman Who Knew too Much 44: I saw him foxing around out there, messing with some kind of gizmo he had by the river behind his house.

frak

(a partial euphemism for) FUCK, in various senses and parts of speech. [Coined on, and chiefly associated with, the television show Battlestar Galactica. In the Original Series (1978), used exclusively as an interjection; in the Reimagined Series (2003–2009), used more broadly as a euphemism for many forms of FUCK, both figurative and literal. Spelled frack in Original Series scripts, frak in the Reimagined Series, apparently because the producers wanted it to literally be a four-letter word.]

1978 Ultimate Weapon (Battlestar Galactica shooting script) (Sept. 14 reshoot) 13: STARBUCK’S COCKPIT…He is furious. STARBUCK Frack! 1978 Galactica Terminology Sheet (Battlestar Galactica Writers Guide, Universal City Studios) (Oct. 2): Frack!—an expletive. 1978 Hand of God (Battlestar Galactica shooting script) (undated) 38: Starbuck turns to his right and we see a Cylon fighter fly past extremely close. STARBUCK Oh…frack! 2005 Hand of God in Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi Channel) (Mar. 11): We are well and truly frakked. 2006 Scar in Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi Channel) (Feb. 3): I guaran-frakkin-tee you, I will put you down this time for good. 2006 Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II in Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi Channel) (Mar. 10): You’re not still frakkin’ Dualla are ya? 2006 Entertainment Weekly (Sept. 29) 32: And it will be used to express rage after a high-ranking officer (nope, we ain’t tellin’) drives a pen into the neck of tortured traitor Gaius Baltar (James Callis) and screams “MOTHERFRAKKER!” 2007 Crossroads, Part I in Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi Channel) (Mar. 18): You know this game’s got frak-all to do with the real thing, right? 2009 Calgary Herald (Jan. 16) (Swerve section) 16: Be sure to take in the one-hour clip show that precedes the premiere for a refresher on what the frak is going on. Well, on most of what’s going on; after all, this is Lost and what fun would it be to have all the answers?

frap [formed from FRAPPING]

(used as a euphemism for FUCK in various senses and parts of speech).

1980 G. Benford Timescape 100: And frap, you should see the antiburglar network. 1992 C. Eble Campus Slang (Fall) 3: What the frap is going on? 1998 Washington Post (Apr. 29) D4: “Frap,” a way to curse without cursing (“Boy, I really frapped that up.”). Ibid. Off-brand frap…“a lame girl.” 2007 W. B. Scott et al. Space Wars 38: She and her boss didn’t give a flyin’ frap about space.

frapping adjective

Military. (a partial euphemism for) FUCKING, adjective.

1968 W.C. Anderson Gooney Bird 76: We’ll let a whole frapping regiment get away before we’ll risk hitting one old lady in sneakers. 1970 N.Y. Times (Apr. 19) 1: And finally in desperation: “What’s the frappin’ altitude?” 1972 W.C. Anderson Hurricane 196: And the poor frapping navy! 1973 M. Collins Carrying the Fire 334: Yeah, but the frapping thing bombed out again. 1989 M. Berent Rolling Thunder 133: That frapping Dash-K is shooting out our cover by the frapping roots. 1991 Soldier of Fortune (Dec.) 48/1: I need a frapping medic like I need a hole in the head. 1994 J. Lovell & J. Kluger Apollo 13 vi. 167: “What’s the frappin’ attitude?” Lovell asked. 2007 K. W. Fields Rescue of Streetcar 304 148: “I’m still alive, you frapping mothers,” I mumbled out loud. I felt macho, but thought, this is not real. It’s too much like a frapping movie.

freaking adjective & adverb

(a partial euphemism for) FUCKING, adjective & adverb.

1928 M. Bodenheim Georgie May 9: Oh yuh cain’t catch o-on to thuh freakin’ Mistah Stave an’ Chain. Ibid. 70: Ah hate the hull, freaking pack uh you. 1955 Harper’s (Mar.) 35: Open the Freaking Door, Joe. 1961 G. Garrett Which Ones Are the Enemy 16: Not freaking likely. 1965 R. Hardman Chaplains Raid 1: A great big freaking disaster! 1972 C. Gaines Stay Hungry 152: He’s freaking Superman is who he is. 1972–76 C. Durden No Bugles, No Drums 9: It’s too freakin’ late now. 1978 W. Wharton Birdy 276: It’s like my freaking body has some kind of controls all its own. 1972–79 T. Wolfe Right Stuff 6: It was a struggle to move twenty feet in this freaking muck. 1982 Flash (Dec.) 10: Have you gone freakin’ bananas? 1989 U.S. Navy officers, on Prime News (CNN-TV) (Jan. 5): “He’s got a missile off!” “Freakin’ right!” 1998 Esquire (Mar.) 148: Enough already with all the theory and dice games and analysts. Let’s buy some freakin’ stocks. 2005 GQ (Sept.) 196/3: You will be a guinea pig, but you will freaking love it.

frell

(a partial euphemism for) FUCK, in various senses and parts of speech. [Coined on, and chiefly associated with, the television show Farscape.]

1999 Farscape (Sci Fi Channel) (June 18): John: Well, gotta give me a clue here, Aeryn. Is this something new, or is this just your usual PMS, Peacekeeper military sh—Aeryn: Frell you. 2000 Farscape (Sci Fi Channel) (Aug. 4): Dregon: Because of all the days before it hurts. The good days when you’re in love. It’s too bad you can’t get back to at least tell Crichton how you feel. Aeryn: What difference would it make? He’s a frelling statue. Dregon: But he can hear, he can see, he’ll know Aeryn, at least he’ll know. 2001 Farscape (Sci Fi Channel) (Mar. 23): Work, frell you, work! Ibid. Frell me dead. 2002 TV Zone (No. 157) 82/1: If networks want to frell with the fans, then so be it. Let them continue to make mind-numbing drivel of TV shows like daily Soap Operas where the dumb and dumber will continue to tune in to watch absolutely no character development or true emotions. 2003 Farscape (Sci Fi Channel) (Feb. 28): Taken her back to my ship, frelled her, and made babies. 2003 Horn Book Mag. (July/Aug.) 503: We worked our frelling tails off for a whole year. 2003 Farscape (Sci Fi Channel) (Mar. 14): “You are so self-righteous! I have used all my skills, all my resources, for one perfect chance at peace. And because of you, it is gone! And I am…” “Frelled. Screwed. Raped.”

French fuck noun

an act of rubbing the penis between a woman’s breasts. Also as verb. Compare TIT-FUCK.

1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 22: French Fuck. n. A form of sexual activity in which the male sits astride the recumbent female and achieves sexual orgasm by rubbing his penis between her breasts, while concomitantly effecting her orgasm by digital stimulation of her vaginal area. Br. & U.S., C. 19-20. 1974 U.S. graduate student: A…French fuck is when you rub your dick between her breasts. It’s also called a muscle fuck. [Heard in Arkansas, ca1970.] 1997 Jacob’s Paradise (FFF, FFFM, teen) on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories (May 3): Jake decided he wanted to suck Amy’s huge tits. He did this for about 5 minutes, until they were both aroused again, then he started to French fuck her while he fingerfucked her cunt.

frick

(a partial euphemism for) FUCK in various senses and parts of speech, esp. as fricking adjective.

1936 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English 982: Fricking. A s. euphemism for f**king, adj.: C.20 On or ex frigging, adj. 1942 J. Aldridge Signed with Their Honor 234: I wonder where those frickin’ Jerries are. 1952 M. Cooper Sironia, Texas II. 1391: If you ever so much as thinks ’bout tellin’ dat frickin’ Night Chief anything, you goner get such a bust in de mouf my fist’ll end up in yo’ stummuck. 1967 W. Crawford Gresham’s War 125: “And meantime?” “Frick the dog, I reckon.” 1970 New York Magazine (Mar. 30) 32/2: “Frickin’ kids.… Those frickin’ kids.” Frank never swears. 1970 in P. Heller In This Corner 237: That fricking bum. 1976 C. Rosen Mile Above the Rim 40: Jesus H. Keerist! What a fricken ball club! 1977 N. Dowd Slap Shot (film): Grab your frickin’ gear and get goin’. 1986 L.A. Law (NBC-TV): You got a problem with that, you go live in the frickin’ Soviet Union! 1987 U.S. college professor, age ca65: In Albany [N.Y., ca1934] we used frick-in’ a lot. Certainly more than friggin’: “That frickin’ son of a bitch!” 1988 J. F. Powers Wheat that Springeth Green 234: Well, I’ll be fricked. 1989 CBS Summer Playhouse (CBS-TV): Who do you think you are? Attila the Hun? Jack the fricking Ripper? 1989 21 Jump St. (Fox-TV): Absofrickin’lutely! We’re talking total obliteration. 1992 N. Baker Vox 56: I get so fricking horny. 1998 Sick Puppy Comix (Sydney, Australia) (No. 7) 2: Maybe things will change now that I’ve got this frickin’ hi-tech e-mail address. 2001 New York Magazine (Apr. 2) 15/4: One hundred thousand [New Yorkers] are waiting for some snotty salesgirl in Bergdorf’s, 100,000 are on hold with NYNEX, or Verizon or AT&T or Lucent or whatever the frick the company is called now,…and the rest are stuck in traffic. 2001 FHM (Feb.) 120/1: [“]In American Pie, you utter the infamous line, “One time at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy!”—were you embarrassed at all at saying it?[”] [“]God no! I fricking loved that script as soon as I got it.[”] 2004 N. Flynn Another Bullshit Night in Suck City iii. 205: By morning it all will be gone—no inside no outside, no cardboard box no mansion, no birth no death, no container no contained, a Zen koan, a frikkin riddle. 2009 Scrubs (ABC-TV) (Feb. 3): “You know what? Frick them!” “Frick them? I’m one of them!” “But they’re acting like a bunch of frick-heads. Sorry about all the f-bombs.”

frig noun

1. an instance of masturbation.

1786 R. Burns in J. S. Farmer Merry Songs IV 282: Defrauds her wi’ a frig or dry-bob. ca1890 My Secret Life V. viii. 171: I pulled out my prick and with two or three frigs spent in a spasm of pain and pleasure. ca1890 My Secret Life XI. xi.: A frig in a summer house. A frig in a grotto.

2. an act of copulation.

1888 Stag Party 62: What is the difference between a flag and a frig? One is bunting, the other is cunting. 1927 Immortalia 44: ’Twas a frig to a finish.

3. a damn; FUCK, noun, definition 3a.

1954–55 M. McCarthy Charmed Life 66: This is ridiculous.… I don’t give a frig about Sinnot’s heredity. 1968 A. Myrer Eagle 61: Ain’t worth a frig. 1988 J. Collins Rock Star 328: I don’t give a frig. 2002 J. McGahern That They May Face Rising Sun (2003) 119: “If the thing was to break down now we’d be able to get up what’s left with the forks.” “What about my poor meadows?” “You wouldn’t care a frig.”

4. (a partial euphemism for) the fuck definition 1, under FUCK, noun.

1944 A. Kapelner Lonely Boy Blues 91: And who the frig is Sam Duncan? 1948 I. Wolfert Act of Love 239: Here the frig we go again. 1964 C. Howe Valley of Fire 98: Leave him the frig alone. 1978 R. De Christoforo Grease 96: And who the frig are you? 1997 A. Khan-Din East is East (rev. ed.) ii. v. 71: Who the frig do you think you are coming in here telling me my house isn’t good enough for your daughters.

frig verb

1. [a specialization of the obsolete Standard English sense ‘to rub or chafe’] to masturbate.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 139/1: Fricciare…to frig, to wriggle, to tickle. ca1650 in J. Wardroper Love & Drollery (1969) 197: And lest her sire should not thrust home/She frigged her father in her mother’s womb. 1680 Lord Rochester in Oxford English Dictionary Supp.: Poor pensive lover, in this place, Would Frigg upon his Mothers Face. ca1684 in Ash-bee Biblio. II 333: All the rest pull out their dildoes and frigg in point of honour. ca1730 in E. J. Burford Bawdy Verse (1983) 254: You know, at fifty-five,/A man can only frigg her! 1734 in G. Legman No Laughing Matter (1975) III 18: Assembled, and Frigged upon the Test Platter. ca1716–46 in J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues III 74: So to a House of office…a School-Boy does repair, To…fr— his P— there. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: To frig. To be guilty of the crime of self-pollution. 1835 in J. E. Valle Rocks & Shoals (1980) 167: Question. Did you ever frig Lt. Burns? A. Yes— Q. How often? A. five or six times. 1865 Capt. E. Sellon New Epicurean 13: I frigged and kissed their fragrant cunnies. ca1866 Romance of Lust 27: Fortunately, I had never frigged myself. 1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 29: Better frig, howe’er the mind it shocks,/Than from promiscuous fucking catch the pox. 1909 J. Joyce in Selected Letters 182: You… frigged me slowly till I came off through your fingers. 1940 J. Del Torto Graffiti Transcript (Kinsey Institute): My finger against his asshole.… I pushed it up and began to frig him. 1957 A. Myrer Big War 361 [refers to WWII]: There’ll be no friggin’ in the riggin’…and no poopin’ on the poop-deck. 1968 “A. D’Arcangelo” Homosexual Handbook 209: While you’re approaching from the rear, you can reach around and frig her clitoris with a free hand. 1970 Peters Sex Newspapers 4: I began frigging myself even harder. 2002 R. Williams Sing yer Heart out for Lads ii. 65: Barry I’d give Posh Spice a fucking good seeing to I would. Fuck her till she screams. I’d strip off all her clothes, her damp and sticky knickers, I’d lay her down on the floor, frig her pussy with my finger, rubbing away at her clit, till she had an orgasm. Then I’d give her a fuck, long lingering fuck.

2.a. to copulate; (hence) to copulate with. [The earliest quotations—variants of the same ribald song—involve word play on the obsolete Standard English sense ‘to move about restlessly; wiggle’, and suggest that the current sense arose as a euphemism; note that as early as ca1650 the word seems to have been regarded as coarse and to be avoided.]

ca1610 in E. J. Burford Bawdy Verse (1983) 65: Faine woulde I try how I could frig/Up and downe, up and downe, up and downe,/Fain would I try how I could Caper. ca1650 in J. Wardroper Love & Drollery (1969) 186: Fain would I go both up and down…/No child is fonder of the gig/Than I to dance a merry jig./Fain would I try how I could —. ca1684 in H. N. Cary Sexual Vocabulary II: You frigg as though you were afraid to hurt. 1865 Capt. E. Sellon New Epicurean 19: I had flung her on her back on the hay and was frigging away at her maidenhead. 1888 Stag Party 71: Why is the firing of an outhouse like flies frigging? It is arson on a small scale. ca1889 E. Field Boastful Yak: She would have been frigged, but he reneagued. 1918–19 in M. B. Carey, Jr. Mlle. from Armentières II (unpaged): The first Division is having a time,/Frigging the Fraus along the Rhine. 1916–22 H. N. Cary Sexual Vocabulary I under copulation: Frigging like a mink. To perform with vigor. frigging like a rabbit. To have great capacity. 1922 H.L. Mencken in T. P. Riggio Dreiser-Mencken Letters II 463: But frigging, as you must know, is invariably unlawful, save under ecclesiastical permit. 1922 T. E. Lawrence The Mint (1955) 155: [It sounded] like a pack of skeletons frigging on a tin roof. 1927 in E. Wilson Twenties 413: Story about the fellow whose girl kept on eatin’ an apple all the time he was friggin’ her. 1927 Immortalia 32: The Khan would rather frig than fight. 1930 Lyra Ebriosa 12: We’ll go over and do some friggin’;/Dollar and a half will pay your fee. 1934 in V. Randolph Pissing in Snow 88: She was better frigging than the other girl, so he diddled her twice. 1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 23: Frig (Frick). v. To copulate with.… Often used as euphemistic expletive for the phrase “Fuck it!” 1942 W. L. McAtee Supplement to Grant Co. 4 [refers to 1890s]: Frig, v., copulate. 1942 in G. Legman Limerick (1954) 18: A young wife…/Preferred frigging to going to mass. 1944 in P. Smith Letters from Father 426: He would “frig” her himself. 1951 W. Styron Lie down in Darkness (1992) vii. 389: Christine say she want to frig wid me. 1969 R. Jessup Sailor 6: Better than you, letting him come up here while I’m at work and frigging from morning til night, probably. 1998 S. Waters Tipping Velvet xii. 267: I had not fucked her, we had not frigged.

b. (used as an expletive); “screw”; to hell with; (hence) to disregard utterly. [Frequently regarded as a partial euphemism for FUCK, verb, definition 2a.]

1879 Pearl 103: Two prisoners were brought in.… The Sergeant requested orders regarding them. The Major merrily answered: “Oh, take them away and frig them!” 1905 in J. Joyce Letters II. 104: Cosgrave says it’s unfair for you to frig the one idea about love which he had before he met you, and say “You have educated him too much.” 1929–35 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day 629: Phrigg you, Catherine! 1936 S. Kingsley Dead End 691: Spit. Frig you! Drina…I’ll crack you…you talk like that! 1938 J. O’Hara Hope of Heaven 131: Frig dat. 1940 L. Zinberg Walk Hard, Talk Loud 133: Aw, frig it, if I hadn’t been expecting a fight…it wouldn’t of happened. 1946 W. L. Gresham Nightmare Alley 20: Frig him, the Bible-spouting bastard. 1948 I. Wolfert Act of Love 155: Frig them. Ibid. 399: The Navy was still saying, Frig you Joe, I’m okay. 1949 A. I. Bezzerides Thieves’ Market 23: Frig Mom, let her try to stop me. 1953 W. Manchester City of Anger 116: Frig trouble, I always say. Better frig it before it frigs you. 1956 G. Metalious Peyton Place 358: “Frig you,” said Kenny hostilely. 1965 C. Himes Cotton comes to Harlem (1988) xiv. 98: Deke looked up at him as though from a great distance. He looked as though he didn’t care about anything any more. “Frig you,” he said. 1970 M. Gattzden Black Vendetta 102: Let’s frig it. 1980 J. McA-leer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 96: Frig ’em all and their mothers too. All but six and leave them for pallbearers. 1982 P. Redmond Brookside ((Mersey TV transmission script) Episode 6.) 21: Bongo. We could always go down town. Ducksie. Frig that. Too bleedin’ cold. 1992 J. Cartwright Rise & Fall of Little Voice i. 9: When am I this morning, the Okay Corral or what? Frig me. Don’t put loads of bloody sugar in yours an all.

c. to cheat. [Frequently regarded as a partial euphemism for FUCK, verb, definition 4a.]

[ca1684 in Ashbee Biblio. II 339: I’ll then invade and bugger all the Gods/And drain the spring of their immortal cods,/Then make them rub their arses till they cry,/You’ve frigged us out of immortality.] 1928 American Speech III (Feb.) 219: Frig. To trick, to take advantage of. “They frigged me out of the last bottle of Scotch!” 1935 J. Conroy World to Win 209: They’ll frig themselves and ever’body else out of a job. 1945 in S. J. Perelman Don’t Tread on Me 60: I don’t use a literary agent, but I probably should, because I have been frigged time and again by publishers. 1952 H. Grey Hoods 88: He’s the kind of guy who talks through both sides of his mouth and whistles “I frig you truly.”

3. to trifle or fool about.—used with with, about, or around. [Frequently regarded as a partial euphemism for FUCK, verb, definition 5.]

1785 F. Grose Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: To frig.… Frigging is also used figuratively for trifling. 1811 in F. W. Howay Voyage of the New Hazard (1938) 15: Staying jib-boom; loosing and handing sails over; getting boat on the quarter and frigging about all the afternoon. ca1900 in English Dialect Dictionary: I can do nothing while you keep frigging about. 1928 C. McKay Banjo 241: Don’t think I like frigging round officials. I hate it. 1930 T. Fredenburgh Soldiers March! 151 [refers to 1918]: What the hell do you want, frigging around that echelon? 1933 J. Masefield Conway 211 [refers to 1891]: Frig about, to fool around. 1940 E. Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls 272: We do not let the gypsy nor others frig with it. 1946 J. H. Burns Gallery 301: Untying his shoelaces and frigging with the buckles on his boots. 1949 H. Ellson Tomboy 127: Do you let any punk in the mob frig around with you? 1952 H. Grey Hoods 225: No friggin’ around. 1954 B. Schulberg On the Waterfront 11: I worked too hard for what I got to frig around with a cheese-eater. Know what I mean? 1961 A. J. Roth Shame of Wounds 34: Now if you was in my gang, we’d fix Nolan for you. He don’t frig around with none of us. 1962 R. Dougherty Commissioner 187: You go in there—no friggin’ around. 1975 J. Gould Maine Lingo 102: Frig. A word with four-letter nuance almost everywhere except Maine. Here, it means fiddle around, dawdle, fidget, fuss, fondle idly, putter. A Maine lady of unimpeachable gentility once described her late husband as nervous and ill at ease in public, and said he would sit “frigging with his necktie.” 1988 M. Bail Holden’s Performance 113: You can’t frig around with nature. 2001 A. Wheatle East of Acre Lane 4: Don’t frig about, Chaks, you’ll get de t’ings back, no worries.

In phrase:

go frig [yourself]! get away! go to hell!

1936 S. Kingsley Dead End 726: Ah, go frig! 1946 W. L. Gresham Nightmare Alley 47: Go frig a rubber duck. 1951 W. J. Sheldon Troubling of a Star 20: Tell the bastard to go frig himself. 1961 A. J. Roth Shame of Wounds 213: They stared at each other for several seconds. Then Red lowered his eyes and muttered uneasily. “Aw, go frig yourself.” 1984 T. Robbins Jitterbug Perfume 48: You have strayed from your kingdom, Your Majesty. I am not subject to your authority. In fact, go frig yourself. 2000 J. Brady Marines of Autumn 200: Izzo told them to go frig themselves.

frigger noun

1. a person who frigs.

1659 G. Torriano Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese: Frugatoio…a frigger, a clown, a wriggler up and down. 1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 12: Such cheek from a half-hung selfish frigger. ca1890 My Secret Life VIII. ix.: She was a wonderful frigger.—Her masturbation was most delicate and fetching (some women never can frig).

2. (a partial euphemism for) FUCKER, definition 2.

1953 W. Manchester City of Anger 145: That bastard… that no good frigger. 1989 Viz (Oct.–Nov.) 24/2 (in cartoon): Fuck! It’s deed! Hey! It is n’all! Eh? It was alreet when I wrapped the frigger up this mornin’. 2002 J. McGahern That They May Face Rising Sun (2003) 260: Don’t be standing up for him, Kate.… Give him an inch and the frigger will build nests in your ears.

frigging adjective & adverb

contemptible or despicable; damned; (often used with reduced force for emphasis). Also as infix. [Perhaps originally derived from literal phrases such as frigging youngster, frigging madman, etc., used opprobriously; now usually regarded as a partial euphemism for FUCKING.]

a1890–93 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues III 74: Frigging…Adj. and adv. (vulgar).—An expletive of intensification. Thus frigging bad—“bloody” bad; a frigging idiot—an absolute fool. 1929–30 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 55: If people only realized how friggin’ easy it would be. Ibid. 89: I told ’em I was a friggin’ bookagent to get into the damn town. 1943 in P. Smith Letters from Father 332: It was a “friggen” swell party. 1944 F. Wakeman Shore Leave 10: It took me three more weeks to get off that frigging island. 1947 W. Motley Knock on Any Door 194: I’m no friggin’ good. 1948 I. Wolfert Act of Love 136: On your feet, you friggin’ volunteers. 1949 A. I. Bezzerides Thieves’ Market 3: You’re frigging right, Pa. 1947–52 R. Ellison Invisible Man 192: A frigging eight-day wonder. 1954 F. I. Gwaltney Heaven & Hell 264 [refers to WWII]: That would be oh-friggen-kay with me. 1956 G. Metalious Peyton Place 93: Where’s the friggin’ bottle? 1957 Mayfield Hit 89: “Is he the only one who can drive this friggin’ car?” squealed Frank. 1968 P. Larkin Letter (Aug. 19) in A. Thwaite Selected Letters of Philip Larkin (1992) 403: Your whacking great book on Stalin’s purges came this afternoon; I began putting my nose in it as a change from writing my frigging annual report. 1974 M. Cherry On High Steel 160: So friggin’ what? 1980 J. Carroll Land of Laughs 22: I got the friggin’ renewal already. 1986 Newsweek (Jul. 28) 26: I said, “Give me a break, this ain’t no frigging war.” 1989 Tour of Duty (CBS-TV): There ain’t no friggin’ justice! 1991 R. Marcinko & J. Weisman Rogue Warrior 63: I don’t frigging believe it. 1992 N. Cohn Heart of World 9: Straight off the friggin’ boats. 1995 C. D. Short Shining Shining Path iii. 57: The wonderful weather was holding and every single aspect was going so ab, so, frigging, lutely, perfect. 2001 C. Palahniuk Choke ii. 12: All these people you think are a big joke. Go ahead and frigging laugh your frigging head off.

frigging-A interjection

(a partial euphemism for) FUCKING-A.

1966 J. Kerouac in Evergreen Review X. 84/2: I heard somebody say to another guy :- “Le roi n’est pas amusez.” (The king is not amused.) (“You frigging A!” I shoulda yelled out the window.) 1971 Jacobs & Casey Grease 13: DANNY. Is that all you ever think about, Sonny? SONNY.… Friggin’-A! 1973 W. Crawford Stryker 41: You’re friggin-A-well right I would have. 1979 W. P. McGivern Soldiers of ’44 139 [refers to WWII]: “So you know what I’m thinking.”…“Frigging A.” 1984 in W. Safire You Could Look It Up 120: A euphemism from my adolescence, like “Friggin’-A, I’m going.” 1992 C. Sellers World Ablaze 149: “Frigging-A right!” Sloan yelled, and stood up to empty his clip at the enemy’s flank.

frig off verb

1. to masturbate to orgasm.

1909 J. Joyce in Selected Letters 191: Do you frig yourself off first? 1955 “Thirty-Five” The Argot: Frig up To mess up (euphemism).… In literal sense, to frig oneself off, to masturbate. 1979 American Speech LI 22 [refers to ca1950]: Frig and frig off.

2. to go away; go to hell.—used imperatively. [Regarded as a partial euphemism for FUCK OFF, definition 1.]

1961 A.J. Roth Shame of Wounds 141: “Go on, frig off,” Red’s scowl dared him. “See how far you get by yourself.” 1965 in Oxford English Dictionary Supp.: “Frig off,” he said, swinging towards the door.

frig-up noun

(a partial euphemism for) FUCK-UP, definitions 1 & 2.

1941 S. J. Baker Dict. Australian Slang 30: Frigg-up, a confusion, muddle. 1948 I. Shaw Young Lions 542: You’re the frig-ups of the Army. 1954 F. I. Gwaltney Heaven & Hell 15 [refers to WWII]: Hell no! I ain’t no frigup. Ibid. 18: They’re frigups, sure, but they ain’t jailbirds. 1992 J. Cartwright Rise & Fall of Little Voice 45: I’ve just been involved with the worst…frig-up in Mari’s history.

frig up verb

1. (a partial euphemism for) FUCK UP, definition 1.

1933 in J. Dos Passos 14th Chronicle 428: All my plans for work are frigged up for fair, too. 1937 J. Weidman I Can Get It for You Wholesale 60: Something’s frigged up around here! 1942 S.J. Baker Australian Language 267: It is common in English for up to be added in a verbal sense, thus mess up, rust up, knock up, and even for certain nounal forms to emerge.… Thus we have…frigg-up or muck-up, a confusion, a row or argument.] 1954 F.I. Gwaltney Heaven & Hell 26: When they frigup [sic] here, they ain’t no place to send ’em except home in a box. a1966 S.J. Baker Australian Language (ed. 2) 217: Frig up, to mar. 1985 L. Choyce Why I Live Where I Live in Avalanche Ocean (1987) iii. viii. 166: The warm weather had frigged up any possibility of decent snowmobiling. 1992 S. King Dolores Claiborne 62: The person in charge isn’t there to frig it up.

2. (a partial euphemism for) FUCK UP, definition 2a.

1948 I. Shaw Young Lions 595: Every day they bury a thousand like you, and the guys like me, who never frigged up, go over the lists and send up a thousand more. 1953 “F. Paley” Rumble on the Docks 257: The Stompers are saying that only a Digger could frig up like that. a1981 in S. King Bachman 470: No, I frigged up. 2001 L.E. Modesitt Octagonal Raven 463: You’ve frigged up bad.

fsck [after fsck, the name of a command on the Unix operating system that checks and repairs disk errors, from file system check]

Computing. (a partial euphemism for) FUCK, in various senses and parts of speech.

1992 Re: IIGS RGB Out of Focus on Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.apple2 (Apr. 3): Caveat: I learned about fscking around inside equipment like this (high voltage) as a kid, from my dad.… You can easily kill yourself, even with the power cord unplugged. 1992 Re: Pickup Lines on Usenet newsgroup soc.singles (July 12): Wanna fsck? 1995 Re: Slight flame from Linux user on Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc (June 7): Now what the fsck am I meant to do? 2006 Around The Water Cooler: Best comment thread roundup on Lifehacker (online) (Dec. 11): Okay, that right there is fscking HOT.

FTA interjection

Army. “fuck the Army.”

1958 “D. Harde” Lusty Limericks 44: Marching Song of the F.T.A. (Fuck The Army). 1963 T. Doulis Path for our Valor 32: “And what does FTA stand for, Specialist?”…“Sir…excuse me.… The initials stand for Fuck the Army.” 1969 N.Y. Times Magazine (May 18) 122: Some of the blacks gave the closed-fist militant salute and several soldiers shouted “F.T.A.”—initials which recruiting sergeants insist stand for “Fun, Travel, and Adventure” but which most soldiers recognize as a suggestion of what should be done to the Army. 1970 W. Just Military Men 67: The slogan is F.T.A., which means Fuck the Army. 1984 R. Riggan Free Fire Zone 109: New helmet covers with none of that FTA stuff written in ballpoint pen on them. 1989 D. Hackworth & J. Sherman About Face xix. 656: One of the RTOs in Slater’s Operations shop had the letters “FTA” printed boldly on his helmet cover in two-inch-high letters. a2007 S. Estes Ask & Tell v. 144: There was this whole bad attitude thing about the military, you know, “FTA: Fuck the Army.” Scratch it on the walls, write it on the latrines, FTA, FTA, FTA.

FTL interjection

“fuck the law.”

1992 New Yorker (May 18) 28: The graffiti on the walls everywhere said “F.T.L.”—I was told that it stood for “Fuck the Law.” 1995 H. Rawson Dictionary of Euphemisms (rev. ed.) 157: Kids still write “FTL” on walls instead of “Fuck The Law.” 1996 M. B. Hunt Sociolinguistics of Tagging & Chicano Gang Graffiti (Ph.D. Diss., Univ. Southern California) 94: FTL—Fuck the Law.

FTN interjection

Navy. “fuck the Navy.”

1982 F. Mosco Whitemoon Crisis (2004) 47: Says right there under the anchor, FTN. That means, Fuck the Navy. 1992 M. Sprouse Sabotage in American Workplace 74: One guy was constantly harassed and attacked, especially after he carved FTN (fuck the Navy) in his forearm. 2004 C. Burke Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight 245: FTN: fuck the Navy (an FTN space is a small space in a ship where a sailor can hide from officers).

FTW interjection

“fuck the world.”

1968 Psychiatry & Social Science Review II. 16: Fuck the world (FTW) is their motto and that they have done since their California founding in the early 1950’s. 1972 R.A. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 113: F.T.W. A slogan of Hell’s Angels…meaning fuck the world. 1981 Easyriders (Oct.) 68: F.T.W. 1991 D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland iii. 67: Joe grabs my arm and draws a tattoo: an iron cross with a snake in the center in purple felt pen; “F.T.W.” on the top, “M.O.D.” on the bottom. He explains as he retraces his artwork on my arm. “Fuck the World” and “Method of Destruction.” 1995 S. Moore In the Cut 111: I saw the letters FTW tattooed crudely on the boy’s arm. 2004 J. Meno Hairstyles of Damned 203: They were your typical stoners, one with a black baseball bat that read “F.T.W.”—which stood for Fuck the World.

fubar adjective [“fucked up beyond all recognition”; suggested by SNAFU, definition 1]

1. Originally Military. thoroughly botched or confused. Also fubar’d. Occasionally as noun. Jocular.

1944 Yank (Jan. 7) 8: The FUBAR Squadron.… FUBAR? It means “Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition.” 1944 Newsweek (Feb. 7) 61: Recent additions to the ever-changing lexicon of the armed services: Fubar. Fouled up beyond all recognition. 1944 in R. L. Tobin Invasion Journal 48: The Italian campaign was SNAFU for so long.… SNAFU… means, Situation Normal All Fouled Up—with, of course, an unprintable variation in the most common use.… To be FUBAR is much worse. It means Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition. 1952 L. Uris Battle Cry 114: Fubar on the nets and you can louse up an entire landing team. Ibid. 300: A full-scale fubar’d mess. 1957 A. Myrer Big War 119: What’s to this yarn about you being a fubar character from the word advance? 1972 B. Davidson Cut Off 30 [refers to WWII]: An even stronger superlative was Fubar—Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. 1982 Daily Beacon (univ. newspaper) (Feb. 3) 2: Move it, fubar! 1987 Daily Beacon (univ. newspaper) (Apr. 9) 4: I already have a name picked out for my license plate.… “FUBAR.” figure it out for yourself. [Hint]…beyond all repair. 1990 E. W. Rukuza West Coast Turnaround 196: And the situation? FUBAR.

2. thoroughly intoxicated.

1985 U.S. college student: Fubar means drunk. Like, “Man, I was fubar last night.” 1990 J. Sanders Cal Poly Slang 4: Fubar—intoxicated beyond all recognition. [Example:] I was so fubar I couldn’t find my date to take her home. 1991 C. Eble Campus Slang (Fall) 2: Fubar—very drunk. 1998 Canberra Times (Australia) (May 30) A2: Many terms [for drunkenness] are insults—“full as a tick” and the acronym FUBAR, “fouled up beyond all recognition.”

fubar verb

to ruin; botch; SNAFU, verb.

1946 “J. MacDougal” in Astounding Science Fiction (Oct.) 55/1: Well, there are a lot of minor ones, which must have fubared things in all directions once Co-ordination accepted them. 1953 L. M. Uris Battle Cry 114: Fubar on the nets and you can louse up an entire landing team. 1995 N. Stephenson Diamond Age 147: Financial transactions could no longer be monitored by governments, and the tax collection systems got fubared. 2001 O. West Sharkman Six xxii. 271: Nothing—not these fubared rules, this fubared country, or even the ambush—excuses Armstrong.

FUBB adjective [suggested by FUBAR]

Originally Military. “ fucked up beyond belief.” Jocular. [In 2000 quote, as noun.]

1952 Time (Aug. 18) 6: Snafu and cummfu are a bit old hat in Washington, along with tarfu (“things are really”), fubar (“beyond all realization”), fubb (“beyond belief “). 1979 J. Homer Jargon 162. 1984 K. Weaver Texas Crude 40: F.U.B.B.… Fucked Up Beyond Belief. 2000 P. Morgan Parrot’s Beak 143: In Vietnam, we called it a FUBB, fucked up beyond belief.

FUBIO interjection

Military. “fuck you, bub, it’s over.” Jocular.

1946 American Speech (Feb.) 72: The final word came after V-J day, FUBIO. Its description of the post-war attitude…meant “F—You, Bub, It’s Over.”

FUBIS or FYBIS interjection

Army. “ fuck you, buddy, I’m shipping out (or short).” Compare FIGMO.

1967 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang (supplement) 685: Fubis…Fuck you, buddy, I’m shipping (out). Army use since c1960. 2007 L. Bucher Sea Stories 331: My own simple design consisted only of large, fat letters: FYBIS (Fuck You, Buddy, I’m Short).

fuck noun [see etymology and note at the verb]

1. a. an act of copulation.

1663 R. Head Hic et Ubique I. vi. 18: I did creep in…and there I did see putting [sic] the great fuck upon my weef. 1676 Lampoon in G. Williams Dict. Sexual Language & Imagery in Shakespearean & Stuart Literature (1994) I. 563: Her wider cunt did gape/For a more substantial fuck. 1680 Lord Rochester Poems 37: Thus was I Rook’d of Twelve substantial Fucks. 1763 in J. Atkins Sex in Literature IV 154: Then just a few good fucks, and then we die. a1850 in H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I 91: Well mounted on a mettled steed,/Famed for his strength as well as speed,/Corinna and her favorite buck/Are please’d to have a flying f—k. 1865 “Philocomus” Love Feast vi. 59: Whoever thought ’twould be my luck/To get from my own sex a fuck. ca1866 Romance of Lust 35: I wished to quietly enjoy a fuck. 1867 in A. Doten Journals II 949 [in cipher]: Me & my love have had this far just one hundred good square fucks together. 1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 28: Now we can do no better I’ll be bound,/Than to celebrate our joy with fucks all round. 1879 Pearl 127: Oh! What a nice fuck! 1888 Stag Party 42: Adonis…gave her a most systematical fuck. 1899 Memoirs of Dolly Morton 249: Here goes for the fust fuck. 1923 Poems, Ballads, & Parodies 22: He was working like a son of a bitch/To get another fuck. 1928 in A. W. Read Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy (1935) 55: Me and my wife had a fuck. 1934 “J. M. Hall” Anecdota Americana (Second series) 26: Every time you threw a fuck into me I put a penny in the bank. 1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 78: He has absolutely no ambition except to get a fuck every night. 1938 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 104: Into each…one…I throw an imaginary fuck. 1940 Ramirez v. State [of Arizona], in Pacific Reporter, 2d Series CIII 461: While she was in bed asleep the defendant entered her room, grabbed her by the throat… he stood at the head of her bed and when she awoke made this statement to her: “Gonna throw a fuck into you”; that he did not say, “I’m going to” but just “gonna”; that after telling her this he loosened his grip somewhat and kissed her. 1947 C. Willingham End as a Man 240: A fuck for a buck. 1956 J. Cheever in Letters (1988) 178: You’ve just talked yourself out of a fuck. 1971 Go Ask Alice 117: All I needed was a good fuck. 1987 K. Lette Girls’ Night Out (1989) 99: There aren’t many things that beat getting your best friend arrested. One is losing a limb down the food disposal unit. Another is remembering in the middle of a fuck that you’ve still got a tampon in. 1990 L.B. Rubin Erotic Wars 75: All she wanted was “a good clean fuck.” 1997 GQ (Mar.) 166: Good cry, good hug, one last fuck for old times’ sake. 2006 L. Douglas Catastrophist 263: “So why did you stop after only two fucks? Well?” “I don’t know. It just seemed enough.”

b. as a mass noun: copulation.

ca1675 in R. Thompson Unfit for Modest Ears 49: If guifted Men before now sweare and Rant/(Then surely I for Fuck may Cant). 1687 Last Night’s Ramble in G. Williams Dict. Sexual Language & Imagery in Shakespearean & Stuart Literature (1994) I. 563: Half Ten Guineas spent in wine and F—k. 1689 Satire on Benting in G. Williams Dict. Sexual Language & Imagery in Shakespearean & Stuart Literature (1994) I. 563: She wanted fuck in her old age. a1720 in T. D’Urfey Pills VI 266: She’d dance and she’d caper as wild as a Buck,/And told Tom the Tinker, she would have some —. 1860 in M. E. Neely Lincoln Encyclopedia (1984) 155: When Douglas found his chances were scarcely worth a shuck/He bade his Delegates, go home, to take a little fu—. 1889 Capt. C. Devereaux Venus in India 37: He added his initials and “WTBF?” “What does it mean?” I asked. “‘Will there be fuck?’ of course.” 1918 in M. B. Carey Mlle. from Armentières II (unpaged): The S.O.S. was sure out of luck,/They stayed behind and got all the —. 1938 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 104: The place is just plastered with cunt and fuck.

c. a person considered as a sexual partner. Chiefly with a modifying word.

1870 Cythera’s Hymnal 75: A young woman got married at Chester,/Her mother she kissed and she blessed her./Says she, “You’re in luck,/He’s a stunning good fuck,/For I’ve had him myself down in Leicester.” 1874 Letter from Friend in Paris II. 168: I had always held that dear momma was the best fuck in the family, and in every way a most desirable and splendid creature. ca1890 My Secret Life II. iii. 57: Is she a good fuck? Where does she live? ca1927 in P. Smith Letters from Father 141: What a fuck she was. 1934 “J.M. Hall” Anecdota Americana (Second series) 27: You are a much better fuck than your old mammy here. 1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 23: She’d make a good fuck! 1963–64 K. Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion 193: A cigar is just a cigar, but a good woman is a fuck. 1969 M. Lynch American Soldier 163: She was a good fuck. She did everything I told her. 1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 87: Was Tyrone a good fuck? 1977 N. Wexler Saturday Night Fever (film): If you’re as good in bed as you are on the dance floor, I bet you’re one lousy fuck. 1977 A. Patrick Beyond Law 57: One o’ the nicest little gals and sweetest little fucks a man could ask for. 1979 O. Clark Diary (May 10) in H. Rous Ossie Clark Diaries (1998) 84: Angie stayed in Marianne’s bed—she is a junkie who was in Jimi Hendrix’s dressing room so long ago. “She’s a wonderful fuck,” said Marianne the following day. 1983 J. Groen & D. Groen Huey 122: She’s sure a wild fuck. 1984 “Pickles” Queens 34: Perhaps the commonest threat to success is the arrival of friends or former fucks. 1992 J. Eszterhas Basic Instinct (film script): I think she’s the fuck of the century, don’t you? 1993 B. Moore Lexicon of Cadet Language 151: Fuck…a girlfriend.… “Are you off with the fuck tonight?” 2000 E. L. Harris Not a Day Goes By 212: “He is the best fuck I’ve ever had.” “You slept with him?” “There was no sleeping going on.” 2008 A. Guthrie Savage Night 14: She was a great fuck, but she wasn’t worth dying for.

2. a. the least bit; a damn.—usually used in phrases like not give a fuck or not care a fuck. [The ca1790 quotation, from a satirical poem (“The Discontented Student”), concerns a young man who cannot make love to his wife at night because he is preoccupied with his books, yet conversely cannot concentrate on his studies during the day. Sense seems to demand that the excised phrase in its final line be “a fuck”; no other word is correspondingly vulgar, and only fuck makes the pun work.]

ca1790 St. G. Tucker in Poems (1977) 144: Our scholar every night/Thinks of his books; and of his bride by light.… /“My wife—a plague!—keeps running in my head/In ev’ry page I read[,] my raging fires/Portray her yielding to my fierce desires.”/“G—d—your books!” the testy father said,/“I’d not give —for all you’ve read.” 1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 19: For all your threats I don’t care a fuck./I’ll never leave my princely darling duck. 1917 in E. Wilson Prelude 184: An English soldier on the boat: “I down’t give a fuck if the bowt goes dahn, it doesn’t belong to me!” 1926 F. Wray trans. H. Barbusse Under Fire 283: He doesn’t care a f—for us. 1929 F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune 48 [refers to WWI]: They don’t care a fuck ’ow us’ns live. 1931 J. Dos Passos Nineteen Nineteen 200 [refers to 1919]: The bosun said it was the end of civilization and the cook said he didn’t give a f—k. 1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 22: Nobody gives a fuck about her except to use her. 1935 T. Wolfe Death to Morning 74 [refers to 1917]: I don’t give a f— what ya t’ought. 1936 in P. Oliver Blues Tradition 246: When I first met you I thought I fell in good luck,/Now I know you ain’t worth a —. 1946 in J. Jones Reach 61: It dont mean a fuck to me. 1960 G. Sire Deathmakers 44: They don’t give a fuck about you. 1965 B. D. Reeves Night Action 86: It mattered not a fuck. 1969 N.Y.C. man, age ca30: Doesn’t that pull on your heartstrings? Or don’t you give a rusty fuck? 1969–71 R. Kahn Boys of Summer 107: Rocco’s a helluva man, but that don’t mean a fuck. 1974 R. Carter 16th Round 53: What makes you think that I give a fuck about you—or the horse you came to town on? 1972–76 C. Durden No Bugles, No Drums 9: Nobody gives two fucks. 1977 Dowd Slap Shot (film): It don’t make a fuck’s bit of difference. 1979 D. Thoreau City at Bay 36: Who gives a rusty fuck about some wino? 1995 New York Review of Books (June 8) 48: Education nowadays isn’t worth a tup-ney fuck. 1998 J. Lahr in New Yorker (Sept. 7) 80: The actor doesn’t care a fuck about Shakespeare. The director doesn’t care a fuck about Shakespeare. He never really encounters Shakespeare. 2005 A. Smith Accidental 26: Why should I care about him when he clearly doesn’t give a fuck about me.

b. anything whatsoever.—used in negative.

1970 D. Crosby in Rolling Stone (July 23) 27/2: The Byrds would come there and be a mechanical windup doll. They didn’t play fuck. 1971 National Lampoon (Dec.) 58: That croaker don’t know fuck.

c. (used with like, as, or than as an emphatic standard of comparison).—also used with a.

1938 in G. Legman Limerick (1954) 393: The colloquial comparative, “hotter than a Persian fuck.” 1969 T. Raworth Serial Biography 66: Burned like fuck he said. Had to smear ointment all over it. 1976 C.R. Anderson Grunts 61 [refers to 1969]: To them it was still hotter than fuck and rising. 1978 in T. O’Brien Things They Carried 171: I’m sure as fuck not going anywhere. 1980 S. Whalen It Takes a Man to Cry 272: “You in pain, man?”… “It stings like a fuck.” 1983 M. Thickett Outrageously Offensive Jokes 60: It’s raining like a fuck outside. 1980–86 in D. J. Steffensmeier Fence 5: You sure as fuck don’t go around telling people: I’m a fence! 1988 “N.W.A.” Fuck tha Police (rap song): I’m sneaky as fuck when it comes to crime. 1988 P. Duncan 84 Charlie MoPic (film): He’s gonna slow us down like fuck, man! a1989 in J. Kisseloff You Must Remember This 72: It was no good, that’s all, and you suffer like a fuck. 1991 in RapPages (Feb. 1992) 67: Lawnge’s production is dope as fuck. 1993 J. Watson & K. Dockery Point Man 105: Raining like a fuck out, ain’t it? 1996 D. McCumber Playing off Rail 336: I sure as fuck hope so. 2002 J. Goad in N.Y. Press (Dec. 25) 28/1: I sure as fuck couldn’t feel sorry for girls who earned in a five-hour shift what I made in a week.

d. a bit of difference.—used in negative.

1984 A. R. Sample Racehoss 198 [refers to 1950s]: It don’t make a fuck who it is.

3. semen (rare); in phrase: full of fuck, full of sexual desire or (broadly) energy. Compare BULL FUCK.

1680 School of Venus in B. K. Mudge When Flesh Becomes Word (2004) 40: We were both of us so full of Fuck, that we did not let slip the least minute that was favorable to us; nay more; we sometimes did it in fear and had the ill luck to be disturbed and forced to give over our sport without spending, if it proved a false alarm we went at it again. ca1866 Romance of Lust 390: The cunt full of fuck only excited him the more. a1890–93 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues III 80: Fuck, subs.… The seminal fluid. Ibid. 85: Like a straw-yard bull, full of fuck and half-starved.… A friendly retort to the question, “How goes it?” i.e., “How are you?” 1916 H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I 98: Full of fuck.—Ready to work. 1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 23: Full of fuck, amorously potent. 1966 A. Wainhouse & R. Seaver trans. de Sade 120 Days of Sodom 494: She would raise her skirts, display her ass, and the libertine, all smiles, would spray his fuck upon it. [1978 “F. Pulsing” Whipped Cream 16: The combination drew the fuck-load from Ed’s shaking loins. He moaned and blasted. Ibid. 59: He gushed his fuck-load into the fink’s writhing mouth.] 1993 Farmer’s Step-daughter, on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories: She had thought often about what it would be like to let [him] shoot a full load of his fuck into her face. Ibid.: She felt the warm fuck filling her mouth, coating her tongue and draining back toward her throat. 2003 J. Woodward Mister Goodbye Easter Island 42: I want my Redi-Serv Jesus with his eyes on fire, all fierce and full of fuck. 2006 P. May Spring & His Summers 39: They could have been having a huge orgy up there. They certainly looked like they were full of fuck and energy.

4. a despicable person, usually a man.

[1788 S. Low Politician Out-Witted I ii: Do you call me a foutre, you rascal?] 1927 [J. Fliesler] Anecdota Americana 188: I won’t sye nothin’ nawsty, all I sye is my bloody arse ’ole to you, you bloomin’ fuck. 1927 E. Wilson in Twenties 399: You oughtn’ta be a prizefighter, yuh fuck—yuh ought to be a bootblack! 1933 C. H. Ford & P. Tyler Young & Evil 40: Take that fuck McAllen. 1934 H. Roth Call It Sleep 414 [refers to ca1910]: Yer an at’eist, yuh fuck, he hollers. 1942 in S. J. Perelman Don’t Tread on Me 46: I was that superior fuck who smiled patronizingly and observed…“Recent statistics show that the French have the greatest land army in the world.” 1946–50 J. Jones From Here to Eternity ch. xxxvi: I told you, you dumb fuck. 1958 T. Berger Crazy in Berlin 136: Go on, you fuck, or I’ll take ya apart. 1964 H.S. Thompson Letter (Nov. 25) in Proud Highway (1997) 473: All these fucks who smile on the TV screen. 1967 J. Hersey Algiers Motel Incident 134: Them fucks took my tape recorder. 1968 J.P. Miller The Race for Home 294 [refers to 1930s]: “He said he don’t, you dumb fuck,” Dawg said. 1970 R. Byrne Memories non-Jewish Childhood 117: Come in off of there, you dumb fuck. 1972 B. Harrison Hospital 50: I swear I thought that fuck was going to offer me a bribe to save Tessa’s life. 1973 A. Schiano & A. Burton Solo 80: He’s the meanest fuck in town. 1973 P. Benchley Jaws 191: You lying fuck! 1987 Santiago Undercover 63: Don’t bother with this fuck. 1991 “Who Am I?” in L.A. Stanley Rap 383: He was a big-ass fuck. 1997 W. Allen Deconstructing Harry (film): You fucked-up fuck!…Fuck you! 2006 R. Flanagan Unknown Terrorist 172: Standing there, throwing herself on the mercy of a miserable fuck like Moretti, she realised this was madness.

5. an evil turn of events; a cheat of fortune.

1972 W. Pelfrey Big V9: “Regulars by God.” Conscripts by fuck. a1984 in S. Terkel “Good War” 306: Know what they did? They made him a lieutenant colonel and me a captain. Ain’t that a fuck? 1998 T. Gilliam in New Yorker (May 25) 74: To start pulling things off the soundtrack now is a fuck!

In phrases:

flying fuck, see under FLYING.

for fuck’s sake, for heaven’s sake.

1943 D. Brennan Never so Young Again xxiii. 206: They’re coming up to starboard! Weave! For f—sake! 1961 J. Jones Thin Red Line 16 [refers to WWII]: Don’t talk like that!…for fuck’s sake. 1964 A. Davidson in Worlds of Tomorrow (Aug.) 11: You space-apes who haven’t signed the Declaration, don’t hang around picking your toes, for —sake, come on out and sign it! 1966 G.M. Williams Camp 94: What’ll we call you then for fuck’s sake? 1976 A. Schroeder Shaking It Rough 20: An inmate kicked irritably at an uncooperative piece of machinery and announced succinctly that “the fuckin fucker’s fucked, fer fuck sakes!” 1964–78 J. Carroll Basketball Diaries 26: Now he’s on tour for fuck’s sake. 1997 Sick Puppy Comix (Sydney, Australia) (No. 5) 17: The moral of this story is: for fuck’s sake don’t talk to strange little kids! 2008 L. Weisberger Chasing Harry Winston 129: Come here, for fuck’s sake, and hug me again!

fuck knows, Chiefly British. (used to indicate that something is unknown to the speaker); “God knows.”

1976 P. Callow Story of my Desire vi. 42: “When’s your case come up?” David said. “Fuck knows.” 1988 G. Patterson Burning your Own (1993) 245: I know what youse’re thinking: “he must be mad.” Well, if that was mad, then fuck knows what youse’ll say when youse see the next knockdown bargain. 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 302: Tell spaceboy to turn the volume down. I can’t get through to him, fuck knows what he’s on. 2007 I. Welsh If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work 85: Fuck knows what they are, I ain’t seen them anywhere else.

fuck of, a notable example or quantity of; “hell of.”

1928 in A. W. Read Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy (1935) 55: This is a fuck of a rain. 1942 H. Miller Roofs of Paris 121: It would be a fuck of a lot more interesting. 1970 T. Thackrey Thief 230: Oh, wow! What a fuck of a way for a couple hot-rocks like them to go out. 1973 J. Flaherty Fogarty & Co. 26: It was a fuck of a country that could scrimmage for souls. 1977 K. Bartlett Finest Kind 20: I’ll have a fuckuva time getting back in. 1978 L. K. Truscott Dress Gray 219: It’s gonna be one fuck of a long two months. 1982 C.R. Anderson Other War 171: Thanks a lot, Altizer. Thanks a fuck of a lot. 1985 D. Bodey F.N.G. 114: He’s lost a fuckuva lot of blood. 1996 P.F. Hamilton Reality Dysfunction 983: The doctors wired your neural nanonics to your liver.… It was one fuck of a lot smarter than your brain. 2002 W. Self Dorian 120: Finding out you’re going to die a fuck of a lot sooner, rather than the hoped-for hell of a lot later. 2006 H. Shearer Not Enough Indians 147: Lobbyists…get paid a fuck of a lot better than G-15s at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

holy fuck! (used to express astonishment).

1945 in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K 202: Holy fuck! We’re gonna freeze our ass off. 1967 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang (supp.) 690. 1977 T. Jones Incredible Voyage 373: “Holy fuck!” I thought, “I’ve only got a mile of sea-room.” 1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 138: “Holy fuck,” he muttered. 1989 R. Zumbro & J. Walker Jungletracks 89: Holy fuck, Lieutenant, kill ’em quick! 1996 Picture (Sydney, Australia) (Dec. 4) 3: “Holy fuck!” whispered one. “Jeez!” murmured another. 1999 K. Smith Dogma (film script) 41: Holy fuck—all the fine, immoral bitches coming out of that place, and we gotta find the one Jesus freak! 2006 M. Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics 397: “Holy fuck,“ Milton said, staring down at the photograph. I turned it over, but there was nothing written on it, no date. “It’s her isn’t it?”

like fuck, Chiefly British, absolutely not; “like hell.” Compare definition 2c, above.

a1950 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 3) 1054: F*ck! like.… “…certainly not!”: low: late C. 19-20. 1966 S. Hignett Picture to Hang on the Wall 237: “Don’t worry too much, lad.” “Thanks. Like fuck, I won’t.” 1980 J. P. Donleavy Schultz 292: “I will scratch your face.” “Like fuck you will.” 1990 H. Benedict World Like This 99: “I’m only telling you what they say, Larry.” “Like fuck you are.” 1995 N. Hornby High Fidelity 302: Like fuck you are. 1995 A. Enright Wig my Father Wore 134: “Game show one night, date show the next,” says Marcus. “Same set?” “New set. Two new sets.” “There’s posh. And after that, twice as much for their money.” “One and a half,” he says. “Like fuck. We’ll be going live in half the time,” I say, “because I’m a fucking eejit.” 1997 M. Evans Glass Mountain ii. 17: “What in the fuck are you?” I looked at Jimmy Barry, surprised. “I’m a punkette,” I said. “You are like fuck.” 2001 I. Sinclair Landor’s Tower i. ix. 122: If Tunstall rewound the tape, he could enjoy once more his envelope of meditative calm.… Unknowing knowingness. Like fuck he could. In telling me, he confirmed the tale. 2005 L. Dean This Human Season xlvii. 280: There are some things you hear and you can’t forget and they stay with you and you wish like fuck you’d never heard them or never seen them.

the fuck

1. (used as an expletive); the hell.—also used with in. [The phrase why or what the puck in the 1864 and a 1903 quotations is precisely synonymous with why the devil; the similarity of both the phonetics and the construction may have influenced the development of the present usage of fuck.]

[1864 S. LeFanu in Oxford English Dictionary (ed. 2) under puck, n.: And why the puck don’t you let her out?] [a1903 in English Dialect Dictionary under puck, n.: What the puck are you doing?] 1934 H. Roth Call It Sleep 23 [refers to ca1910]: An de nex’ time watch out who de fuck yer chas—. 1936 M. Levin Old Bunch 122: Where the f—you think you’re trying to horn in?…Who the f— wants to ride in your robber hacks anyway? 1942 H. Miller Roofs of Paris 23: I don’t know what the fuck to say. 1943 R. Tregaskis Invasion Diary 45: You f—g eight balls get the f— off this God-damn hill before I rap this rifle-barrel around your neck! 1945 in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K 291: Where in the fuck’s that truck? 1951 American Journal of Sociology XXXVII 138: But what the f—, that’s his business. Ibid. 140: Sure, they’re a bunch of f—ng squares, but who the f— pays the bills? 1959 W. Burroughs Naked Lunch 33: How in the fuck should I know? 1962 G. Mandel Wax Boom 273: I might blow my top…if people don’t start leaving me the fuck alone! 1963–64 K. Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion 6: He don’t even the fuck know! 1968 J. Schell Military Half 185: Abruptly, someone called out, “Where the fuck are we?” 1971 L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1987) 86: Why’n the fuck d’ya think? 1977 Illinois photographer, age ca25: What the flying fuck is he talking about? 1979 National Lampoon (Dec.) 59: I go to Medicine Hat, way the holy fuck up in fuckin’ Alberta, Canada, man. 1966–80 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 128: “Did you ever see such a screwy bunch?”…“Guess the fuck I ain’t.” a1987 C. Bunch & A. Cole Reckoning for Kings 42: “Looks that way.” “What the fuck, over.” 1990 L. Bing Do or Die 218: What the fuck I want to change for? 1997 New York Magazine (June 16) 81: It’s always those people who get harassed and picked on who flip the fuck out. 1997 A. Bourdain Chef’s Night Out in K. Williamson Rovers Return (1998) 137: Save me from vegetarians and the lactose-intolerant. Deliver me from the tyranny of the food critics, for they know not what the fuck they do. 1998 G. Ritchie Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels 92: Dog (seeing an unconscious man at his feet): What the fuck did you do to Fauntleroy? Plank (fumbling and panicking): I didn’t touch him, he just passed out. 1999 F. Renzulli “Toodle-fucking-oo” (television shooting script) in Sopranos (2nd Ser.) 6: I don’t know Carm’. I yelled. What the fuck else could I do? 2004 J. Jameson & N. Strauss How to Make Love Like Porn Star i. xi. 82: What the fuck did you do with my meth?… The whole fucking bag is gone.

2. (used to introduce a response expressing emphatic disagreement); “the hell”; “like hell.” Also: (used as an expletive); “what the fuck?”, etc.

1965 S. Linakis In Spring the War Ended 50 [refers to WWII]: “They don’t keep you locked up.”…“The fuck they don’t.” 1966 F. L. Keefe The Investigating Officer 184: “This one I happen to remember very well.” “The fuck you do.” 1970–71 J. Rubinstein City Police 328: “You ain’t [arresting] my mother.” …“The fuck I ain’t.” 1974 G.V. Higgins Cogan’s Trade 4: The fuck you sell driving lessons to people. 1975 J. Sepe & L. Telano Cop Team 148: The fuck I am! 1983 P. Dexter God’s Pocket 65: The fuck I have, you think I’m crazy? 1998 J. Cahill Boca in Sopranos ((television shooting script) 1st Ser. 2) 7: Vin Makazian has just come in, blinded by the relative darkness. Tony goes to meet him. Tony: The fuck you doing here? 1998 M. Burgess & R. Green Isabella in Sopranos ((television shooting script) 1st Ser. 1) 3: Jimmy: How many of these things you gotta go to, huh? Brendan Filone’s mother at that kid’s funeral: The way she carried on. Junior: The fuck? 2000 W. Monahan Light House xxvi. 145: “Give me another one.” “No more drink.” “The fuck you say.”

3. daylights; hell; used in phrases of the sort to — the fuck out of to ——(a person or thing) to an excessive, violent, unpleasant, or powerful extent.

1957 N. Coward Diary (Feb. 17) (2000) 349: I am very old indeed and cannot understand why the younger generation, instead of knocking at the door, should bash the fuck out of it. 1960 N. Coward Diary (June 19) (2000) 442: There was a real blazing row in the course of which Peggy and I roared at him, banged the table and generally frightened the fuck out of him. 1970 G. Slick in Rolling Stone (Nov. 12) 28/1: When they busted me in Hawaii I even got another guy out of jail, a spade cat they’d busted the night before and beat fuck out of, and we just bailed him out. 1972 College student: There’s only one thing left to do—beat the fuck out of you. 1974 B. Greene Billion Dollar Baby 87: I always wanted to beat the fuck out of somebody on stage. 1985 S. Braudy What the Movies Made Me Do 102: All I want is to act the fuck out of the best role I ever had in my life. 1987 B. E. Ellis Rules of Attraction 111: But thinking about it bores the fuck out of me so I just walk around the dorm for a while and then split. 1987 O. Hawkins Scars & Memories 140: It pains the fuck out of me sometimes, in a beautiful way, to think that I learned, figured out, studied a bunch of garbage, to become intellectually intelligent. 1989 Life (July) 27: “This s—, literally, scares the f—outta me.”…girl, 15. 1999 L. Leblanc Pretty in Punk iv. 104: Hey, Tad, Cooper, we gotta beat the fuck out of Chris. 2003 M. McDonagh Pillowman 53: I’d’ve tortured the fuck out of them if I had them here, just like I’m gonna torture the fuck out of you now too. 2004 T. Lee & A. Bozza Tommy Land 102: Every night after our show, we’d party all night in whatever town we were in…then show up in a new town the next morning, rock the fuck out of it, fuck the fuck out of it, and move on again.

the fuck of it, the fun of it; the hell of it.

1970 College student: I’d beat him up just for the fuck of it. 1976 S. Hayden Voyage 196: Take a look. Just fer the fuck of it. 1985 D. Bodey F.N.G. 174: I wonder if he is doing it officially or just for the fuck of it. 1990 L. Bing Do or Die 123: Who’s gonna die “for the fuck of it”? 1994 “Nine Inch Nails” Big Man with a Gun (rock song): Maybe I’ll put a hole in your head you know, just for the fuck of it. 1995 T. Rebeck Family of Mann 44: I drove through Compton just for the fuck of it, and that scared me so bad I went back to Beverly Hills. 2000 W. T. Vollmann Royal Family 438: I wish we had more time to plan and shit. Just for the fuck of it we can…we can…oh, Henry, it’s gonna be over so soon. 2006 D. Kalla Rage Therapy 113: “Why would I make it up?” Attention seeking? Manipulation? Just for the fuck of it? I kept the thoughts to myself.

to fuck, very much, a great deal; “to hell.”

1919 W.H. Downing Digger Dialects 12: Blow-to-fook, shatter to fragments. 1970 H. S. Thompson Letter (Jan. 29) in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 277: I wish to fuck I could lay off some kind of healing wisdom—for either one of us. 1978 L. Kramer Faggots 135: He’s medium height, reddish-blond, very handsome, and I wish to fuck he would hurry up. 1986 R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk i. 27: But then I thought I’d be cut to fuck. I mean I’d be stabbed. I knew it. 1994 J. Kelman How Late it Was 17: Mind you he once telt it to a woman and it annoyed her to fuck, she thought it was a load of bullshit. 2002 Time Out (Jan. 2) 111/3: Because it’s a soul album…modernised and styled to fuck, for sure, but simultaneously dignified, mellifluous, tough, funky and exquisitely, properly soulful. 2003 A. Swofford Jarhead 212: Word has it that two light-armored-vehicle crew members were blown to fuck yesterday by friendly fire—an A-10 Warthog dropped a bomb on them, by mistake, a big fucking devastating bomb, by mistake.

fuck adjective

describing, depicting, or involving copulation; pornographic; erotic.—used before a noun.

1941 W.C. Williams Letter (Jan. 6) in Witemeyer Williams-Laughlin (1989) 61: You’ve got to feed ’em the bunk—love and war and all the old fuck stuff. 1942–44 in American Speech (Feb. 1946) 33: F—k Books, n. Sexy pulp magazines. 1950 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters (1981) 694: They start writing those over-detailed fuck scenes. 1966 in G. L. Steinbrook Allies & Mates 70: A boy approached me and asked if I wanted to buy some “f--k pictures.” 1966 Fry Slang Transcript: Will show fuck movies. 1967 N. Mailer Why We Are in Vietnam 27: Pretending to write a…fuck book in revenge. 1967 J. Rechy Numbers 105: I got some fuck-movies at home. 1969 in M. J. Estren History of Underground Comics (1974) 11: The State University will never contain any “fuck books.” 1975 T. Berger Sneaky People 60: He’s got a fuck-book there, too. 1975 C. Skinner Carol’s Curious Passion 23: You mean, I might have a career with Bobby in fuck films? 1976 “N. Ross” Policeman 105: Phil liked to hear fuck stories on stakeouts. 1981 National Lampoon (Aug.) 68: Let’s turn this solemn occasion into a real fuck party. 1984 J.R. Reeves Mekong 12: Bullshitting, kidding, telling fuck jokes. 1987 H. Zeybel Gunship 6: I’d watched the live fuck shows in the Angeles night clubs. 1994 M. Gilmore Shot in the Heart 166: If a girl went out with Gary… they knew it was a fuck date. That was his reputation. 1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain 392: The thing was, I’d been negotiating for months with a major studio, which, with an already Oscared director, was trying to put together that elusive thing—a mainstream fuck film, you know, big budget, cast of thousands, maybe some real stars. 1998 New Yorker (Apr. 6) 89: A stack of fuck books on one side of the toilet. a2002 S.-L. Parks Topdog/underdog 49: I was over there looking for something the other week and theres like 100 fuck books under yr bed and theyre matted together like a bad fro, bro, cause you spunked in the pages and didnt wipe them off. 2002 I. Welsh Porno 42: They make their fuck films and show clips of them on the Net.

fuck verb [English form of a widespread Germanic word; compare Middle Dutch fokken ‘to thrust, to beget children, copulate with’; Norwegian regional fukka ‘to copulate’; dialectal Swedish focka ‘to strike, push, copulate’; and fock ‘penis’; and German ficken ‘to copulate’; probably borrowed into English in the fifteenth century from Low German, Flemish, or Dutch; part of a group of words in Germanic languages having the basic meaning ‘move back and forth’, and the common figurative meaning ‘to cheat’; see Introduction for a fuller discussion; the recent forms fug, fugg are printed euphemisms and do not represent pronunciation.]

1.a. transitive. to engage in heterosexual intercourse involving the penetration of the penis into the vagina with (a person). [The date of the initial citation, from a poem attacking the Carmelite Friars of Ely (a town in Cambridgeshire), may be as early as 1450–75. The poem is written in a garbled mixture of English and Latin, and several English words have pseudo-Latin endings. In the manuscript, the English words in this passage, from fuccant (the -ant is pseudo-Latin) to heli (i.e. Ely) are written in a cipher in which each letter is replaced with the one following it in the alphabet. The cipher suggests that the word was considered taboo even at that time (the word swive, a now-archaic vulgarity for sex, was also in cipher). It translates as “They [the monks] are not in heaven/because they fuck the wives of Ely.” For asterisks in 1848 quotation, see note at FUCKING, adjective.]

a1500 Flen, Flyys (ms. Harl. 3362) f. 47, in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquae Antiquae (1841) I. 91: Non sunt in cœli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk [= fuccant uuiuys of heli]. 1730 N. Bailey Dictionary: To Fuck…a term used of a goat; also subagitare foeminam. 1760 in I. McCormick Secret Sexualities 109: He asked me, if I never got any girls, or if I never f—ed ’em. 1775 J. Ash New and Complete Dictionary: Fuck (v.t. a low vulgar word) To perform the act of generation, to have to do with a woman. 1778 in Connor Songbag 24: He often times fuck’t the old whore in the Night. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: To f—k. To copulate. 1848 [G. Thompson] House Breaker 42: I was going to **** that same little blowen, in Boy Jack’s crib. 1865 in M. Hodes White Women, Black Men 142: Did he say he fucked the young gal? 1865 Capt. E. Sellon New Epicurean 14: I don’t see why I am not to be fucked as well as her! 1872 Contested Election 155: Mr. Miller said to him these words: “You cock-sucking son of a bitch, you have been fucking half of your congregation to-day, keeping two or three whores, and now come here to vote the Reform ticket.” 1877 in P. Y. Stallard Glittering Misery (1978) 146: Didn’t you —that girl yourself? 1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 5: Flat on my back he stretched me in the sun,/Fucked me three times, and paid for every one! 1882 Boudoir 226: She f—d me as dry as a stick, last night. 1887 Stanislaus de Rhodes Autobiography of a Flea 141: “In fact, I want to fuck you, my darling.” Bella saw the huge projection give a flip up. “How nasty you are!—What words you use.” 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses III. 729: His wife is fucked yes and damn well fucked too. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover iv. 44: Fellows with swaying waists fucking little jazz girls. 1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1961) 256: I used to fuck her standing up in the vestibule. 1947 J. Kerouac Letter (Sept. 13) in Selected Letters 1940–56 (1995) 127: I’ve met a lot of girls out here, and at least two of them are anxious for me to fuck them. 1964–66 R. Stone Hall of Mirrors 194: Is she fuckin’ other people? 1966 R. Fariña Been Down So Long 105: I wasn’t making love to her, I was fucking her. The difference is kind, not goddamned degree. 1967 J. Morrison The End (rock song, perf. “The Doors”): “Father?” “Yes, son.” “I want to kill you. Mother? I want to fuck you.” 1985 E. Leonard Glitz 88: Iris was fucking some body. 1993 L. Phair Flower (pop. song): Every time I see your face…I want to fuck you like a dog.… I’ll fuck you till your dick turns blue. 1996 T. McMillan How Stella Got Her Groove Back 145: “Well, I didn’t like just fuck him.” “Oh, don’t tell me you guys made love and shit.” “We did. That’s exactly what we did.” “You fucked him, Stella. Get real.” 2001 S. MacGowan in S. MacGowan & V. M. Clarke A Drink with Shane MacGowan 76: Then I fucked her afterwards. And that was an amazing fuck cause she was going different colours while I was doing it. 2007 J. Hayes Precious Blood 272: “I think you’ve been incredibly brave.” “Was that what you were thinking while you were fucking me?”

b. intransitive. to engage in heterosexual intercourse involving the penetration of the penis into the vagina.

ca1500 in W. Dunbar Poems 40: He clappit fast, he kist, he chukkit… Yit be his feiris he wald haif fukkit. 1535–36 in D. Lindsay Works I 103: Ay fukkand lyke ane furious Fornicatour. ca1550 in D. Lindsay Satyre 88: Bischops ar blist howbeit that thay be waryit/For thay may fuck thair fill and be unmaryit. a1568 in J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues III 80: Allace! said sche, my awin sweit thing,/Your courtly fukking garis me fling. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 137/1: Fottere…to iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupy. ca1610 in E. J. Burford Bawdy Verse (1983) 63: She’s a damn’d lascivious Bitch/And fucks for half-a-crown. ca1650 in J. Wardroper Love & Drollery (1969) 187: Had ever maiden that good luck…/O ’twould invite a maid to —. 1683 in J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues III 80: From St. James’s to the Land of Thule,/There’s not a whore who f—s so like a mule. ca1800 in J. Holloway & J. Black Later English Broadside Ballads (1975) 223: Jenny cries nay, I won’t F—k for a shilling. 1845 in A. Johnson Papers I 218: In other words…he was “Chewing drinking & fucking his way to the legislature.” 1864 in G. C. Rable Civil Wars (1991) 161: Have you any sisters? If you have I should like to fuck them. That was my business before I came into the service, and now I am fucking for Uncle Sam. 1916 M. Cowley in P. Jay Burke-Cowley Correspondence 22: He drinks, fucks, swears,…is popular with girls. 1918 in M. B. Carey Mlle. from Armentières II (unpaged): Over the top with the best of luck,/The first over there is the first to —. 1938 J. O’Hara in Selected Letters 134: Oh, and Mrs. — — — —, who wanted everybody to get drunk and start fucking. 1940 in T. Williams Letters 11: I am taking free conga lessons…and fucking every night. 1965 L. Ferlinghetti Situation in the West in Starting from San Francisco (1967) 63: Let’s repeat it together/To fuck is to love. 1968 Harper’s Mag. (Apr.) 52: I like your looks. Come to my room tonight at seven o’clock, we’ll fuck. 1973 E. Jong Fear of Flying 33: Silent Bennett was my healer. A physician for my head and a psychoanalyst for my cunt. He fucked and fucked in ear-splitting silence. 1982 R. M. Brown Southern Discomfort 195: Great ladies don’t even admit fucking with their husbands. a1990 E. Currie Dope & Trouble 205: You know, they fucked, and everything. 2006 “L. Burana” Try 165: “Heard you fuck like a bastard,” she hollered over the music.

c. transitive and intransitive. to make a sexual thrust into; rub against in a sexual way; engage in intercourse other than heterosexual genital intercourse [with].

[1680 School of Venus II. 99: An hour after, he Ferked my Arse again in the same manner.] 1698 Account of the Proceedings against Capt. Edward Rigby for the Abominable Sin of Sodomy verso: Then Rigby sitting on Mint-ons Lap, kist him several times, putting his Tongue into his Mouth, askt him, if he should F----- him, how can that be askt Minton, I’le show you answered Rigby. ca1710 in L. S. A. M. von Römer Rochester’s Sodom (1905) IV. 39: Then arse they fuck and bugger one another. 1829 New South Wales State Archives (Oct. 5) (T 143), in Gay Perspectives 34: I slept in the middle and the Prisoner kept putting his arms & legs over me & he said on different occasions “Fox I should like to fuck you” and added “you may do the same to me whenever you like.” 1846 Reports of the Supreme Court of Missouri IX. 768: The slanderous charge was carnal knowledge of a mare, and the word “fuck” was used to convey the imputation. 1879 Pearl 203: Can’t you just fuck her in the bum? ca1890 My Secret Life XI. iv.: I had taken home from *** a fine dildo which squirted liquids, and which it amused her to be fucked with. Then I fucked her with it, licking her clitoris whilst I did it to her. 1908 Way of a Man with a Maid 139: She felt Connie’s cunt against hers and the exciting friction again commencing. Connie was evidently very much worked up, and she confessed afterwards that the consciousness that she was fucking Molly’s mother in Molly’s presence sent her to fever heat. 1909 J. Joyce Letter (Dec. 6) in Selected Letters (1975) 184: I feel mad to…fuck between your two rosy-tipped bubbies. 1923 Poems, Ballads & Parodies 47: A bull dog fucked him in the ear. 1955–56 A. Ginsberg Howl I: Who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy. 1967 N. Mailer Why are we in Vietnam? ix. 163: Gutsy will fuck any orifice, nostril, ear…even cream between two fat tits. 1968 P. Roth Portnoy’s Complaint 145: They have a whore in there, kid, who fucks the curtain with her bare twat. 1970 “Viva” Superstar 249: Want to get fucked with this? (she pulls out a plastic dildo). 1971 A. Andrews in A. M. Zwicky et al. Studies out in Left Field (1992) 37: Butch fucked the mannikin through the hole he drilled in its crotch. 1976 J. Vasco Three-Hole Girl 164: Stick your tongue in my pussy hole, Lisa, fuck my pussy with your mouth! 1994 “G. Indiana” Rent Boy 23: Back in his own country guys only get fucked when they’re real little and when they grow up they’re supposed to, you know, do the fucking, and it’s considered unmanly for a guy in his twenties like Mohammed to get off on getting fucked. 1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague x. 263: Why do faggots have to fuck so fucking much? ca2000 E. Chapman Flaunting It in “Trixi” Faster Pussycats (2001) 47: “Good boy. You’re learning now. I want to see you get your face fucked… Go on. Take it.” She pressed my head down so that my throat had no choice but to engulf the entire length of silicone.

d. (in various similes and proverbs). See also FOUR FS.

ca1677 in Lord Rochester Complete Poems 137: My heart would never doubt,/…To wish those eyes fucked out. 1884 Randiana 28: He had thrown her down…and had fucked her heart out in a shorter space of time than it takes me to write it. 1916–22 H. N. Cary Sexual Vocabulary I under copulation: Fucking like a mink. To copulate frequently. [1928 S. V. Benét John Brown’s Body 99: The whole troop grumbled and wondered, aching/For fighting, fleeing or fornicating/Or anything else except this bored waiting.] 1932 S. Longstreet Nell Kimball 15: He…never did anyone a favor, fucked like a mink. 1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 23: Fuck a dead horse! 1941 R.P. Smith So It Doesn’t Whistle 102: Dutch would say: “The —ing you get ain’t worth the —ing you get.” 1942 W. L. McAtee Supplement to Grant Co. 6 [refers to 1890s]: Mink”, “fuck like a, phr., with the senses of enthusiastically, enduringly, intensively. 1947 J. Cheever in Letters (1988) 125: I want to write short stories like I want to fuck a chicken. 1952 in G. Legman Dirty Joke 284: I’m going to fuck you till your ears fly off. 1964 J. Peacock To Drill & Die 140: He’d fuck a snake if someone would hold its head. 1965 S. Linakis In Spring the War Ended 60: The fellow said the fraulein’s name was Gertie and she fucked like a mink. 1970 W. C. Woods Killing Zone 112: I wish you were here too, so I could fuck your brains out. 1971 S. Stevens Way Uptown 241: And ’fore you could fuck a duck they were into the whole white-guilt thing. 1972 in Penthouse (Jan. 1973) 116: Emily is fucking like a minx. 1974 Univ. Tenn. student: I’d like to fuck her eyes out. 1974 G.V. Higgins Cogan’s Trade 14: I would’ve fucked a snake, I could’ve got somebody [to] hold it for me. 1975 J. Wambaugh Choirboys 248: You don’t look big enough to fight, fuck or run a footrace. 1976 Kalamazoo, Mich., man, age 29: My father used to say, “Now you’re ready to fight, fuck, or run a footrace.” It meant all ready to go. 1976 S. Hayden Voyage 663: Make or break. Fuck or fall back. 1976 M. Braly False Starts 204: I thought I should have been able to fuck a bear trap if someone had glued a little hair on it. 1978 T. Alibrandi Killshot 235: These kids today don’t know whether to fuck, fight or hold the light. 1978 L. Kramer Faggots 228: Good evening! I am so happy we are all now here!…I shall personally build flower boxes for us all…and I shall continue my experimentation into the tambourine and I shall fuck fuck fuck like a bunny! 1979 U.S. college student: He was mad enough to fuck a duck. 1980 in Penthouse (Jan. 1981) 26: By that time she was so hot that she would have fucked a rock pile if she thought there was a snake in it. 1980 J. DiFusco et al. Tracers 35: Sounds like…two skeletons fuckin’ on a footlocker. 1982 West Virginia woman, age ca27: Well, fuck a snake! Look who’s here! 1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 14: While every…hippie in Trenton fucked her eyeballs out. 1986 R. Chapman New Dictionary of American Slang: Fuck like a bunny…To copulate readily and vigorously. 1988 C. Roberts & C. Sasser Walking Dead 143: Everybody said you’d fuck a snake if somebody held its head. 1988 P. Duncan 84 Charlie MoPic (film): Quick, like a bunny fucks! Ibid. You two make more noise than two skeletons fucking on a tin roof. 1998 H. Peach Outlaw Girls in P. Banting Fresh Tracks 199: They fucked like alleycats/and like rabbits and then like elk…they fucked like timber falling/out of the sky and like a tsunami and/like a particular frail moonrise/they fucked like a housefire/the flames screaming up/from the inside out.

2.a. to harm irreparably; finish; damage; spoil; botch; (chiefly in passive) to put into a difficult or hopeless situation; doom.

1776 Frisky Songster (new edition) 36: Hey ho! the wind did blow, down they fell,/Breeches and petticoat into the well./O, says the breeches, I shall be duck’d./Aye, says the petticoat I shall be f—d./O, how my old grannum will grumble and grunt,/When she’s got ne’er a petticoat to cover her c—t. 1906 Southwestern Reporter XCV. 1083/2: Accused testified that prior to the homicide his brother had informed him that the deceased had stated that he would whip accused and his brother and fuck the whole family, a charge on manslaughter was not insufficient because it did not charge the jury that insulting conduct towards the female relatives of accused constituted adequate cause, for the word “fuck” only conveyed the idea of ill will towards the brother of accused, and a purpose to bring on a difficulty with him, especially in view of affidavits on a motion for a new trial averring that the word used meant “to whip, or beat, or chastise.” 1929 in F. S. Fitzgerald Correspondence 226: Now you make them read the word cooked (+ fucked would be as bad) one dozen times. 1929 E. Hemingway Farewell to Arms (U.S. ed.) xxix. 219: The wheels spun and we pushed and pushed [the car]. But it wasn’t any use. “It’s ——,” I said. 1931 J. Dos Passos Nineteen Nineteen 7 [refers to ca1914]: I guess I’m f—d for fair then. 1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 48: We’ll take his lousy review and we’ll fuck him good and proper.… The magazine’ll be finished. 1935 L. Zukofsky in G. Ahearn Pound/Zukofsky 160: Time fucks it. 1937 A. Binns Laurels Are Cut Down 200 [refers to 1920]: We did all their fighting. Now that we’ve quit, they’re —ed. 1938–39 J. Dos Passos Young Man 257: Less said everything was the matter, American Miners was f—d to hell and back, the boys in Slade County was f—d and now here was this christbitten hellbound party line f—g them proper. 1941 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters (1981) 532: We are fucked in this war as of the first day. 1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 10: Even they can’t fug me this time. 1967 N. Mailer Why We Are in Vietnam 111: He, Rusty, is fucked unless he gets that bear. 1970 M. Thomas Total Beast 137: He was fucking old Sunshine with that knife! 1970 R. Byrne Memories non-Jewish Childhood 90: The snowdrifts and slush made darting and dodging impossible. I was, in short, fucked. 1972 D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 159: We got too many ways to fuck ’em. 1984 M. Wallace & G. P. Gates Close Encounters 155 [refers to 1968]: I drew a breath and continued, man to man. “Vietnam fucked you, Mr. President, and so, I’m afraid, you fucked the country.” 1984 K. Weaver Texas Crude 3: I got you faded, fucked, and laughed at. 1989 S. Lee Do the Right Thing (film): I oughta fuck you just for that. 1995 D. McLean Bunker Man 41: He didn’t want to slip going round a corner and fuck his ankle. 2000 I. Welsh in N. Hornby Speaking with Angel 178: My heart-beat’s racing and there’s a pain in my chest. I’ll have to take things easier, drinking heavily in this heat always fucks me. 2005 W. Henderson in A. St. John Clapton’s Guitar xiv. 135: I don’t get distracted.… If I got distracted, I’d be fucked.

b. to botch; bungle; FUCK UP, definition 1.—also used with it.

1969 L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 43: It might fuck the whole thing. 1973 W. Karlin et al. Free Fire Zone 108: Pellegrini, you fucked it again. Ibid. 110: Them niggers fucked the roof—built this house so fast. 1972–79 T. Wolfe Right Stuff 243: Oh, it was obvious…that Grissom had just fucked it…that was all.

3. a. to cheat; deceive; betray. Compare synonyms screw and FRIG. [At the 1866 quotation, there is a note by the notary public following “fucked” that reads: “Before putting down the word as used by the witness, I requested him to reflect upon the language he attributed to Mr Baker, and not to impute to him an outrage upon all that was decent. The witness reitterated [sic] it, and said that it was the word used by Mr Baker.”]

1866 G. Washington Affidavit (Oct. 20) in I. Berlin et al. Black Military Experience in Civil War (1982) 791: Mr Baker replied that deponent would be fucked out of his money by Mr Brown. 1927 [J. Fliesler] Anecdota Americana 76: It looks like you’ve fucked yourself out of a seat. 1932 H. Miller in Letters to Emil (1989) 114: But they fucked me all right. Fucked me good and proper. 1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 49: One by one I’ve fucked myself out of all these free meals which I had planned so carefully. 1935 E. E. Cummings in Letters 136: “Fuck” has been changed to “trick” in new [New English Weekly] today arriving with editor’s comments. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark American Thesaurus of Slang 312: Cheat; defraud…fuck (out of). 1945 in D. Levin From Battlefield 56: He has been fucked again and again by the Corps. 1951 in International Journal of Psycho-Analysis XXV (1954) 39: To “get fucked” is to be made a “sucker.” 1954 L. Yablonsky Violent Gang 75: Although I hang with them for protection, I fuck everybody. They try to burn me, I get my blade, I’ll get ’em all but good. 1959 W. Burroughs Naked Lunch 179: You’re trying to fuck me out of my commission! 1960 G. Sire Deathmakers 44: They’re out to fuck you. The whole fucking world. So fuck them first. 1961 J. Baldwin Another Country 77: We been fucked for fair. 1965 in J. Mills On Edge 8: You thought you were going to get laid, and what you really got was fucked. 1969 L. H. Whittemore Cop! 27: So it’s the Puerto Ricans that fuck the Puerto Ricans. They sell their own people the worst shit. 1972 D. Halberstam Best & Brightest 66 [refers to 1961]: Carl Kaysen…brought in the news that the Soviets had resumed atmospheric [nuclear] testing. The President’s reaction was simple and basic and reflected due frustrations of that year. “Fucked again,” he said. 1978 W. Strieber Wolfen 201: But he ain’t gonna fuck me. He must think I’m some kind of schoolboy. 1979–82 L. Gwin Going Overboard 195: As Mick tried to teach me, “Top dog fucks the bottom dog. That’s the law of the jungle.” 1983–86 G.C. Wilson Supercarrier 67: “Being in the Russian military is like being in a chicken coop,” Belenko would say in his lectures. “You know you’re going to be fucked, you just don’t know when.” 1994 Q. Tarantino Pulp Fiction 32: Brett. I just want you to know how sorry we are about how fucked up things got between us and Mr. Wallace. When we entered into this thing, we only had the best intentions—…Jules. Does he look like a bitch?… Then why did you try to fuck ’im like a bitch?… Yes ya did Brett. Ya tried ta fuck ’im. 2004 P. Biskind Down & Dirty Pictures vi. 215: According to their bookkeeping, the film never made anything, even though it made so much money all over the world. I just got fucked out of everything.

b. (in variations implying especially cruel deception or brutalization).

1945 in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K 115: We’d get fucked out of Saturday afternoon though.… In this place they always fuck you in the ass when they get a chance. 1965 in H.S. Thompson Shark Hunt 114: We read/a newspaper and saw where just about everybody/had been fucked in the face/or some other orifice or opening…/by the time the Chronicle went to press. 1974 R. Carter 16th Round 257: The cops knew that they were fucking me with a dry dick. 1977 E. Torres Q & A 75: You got ten big ones.… We will fuck Reilly in the ass. 1978 R. Price Ladies’ Man 106: Me? I went to [college]. I got fucked up the ass…I dropped out of school with six months to go. 1983 D. Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross 36: When they build your business…fuck them up the ass. 1991 “Ice Cube” No Vaseline (rap song): You’re gettin’ fucked out your green by a white boy, with no Vaseline. 1997 New Yorker (Sept. 8) 37: Gil didn’t understand how much firepower Steve had.… Steve is going to fuck Gil so hard his eardrums will pop. 2001 in L. Gottleib & J. Jacobs Inside the Cult of Kibu 245: The company was doomed.… They got fucked up the ass, hard, without lube.

4.a. (used as an imprecation or oath); God damn; to hell with; curse. See also fuck it, below, and fuck you, below.

1918 in E. Wilson Prelude 213: I’ve often seen a couple o’ chaps bringin’ back a wounded prisoner and they get tired of leadin’ ’im and one of ’em says: “Aw, fuck ’im, Jock! Let’s do ’im in,” and they shoot ’im and leave ’im there. 1914–21 J. Joyce Ulysses 603 [refers to 1904]: God fuck old Bennett. 1924 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters (1981) 113: I have lost the fine thrill enjoyed by Benj. Franklin when entering Philadelphia with a roll under each arm. Fuck Literature. 1926 F. Wray trans. H. Barbusse Under Fire 110: F—them. 1929 in E. O’Neill Letters 341: But I am forgetting our old watchword of the Revolution—F—k ’em all! 1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 280: He was for eating a sandwich. “Fuck that!” I said. 1943 in M. Morriss & R. Day South Pacific Diary (1996) 72: So cheer up lads—fuck ’em all. 1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 169 [refers to WWII]: I’m fugged if I’m going to tote a box all the way back. 1949 V. Van Praag Day Without End 215: “Orders be fucked!” he muttered. 1952 S. Bellow Adventures of Augie March 397: Oh, fuck Oliver! 1958 I. Fleming Dr. No (1960) xvii. 154: Bond said out loud, viciously, “—them all,” and turned sullenly back on his stomach. 1961 J. Peacock Valhalla 425 [refers to 1953]: Eat the apple and fuck the Corps in ’54! 1965 S. Linakis In Spring the War Ended 206: “Are you?” “Fucked if I know.” 1967 L. Yablonsky Hippie Trip 206: I said fuck this shit and moved over here. 1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 55 [refers to 1967]: Fuckin’ ARVN got better equipment than we do. Eat the apple and fuck the Corps. 1995 CA v. Simpson (Court-TV) (Sept. 6): Fuck the rules. We’ll make them up later. 1998 D. Shapiro Slow Motion viii. 201: Alcoholics Anonymous, she had scribbled, along with a few names of churches and times of meetings. Fuck her, I thought. What does she know? 2005 S. Horn Restless Sleep ii. 23: If the detectives really weren’t doing their jobs and clearing these cases, fuck’em.

b. (in stronger, more vivid, or more elaborate curses). See also fuck you and the horse you rode in on, below.

1940 J. Del Torto Graffiti Transcript (Kinsey Institute): Fuck you where you breathe. 1958 Stack A Lee 1: So fuck Billy the Lion in his motherfucking ass. 1962 G. Mandel Wax Boom 72 [refers to WWII]: I fuck you all where you breathe. 1967 J. Rechy Numbers 68: Fuck you in the ears, muscle-ladies. 1968 R. Gover JC 164: As for the board [of directors], fuck it with a sixpenny nail. 1969 N.Y.C. man, age ca45: When we were kids we’d say, “Fuck ’em all, big and small, right up to the nostrils!” 1970 J. Conaway Big Easy 94: “Chinga su madre!” “Fuck you in the heart,” he rejoined. 1971 H. Selby Room 134: You’re a rotten lousy son of a bitch and I fuck you where you eat, and your mother too. 1973 M. Scorsese & M. Martin Mean Streets (film): I fuck you where you breathe! I don’t give two shits for you! 1975 S. P. Smith American Boys 309: Fuck you in your mouth, Red! 1977 E. Bunker Animal Factory 117: If she’s been a jiveass bitch, fuck her in her ass. 1978 L. K. Truscott Dress Gray 370: Yeah? Well, fuck them and their marching orders. 1979 National Lampoon (Dec.) 17: Fuck you in the eye. 1980 H. Gould Fort Apache 51: Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.… Fuck ’em all, big and small. 1979–82 L. Gwin Going Overboard 185: Fuck you in the mouth, kiddo. This job is mine. 1983 S. Wright Meditations 297: Fuck you in the ear. 1984 W. J. Caunitz One Police Plaza 254: Fuck ’em where they breathe. 1984 A. R. Sample Racehoss 217 [refers to ca1960]: Fuck all ya’ll rat dead in the ass! 1987 N. Bell Cold Sweat 11: So fuck you both in the heart. 1993 G. Lee Honor & Duty 130: Fuck you in the ear. 1995 A. Ginsberg in Nation (Nov. 27) 669: Fuck you in the face. 1996 D. Gilbert in Harper’s (July) 72: “Man, you’re hopeless.”…“Fuck your teeth.” 1997 Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Apr. 22) 53: Fuck my gums! 2007 A. Kentawy Sunset Tales from New Iraq 199: Fuck you in the goat ass you fucken piece of fucken Chinese crap.

c. to cease or abandon, especially suddenly; ditch. See also fuck it, below, and fuck this shit, below.

1925 Englische Studien LX 279 [refers to WWI]: Fuck it…meant much the same as chuck it, “put a sock in it”—stop talking; or even “clear out.” 1965–70 J. Carroll in Paris Review (No. 50) 103: No solution is coming so I fuck it and start to yell. 1973 R. Roth Sand in Wind 150: I got the idea to fuck everything and head for California. 1979 J. Charyn Seventh Babe 174: Hell…Carl, why don’t we fuck baseball camp and stay right here? 1980 L. Fleischer & C. Gore Fame 158: Coco’s temper snapped. “Look, I’m not ‘my dear,’” she exploded. “You can fuck ‘my dear’!” 1984 W. Henderson Elvis 8: For two cents I’d fuck this job! Two goddamn cents —.

d. chiefly British. to be willing to make the required effort; to be bothered. Used in passive, in negative constructions.

1982 M. Amis Money 253: The Fiasco is still in custody. I keep meaning to go along and spring it from the pound. But I can’t be fucked. 1987 in F. Vermorel Sex Pistols 78: Boogie expected me at the office early but I couldn’t be fucked to hurry. 1995 D. McLean Bunker Man 154 Rob decided he couldn’t be fucked rushing back to the school. 1997 J. Owen Camden Girls 52: I can’t be fucked. It’s so fuckin eighties and you know what, I think I’m all charitied out. 2000 J. Goodwin Danny Boy xi. 233: I left school aged sixteen with no qualifications; not because I’m thick, but cos I couldn’t be bothered, couldn’t be fucked. 2004 G. King Three 52: I also realise the putrefied contents of my downstairs bin have survived to fester and mutate another week as I can’t be fucked throwing on clothes and rushing them to the curb. 2005 L. Dean This Human Season 100: Kathleen would go on wearing a bra, but she couldn’t be fucked with doing the ironing anymore.

5. to trifle or interfere with; fool; lie to.

1989 S. Lee Do the Right Thing (film): Look, don’t fuck me, awright? 1995 J. Sack Co. C 185: “You’re fuckin’ me, XO,” Burns erupted. “You said it’s a T-55 and it’s plainly a Bradley!…You’re lying to me!”

In phrases:

fuck a duck

1. get out! go to hell!—used with go.

[1785 F. Grose Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Duck f-ck-r. The man who has the care of the poultry on board a ship of war.] 1931 H. Miller Letter (June 16) in Letters to Emil (1989) 133: Tell her to go fuck a duck! [1932 American Speech VII (June) 332: Go milk a duck—“mind your own business.”] 1946 W. L. Gresham Nightmare Alley 47: Go frig a rubber duck. 1953–55 MacK. Kantor Andersonville 183: Aw, go fuck a duck. [1958 R. Chandler Playback 168: Why don’t you go kiss a duck?] 1965 W. Beech Make War in Madness 67: Go fuck a duck, Otis. 1967–72 T. Weesner Car Thief 258: I don’t give a shit, they can go fuck a duck. [1972 G. Lukas et al. American Graffiti (film script) 50: Steve. Hey Kroot (The teacher turns, surprised by the omission of the “Mr.”) Steve. (cont.) Why don’t you go kiss a duck. (Kroot’s beady eyes widen and he comes back.) Kroot. What? What did you say? Steve. I said go kiss a duck, marblehead.] 1973 TULIPQ (coll. B.K. Dumas): You mother, go fuck a duck. 1977 in E. Partridge Dictionary of Catch Phrases (ed. 2) 104: Go fuck a duck! “Get lost!” “Beat it!” Current, 1920s (in US), now virtually dead. a1990 D. Poyer Gulf 389: Bernard gave him a go-to-hell sneer.… He could fuck a duck. 1992 J. L’Heureux Shrine at Altamira 81: When he asked for an advance against his paycheck, the boss had laughed and told him to go fuck a duck. 2005 M. Marnich in Theatre Forum (Winter/Spring) 72/2: Peter: You never miss a deadline. And you never swear. Amy: There’s a first time for everything. Go fuck a duck.

2. to engage in indiscriminate sexual activity.—used with will or would.

a1930 in G. Legman No Laughing Matter (1975) 177: Fuckaduck film. 1951 R. Thacher Captain 40: Hambley, as the saying goes, would frake a drake. 1972 National Lampoon (Apr.) 34: You can get anything from an ugly chick.… Really foul, but they’ll fuck a duck. 2004 J. R. Lansdale

Sunset & Sawdust 14: “Shit, I’d fuck a duck if it winked and bent over.” “I don’t think you’d care if it winked or not.” 2008 S. Offit Friends, Writers, & Other Countrymen 90: I’ve always been quite candid about sex—I would fuck a duck—and have.

3. (used as an interjection to express anger or astonishment).

1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 36: Well, fuck a duck! I congratulate him just the same. 1954–60 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang. 1972–76 C. Durden No Bugles, No Drums 234: I looked at Ski. He looked away. Lord fuck a duck. 1976 S. Hayden Voyage 420: Well, now, fuck a duck, whaddaya know about that? 1977 D. Bredes Hard Feelings 250: Operation Rollaway!…Fuck a duck! 1981 R. Meltzer Belsen Is No Longer Gas in Whore Just Like Rest (2000) 310: But fuck a duck Hitler was a vegetarian. 1986 I. Wedde Symmes Hole 117: There are men running in many directions…uniforms, mufti, pyjamas… “Fuck a duck!” the other running on. “…hey, you jokers, it’s a breakout from Crawford!” 1990 P. Munro Slang U. 85: Fuck a duck!…Damn! 1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order 20: “I’m getting a lot of aggro from the filth on account of some videos I done a couple of weeks ago.” “Fuck a duck!” Lynn said. 1996 M. Cheek Sleeping Beauties iv. 30: And Chloe, tweezers poised, said spontaneously, “Fuck a duck, that’s terrible.” 2002 M. Crichton Prey 226: “Hey, Charley…I think it’s found a way.” “Yeah, I see it. Fuck a duck.”

4. (see 1971, 1979 quotations at definition 1c, above).

fucked [up] and far from home and variants, chiefly Military, in a hopeless situation. See also fed up, fucked up, and far from home under FED UP.

1921–24 A. G. Pretty et al. Glossary of Slang & Peculiar Terms Used in the A.I.F: F.F.F. Completely miserable; friged [sic], fucked, and far from home. 1936 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English 305: F*cked and far from home. In the depths of misery, physical and mental: a military [catch phrase]: 1915. 1950 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 3) 1054: F*cked-up and far from home…dates from 1899. 1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions 937: The hell with them, anyway, they’re all of them fucked and far from home, sitting over there right now pretending they’re in New York pretending they’re in Paris. 1972 R.A. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 117: When the IRS was through auditing my return, I was fucked and far from home. 1974 B. Broadfoot Six War Years 75: We used to have this expression in the [Canadian] army. A guy would say he was fucked and far from home. 1988 G. Swift Out of this World 170: Fucked-up and far from home. Or, as one hollow-faced Marine lieutenant, who was at the frivolous stage, put it: Dug-in, doped-up, demoralized or dead. 1995 T. Willocks Bloodstained Kings 207: You were well fucked and far from home.

fucked by the fickle finger of fate, thwarted or victimized by bad fortune. Jocular.

1944–46 in American Speech XXII 56: Flucked by the flickle flinger of flate. Doomed by Army snafu. 1957 E. Brown Locust Fire 93 [refers to 1944]: The fickle finger would foul you sure in the end. It would goose you over the edge. Fouled by the fickle finger of fate. 1968 D. Stahl Hokey 220: I was being totally and fatally fucked by the fickle finger of fate. 1972 R.A. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 104: Fucked by the fuckle [sic] fi nger of fate, (said by those whose plans are thwarted). 1976 in E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 8) 433: Fucked by the fickle finger of fate…Current in U.S. (student) circles at least several years earlier [than WWII]. 1983 A. Sillitoe Lost Flying Boat 92: “Fucked by the fickle finger of fate,” said Bull. “Alliteration will do for you yet,” said Rose. 1986 W. E. B. Griffin Generals 166: At that moment, Lieutenant Geoffrey Craig understood that he had been fucked by the fickle finger of fate. 1990 B. Graham Bill Graham Presents (2004) 41: He always played the role of the guy that was fucked by the fickle finger of fate. He was never totally a bad guy.

fuck ’em all but six [and save them for pallbearers], Especially Military. to hell with them all. Also in euphemistic variants.

1916–17 in Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin XXI (1955) 100 [bowdlerized]: Cuss ’em all, cuss ’em all,/Cuss ’em all but six! [1932 K. Nicholson & C. Robinson Sailor Beware! 22: “All but six.” “And you can use them for pallbearers.”] 1931–34 L. A. Adamic Dynamite 393 [refers to ca1925]: The motto in a factory where I once worked was: “To hell with ’em all but six; save them for pallbearers!” 1950 J. Stuart Objector 216: “Screw the Army, the whole God-damned Army.” “All but six.… They’ll need pall-bearers.” 1952 L. Uris Battle Cry [refers to 1942]: “Fugg you guys and save six for pallbearers,” Levin shouted. 1920–54 V. Randolph Bawdy Elements 120: Oh, fuck ’em all but six, and save them for pall-bearers. 1960 D. MacCuish Do Not Go Gentle 116 [refers to 1941]: Screw all but six and save them for pallbearers. 1972–76 C. Durden No Bugles, No Drums 7: Dumb bastards. Fuck ’em all but eight. Leave six for pallbearers and two to beat the drums. 1987 National Lampoon (June) 14: How about the famous Army saying “Fuck all of them but six and save them for pallbearers.” 2000 J. Blackthorn I, Che Guevara 84: Fuck ’em all but six, and keep them for pallbearers.

fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke (used to dismiss or reject someone for being (esp. hypocritically) dismissive).

1973 E. Cray Burden of Proof 365: The ultimate condemnation, “Fuck ’Em If They Can’t Take a Joke.” 1978 A. Maupin Tales of City 42: “Fuck ’em, if they can’t take a joke!” She laughed, hoping it would cover her embarrassment. 1985 J. Dillinger Adrenaline 102: He drew a few stares in his…Bermudas and…sport shirt. Fuck ’em if they couldn’t take a joke. a1991 C. Heimel If You Can’t Live Without Me, Why Aren’t You Dead Yet? 221: It is your sacred duty to forge new ways, turn expectations asunder, and fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke. 1994 Esquire (Feb.) 80: Fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke. 2003 J. Smiley Good Faith 377: And now I’m late for dinner, but, hey, fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke.

fuck it (used to express dismissal, exasperation, resignation, or impetuousness).

1922 E.E. Cummings Enormous Room: F— it, I don’t want it. 1925 Englische Studien LX 279 [refers to WWI]: Fuck it…meant much the same as chuck it, “put a sock in it”—stop talking; or even “clear out.” 1926 F. Wray trans. H. Barbusse Under Fire 27: Ah, f—it! 1933 H. Miller in Letters to Emil (1989) 131: Fuck it! I’m starting off bad with my colors. 1934 J. O’Hara in Selected Letters 93: My message to the world is Fuck it! 1935 in P. Oliver Blues Tradition 231: Whee…tell ’em about me! Fuck it! 1959 J. Kerouac Dr. Sax 40: Ah fuckit, Zagg—helmets is helmets. 1968 H. Davies Beatles I thought, fuck it, fuck it, fuck it. That’s really fucked everything. 1978 B. Seale Lonely Rage 81: If you don’t want to forgive me—well, fuck it, I’m still sorry. 1985 R. B. Parker Catskill Eagle 356: Costigan looked back at me, “Fuck it,” he said, “get it done.” I shot him. A hole appeared in his forehead and the impact spun his swivel chair half around. 1990 L.B. Rubin Erotic Wars 180: Fuck it, why not? 1998 W. Lamb I Know This Much is True 547: Fuck it, man. Couldn’t keep the Grim Reaper waiting. 2008 P. Carey His Illegal Self 53: Fuck it. She balled it in her fist and squeezed it. Wringing the water into her lap. Fuck it fuck it fuck it fuck it.

fuck me! (used to express anger or astonishment); “I’ll be damned!”—also in elaborated variants.

1929 F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune 126 [refers to WWI]: “Well, you can fuck me!” exclaimed the astonished Martlow. 1943 G. Biddle Journal (July 31) in Artist at War (1944) 77: Teddy’s run of literary allusions is a pleasant relief after the too concentrated diet of “fuck me’s” and “fuck you’s” of the G.I.’s. 1944 L. Glassop We Were the Rats 194: And — me if he doesn’t get stook into it with grenades. 1944–57 L. Atwell Private 64 [refers to WWII]: F— me, I’m not hangin’ around here! 1958 W. Talsman Gaudy Image 197: Well, fuck me double…if it isn’t Aphrodite Schultz in person. 1957–62 D. Higginbotham U.S. Marine Corps Folklore 24: Fuck me dead! 1970 D. Wakefield Going All the Way 296: Fuck me in the teeth. What a fuckin piece of luck. 1973 B. Hirschfeld Generation of Victors 32: Fuck me blind! That hole ain’t half done. 1977 D. Bredes Hard Feelings 293: I’m just trying to talk myself out of being scared shitless because, fuck me, I have to go down there. 1984 K. Weaver Texas Crude 28: Fuck me naked! Fuck me a-runnin’! 1985 D. Dye Run Between the Raindrops 315: Well, fuck me blind. OK, Lieutenant. Got the picture right here. 1988 D. Waters Heathers (film script) 8: Veronica. Why can’t we talk to different kinds of people. Heather Chandler. Fuck me gently with a chainsaw. Do I look like Mother Theresa? If I did, I probably wouldn’t mind talking to the Geek Squad. 1991 E. S. Raymond New Hacker’s Dictionary 170: Aiighhh! Fuck me with a piledriver and 16 feet of curare-tipped wrought-iron fence and no lubricants! 1993 G. Lee Honor & Duty 330: Well, fuck me to tears!…It’s really Joe Schmoe the ragman. 1995 J. Díaz in New Yorker (Jan. 19, 1996) 78: I hop the fence, feeling stupid when I sprawl on the…grass. Nice one, somebody calls out. Fuck me, I say. 1997 Student slang survey: If something goes wrong, you say, “Well, fuck me up the goat’s ass.” 2004 R. Pickett Sideways 184: Oh, fuck me with a hot poker. 2006 I. Welsh Bedroom Secrets of Master Chefs 188: I see a familiar figure approaching the bar, and fuck me if it isn’t my old mate Dessie Kinghorn.

fuck (someone’s) mind, to astonish, intimidate, or befuddle (someone). Compare MIND-FUCK, noun & verb.

1966 R. Goldstein 1 in 7 113: Mind-fucking is taking advantage of a student who is high on pot—and thus susceptible to suggestion. For instance: “You tell someone who’s inhaled pot for a while that he’s been holding his breath for twenty minutes, and he’s liable to believe you. It really fucks his mind!” 1968 R. Gover JC 137: Hey that sure would fuck some minds, huh. 1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 84: Fuck someone’s mind…v. To persuade forcefully without regard for the feelings of those being persuaded. a1974 in Adolescence XIII (1978) 467: [Solitary confinement] fucks your mind, you keep saying you want to go home. 1994 R. Flanagan Death of River Guide 128: They want to fuck your mind, that’s what she said. 1998 New Times (Los Angeles) (Oct. 29): You can fuck my body, baby, but please don’t fuck my mind. 2001 D. Brenna Altar of the Body 238: She knows how to bust your buns, how to fuck your mind. Well, I say fuck her!

fuck the deck, see under DECK.

fuck the dog, see under DOG.

fuck the duck, see under DUCK.

fuck this shit (used to dismiss a situation); “to hell with this.”

1968 L. Yablonsky Hippie Trip 206: I said fuck this shit and moved over here. 1973 J. P. Donleavy Fairy Tale of N.Y. 74: I said fuck this shit I’m getting out of here and going there. 1983 D. Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross 62: What the fuck am I wasting my time, fuck this shit. 1990 G. Lee China Boy 92: Le’s fuck dis shit an leave da sucka be. 1995 C. Sorrentino Sound on Sound 131: Who cares, fuck this shit. 2006 C. Messud Emperor’s Children 270: Fuck this shit, man. Fuck this shit.

fuck wise, to act or speak like a know-it-all.

1979 D. Gram Boulevard Nights 49: “Don’t fuck wise!” shot back Chuco.

fuck you, (used to express hostility or contempt); “go to hell!” See also sense 4.b., above, fuck you and the horse you rode in on, and fuck you very much, below.

[1905 Independent (Mar. 2) 486: “D—n you, Jack, I’m all right,” is being gradually adopted by the lords of the forecastle and quarter deck alike in place of the old time motto of generous consideration that was world famous, “Remember Your Shipmates.”] ca1915 in J. Brophy & Partridge Long Trail 229: Dieu et mon droit./F— you, Jack, I’m all right. 1916 A. Tiveychoc Diary (June 16) in B. Gammage Broken Years (1974) 126: Goodbye and — you! 1916–18 in Notes & Queries (Nov. 19, 1921) 417: — you, Jack, I’m in the lifeboat. 1931 J. Dos Passos Nineteen Nineteen 249 [refers to WWI]: Hey sojer your tunic’s unbuttoned (f—k you buddy). 1934 H. Roth Call It Sleep 420 [refers to ca1910]: Yu crummy bastard.… Fuck yiz! 1935 H. McCoy They Shoot Horses 37: “F— you,” Gloria said. 1942 R. Tregaskis Guadalcanal Diary (Sept. 1): “F— you, Mac,” he said, indulging in the marines’ favorite word. 1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye 201: Somebody’d written “Fuck you” on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they’d wonder what the hell it meant.… I kept wanting to kill whoever’d written it. 1962 E. Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 13: George…Alright, love…whatever love wants. Isn’t it nice the way some people have manners, though, even in this day and age? Isn’t it nice that some people won’t just come breaking into other people’s houses even if they do hear some subhuman monster yowling at ’em from inside…? Martha. FUCK YOU! 1969 M. Puzo Godfather 187: “You can’t fire me?” Nino said with drunken cunning. “No,” Johnny said. “Then fuck you.” 1978 L. K. Truscott Dress Gray 291: Fuck you and all you “know” about that war.… So fuck you and your uppity crap about me and West Point and the army and Vietnam. 1983 D. Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross 42: And fuck you. Fuck the lot of you. Fuck you all. 1976–84 A. M. Ettinger & A. C. Ettinger Doughboy with Fighting 69th 8 [refers to 1918]: Fuck you. If you got any sisters, fuck them too. 1990 in N. George Buppies, B-Boys 143: Robin made saying “Fuck you” an art form. 1997 A. Nersesian Fuck-Up 74: “Fuck you!” I shouted unconcerned that we were the center of attention in the place…“Well fuck you too!” she yelled back and vanished back into the masses. 2006 in L. McNeil & G. McCain Please Kill Me 418: I was like, “Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Oh, sorry, Mom.” 2007 J. Hayes Precious Blood 273: Fuck you! Fuck you, you fucking coward!

fuck you and the horse you rode in on (an elaborated and intensified form of) fuck you, above.

1967 A. Dubus Lieutenant 6: Use[d] disrespectful language to Corporal Bradley…to wit, “Fuck you and the horse you rode in on, Mac” or words to that effect. 1971 G. V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 92: Fuck you, lady,…and the horse you rode in on. 1972–76 C. Durden No Bugles, No Drums 78: Fuck you…’n’ the horse you rode in on. 1992 M. Crichton Rising Sun 111: “Senator Rowe…I’m afraid I’ll have to ask you to —” “Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.” 2004 New York Magazine (Aug. 9) 44/2: In the elevator, a bunch of…attorneys rode down together. A message flashed on all their BlackBerries. It was from London: “Fuck [assistant district attorney] Moscow and the horse he rode in on.” 2008 S. Paretsky Bleeding Kansas 391: “Beelzebub, Demon Alcohol, Demon Gluttony, in the Holy Name of Jesus I cast you out! Leave this woman and leave this place!” “Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on, too!” Elaine yelled.

fuck you very much (used as a sarcastic or blatantly insincere expression of undeserved thanks).

a1976 T. McNally Ritz & Other Plays 159: Fuck you, ducky, fuck you very much. Nice place you got here. 1978 A. Maupin Tales of the City 70: Fuck you very much. 1981 J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome 41: Good luck to the first team and fuck you very much. 1985 T. Kidder House 256: We Sincerely Appreciate Your Criticism[/]Fuck You Very Much. 1991 D. Gates Jernigan 77: Absolutely nothing to lose at this point. “Well, fuck you very much,” I said. 1991 M. Lackey Jinx High 143: “And fuck you very much, sir,” she said mockingly to the handset as she put it down on the tray. 1998 E. J. Dickey Milk in My Coffee 42: “Kim, why—” “ Kimberly. My damn name is Kimberly, fuck you very much.” 2007 G. Kaplan Evil, Inc. lx. 164: “Sure,” Ken said, pulling his arm away from the goon’s grip, “fuck you very much.”

get fucked! (used to express hostility or contempt); go to hell!

a1950 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 3) 1054: F*cked!, go and get.… mid C.19-20. 1966 E. Shepard Doom Pussy 151: We told him to go ahead and ask. And he did. And we say, “Get f—.” 1968 L. J. Davis Whence All Had Fled 218: “Get fucked,” he said. 1986 D. Dye & O. Stone Platoon 16: Tell that dipshit to get fucked. a1990 C. T. Westcott Half a Klick from Home 125: Tell him ta get fucked with a mule’s dick, I don’t care.

go fuck [yourself] (used to express hostility or contempt); go to hell! get out! be damned! Also variants with other objects, especially go fuck your mother. [Go fuck your mother is generally perceived as the most offensive and provocative curse in English; cf. MOTHERFUCKER.]

[1879 Pearl 210: He’d been told,/To bloody well bugger himself.] 1895 Report of the Senate Committee on the Police Dept. of N.Y. III. 3158: By Senator Bradley: Q. Repeat what he said to you? A. He said, “Go on, fuck yourself, you son-of-a-bitch; I will give you a hundred dollars”; he tried to punch me, and I went out. [1905 W. S. Kelly Lariats 273: If yer don’t like ’em, go and puke yourselfs.] 1920 in J. Dos Passos 14th Chronicle 306: As for an intellectual class it can go f— itself. 1922 T. E. Lawrence The Mint (1955) 99: “Go and fuck rattlesnakes,” retorted Garner. 1926 F. Wray trans. H. Barbusse Under Fire 243: Go and f— yourself. 1929 D. Marquis in G. Legman No Laughing Matter (1975) 149: Go fuck thy suffering self. 1931 J. Dos Passos Nineteen Nineteen 150 [refers to WWI]: Joe got sore and told him to go f— himself. 1932 E. Hemingway Winner 152: F— yourself. F— your mother. F— your sister. 1933 in H. Miller Letters to Emil (1989) 126: Tell her to go fuck herself. 1938 R. Chandler Big Sleep 60: Go — yourself. 1942 in D. Schwartz Journals 88: “Then go fuck yourself!” said May, hanging up, enraged. 1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 12: Go fug yourself. [1951 African Studies X 32: “Copulate with your mother!” Normally no insult could be more frightful.] 1955 J. Sack Here to Shimbashi 92: Sometimes they toss cigarettes to the MP’s on patrol, and sometimes they have been known to shout, “Hey, GI — your mother!” in English. 1959 New York City schoolboy, age 13: Aw, go fuck your mother in bed, you little prick! 1961 J. Baldwin Another Country 34: Drop dead, get lost, go fuck yourself. 1961 R. Granat Important Thing 80 [refers to WWII]: You just go f—. 1967 N. Mailer Why We Are in Vietnam 94: Go fuck, D.J.’s got his purchase on the big thing. 1969 in M. Girodias New Olympia Reader 68: She [was] screaming, “Go fuck your mother.” [1976 C. Amuzie in Journal of Black Studies VI 416: Among the Igbos, one could hear male and very old female adults cursing [in Igbo] as follows: “fuck your mother,” “fuck your sister,” “may a dog fuck your mother.” These curses are perceived by the Igbos as among the worst.] 1976 J. Harrison Farmer 28: Oh go fuck yourself. 1973–77 J. Jones Whistle 320 [refers to WWII]: “Appreciate it.” “Go fuck.” 1977 Maledicta (Summer) 12: Go fuck yourself with a rubber weenie. 1980 E. Morgan Surgeon 195: “Leah,” screamed the little girl. “Go fuck your cat, fuck your mother.” [1985 J.M.G. Brown Rice Paddy Grunt 122: The gook tells him, “ Du Mau, Du Mau” (to fuck his mother, in Vietnamese).] 2004 Washington Post (June 25) A4: A chance meeting with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, became an argument about Cheney’s ties to Halliburton Co., an international energy services corporation, and President Bush’s judicial nominees. The exchange ended when Cheney offered some crass advice. “Fuck yourself,” said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency.

I wouldn’t fuck her with your dick and variants, (used to describe a sexually unappealing woman).

1968 G. Legman Rationale of Dirty Joke 367: Compare the folk-phrase, “I wouldn’t fuck her with your prick.” 1979 L. Gonzales Jambeaux 15: “I wouldn’t fuck her with your dick,” Link said. “You’d fuck anything that’s warm.” Page laughed. 1996 E. Leonard Out of Sight 219: Man, I wouldn’t fuck her with your dick. 1998 J. Collins Power 63: “You gotta be kidding? I wouldn’t fuck her with somebody else’s dick.” Trust Max to say exactly what everyone else was thinking. Angela looked like a heroin addict on the run. 2001 “L. Burana” Strip City 132: A man is loudly mocking a dancer.… “I wouldn’t fuck her with somebody else’s dick!” he howls to his friends. 2003 W. Heffernan Time Gone By 198: The broad’s a lush. I wouldn’t fuck her with your dick.

who do I (or you) have to fuck? [in allusion to the alleged requirement of actresses to sleep with directors to get film roles] “what unpleasant thing do I have to do?”

1968 M. Crowley Boys in the Band 48: Who do you have to fuck to get a drink around here? 1971 T. Southern Blue Movie 13: Listen, who do I have to fuck to get off this picture? 1979 L. Gonzales Jambeaux 14: Who do you have to fuck to get a transfer outta this chickenshit outfit? 1986 T. McNally It’s Only a Play 34: Who do you have to fuck to get something to eat around here? 1993 S. Corbin Fragments that Remain 264: Now I got plenty of cash money, and it’s all about, Who do I have to fuck to spend my money with them? 2004 N. Munk Fools Rush In v. 99: I leave a message that says, “Who do I have to fuck to get you people to do your job?”

fuck interjection

1. (used as an interjection to express dismay, disbelief, resignation, surprise, etc.); “shit”; “hell.” Compare FUCK, verb, definition 4.a.

1929 F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune II. 161 [refers to WWI]: A man…uttered under his breath a monosyllabic curse. “Fuck.” 1934 “J.M. Hall” Anecdota Americana (Second series) 146: “Oh, fuck!” he cried in disgust. 1943 in M. Morriss & R. Day South Pacific Diary (1996) 196: I welcome the day when people say “fuck!” in polite and mixed company. 1945 in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K 301: Fuck, we’re gonna be in the army for another year anyway. 1958 I. Fleming Dr. No (1960) xx. 148: “—,” said Bond, once. He got painfully out on to the side of the track. 1962 in B. Jackson In the Life 157: I’m no gambler because if I tried to gamble, fuck, I’d lose my goddamned drawers. 1964–66 R. Stone Hall of Mirrors 51: Fuck no, I ain’t stoppin’ you. 1973 P. Benchley Jaws 194: “Fuck!” he said, and he threw the full can into the wastebasket. 1981 J. H. Stiehm Bring Men & Women 263: One woman officer…told of stopping an activity because a frustrated woman had said, “Oh, fuck.” 1985 E. Leonard Glitz 207: I thought, fuck, the guy’s a natural. 1987 P. D. Chinnery Life on the Line 208: Brian…said, “Oh, f***.” Then he died. 1998 M. Waites Little Triggers iii. 23: She lit her cigarette and pulled a deep drag.… After holding on for a few seconds she let go. Her tension ebbed along with the smoke. “Fuck, I needed that.” 2002 M. Crichton Prey 144: “I’m not sure we can just deny—” “Fuck yes, deny.”

2. [reduction of fucked, past participle of FUCK, verb, definition 4] damned [if].

1967 N. Mailer Why Are We In Vietnam? x. 178: “Well, you ain’t no I.Q. competitor.” “Fuck, I ain’t. I compete you in anything.” 1978 A. Maupin Tales of the City 18: Fuck if I know. 1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 143: Fuck if I’m stickin’ around. 1984 W. D. Ehrhart Marking Time 123: Fuck if I know. 1998 Daily Variety (Apr. 23) A45: When was the moment we broke out? Fuck if I know, even I have a hard time dissecting that one. 2003 D. Lehane Shutter Island iii. 50: “Fuck if I know.”… “Quite similar to our clinical conclusion.”

3. = the fuck, definition 2, under FUCK, noun. Also: (elliptical for) “what the fuck,” “who the fuck,” etc.

1983 S. King Christine 147: “Turn out your pockets, Buddy.”…“Fuck I will.” 1989 B. M. Cooper & T. L. Wright New Jack City (film script) 30: Fuck is wrong with you? 1996 D. McCumber Playing off Rail 272: “I don’t do that to you.” “Fuck you don’t.” 1999 J. Williams Five Pubs, Two Bars & Nightclub 156: “Who you been talking to, Tone?” he asked now. “Kenny.” “Fuck you talking to Kenny for?” 2003 J. Lethem Fortress of Solitude i. iv. 60: Fuck you know about it, anyway?

fuckability noun

ability to be copulated with; (specifically) sexual attractiveness.

1969 Screw (Sept. 1) 6/3: The SCREW sex laboratory must find the vibrating dildo limited in functionality and fuckability. 1992 M. Leyner Et Tu, Babe v. 126: I don’t think that those folks wrote to enhance their fuckability. 1999 Empire (Nov.) 150/3: But the book is at its best when Figgis coaxes anecdotal material to back up the theories:…Ally Sheedy revealing she was told to “up her fuckability quotient” if she wanted to work. 2005 J. MacGregor Sunday Money iv. 118: For Cup drivers with talent and a good work ethic but a low mojo quotient (“deficient fuckability,” per Hollywood), there is applause but no hysteria.

fuckable adjective

1. sexually desirable.

1889 Capt. C. Devereaux Venus in India 110: The poor man had at last outwitted his careful wife and obtained the much-longed-for fuckable cunt. a1890–93 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues III 80: Fuckable…Desirable. 1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 23: Fuckable, sexually desirable (of a female). 1971 J. F. Hunter Gay Insider xvii. 217: Youth is the sine qua non of desirability: males under twenty-five, butch and fuckable. 1974 J. Lahr Hot to Trot 15: “I’d like to dip my wick into that.” “Fuckable.” 1973–77 J. Jones Whistle 233: She was…eminently fuckable. 1978 L. Kramer Faggots 28: If clothes make the man, what were they making?… And why was the same guy Hot and fuckable in a Pendleton and not in a Polo? 1986 R. Campbell In La-La Land 3: Showing how brave, how manly, how fuckable he was. 1997 GQ (Sept.) 258: Anne-Marie…is a blow-up doll—highly fuckable for her lack of will and personality. 2001 C. Whitehead John Henry Days iv. 323: They were all there, from the eminently fuckable to the differently attractive, the not conventionally handsome and the walking airbrushed in complimentary [sic] pairs. 2004 H. Walsh Brass i. 21: A simple course of lazer treatment would kill the problem forever and thus transform her from an unfuckable attractive lady to a fuckable stunner.

2. sexually available.

1889 Capt. C. Devereaux Venus in India 142: I should never at any time object to so great a pleasure as having my prick and my balls handled by a very pretty girl, whom I knew to be fuckable. 1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 25: Available open for sexual consideration.… Syn[onyms]: catchable; fuckable; [etc.]. 1977 College student: What you do is, you just come right out and ask her, “How fuckable are you?” 1994 Guardian (Sept. 17) (Weekend Suppl.) 5/3: Where are all the fuckable younger men for the older woman? 1995 Independent (Jan. 28) 27/2: Because there is only one reason for women to exist in Updike’s world: to be fucked, or at least fuckable. 2004 S. Kandel I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason xxvi. 184: Thick wool legs at cocktail hour! What an affront!… Silk stockings mean you’re fuckable.

fuck-a-doodle-doo interjection

(used to express ironic delight); “oh, wonderful”; “big deal.”

1976 J. F. Daly (book title): Fuck-a-doodle-doo. 1980 C. Garrison Snakedoctor 186: Well, fuck-a-doodle-doo! 1990 N. Simon Rumors 86: ERNIE.… (Covering the phone.) It’s a woman. For Glenn. CLAIRE. So? ERNIE. It sounds like Myrna. COOKIE. Oh, fuck-a-doodle-doo. 1994 Four Weddings & a Funeral (film): Fuck-a-doodle-doo. 2004 Shaun of the Dead (film): “I like having him around, he’s a laugh.” “Because he can impersonate an orangutan? Fuck-a-doodle-doo.”

fuckaholic noun [FUCK , verb, definition 1a + -aholic]

a person who compulsively engages in promiscuous sexual intercourse. Jocular.

1981 D. Jenkins Baja Oklahoma 246: He’s just a fuckaholic, is all he is. 1989 S. Chapple & D. Talbot Burning Desires 294: Both were serious fuckaholics. 1997 N. Kotker Billy in Love 50: Every Tuesday morning. We had a regular date. Plus Marie twice a week. Plus Alice, whenever. That’s what I mean fuckaholic. I needed to have it. 2002 F. C. Wilson Jaded Rose v. 30: I’m still a fuckaholic and I enjoy it! Why the damn tears? More sex, more better, I always say.

fuck all noun

1. absolutely nothing; FUCK, noun, definitions 2a & b; (in negative constructions) anything at all; the least thing.—also as adjective.

1916 Record of the Trial of H. Farr (Public Record Office: WO 71/509) f. 4: He then said, “You are a fucking coward & you will go to the trenches—I give fuck all for my life & I give fuck all for yours & I’ll get you fucking well shot.” 1918 Noyes Slang Manuscript (unpaged): Fuck-all.—(1) nothing. “There’s not a fuck-all to do this afternoon.” 1919 Athenaeum (Aug. 1) 695: There is a very queer phrase denoting “nothing”—“—all!” No record of war slang is complete without it. 1929 F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune 130 [refers to 1916]: We all go over the top knowing sweet fuck-all of what we are supposed to be doing. 1939 A. C. Bessie Men in Battle 133: Nobody’s seen fuck-all of ’em. 1941 in G. Legman Limerick (1954) 35: The cube of its weight…/Was four fifths of five eighths of fuck-all. ca1944 in A. Hopkins Front & Rear 54: The officers they know fuck all. ca1950 in E. Cray Erotic Muse 116: There was fuck-all else to do. 1965 S. Linakis In Spring the War Ended 74: Didn’t mean fuck-all to the ones that busted you. 1967 J. Kornbluth Notes from the New Underground 91: The Daily Mirror carried thirteen thousand inches of advertising—and fuck-all to read. 1976 P. Atlee Last Domino Contract 160: They would have fuckall chance against us. 1978 L. K. Truscott Dress Gray 45: Said the supe…didn’t know fuckall. 1979 L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1987) 283: What have we got! Fuckall! 1984 J. Hughes Breakfast Club (final draft screenplay) 139: Brian. apprehensive What if he calls my mother? A satisfied, fuck-all grin spreads across his face. I’ll trash the bitch. 1994 Loaded (Sept.) 41/2: My ambition is to go on the Antiques Roadshow and say to some old bag, “You’re thinking this old wardrobe is worth a million quid but it’s worth fuck all.” 1994 J. Kelman How Late it Was 99: Sammy sniffed. There was fuck all to say. He wasnay even angry any longer. 1995 R. Williamson, folk singer, in concert in N.Y.C.: Shut up, Dad, you don’t know fuck-all! 1997 Harper’s (Feb.) 68: I taught you nothing. I taught you fuck-all. 1997 A. Proulx in New Yorker (Oct. 13) 83: But fuck-all has worked the way I wanted. 2002 E. Hartmann Truth About Fire vi. 52: The local police aren’t doing fuck-all about the investigation. Another dead Injun, what’s the big deal. 2006 G. Malkani Londonstani ix. 100: There were other people with fuck all to do with the fight out by the track that afternoon.

2. hell (as an expletive).

1938 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters (1981) 466: It’s been a fuckall of a six weeks. Nobody’s got any social standing at all now who hasn’t swum the Ebro at least once. 1958 L. F. Cooley Run for Home 138 [refers to 1920s]: Who the fuck-all does he think he is?

3. a damn; a fuck.

1958 L. F. Cooley Run for Home 20 [refers to 1920s]: I don’t give a fuckall what you think! 1998 P. Biskind Easy Riders, Raging Bulls 177: We didn’t give a fuck-all; we’d let anybody have a screening. 2007 L. Kleypas Sugar Daddy 400: Honey, I don’t give a fuck-all if you believe me or not.

fuck-all adverb

utterly; at all; absolutely.

1961 G. Forbes Goodbye to Some 169 [refers to WWII]: Nothin’. Absolutely fuckall nothin’. 1961 E. Hemingway Islands in the Stream 336: I feel fuck-all discouraged about things sometimes. 1961 E. Hemingway Islands in the Stream 400: But I am not going to put Willie and Ara and Henry into one of those burp-gun massacres in the mangroves for fuck-all nothing. 1975 N. Dickens Jack Nicholson 122: She was a guest of the company and we didn’t have to do fuck-all anything for her. 1991 O. Stone & Z. Sklar JFK (film): Don’t matter fuck-all. 1992 J. Wolcott in Vanity Fair (Sept.) 301: The flatulent influence of Foucault on sex, about which Foucault…knew fuck-all nothing. 1997 Esquire May 64/1: Darrell Miers, big as a Buick with loose steering, possesses the fuck-all equanimity of a bail bondsman. 2005 J. Walter Citizen Vince 177: You think the job is a certain thing and you can just go along, fuck-all blind.

fuck-all interjection

= FUCK, interjection, definition 1.

1918 Noyes Slang Manuscript (unpaged): Fuck-all…(2) Also used as an expression of disgust. “Oh fuck-all!” 1963 H. S. Thompson Letter (Nov. 22) in Proud Highway (1997) 418: It hardly matters what you believe as long as you’re on top, and laughing. Fuck all. 1966 F. Reynolds & M. McClure Freewheelin Frank 29: FUCK ALL! I GOT THE CLAP. 1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order 2: I mean, what can you do about it anyway?… I mean, fuckall, they come back and nick you, can you? You can get up in court and scream about them fitting you.… But you’re up the steps before a wrong sort of judge, you see what good it does you. 2000–01 Ploughshares (Winter) 174: Her voice is so slight, so worried-like, that, well, fuckall, I feel leaky, wrinkled, like an old birthday balloon.

fuck almighty interjection

(used to express extreme pleasure, distress, disbelief, etc.; FUCK interjection).

1977 M. Scott Threeway Team 101: Fuck…shit, I’m coming! I’m coming, Don! Oh holy fuck almighty! 1985 S. Saladino Erebus 7: “Fuck almighty,” Jay yelled, eyes bulging, a grin across his face. 1993 T. King One on One 134: Two bodies flow and change and rise to meet each other, harder here, softer there, opening up and enclosing, tightening and releasing. So close. So close. Almost there. Oh Fuck Almighty. 2006 I. Welsh Bedroom Secrets of Master Chefs 289: Jesus fuck almighty…I get a big shock as a stunningly beautiful girl of about nineteen, twenty, appears before me.

fuckaround noun

contemptuous treatment; a disappointing situation. Also: a worthless person.

1965 H.S. Thompson Letter (Apr. 18) in Proud Highway (1997) 509: My good time badass fuckaround is going out of style. 1970 in H.S. Thompson Great Shark Hunt 101: Well, to hell with it. You don’t need publicity and I sure as hell don’t need this kind of fuckaround. 1972 in H.S. Thompson Great Shark Hunt 123: A gig that was a…fuckaround from start to finish. 1980 P. Conroy Lords of Discipline 394: This is the last night we’re going to play fuck-around with that bunch. 1987 J. Ferrandino Firefight 39: I’ll teach you to play fuck around with me. 1996 D. McCumber Playing off Rail 245: Just another fuckaround, waiting all night for no action. 1999 T. Corcoran Gumbo Limbo 213: All these years, Rutledge has been a straight dealer, never a player, never a fuck-around.

fuck around or (Brit.) fuck about verb

1. to engage in promiscuous sexual intercourse.

ca1890 My Secret Life VIIII. ix.: Liz had learned to like the red knobbed flesh stick far better than another woman’s cunt, and I dare say is merrily fucking about somewhere now, and I hope is happy. 1931 H. Miller Letter (Feb. 16) in Letters to Emil (1989) 76: I fucked around with this one and that. 1942 H. Miller Roofs of Paris 201: Does she know that you’ve been fucking around with her father? 1951 American Journal of Sociology XXXVII 138: Eddie f—s around too much; he’s gonna kill himself or else get killed by some broad. And he’s got a nice wife too. 1969 J. Crumley One to Count Cadence 100: Yes, I know my wife is fucking around. 1978 P. Schrader Hardcore 39: Your daughter was an absolutely clean girl, she never had rebellious or impure thoughts, she didn’t fuck around. 1987 C. Fischer Postcards from the Edge 127: Sometimes I think I should marry one of them and just fuck around. 1989 A. Sorkin A Few Good Men 36: Don’t fuck around with this one, Danny. 1991 N. Friday Women on Top 343: I’d do anything to have a chance to fuck around with a girl. 1997 C. Rock Rock This! 137: Some guys don’t fuck around because they just don’t. Other guys know they won’t be able to see their kids.… For most of us it’s much simpler: who’s got the time to fuck around? 2007 J. Díaz Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 168: At college you’re not supposed to care about anything—you’re just supposed to fuck around—but believe it or not, I cared about Lola. 2008 “J. Jameson” Something Blue 37: You fucked around with a woman? When?

2. to play or fool around; trifle; mess. Compare FRIG, verb, definition 3.

1922 T. E. Lawrence The Mint (1955) 49: I wasn’t going to fuck about for those toffee-nosed buggers. 1929 F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune 17 [refers to WWI]: They kept ’em fuckin’ about the camp, while they sent us over the bloody top. ca1933 in E. Sevareid Wild Dream 39: What’s the difference between a mountain goat and a soda jerk?…The soda jerk mucks around the fountain. 1935 T. Wolfe Death to Morning 73 [refers to 1917]: What are ya doin’ here ya f— little bastards!—who told ya t’come f— round duh hangah? Ibid. 74: Don’t f— aroun’ wit’ me, ya little p—. 1936 J. Dos Passos Big Money 313: If you f—k around it’ll cost you more. 1942 H. Miller Roofs of Paris 260: And here I am fucking around trying to get her to buy a camera. ca1944 in A. Hopkins Front & Rear 55: They fuck around but they never work. 1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 539: We’re gonna move out in half an hour, so don’t be fuggin’ around. 1950 G. Legman in Neurotica (Autumn) 13: I could stop fugging around writing pulp. 1952 J. Kerouac Visions of Cody 220: I stayed out all night and fucked around. 1954 J. A. Weingarten American Dictionary of Slang 141: Stop f—g around. Common in the street language. 1955 L. Yablonsky Violent Gang 48: We don’t fuck around—man, when you want to whip one on, just call.… Our boys are always ready. 1971 J. Torres Sting like a Bee 34: He’s just fucking around.… He’ll be O.K. 1978 N.Y. Post (Dec. 9) 13: I won’t shoot to kill, but I’ll shoot them so they know not to fuck around with me no more. 1981 T.C. Boyle Water Music 67: A sandstorm is nothin’ to fuck around with. 1984 J. Kelman Busconductor Hines (1992) iv. 167: What’s the point of fucking about. You leave half of the second pint and get off your mark. 1994 I. Welsh Shooter in Acid House 4: That’s my man, Gary slapped my back.—Always knew you had the bottle, Jock. All you fucking Jocks, all fucking crazy! We’ll show that cunt Whitworth just who he’s fucking abaht wiff here. 1995 W. Monahan in N.Y. Press (Apr. 26) 18: Brompton Cocktail[:] Heroin, Morphine, Cocaine, Gin.… There’s definitely no fucking around with a Brompton Cocktail. 1999 T. Parker et al. South Park (film script) 53: Canadian Prime Minister We’re not fucking around. This is not aboot deals. This aboot [sic] dignity. This is aboot freedom. 2005 K. Alley How to Lose Your Ass 167: That’s the best fudge recipe in the world. Why candy companies fuck around and try to improve it, I’ll never know.

3. to cheat or treat with contempt; make trouble for.

[a1900 in English Dialect Dictionary under frig: They are not going to frig me about.] 1944 L. Glassop We Were the Rats 69: “It’s the way they — you around .… They — you around.”…“You’re in the army, aren’t you? You’re being — around by experts.” 1960 F. Pollini Night 29: Why you fucking me around? 1970 A. Young Snakes 144: Big a juicehead as he is, he gon fuck me round over some gauge. 1970 E. Thompson Garden of Sand 328: Don’t try to fuck me around, old man. 1970 T. Wolfe Radical Chic 125: They ripped off the white man and blew his mind and fucked him around like nobody has ever done it. 1973 W. Crawford Stryker 68: Don’t try fucking me around. 1975 T. Cook Vagrant Alcoholics vii. 128: Some of the geezers fucked her about and then she began to change. 1977 E. Bunker Animal Factory 105: “Would he kill somebody over that?” “Oh yeah…quick if he thought the guy was deliberately fuckin’ him around.” 1991 M. S. Power Come the Executioner xiv. 143: “Your contact in Dublin—who is he?” Parr hesitated. “Don’t fuck me about,” Harwood told him. “A Mr Clancy.” 1992 A. McGahan Praise 72: I don’t think you’d fuck me around or anything, or have other women. 2002 T. Geoghegan In America’s Court i. xxix. 131: These types of guys in the 1960s would get “fucked around” by us. By us, who went to the real college.

4. to astonish; bring up short.

1978 W. Brown Tragic Magic 139: Sands of Iwo Jima. That’s the one that really fucked me around.

fuckass noun

a despicable or contemptible person.

a1960 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 5) 1099: F*ck-arse. A low term of contempt: C.20. 1968 G. Cuomo Among Thieves 219: LaSala was really a slob, old fuck-ass everybody called him. 1969 R. Hugo Good Luck 40 [refers to WWII]: Fuckass…shithead…cunteyed bastard. 1978 E. Morris Straightjacket 108: “Fuck-ass,” I told her behind my face. “Shit-fart.” 1989 V. Eaton Self-Portrait of Someone Else 234: You’re going to need it, fuckass. 2002 G. Easterbrook Here & Now 133: Don’t touch me, you fuckass, I’ll kill you with my bare hands. 2008 D. Glib Flowers 221: Don’t yell at my mom, fuckass!

fuckass adjective

contemptible.—used before a noun.

1961 J. Jones Thin Red Line 30 [refers to WWII]: Any man’d leave it layin around’s a fuckass soldier anyway. 1968 R. Sukenick Up 106: It strikes me…that you have a very fuck-ass attitude toward witch burning. 1975 D. Curzon Misadventures of Tim McPicks (1980) 230: Get the fuck-ass white folk! 1986 N. Freeling Cold Iron 194: Tying us up or something tricky out of some fuckass movie even if he doesn’t think it funnier still to blow our heads off and bury us in the sand. 1993 J. Womack Random Acts of Senseless Violence 141: We gonna halfway house fuckass white girls now? 2000 P. Cadigan Dervish is Digital 208: They’re sure not ready for what happens to them, and the fuck-ass company that supplies them don’t care. 2006 J. Solow Booster 285: I ain’t talking to none of you people. Fuckass shitwads.

fuckathon noun [FUCK + marathon]

a prolonged period of orgiastic sexual activity. Jocular.

1968 M. Bloomfield in Rolling Stone (Apr. 6) 13/4: If you were at a fuck-a-thon, you’d have to know when a good fuck went down to know what’s happening. 1970 D. Wakefield Going All the Way 97: Gunnar had gone over the apartment…to remove any traces of evidence of what he called the “fuckathon” of Saturday night. 1972 Anthropological Linguistics (Mar.) 102: Fuckathon (n.): Refers to an extended period of sexual activity in which a large number of persons participate. 1973 Ribald (Sydney, Australia) (May 18) 7: We are giving our services free for the night.… She’s calling it a fuckathon. 1982 J. M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley 336: How could he confess to him that he’d been on a fuckathon? 1988 R. M. Brown Bingo 272: It sounded as though the guy went on one big fuckathon. 1991 D. Jenkins Gotta Play Hurt 295: We’ll have an old fashioned fuck-a-thon. 1998 J. Collins Thrill! 173: His supply of females had accelerated, a new one arriving every other day. Roxy commented he was having a fuckathon. 2003 “J. Le Carré” Absolute Friends 139: You remember how you called it our fuckathon? Well, let’s have another, and take life from there.

fuck away verb

to squander or idle away; “piss away.”

[1948 in G. Legman Limerick (1954) 308: On his honeymoon sailing the ocean/A tightwad displayed much emotion/When he learned, one fine day,/He’d been fucking away/What could have been bottled as lotion.] 1965 J. Cremer I, Jan Cremer 209: To keep him from fucking away the entire family fortune. 1971 M. Schulman Potatoes are Cheaper 64: I ain’t gonna provide the vehicle for you to fuck away the Zimmerman millions. 1975 S.P. Smith American Boys 171: The others…fucked their bread away on booze. 1979 C. Keller Subway Orgy 158: The money he would receive from the kidnapping would be gone soon. He would spend it on broads, booze, and just fuck it away in general. 1989 E. L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate 208: While the Feds have been fucking away the summer on the beach we been up here sowing our oats. 1999 P. Caputo Voyage 258: Hey, mon, you got to work to drink up and fuck away four t’ousand dollars. 2004 S. Bishop-Stall Down to This 374: I mean, they’re really fucking away any burgeoning sense of community down here. The dealers are going to grab it all.

fuckbag noun

a disgusting person; “asshole”; etc.

1969 J. Nuttall Pig 50: Silly old fuckbag.… Completely off her head. 1970 W. J. Craddock Be Not Content 75: What sort of a ruined mind would want to be a fuckbag cop? 1984 M. Amis Money 76: Apparently I called her a whore, cursed her for a gold-digging fuckbag, and kicked her out. 1989 R. McL. Wilson Ripley Bogle (1998) 8: They were, undoubtedly, rancid Welsh fuckbags like himself. 1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting (2002) 255: She discovered that the rapist fuckbag was HIV. Then she discovered that she was. 1998 Re: Wrestling, on Usenet newsgroup rec.sport. pro-wrestling (Nov. 3): What a fuckbag. If this guy was my dad, I’d open my wrists with a rusty can opener. 2007 D. Matthews Ace of Spades 174: I have never been able to process…humans and their true meanings. If someone were to walk by me and say top of the morning, fuck-bag! I would be halfway through my why…hello before the insult registered.

fuckbar noun

Homosexuals. a bar in which one can engage in sexual activity, esp. one having a back room for such a purpose.

1977 M. Christofer Shadow Box II. 69: I go inside the bar and he goes inside the bar. A real “fuck bar.”…People are humping on the tables. 1981 Gay Community News (Nov. 28) 8: After hours, there are several possibilities for the gay male on Oxford Street. There are three fuck bars.… There are the 253 Baths, one of four baths in the city, and a porn bookshop-cum-movie-house-cum-fuckbar called Numbers. 1996 G. W. Dowsett Practicing Desire 158: A good example is Ralph’s first visit to a backroom fuck bar. 1998 B. Rumph trans. G. Dustan In My Room 50: I said to Stéphane I want to fuck you in a sling in a fuck bar. 2001 P. Gilovich et al. Stranger Guide to Seattle 7: The city’s most down-and-dirty faggot fuck bar is also the only gay bar where DJs play rock.

fuck beggar noun

an old man with whom only a female beggar is willing to copulate.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: F—k Beggar… An old superannuated fumbler, whom none but beggars will suffer to kiss them.

fuck book noun

see under FUCK, adjective.

fuck box noun

the vagina or vulva.

1976 J. Vasco Three-Hole Girl 158: She felt it building in her fuck box as she watched Tad’s swollen purple dong head. 1998 A Swinger’s Story, on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.swingers (Oct. 24): Peggy reached down and grabbed her fuck box with one hand and her breast with the other. a2002 Letters to Penthouse XV 60: He unloaded his sperm inside her sloppy fuck-box.

fuckboy noun

a catamite; (hence) a man who is victimized.

[1954 F.I. Gwaltney Heaven & Hell 233 [refers to WWII]: Grimes loves the army and the army’s using him for a screw-boy.] 1971 J. Blake Joint 67 [refers to 1954]: They were known as pussyboys, galboys, fuck-boys, and all had taken girls’ names like Betty, Fifi, Dotty, etc., and were universally referred to as “she” and “her.” 1974 R. Carter 16th Round 76: A goddamned faggot, a fuckboy. 1973–76 J. Allen Assault 124: One or two slip through who aren’t so obvious. There’s a lot of them we call undercover fuck boys. 1980 G. G. Liddy Will (1996) 393: [In prison] A “fuck boy” or “punk” for homosexual gratification. 1994 in Esquire (Jan. 1995) 91: [In prison] Once you’ve become somebody’s fuck-boy, you stay a fuck-boy, and your new “man” will use you any way he wants. 1996 T. Parker Violence of our Lives i. 44: He looked me in the eye and he said “Do you mind that idea son, do you want to be somebody’s fuckboy?” 2007 C. Eshleman in American Poetry Review (Mar./Apr.) 26/1: The “Victorious Cupid,” a naked fuck-boy with wings, offering himself joyously to the viewer. 2008 “50 Cent” & D. R. Pledger Diamond District 148: You ain’t nothing but that white cop’s little fuck boy! Whose side are you on, nigga?

fuckbrain noun

= FUCKHEAD. Hence fuckbrained, adjective.

1970 T. Whitmore Memphis-Nam-Sweden 35: Not at all like the lazy fuckbrain before him. a1981 R. Spears Slang & Euphemism 149: Fuck-brained. stupid. 1986 N. Jimenez River’s Edge (film): You pot-head fuckbrain! 1987 J. Kellerman Over the Edge 373: I asked you a question, fuckbrain. 1991 J. Keenan Putting on Ritz xx. 215: Well, go ahead, fuck-brain! See if I care! 1994 New Statesman (Dec. 16) S1: You fuckbrained little parasite. 2000 J. Klein Running Mate 79: If those fuck-brained college kids can march in the streets and get what they want, think of the leverage we’d have. 2006 New York Magazine (Apr. 3) 20/1: Magazine editors gripe about the rings they have to jump through to book the hottest possible celebrities (“The PR people,” one complained to me, “are really such fucking fuckbrains”).

fuckbreak noun

an interruption in an activity taken in order to engage in sexual intercourse.

1973 W. Rostler Contemporary Erotic Cinema 158: There was Jim, who screwed for money all day, took a fuck break during the shooting when he was off camera, and balled this chick. 1994 Personal letter to editor: You know the term fuckbreak? It’s when you take time away from work to try to get pregnant. 2001 C. Miéville Perdido Street Station 134: Your mates are very understanding about you just up and taking a fuck-break, aren’t they? 2008 M. Henry Happy Hour of the Damned 234: The swing shift crew only had another ninety-seven hours until half-shift fuckbreak.

fuck-buddy noun

Especially Homosexuals. a sexual partner; (specifically) a friend with whom one engages in casual sex.

[1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 184: Fucking buddies two who are not lovers cruising together for threesomes, etc.] 1973 A. S. Jackson Gentleman Pimp 71: We ran into an old fuck buddy of mine. 1983 in E. White Burning Library 150: Even the word lover is too rude for all the gradations of commitment and intimacy; one friend uses an ascending scale of Trick, Number, Fuck Buddy, Lover, and Husband. 1992 in Gay Perspectives 161: Andrew has a few friends with whom he has sex, but this is no “fuck buddy” circle. 1995 “Pansy Division” Fuck Buddy [rock song]: Fuck buddy.… /Someday I’ll find a guy/Who means something more/But that’s not what/This relationship is for. 1995 R. Athey in Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Feb. 14) 32: I try role-playing and maintaining a fuck-buddy relationship with my butch stud Cuban daddy. 1996 Guardian (London) (Mar. 26) T6: Young lesbians…know themselves and they will announce that they are father, mother, butch, femme, fuck-buddy, boy, girl, top, bottom or any mixture that they choose. 1996 SF Weekly (Nov. 13): Paul Ramana Das Silbet, not his wife/fuck-buddy Marilena, seems to be the real brains…behind this operation. 1997 Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Apr. 22) 123: Fuck buddies—friends who fuck—usually don’t date prior to becoming fuck buddies. 2000 M. Albo Hornito 224: We are simply “fuck buddies” to each other. Casual casual casual. 2005 E. Morrison Last Book You Read 125: He doesnae need a girlfriend. I canna go through this again with anyone. We’re fuck buddies—that’s all.

fuck button noun

the clitoris.

[1968 R. H. Rimmer Proposition Thirty-One 220: Or were we both just mechanical robots on whom someone had pushed the fuck button?] 1969 “Joey V.” Portrait of Joey: Case Study of a Super Stud 85: There were times when I could make her come just from the feel of my lips tugging on that little fuck-button of hers. 1994 Strawberry Blonde ff teen on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories (Apr. 25): My finger was grinding down against her fuck button and the heat was rising down between her legs as her slot began to moisten. 2007 R. L. Duncan Lost in Venice 267: “I just touched your little fuck button.” “Oh Johnny it felt so good.”

fucked adjective

1. Chiefly British. completely exhausted.

1949 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 3) (Addenda) 1054/2: F*cked, adj. Extremely weary; (utterly) exhausted; late C. 19-20. 1977 H. Garner Monkey Grip 216: I only want to crash, right now. I’m absolutely fucked. 1987 G. Matthews Little Red Rooster xiii. 201: It’s…time for sleep.… I’m totally fucked. 1996 C. J. Stone Fierce Dancing ix. 132: We’ve hitched from the West Country. We’ve just walked about twenty miles and we’re fucked. Can you come and pick us up? 2005 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) (Aug. 28), We were all completely fucked, we’d been out in Liverpool the night before.

2. exceedingly bad or offensive; rotten; awful; ruined; FUCKED UP, adjective, definition 1; (also) doomed, in a difficult situation.

1949 W. S. Graham Letter (Mar. 7) in Nightfisherman (1999) 87: My nose fucked, my jersey steeping in its navyblue water, the fire a ruin of paling embers. 1960 P. Larkin Letter (Aug. 8) in A. Thwaite Selected Letters (1992) 318: On getting back to Hessle he found the shutter had been set at Time exposure which means that the whole lot were fucked. 1971 L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1987) 86: Some cat… made a really fucked album. 1975 S.P. Smith American Boys 58: Morgan [was] yelling at the top of his lungs about how fucked everything was while Padgett…egged him on. 1976 A. Schroeder Shaking It Rough 121: I mean, like, the last stanza’s completely fucked, man! 1978 A. Maupin Tales of the City 92: Your karma is really fucked! 1980 P. Conroy Lords of Discipline 311: We’re living in fucked times. 1985 J. Dillinger Adrenaline 115: “Want to know something fucked?”… “How fucked?” “We’re outa gas.” 1985 O’Bannon Return of Living Dead (film): first, I got a really fucked headache; then my stomach started cramping up. 1990 P. Munro Slang U. 85: Fucked… unfair. 1991 J. Barth Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor 144: The page whispered. “We’re fucked.” 1986–91 B. Hamper Rivethead 161: Squeezing rivets is fucked! 1997 Nunez Ulee’s Gold (film): Everyone’s life you’ve ever touched is fucked. You know that, Ulee? 2007 Poets & Writers (Mar./Apr.) 48: When I found out I didn’t get the job, I thought, “I am so fucked!” I had no clue what I was going to do.

3. intoxicated by alcohol or drugs; = FUCKED UP, definition 2a.

1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 84: Fucked…under the influence of a drug. 1972 D. E. Smith & G. R. Gay Don’t Try It 202: Fucked up. High on heroin (sometimes other drugs): “He was so fucked up he couldn’t even drive a car.”…Also fucked around, fucked over, and just plain fucked. a1973 in D. W. Maurer Language of the Underworld 301: Fucked or fucked up. Stoned. 1976 L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1987) 195: When you first arise you’re probably so fucked (i.e. still drunk) that it doesn’t even really hurt yet. 1990 P. Munro Slang U. 85: Fucked…drunk…under the influence of drugs. 2000 G. Marinovich & J. Silva Bang-Bang Club (2001) xii. 191: My heart sank, thinking Kev must be fucked on buttons, and I mentally ran through a list of possible excuses. 2005 N. Barham Dis/Connected 137: At Homelands I got fucked and I came up and it was just fantastic and Sam was like, “I’ll just have a tiny bit,” and I was like, yes, sure; a tiny bit of these pills will still knock your head off.

4. lacking in sanity or good sense; crazy. Also fucked in the head.

1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 84: Fucked… messed up; confused. 1971 P. Theroux in Atlantic (Nov.) 45/1: I used to think you Asians knew where it was at…and now I been all over Asia and, like, now I can see you’re all fucked in the head. 1975 L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1987) 180: You’re allll [sic] fucked.… I can do anything I want. 1978 B. Johnson What’s Happenin’ 64: “He don’t care what he says as long as people notice him.” “He’s fucked, man.” Ibid. 167: You guys are fucked. You don’t even know what you talkin’ about. 1981 C. Nelson Picked Bullets Up 31: Babich looked at me through jaundiced eyes. “Kurt, you’re fucked.” 1985 B.E. Ellis Less than Zero 100: Girls are fucked. Especially this girl. 1990 National Lampoon (Apr.) 97: They’re fucked in the head. 1995 R. Lurie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 77: “Are you fucked!” she screamed at Aubrey over the phone. “How could you give up that much money to anybody without a contract?” 2003 A. Swofford Jarhead 39: He was not a crazed, fucked-in-the-head grunt.

fucked duck noun

Military. a person doomed to die; “dead duck.”

1939 A. C. Bessie Men in Battle 133: If France don’t come in now, we’re fucked ducks. Mucho malo.… Mucho fuckin’ malo. 1968 J. P. Spradley Owe Yourself a Drunk 30: I had twenty-three bucks when booked. Now they tell me I’ve got $3.30. I guess I’m a fucked duck—I’ve got twenty days hanging. 1999 A. W. Newton & W. Eldridge Better than Good: Black Sailor’s War 1943–1945 106: If one of those guys, especially the big boatswain, took a swing at me, I would be a fucked duck before Packard could get back. 2006 P. Jennings Nam-A-Rama 154: You saved our ass on this one. We’d a been a fucked duck if you hadn’t stayed on that horn all day.

fucked off adjective

angry; irritated; “pissed off.” [The sense in the 1923 quotation, from a French–English dictionary of slang, is not clear.]

1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 131: Fucked off, foutu(e). 1940–45 in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight (1975) 80: Because I’m fucked off, fucked off, fucked off as can be.… Fucked off lads are we. 1971 H. Dahlskog Dictionary of Contemporary & Colloquial Usage 25: Fucked off…Angry; irritated; tee’d off. 1973 N.Y. college student: Fucked off means the same as pissed off. 1974 Social worker, age 26: I’ve heard a few people say, “He was really fucked off,” when they meant “pissed off.” This was in the past couple of years. 1997 Scotland on Sunday (Apr. 6) 7: Paul is deeply fucked-off with a certain type of Welsh nationalist…attitude. 1998 SF Weekly (Jan. 7): Hatred, revenge, and violation are…strangely heartbreaking and entirely convincing. Clearly, Reid Paley has every right to be fucked off with the world. 2003 R. Herring Talking Cock 126: An ex-girlfriend walked in—she was a bit fucked off as we hadn’t had sex in a while and took it as a sign that I was losing interest in her.

fucked out adjective

exhausted from excessive copulation; (hence) utterly exhausted; worn out.

1862 O. A. Hammer Letter (Dec.) in T. P. Lowry Story Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell (1994) iii. 37: I together with several other officers went over to Petersburg, got drunk and f—ked out. We staid two days and nights, you ought to have seen me going to bed with a gal. 1865 “Philocomus” Love Feast iv. 29: However tired and jaded,/Fucked out, used up, fatigued and faded,/He still would find a spur should stir/My lusts as nimbly as before. ca1866 Romance of Lust 443: Poor Mr. Nixon was evidently fucked out. 1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 29: Changed from the gorgeous king to a buffoon,/Be weak-kneed, cunt-struck, fucked-out Pantaloon. 1884 Randiana 71: The inward and spiritual grace so necessary to please the ladies is now almost dormant in my fucked-out nature. 1934 H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 225: It is…the dry, fucked-out aspect of things which makes this crazy civilization look like a crater. 1942 H. Miller Roofs of Paris 259: She’s as drunk as we’re fucked out. 1945 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters (1981) 605: Suffer like a bastard when don’t write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. 1950 in A. C. Inman Diary 1480: I guess…Billy was just plain fucked out, the way he looked. 1966 J. Susann Valley of Dolls 121: And what should an ingenue look like? A fucked-out redhead with big tits. 1969 M. Girodias New Olympia Reader 91: By Christ, you tired old bag, you’re asleep. Fucked out. 1973 R. Roth Sand in Wind 239: The ones he had seen didn’t have the fucked-out eyes of American prostitutes, and so many other American women. 1975 R.P. Davis Pilot 144: They called her the “fuckedout, boozy bitch” or the “FOBB.” 1977 J. Sayles Union Dues 144: It’s a Monday, they’re all fucked-out from the weekend. 1978 National Lampoon (Oct.) 26: Gertrude was so fucked out that she never wanted to do it with anyone again. 1981 W. T. Hathaway World of Hurt 162: Must’ve got so fucked out in two days, you had to come back to rest up. 1994 “Gary Indiana” Rent Boy 25: A great-looking dude who’s so fucked out he needs a half-hour blow job just to get semi-hard. 1995 M. Amis Information 466: And he spent the night in the master bedroom, and might even have made love to her, tenderly, tearfully, absolvingly, if he hadn’t been feeling so fucked out—and worried about getting her pregnant. 2003 B. Trapido Frankie & Stankie x. 241: She’s got a big untidy mouth and she walks, unselfconsciously, with a slightly knock-kneed gait. This, together with her hint of hollow thighs, has given Maddie a sexy, fucked-out look which, oddly enough, she manages to combine with the manner of the girl-next-door.

fucked over adjective

1. messed up, broken, ruined, victimized; = FUCKED, definition 4.

1969 Progressive Labor (Aug.) 28/2: Never really trying to reach the people, building coffeehouse after coffeehouse, striking pose after pose, the struggle becomes an attempt to blow up a balloon of our own new world. The balloon is to grow and grow as more take on our groovy life styles and strike our pose and finally the whole fucked-over goddamn dumb society will shrivel beside it and die. 1978 W. Wharton Birdy 197: You know,… this is really a fucked-over situation. 1983 S. King Christine 257: You look like a sleepwalker. You look absolutely fucked over. 1995 G. Burn Fullalove (2004) vii. 175: The toe-rags; the twisters; the fucked-up; the fucked-over; the shat-upon; the shitters; the benefit-dependent; the multiply-deprived. 2000 W. Self How Dead Live viii. 196: But at the time I’d forgotten all the weary weepfests of Families Anonymous I’d attended—along with other fucked-up mums and fucked-over spouses—to try and get a handle on Natasha’s limitless capacity for destroying herself and others.

2. extremely intoxicated by drugs or alcohol; = FUCKED UP, definition 2a.

1972 D. E. Smith & G. R. Gay Don’t Try It 202: Fucked up. High on heroin (sometimes other drugs): “He was so fucked up he couldn’t even drive a car.”…Also fucked around, fucked over, and just plain fucked. 1973 College student: Fucked over can mean very, very drunk. Like I’ve heard guys say, “I was fucked over last night. Man, I wasn’t worth a dime.” 1979 College student paper: [Drunk:] queezy, fucked over, stewed, zonked.

fucked up adjective

1. Especially Military. ruined or spoiled, especially through incompetence or stupidity; botched; chaotic; in difficulty; (broadly) messed up. Also (especially Military) in fanciful similes.

1863 Record of the General Courts Martial & Courts of Inquiry of the U.S. Navy (U.S. National Archives) CVI. (Case 3401, Nov. 18) 3: He stepped to the front of his tent…, and in a loud voice said, “What the bloody hell is wanted now, this is a fucked up Company anyhow, and always has been since the Guard came on shore.” 1939 A. C. Bessie Men in Battle 133: The detail’s all fucked-up. 1942 in M. Morriss & R. Day South Pacific Diary (1996) 44: The trouble with the Army is it isn’t fucked up enough—somebody is always trying to go ’em one better. 1943 in H. Samuelson Love, War 200: You’ve never seen such a fucked-up mess in your life. 1954–60 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang: Fucked-up…in trouble. 1961 G. Forbes Goodbye to Some 173: Their balance is all fucked up too.… They can’t stay right side up. 1962 G. Ross Last Campaign 36: I never heard of such a fucked-up mess. Ibid. 293: The boxes are busted open, see. And the [machine gun] belts are all fucked up with snow. 1963 T. Doulis Path for our Valor 108: Man, there ain’t ever been such a fucked-up operation! 1964 H. Rhodes Chosen Few 118 [refers to ca1950: It don’t make sense t’get fucked up on a humble. 1972 D. Pearce Pier Head Jump 49: They’re as fucked up as a Mongolian fire and lifeboat drill. 1972–76 C. Durden No Bugles, No Drums 1: Right off I knew things were gonna be fucked up as a picnic in a free-fire zone. 1976 P. Atlee Last Domino Contract 53: My company has a reputation for quality, but we’ve been fucked up here like Hogan’s goat. 1987 Kent Phrase Book 156: As fucked up as a Chinese fire drill. 1997 U.S. student slang survey: More fucked up than a soup sandwich in a rainstorm…extremely unusual. 2003 “S. Pax” Weblog Diary (May 22) in Baghdad Blog 178: The exchange rate is totally fucked up and the property market is getting bizarre.

2.a. intoxicated by liquor or drugs.

a1944 in A. Hopkins Songs from Front & Rear (1979) 179: There was old Uncle Ned, he was fair fucked up. 1965 in H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels 236: We’ll smoke up some weed, get all fucked up, feel no fuckin pain. ca1969 D. Rabe Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel 44: Ohhh, you know how much beer I hadda drink to get fucked up on three-two beer? 1970 A. Young Snakes 40: Man, I was fuhhhhhked-up! 1973 Oui (Apr.) 108: God, but I’d love some cocaine.… I got so gloriously fucked up the other night. 1973 R. Roth Sand in Wind 148: I was timing myself on every glass. I was getting fucked up but not as fucked up as I wanted to be. 1977 A. Patrick Beyond Law 144: Either you can sit around here gettin’ fucked up and feelin’ sorry for yourself, or you can straighten up and solve this God damn case. 1978 P. Fisher & M. Rubin Special Teachers/Special Boys 31: He was fucked up on weed. 1979 C. Hiler Monkey Mountain 109: “Eddy!… You fucked up?”…“No, he’s not fucked up.… He’s just crazy.” 1967–80 E. Folb Runnin’ down Some Lines 238: Fucked up. Excessively high. 1985 D. Steel Secrets 48: Sandy’s not fucked up again, is she? 1997 G. Sykes 8 Ball Chicks 87: Janet’s always so fucked up on sherm [PCP]. 1997 D. Simon & E. Burns Corner 509 He’s taking in the boom and beat from the half-assed stereo, with Dre and Snoop and the rest of the Death Row crew telling all them other niggas to make their shit the chronic, ’cause they gots to get fucked-up. 2002 B. L. Thomas Threesome 146: I could tell he was fucked up. He’d been smoking blunts and doing shots of Grand Marnier all night.

b. thoroughly confused; mentally or emotionally ill; crazy. Also (especially Military) in fanciful similes.

1945 in A. Dundes & C. Pagter Urban Folklore from Paperwork Empire (1975) 109: The returning soldier is apt to find his opinion different from those of his civilian associates. One should call upon his reserve of etiquette and correct his acquaintances with such remarks as “I believe you have made a mistake” or “I am afraid you are in error on that.” Do NOT say “Brother, you’re really f—d up!” 1945 J. Bassett War Journal 7: It’s no good to keep going, it’s all fucked up, it’s crazy. 1946–50 J. Jones From Here to Eternity 537: I’ve even seen a couple of them that clean lost their head and had to actually be carried out finally they got so fucked up. 1961 J. Peacock Valhalla 385: If he didn’t see Chebe-san he would be more fucked up than Hogan’s goat. 1965 S. Linakis In Spring the War Ended 214: I would even go so far as to say that you’re all fucked up from the war, as they do say. 1967 J. Rechy Numbers 138: It happened long ago, when I was fucked up! 1968 H. Ellison Deadly Streets 103: He wasn’t a bad kid, just fucked-up. 1970 in M. J. Estren Underground of Underground Comics (1974) 155: Wow, man, what kind of fucked up trip are you on? 1973 G.C. Scott in Penthouse (May) 61: Fucked-up kids live in fantasy worlds anyway. 1972–76 C. Durden No Bugles, No Drums 31: You’re fucked up like a Filipino fire drill. 1976 A. Walker Meridian 178: I know white folks are evil and fucked up. 1978 in H. Fierstein Torch Song Trilogy 52: And here you are, more fucked up than ever. 1984 J. McCorkle Cheer Leader 162: You’re crazy, Jo, fucked up. 1989 “Capt. X” & Dodson Unfriendly Skies 115: “Aw, hell” said one of the pilots, “now I’m all fucked up here.” 1992 in Harper’s (Jan. 1993) 23 [cartoon]: You’re too fucked up—Next patient, please. 2001 J. Gough Juno & Juliet i. ix. 23: Fucked-up people are paying someone money to listen to them talk about how amazingly fucked-up they are. 2008 A. Valdes-Rodriguez Dirty Girls on Top 130: I almost wish I didn’t know how fucked up I was, because then I could just go around feeling okay and still being fucked up.

c. deeply troubled or upset; distraught.

1948 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters (1981) 648: I was all fucked up when I wrote it and threw away about 100,000 words which was better than most of what I left in. 1951 American Journal of Sociology LI 421 [refers to WWII]: We learn of soldier attitudes to authority by noting the sympathy for those who are not successful in adjusting but are “f—ed up.”…It may connote inability or inefficiency. 1962 V. Riccio & B. Slocum All the Way Down 68: I ain’t hooked. I only use it when I feel all fucked up. 1970–71 J. Rubinstein City Police 404: He’s so fucked up about it he’s thinkin’ of quittin’. 1966–80 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 115: I was gonna change it myself but I was too fucked up at the time. 1983 P. Dexter God’s Pocket 158: I got to have this funeral on time.… Jeanie’s all fucked up over this. 1998 Phila. drug addict, on All Things Considered (National Public Radio) (Mar. 4): I felt real fucked up because I didn’t want to hit [i.e., inject] her. 2004 B. Shoup Wish You Were Here (2008) 25: And I am fucked up. I am clearly fucked up. Even I know I ought to be over the divorce after all this time. 2007 G. Kaplan Evil, Inc. 203: If I’m still fucked up about losing Sandy and Sara the way we did, can you even begin to imagine how fucked up you must be?… Of course, you can’t imagine because you’re still so fucked up with your grief and mourning and all that.

3. contemptible; worthless; miserable; (hence) damned; FUCKING.

1945 in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K 124: I never been in such a fucked up place in my life. ca1960 in R. D. Abrahams Deep Down in Jungle 130: He throwed me a stale glass of water and flung me a fucked-up piece of meat. 1963 J. Ross Dead Are Mine 269: And you won’t worry about Felix and all the other Felixes in the whole fucked-up Army. 1970 Playboy (Sept.) 278: I’ve met a lot of politicians, and politicians are fucked up everywhere, and they fuck us up because we allow them to. 1970 S. Terkel Hard Times 136: It’s the textbooks that are fucked up. 1974 V.E. Smith Jones Men 103: Shit!…This is fucked up. 1982 D.A. Harper Good Company 76: A half gallon of that old fucked-up wine. 1980–89 J. E. Cheshire Home Boy 105: They’d go for your ankles and sink their fucked-up teeth right into you. 1990 “Ice Cube” Who’s the Mack? (rap song): Rolling in a fucked-up Lincoln…[with a] leopard interior. 1994 in C. Long Love Awaits 95: That good-look’n, clean-look’n girl can have some good look’n, fucked up shit [sc. venereal disease]. 2005 C. Klosterman Killing Yourself to Live 26: I’ll make this fucked-up decision to satisfy the statute of limitations on your fucked-up ultimatum.

4. utterly fatigued; FUCKED, definition 1.

1979 D. Gram Boulevard Nights 93: I’m tired man. Fuckin’ fucked up. 1998 Poker player in N.Y.C.: I’ve gotta go home, I’m so tired.… I’m too fucked up to play any more.

fuckee[1] or fucky noun

(used in pidgin English, or the imitation thereof, in various constructions referring to sexual intercourse). Often as fuckee fuckee. In fuckee-suckee, a combination of oral and vaginal intercourse.

a1866 E. Sellon Ups & Downs of Life (1987) ii. 43: For make fuckee business, sahib, that girl who is splashing the other one would be too much good. 1946 V. Sheean This House against This House 118: The only Arab women I ever saw to speak to always said to me, “Fuckee, Fuckee, fitty cents.” 1960 H. Miller Nexus (1965) viii. 171: No tickee no fuckee, buy me, take me, squeeze me. 1975 Ribald (Sydney, Australia) (Nov. 13) 7: Newcomers visiting Ribald’s offices often get all bug-eyed about the fuckee-suckee pix lying around the place. 1987 S. Kubrick et al. Full Metal Jacket (film): Do you want number one fuckee? 1998 J. Stewart Naked Pictures of Famous People: Their father [was]…shacked up in some Backwater Indonesian Fuckee Suckee bar. 2003 A. Martinez I’ll be Damned if I Die in Oakland 147: One bored fat lady reclined under a large sign that read, Fuckee Fuckee.

fuckee[2] noun

1. a person who plays the recipient role in copulation. Jocular.

1881 Amatory Experiences Surgeon i. 11: My double position of fucker and fuckee soon drove me almost mad with delight. ca1890 My Secret Life VI. xv. 312: She was altogether a choice morsel for those who like a woman full sized.… She was a most voluptuous fuckee. ca1938 in C. Barkley Sex Cartoons 118: The fuckee does a handstand while the fucker simply drops it in. 1979 D. Riepe Owl Flies by Day ii. 29: The attractive assistants were looking into the face of the lady receiving the male offering. Both arms of the fuckee were gracefully stretched out. 1995 Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Feb. 14) 38: Early flashes of fiery pain in the fuckee as well as surprise soft bendings of the fucker make ass-fucking in any position a [complex] negotiation. 1995 Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Nov. 28) 73: Vidal also wants to make quite sure we understand that in his many sexual exploits he’s always been the fucker, never the fuckee. 2007 J. Sandford Dark of the Moon 167: When he was a teenager, there were locker-room fantasy stories…of guys getting the farmer’s daughter up in the hayloft… In what Virgil assumed was nothing more than an effort at verisimilitude, the alleged fuckee warned Virgil against hay cuts, or hay rash.

2. the victim of malicious treatment. Jocular.

1971 S/Sgt., U.S. Army, Fort Campbell, Kentucky: I am one big ugly fucker and I am always on the lookout for fuckees! You don’t want to be one of them! 1973 T. Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow 559: Fuck not with the Kid, lest instead of fucker thou become fuckee. 1980 W. Sherman Times Square 23: You’re either the fuckee, the fucker, or you’re not in any kind of business. 1983 W. N. Rowe Clapp’s Rock 105: He considers Newfoundland to have gone from eldest ugly step-daughter of the British Empire to youngest fuckee of the Canadian Federation, without getting so much as a kiss during the transition. 1986 R. B. Merkin Zombie Jamboree 44: They’d rather be fuckers than fuckees. 1991 Inside Media (Dec. 18) 1: Lee Wolfman, in speaking of back-end cash blending, often referred to BMC [a marketing company] as the “fucker” and to its clients as the “fuckees.” 1996 N.Y. Observer (Jan. 8) 4: Behold the…smug shifting the blame from society’s fuckers to its fuckees. 1996 Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (May 14) (“Choices”) 1: Belzer’s politics rise off his don’t-fuck-with-me stand. Most of the time, identifying with potential fuckees, he sprays a democratic vitriol that’s bracing in stand-up. 2006 S. Kinzer Overthrow 187: Kennecott and Anaconda were not awarded a cent. “We used to be the fucker,” one of Anaconda’s lawyers lamented. “Now we’re the fuckee.”

fuckee or fucky verb

(used in pidgin English, or the imitation thereof, in various constructions referring to sexual intercourse).

ca1890 My Secret Life X. xiv. 331: The women had learnt a few English words explanatory of copulation—“Me fuckee prick” said one. 1963 H.S. Thompson Letter (Apr. 29) in Proud Highway (1997) 379: The filthy whore in the laundry said we can go out to the “campo” (country) and fuckee-fuckee. If I ever hear that phrase again I am going to break teeth. 1982 N. L. M. Petesch Duncan’s Colony 167: Take me, joe. Fuckee plenny backside. 1996 S. Zeeland Muscular Marine 66: Mama-san give you money back if you not wanna go fuckie. 2003 M. Gruber Tropic of Night 84: When you start fuckee?… You likee orgasms? You let boy touch-em titties?

fuck-else noun

nothing else.

1978 W. Groom Better Times Than These 33: You mean you got fuck-else to worry about than something happened sixty years ago? 1988 D. Caute Fatima’s Scarf 259: Call Hikmat.… There’s fuck-else to do in this dump. a1990 in J. F. Tuso Singing the Vietnam Blues 140: Though my chances were nil there was fuck else to do,/But head for the Black with our whole fuckin’s crew!

fucker noun

1. a person, usually a man, who copulates, especially promiscuously.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 137/1: Fottitore, a iaper, a sarder, a swiver, a fucker, an occupier. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 137/1: Fottitrice, a woman fucker, swiver, sarder, or iaper. 1866 Romance of Lust 275: She grew madly lewd, called me her own dear delightful fucker. 1882 Boudoir 239: Such a prince of f—kers as he is. 1889 Capt. C. Devereaux Venus in India 124: I have known so many instances of girls marrying against their wills…yet become quite happy women simply and solely because their husbands turned out to be first-class fuckers. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover xviii. 334: I’m not just my lady’s fucker, after all. 1963 C. Bukowski Letter (Dec. 7) in Screams from Balcony: Selected Letters (1998) 96: I got the idea that Henry Miller the ALL-KNOWING didn’t know much more about fucking than to talk about it, and that’s the way most non-fuckers are. 1978 L. Kramer Faggots 117: He…quietly… exited through the hall and living room and foyer…, past the islands and inlets and peninsulas of fuckers and suckers and kissers and talkers. 1994 E. McNamee Resurrection Man (1998) i. 12: At the start it was all Jesus, Victor, I could eat you with salt. Her big slow voice. Come on, you big fucker. I’m dying for a fuck. Take you home and fuck you bendy. 1998 M. Merlis Arrow’s Flight 292: That rhythm: it used to mean they were one body, Philoctetes and some anonymous fucker on top of him, pulsing together with one life. 2005 L. McNeil & J. Osborne Other Hollywood 191: Harry wasn’t a good actor. If he was, they would’ve given him a piece of the pornos. But he couldn’t carry them. Harry wasn’t a great actor—but he was a great fucker.

2. a person, especially a man, who is despicable, wretched, formidable, etc.; bastard; (broadly) a person; fellow.

a1890–93 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues III 80: Fucker…a term of endearment, admiration, derision, etc. 1918 in Englische Studien LX (1926) 277: We had a sergeant-major/Who never saw a Hun,/And when the Huns came over/You could see the fucker run. 1914–21 J. Joyce Ulysses 600 [refers to 1904]: I’ll wring the bastard fucker’s bleeding blasted fucking windpipe! 1926 Englische Studien LX 279 [refers to WWI]: The noun fucker…the very old term of derision, as well as pity (cp. “that poor blighter!”)…was used in the sense of “bloke,” “rotter,” “blighter,” or “bastard,” a word which decorated the speech of overseas men and Americans. 1927 Immortalia 159: The dirty old fucker. 1929 F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune 146 [refers to WWI]: Laugh, you silly fuckers! Ibid. 150: I’d rather kill some other fucker first. Ibid. 208: If any o’ us poor fuckers did it, we’d be for th’ electric chair. 1945 in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K 197: Them fuckers piss me off. 1945 in D. Levin From Battlefield 52: Hey, you old fucker!…How long you been out here? 1949 V. Van Praag Day Without End 168: Make your shots count!…Kill the lousy stinking fuckers! 1959 G. Morrill Dark Sea Running 11: We carry high-octane gas that burns. If I catch any of you fuckers smoking forward of the messroom doors, I’ll crack your nobs. 1960 G. Sire Deathmakers 43: You’re a mean fucker, Chico. 1961 L. McMurtry Horseman, Pass By 142: “I used to ride them bulls when I was a young fucker,” he said. 1961–64 D. Barthelme Come Back, Dr. Caligari 43: Oh that poor fucker Eric. 1965–70 J. Carroll in Paris Review (No. 50) 107: Her mother [was a] dumb, New Jersey, housewife fucker. 1969–71 R. Kahn Boys of Summer 96: Gonna get them fuckers.… Teach them fuckers to mess with me. 1972 B. Hannah Geronimo Rex 96: Monroe, you dopey fucker. 1975 S. Brownmiller Against Our Will 364: I hate that fucker more today than I did when it happened to me. 1981 A. A. Gilliland Revolution from Rosinante 117: The fucker is going to set himself up as king. 1989 M. Norman These Good Men 115: I love my son; I love that little fucker. 1992 G. Wolff Day at Beach 127: Only thing to keep the fuckers out. 2003 A. Swofford Jarhead 175: The Vietnam War was not an official war either, but a perpetually escalating conflict with many poor, dead, sad fuckers.

3. an annoying or hateful thing, task, situation, etc.; (broadly) a thing, esp. if striking or remarkable.

1945 in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K 155: I don’t think I could walk a mile with this fucker on. 1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 10 [refers to WWII]: Let’s stop shuffling the fuggers and start playing. 1958 T. Berger Crazy in Berlin 186: If you are that close to the end, you can put the fucker aside for fifteen minutes and write me a letter to the wife. 1961 C. Bukowski Letter (June 22) in C. Bukowski & S. Martinelli Beerspit Night & Cursing: Letters (2001) 245: For a short letter this has turned out to be a fucker. 1968 A. Myrer Eagle 695: And the fucker better work, I’m telling you! 1973 Penthouse (May) 62: Oh my God, I’ve got to come back tomorrow and do this fucker again. 1976 in S. Mack Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies (unpaged): Sixteen out of 178 of us got in! It’s a fucker isn’t it! 1980 W. Kotzwinkle Jack in the Box 156: She’ll burn up the competition.… It’s one fucker of an engine. 1980 in Penthouse (Jan. 1981) 173: He wanted me to wear this schoolgirl rig and shoes—and shine the fuckers first. 1981–85 S. King It 30: Just give me the fucker. 1987 W. D. Blankenship Blood Stripe 68: Took me five years to earn that fucker. 1992 G. Wolff Day at Beach 180: You fucking get the fucker up, Dad. 2000 D. Eggers Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 435: You slash away with that fucker [sc. a frisbee], it’s such a violent act, throwing that white thing, you’re first cradling it to your breast and then then you whip that fucker as hard as you possibly can while keeping it level, keeping it straight. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 149: “It’s just the brass. It ejected funny.” “Brass?” “The shell.” “Fucker is hot.”

fuckerware party noun [FUCK + (Tupp)erware party]

Especially Homosexuals. a gathering of women for the group use or purchase of sexual toys.

1983 G. Davis Romance 63: The nicest women on the Peninsula get together for what they themselves have labelled Fuckerware parties, where a representative comes equipped with Benoit balls, edible underwear, all manner of lubricious devices for sale. 1985 Hustler (Nov.): She joins Erica Boyer, Beverly Bliss and Barbie Dahl in a “fuckerware” party. As the girls try on lingerie and sample lotions, body paints and sex toys, the party breaks out in a rash of dueling dildos. 1986 Playboy (Nov.) 25: The authors attend a fundamentalist sex seminar…, a fuckerware party and other events. 1990 S. Bright Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World 47: How many of you have attended a home sex toy presentation with a group of friends? They’re called fuckerware parties in the business. 1998 T. Dalzell Slang of Sin 177: Fuckerware party…a women’s party where sex toys are displayed and sold.

fuckery noun [FUCKER + -y ; or FUCK + treachery]

1. a brothel.

1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Dictionary of Slang & Its Analogues V. 12/2: Nanny-shop…a brothel… English synonyms…fuckery. 1966 B. Miller (book title) Devotions Written in a Fuckery. a1973 in R. S. Silverberg New Dimensions III. 138: Well, OK: one time in a regular seaport fuckery, Marseilles I think, I got a deaf-mute ginch. It was—restful, sort of; you don’t have to talk. 1978 H. Mathews trans. J. Cordelier The Life: Memoirs of a French Hooker 163: You’re sure you haven’t come to the wrong fuckery? 1994 U. K. LeGuin Matter of Seggri in Birthday of the World & Other Stories (2002) 51: Chochi had a favorite man at their local fuckery to whom she went now and then for pleasure. 2008 H. Kureishi Something to Tell You 107: But inside the fuckery it was warm and friendly. Everyone said hello.… “There were people on dog’s leads, and lying in baths to be urinated on, others facedown in a sling.”

2. sexual activity; FUCKING.

1961 J. Ashmead Mountain & the Feather 132: By definition, homosexuals did not speak endlessly and monotonously of the drab arts of fuckery. 1966 A. Wainhouse trans. Marquis de Sade 120 Days of Sodom 405: As always partisan to thigh-fuckery, the Duc, obliged as he was to abstain from the capital practice, impaled Zelmire in this style. 1974 New Society XXIX. 170: Although she assesses herself a unique phoenix of fuckery, Ms Lovelace does only what any accomplished whore is expected to do in a society where the profession of prostitution demands specific sexual virtuosities. 1978 A. Carter Sadeian Woman 62: A tragic resonance to illicit fuckery is as silly as a straightforward denial that it exists. 1982 J. A. Atkins Sex in Literature IV. 310: He enjoys old-fashioned cunt-fuckery more than anything else and describes it with immense gusto. 1982 J. Machlis Lisa’s Boy 201: They came together for what his friend Sidney called pure fuckery, and that goal seemed best served by their not becoming too deeply involved with each other. 2004 J. H. Kunstler Maggie Darling 48: An upward-reaching fugue of fuckery that culminated with Maggie bowed backward in a near headstand and Kenneth yogically arched above, as though he were copulating with a wheelbarrow, and then they collapsed in a heap on the floor.

3. despicable behavior; (also) treachery.

1978 S. King Stand 461: That was an act of pure human fuckery. 1993 T. Olson At Sea 70: No vigilante, high seas pirate fuckery is going down while I’m around here! 1994 Village Voice (Nov. 1) 69: Taking on the genre’s most seismic vocalist was arrogant fuckery to begin with. 1998 C. Channer Waiting in Vain vii. 184: He’d even asked her to marry him… and she’d said no. Said some fuckery like, Only if we’re allowed to see other people. 2006 A. Winehouse Me & Mr. Jones (pop. song): What kind of fuckery is this? 2007 D. Moskowitz Words & Music of Bob Marley 122: The omitted word could have been “fuckery,” which was Jamaican patois for wrong or unfair actions.

fuckface noun

an ugly or contemptible person.—usually used abusively in direct address.

1945 in Verbatim (Autumn, 1989) 6: Fxxxface…1. A fool, a joker, one not held in high regard or likable.… 2. Greeting, form of address, semi-humorously or strongly contemptuous. 1961 J. Jones Thin Red Line 39 [refers to WWII]: All right, fuckface! Where’s that fucking platoon roster…? 1967 W. Crawford Gresham’s War 139: Hey, frickface. 1968 J.P. Miller Race for Home 294 [refers to 1930s]: “Tell what happened to ’im, fuckface,” Dawg said. 1968 W. Mares Marine Machine 5: You come down here with this blade to cut me, fuckface? Try it! 1971 T. Mayer Weary Falcon 126: I tried giving it to the fuck faces whole, but then they sell it. 1983 W. Walker Dime to Dance 55: Why don’t you mind your own business, fuckface? 1985 R. Meltzer Rock-Crit Blood ’n’ Guts (Part 1) in Whore Just Like Rest (2000) 9: The first thing he says is “Get me some tea.” Get your own tea, fuckface! 1991 N. Baker U & I vii. 120: That dirty little fuckface! 1993 S. Turow Pleading Guilty IV. xiv. 217: Who am I looking for, fuckface? 1999 T. Parker et al. South Park (film script) 27: Phillip. I did, Terrance, I learned that you are a boner biting dick fart fuck face! 2004 J. Meno Hairstyles of Damned 142: “Do I look like a dude to you, you fuckface?” she asked. Fuckface? I thought to myself. Who even uses the word “fuckface”?

fuckfaced adjective

1. having an ugly or miserable face; despicable. [The 1940 quotation is euphemistic.]

1940 E. Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls 369: Muck my grandfather and muck this whole treacherous muck-faced mucking country. 1973 W. Crawford Gunship Commander 24: You fuckfaced animal. Either do something with that or put it away. 1991 M. Olden Kisaeng 265: He…held the cigarette lighter to the guard’s nose. “You fuckfaced twerp. Go feebleminded with me and I’ll roast you.” 1995 L. Uris Redemption 15: What would you give for another stupid paddy like me to come off the ship and bail you out, you fuck-faced monster? 2001 B. Denton Dealing vi. 155: He wrote a letter to his cell mate’s girlfriend in Fairlea calling Marcia a “fuck-faced dog who gave me up.”

2. Tired; bleary-eyed; (also) appearing like someone who has recently engaged in copulation.

1976 R. Price Bloodbrothers 59: At seven the sound of cartoons and the shifting silver reflection of the TV screen had Stony sitting up in bed dazed blind and fuckfaced. 1978 Penthouse (Apr.) 130: Gradually people file down for breakfast. Totally bleary-eyed and fuck-faced. 2004 H. Walsh Brass i. 4: She props herself up, fuck-faced and shining with the stench of her latest trick and stares into me.

3. Drunk; “shit-faced.”

1993 T. Hawkins Pepper iv. 85: Go screw yourself. Waste your own life watching videos, I’m going out to get fuck-faced. 2004 P. J. O’Rourke in National Lampoon’s Big Book of Love 54/1: They won’t let me drive drunk… They must think I’m crazy. That stuff scares me. I have to get completely fuck-faced to even think about driving fast.

fuckfest noun

an occasion, period, or portrayal of unrestrained or orgiastic sexual activity.

1932 H. Miller Letter (July 30) in G. Stuhlmann Literate Passion (1989) 82: When you return I am going to give you one literary fuckfest—that means fucking and talking and talking and fucking—and a bottle of Anjou in between—or a Vermouth Cassis. 1967 J. W. Corrington Upper Hand II. vii. 292: I know what money is. I know who pays five bucks to see a fuck-fest. 1976 J. Lee Ninth Man 183: They had simply engineered themselves a good old-fashioned fuckfest. 1992 Rudner & Bergman Peter’s Friends (film): I hardly think my three-year-old marriage is the same as your two-week-old fuckfest. 1996 Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Apr. 30): Mom was speaking of childhood slumber parties, not all-night saffron-scented fuckfests. 1997 SF Weekly (Apr. 2): The black-and-white existential fuckfest Sex Garage (1972), which brilliantly evokes both Kenneth Anger’s bike fetish and the car-sex crazies of Crash in a sequence where a bored biker graphically attacks the exhaust pipe of his Harley. 1998 Playboy (Apr.) 66: In the Seventies, life was a real fuckfest for me. I worked at a bar…and women in their early 20s used to wait around to see who I would go home with. 2005 FHM (Jan.) 131/3: There’s barely any skin-flicks for chicks: books are more our bag—and a well-penned fuck-fest gets us seriously hot.

fuckfriend noun

= FUCK-BUDDY.

1994 P. Manso Brando: He went out of his way to apologize to Valerie Fudd, too, for having described her as one of his “fuck friends.” 1998 C. Preston Jackie by Josie 147: Was Terry Grif’s girlfriend? The word seems too innocent for the activities of those two. Leslie called her his fuckfriend. 2005 Toronto Star (Jan. 8) L3/2: Booty call, CSBF (casual sex between friends), (f--- friends)… There has always been a euphemism for friends crossing the line into the grey area of sex. For some teens, what they call “friends with benefits” is replacing monogamous relationships. 2007 J. H. Kessler Hell’s Belles 137: This was Daun. My bed buddy, my fuck friend.

fuckhead noun

a stupid or contemptible person.

1945 in Verbatim (Autumn, 1989) 6: Fxxxhead…A cheese head, an easily confused or misled individual. 1946 L. Bergman I Cannot See Their Faces & Keep Silent 35: He swore at me,/“Get over there, you dumb bastard,/Keep in step, you fuckhead,/Hold that rifle up, you turd.” 1962 in B. Rosset Evergreen Reader 467: Manager merchant banker professional professional [sic] fuckhead. 1964 in L. Bruce Essential Lenny 97: I mean, it’s the fault of the motion pictures, that have made the Southerner “a shit kickuh, a dumb fuckhead.” 1965 S. Linakis In Spring the War Ended 348 [refers to WWII]: Go ahead fuck-head. You’ll do me a favor. 1964–66 R. Stone Hall of Mirrors 116: You simple-minded fuckhead. 1969 R. Jessup Sailor 389: You’re nothing but a dumb fuckhead sailor. 1980 W. Kotzwinkle Jack in the Box 56: How ya doin’, fuckhead. 1987 S. MacLaine It’s All in Playing viii. 98: Melissa doesn’t think I’m cute. She thinks I’m a fuck-head. 1990 H. G. Bissinger Friday Night Lights x. 200: Playing to him is not what it’s all about.… Fuckheads can just play. He wants to be number one. 1996 Picture (Sydney, Australia) (Dec. 4) 59: I’d say your brother is indeed a fuckhead. 2002 J. S. Foer Everything is Illuminated 127: I’m sorry. You’re not a fuckhead. I’m very sorry. 2007 J. Collins Drop Dead Beautiful 264: Good riddance to a misogynous murderous fuckhead.

fuckheaded adjective

stupid.

1968 R. Linney Broofer (1981) 20: Look, what kind of a fuck-headed situation—. 1971 T. Mayer Weary Falcon 121: Shut up, you fuckheaded slope. 1975 W. Kennedy Legs 148: Charlie, give me a hundred, you fuck-headed fuck! 2005 S. Monette Melusine 125: I knew she hadn’t turned me in…even though I’d been fuckheaded enough to tell her my real name.

fuckhole noun

1.a. the vagina as an object of sexual penetration.

ca1890–93 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues III 80: Fuck-hole…The female pudendum. 1916 H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I 97: Fuck hole—The vagina. 1934 “J.M. Hall” Anecdota Americana (Second series) 14: First you much [sic] up me fuck hole and now you wants to fuck up me muck hole. 1959 in E. Cray Erotic Muse 73: At the fuck-hole of Kathusalem. 1975 Ribald (Sydney, Australia) (May 29) 15: Her gaping, hot fuck-hole readying itself for the prick. 1976 J. Vasco Three-Hole Girl 152: Cherry’s fuck hole opened to her probing tongue. 1991 B. E. Ellis American Psycho 177: I find myself…trying to remember if I switched the tapes in my VCR, and suddenly I’m worried that I might be taping thirtysomething over Pamela’s Tight Fuckhole. 1994 A. Sheehan Jack Kerouac is Pregnant 21: He grabbed between her legs and hissed, “Your fuckhole is too loose, whore.” 2004 T. Taormino in Village Voice (Dec. 1) 125/1: Men will love “I My Pussy” (or “I My Fuckhole”) tank tops.

b. Especially in homosexual use: the anus or mouth as an object of sexual penetration.

1971 B. Cochran Crotch Bait 35: Then he felt the big broad head of his cock slipping into the tightest little fuck hole he had ever felt. 1981 M. Ward Randy Pants 89: The tip of my tongue touched his tiny fuck hole, and my mouth was filled with the spicy taste of male ass. 1994 N. Baker Fermata xiv. 224: “Fill my fucking fanny!” Sylvie shouted, looking in Marian’s eyes and then down at her toy-filled fuckholes. 1998 in L. Antoniou Leatherwomen 69: Some pathetic straight guy being forcibly fucked by a gang of studs until he’s nothing but a pair of fuck-holes dribbling cum and spit. 2006 C. Varrin Female Submission 169: My face was still being used as a fuck-hole while I thought this. Niles’s cock was delicious to taste.

c. a person regarded as a sexual object.

1990 J. Hynes Wild Colonial Boy 67: She had raged at him, hitting him again and again, shouting, “I’m not your fuckhole!” until he backed away. 1996 J. W. Bean Leathersex Q & A 61: I’m sure I’m not alone in my fantasies: Being used as a fuck-hole, urinal, ass-lick, even an ashtray by a lot of men one after another, or even all at once. 1998 Weekly’s Literary Supplement (Stern Publishing) (May 8) 22: The females in Miller’s Tropics weren’t mostly depersonalized fuckholes. 2002 L. Breedlove Godspeed 230: They are surprised by a girl whom they expected to run, just a fuckhole, doubled over all soft. 2003 M. Hemmingson Amateurs 80: They fucked for a while and again they were loud and he called her a slutty fuckhole which she liked, she liked the dirty talk. a2006 P. Munson Fairgrounds in S. Bright Best American Erotica 2006 70: You’re Daddy’s slut, his whore, his prostitute, his fuck-hole.

2. a despicable person; an asshole.

1978 in North Eastern Reporter (2nd Series) (1980) (vol. 401) 595: She used profane language to the other children. She would say “God damn you, you bitch, you fuck hole, and you ass hole.” a1981 in S. King Bachman 621: Goddam…fuckhole! 1985 J. Dillinger Adrenaline 54: Unlock my cuffs, fuckhole. Ibid. 215: Hey, fuckhole. 1996 Rivera Live (CNBC) (Jan. 30) (transcript): Steps towards him kind of spits at him and calls him a “fuck hole.” 1999 S. Turow Personal Injuries 235: When you get down through the layers, Brendan is an absolute fuck-hole of a human being. 2003 “DBC Pierre” Vernon God Little 70: What a fuckhole, I swear. I should jam a table-leg through his fucken eye.

3. a disgusting location; “shithole.”

1980 High Performance (Summer) 26/2: The architecture of Rome is evil. The Colosseum is an evil fuck-hole. 1990 A. W. Gray In Defense of Judges 234: His body they found six weeks ago in his fuckhole of an apartment. 1995 C. Foster Sleep on, Beloved 242: I got the best stuff in this fuckhole place. 2000 S. King On Writing 58: I didn’t want it—the work was hard and boring, the mill itself a dingy fuckhole overhanging the polluted Androscoggin River. 2004 L. Love You Ain’t Got no Easter Clothes 70: My mother told us she was “tired of living in this fuckhole where niggers acted like savages and the honkies that made them that way didn’t give half a shit.” 2005 J. Castro Truth Book 154: If you ever want help getting out of that fuck-hole, let me know.

fuck-in noun

(esp. among hippies) a love-in that includes public copulation; an orgy. Usually jocular.

1965 E. Sanders Fuck You (June): A Fuck-in for Peace. 1967–68 N. von Hoffman We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against 211: That was when we had a fuck-in at the White House. 1968 in M. J. Estren History of Underground Comics (1974) 17: Grand Opening of the Great International Fuck-In and Orgy-Riot. 1971 U. K. Le Guin Lathe of Heaven 69: And there were the riots, and the fuck-ins, and the Doomsday Band and the Vigilantes. 1971 Playboy (Apr.) 184: If you want to get rid of dormitory rules, you have a fuck-in. 1975 M. Amis Dead Babies (1991) 122: And I don’t just mean the sex conventions and the fuck-ins. 1980 F. Rush Best Kept Secret 191: But when these young radicals approached thirty, they discovered that their love-ins and fuck-ins neither freed the poor, the parks nor liberated Washington. 2002 R. Coover Adventures of Lucky Pierre 268: His massive fuck-ins have closed down movie houses, clogged traffic, collapsed bridges, paralyzed City Hall!

fucking noun

1. sexual intercourse.

1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) iv. 55: Thir foure, the suth to sane, Enforsis thame to fucking. 1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 202: For quha wald not lauche…To se forett þe holy frere his fukking so deploire? 1708 School of Love in Indictment (Public Records Office: KB 28/24) m. 9: My lovely Phil. is…as well vers’d in the various manners of ffucking and ffrigging, as the Captain of the virtuosa’s. 1766 in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 185: As to the flesh tho’, I cannot say I have occasion for any violent longings, as I have reduced F—n almost to a regular matrimonial system. 1849 A. Doten Journals I 40: There are plenty of girls in Talcahuano and the principal business carried on is— F—ing. 1854 in American Speech IX (1934) 271: [According to the actor David Garrick,] when it was asked what was the greatest pleasure, Johnson answered *******. 1865 “Philocomus” Love Feast ii. 14: The fucking, tickling and the sight/Drove me half frantic with delight. 1867 in A. Doten Journals II 949 [in cipher]: Me and my love had thus far one hundred good square fucks—the best fucking on the face of the earth. 1888 Stag Party 219: Sodom…was the worst place for wild fucking of all descriptions…(barring Chicago). 1932 H. Miller Letter (July 30) in G. Stuhlmann Literate Passion (1989) 82: When you return I am going to give you one literary fuck-fest—that means fucking and talking and talking and fucking—and a bottle of Anjou in between—or a Vermouth Cassis. 1964 S. Bellow Herzog 214: But if the fucking is at home and the child exposed to it, the judicial attitude is different. 1988 F. Busch Ralph Duck in M. Atwood Best American Short Stories 1989 (1989) 78: I wrote him a paper about the mechanics of corpse fucking. 1993 S. Brown Where There’s Smoke 373: Some of the best fucking I ever did. 1995 H. Korine Kids 150: Fucking is what I love. Take that away from me, and I really got nothin. 2002 M. Faber Crimson Petal and the White 818: Fuck the girl and have done with it! Fuck all the females in the world while the fucking is good!

2. fooling around; wasting time. Used with (chiefly U.S.) around or (chiefly Brit.) about.

1931 H. Miller in Letters to Emil (1989) 76: “My dear,” she says. “I just couldn’t stay away from you. I’m sick of all this fucking around.” 1964 K. Amis Letter in Z. Leader Letters of Kingsley Amis (2000) 658: I ought to have told you earlier, but general fucking about, including Xmas, and disinclination…to do anything whatever. 1984 J. Kelman Busconductor Hines (1992) iv. 167: What’s the point of fucking about. You leave half of the second pint and get off your mark. 2000 Village Voice (Dec. 5) 138: His greatest ire is reserved for a snooty critic who refuses to concede that all the hyperbolic, blood-spattered fucking about might be worth a second look.

3. a defeat, a drubbing; an instance of exploitation or victimization.

1945 in Verbatim (1989) (Autumn) 5/2 Fxxxing…, a crushing (humiliating) defeat, a drubbing, a fleecing, a loss… We took a right regular fxxxing at Tobruk. 1958 in R. Schwitzgebel Streetcorner Research 50: If a kid went and fucked up, you just don’t go out and give him a fuckin’. 1967 H. S. Thompson Letter (Mar. 21) in Proud Highway (1997) 605: Every time he says, “Don’t look back,” I focus more intensely to the rear, the past, and the indefensible fucking I got on the Hell’s Angels contract. 1969 Black Panther (May 4) in P. S. Foner Black Panthers Speak (1970) 251: It’s made that way by the royal fucking that the working class gets in this country. 1997 Black Renaissance (Oct. 31): A person like Miles [Davis] never realized that he was giving almost everyone else a royal fucking (but if he had realized it he still wouldn’t have cared).

fucking adjective

1. that engages or is engaged in sexual intercourse. Also: used during sexual activity or for sexual gratification; relating to or describing sexual activity.

1528 MS Brasenose College, Oxford VII (marginal note) in Notes & Queries (1993) (Mar.) 29/2: O d [perhaps = damned] fuckin Abbot. 1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 202: Than lat ws sing, O fukand flok! yor deid is not lyk yor say. 1680 Lord Rochester Poems 30: Through all the Town, the common Fucking Post,/On whom each Whore, relieves her tingling Cunt. 1880 Pearl (June) 427: The last improvement in dildoes—the new patent Fucking Machine. 1882 Boudoir 160: Hurray, hurray, she’s a maid no more,/But a f—g wife for evermore! ca1890 My Secret Life VIII. ix. 307 She was…a magnificent bit of fucking flesh, but nothing more. 1917–20 T. Dreiser Newspaper Days 233 [refers to 1893]: A large, Irish policeman…[said] “She’s a Goddamned drunken, fucking old whore, that’s what she is.” Ibid. 276: I’m living…with a Goddamned fucking whore. 1939 D. Thomas Letter (Sept. 11) in P. Ferris Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas (1987) 408: He’s always got the same cracks to grind, but, after all, good fucking books are few & far, & if you look at Tropic of Cancer as the best modern fucking book…then I know you must enjoy & admire it enormously. ca1942 ? H. Miller Opus Pistorum (typescript, Library of Congress) II. iii. 55: I am going to America and I am going to buy or make or have made a good mechanical cunt, a fucking machine, which runs by electricity. 1990 R. M. Polhemus Erotic Faith xi. 306: Just the sort of subjective, pompous, silly eloquence and wisdom that might be popping in the mind of some happily fucking human being. 2001 K. Rexroth in D. Meltzer San Francisco Beat 237: Did you ever take a chick into a motel in Southern California? It has a fucking machine in it. The bed fucks. You don’t have to do any work.

2. contemptible or despicable; goddamned; (often used with reduced force for emphasis). [Perhaps originally taken from opprobrious literal phrases such as fucking whore or fucking bitch (cf. sense 1, above). Fucking is probably the word intended in the 1857 quotation: the number of asterisks is correct for the length of the word, and any word less vulgar would only be partly omitted (compare representation of bitch in the same quotation); compare the identical use of asterisks in clearer contexts from the same era in the 1848 and 1854 quotations at FUCK, verb, definition 1a.]

1857 Suppressed Book about Slavery 211: The Dr… applied the lash. The Woman writhed under each stroke, and cried, “O Lord!”…The Doctor… thus addressed her (the congregation must pardon me for repeating his words). “Hush, you ******* b—h, will you take the name of the Lord in Vain on the Sabbath day?” 1888 Stag Party [unpaged]: Now this gives us another fucking scene, leastways it is not exactly a fucking scene, though it came near being one. It shows you Joseph and Potiphar’s wife. a1890–93 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues III 80: Fucking…Adj. (common).—A qualification of extreme contumely. 1915 E. Pound in Materer Pound/Lewis 18: God damn the fucking lot of ’em. 1915 in P. Adam-Smith ANZACS 168: You fucking xt I’ve only just got the f…g thing off the other f…g table you b..t..d. 1918 in [H. V. O’Brien] Wine, Women & War 205 [diary entry for Sept. 26]: Hi, Tommy, ’ere’s one o’ yer fuckin’ English hofficers wants t’ be saluted. 1914–21 J. Joyce Ulysses 595: I’ll wring the neck of any bugger says a word against my fucking king. Ibid. 600: I’ll do him in, so help me fucking Christ! 1921 Notes & Queries (Nov. 19) 415 [refers to WWI]: [Fucking] was used adjectivally to qualify almost every noun in the soldier’s vocabulary. 1923 R. McAlmon Companion Volume 51: What in fucking hell do youse think this is, a sunday school picnic, or a tea party? 1927 Immortalia 124: He’s a fucking son-of-a-bitch. 1928 in A. W. Read Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy (1935) 54: You god Dam fucken fool. 1929–30 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 77: Jack, it was a fucking shame. 1934 H. Roth Call It Sleep 231 [refers to ca1910]: Didja ever see dat new tawch boinin’ troo a goider er a flange er any fuck’n hunka iron? 1935 T. Wolfe Of Time & the River 598: I’ll kick duh f—kin’ s—t outa duh f—kin’ lot of yuh, yuh f—kin’ bastards, you. 1937 E. Hemingway To Have & Have Not 225: A man alone ain’t got no bloody fucking chance. 1938 in P. Oliver Blues Tradition 170: I…don’t deny my fuckin’ name. 1939 T. Sturgeon Ether Breather in D. Knight First Flight (1963) 88: He took his lips from hers, buried his face in her hair and said clearly: “I hate your — guts.” And that “—” was the most perfectly enunciated present participle of a four-letter verb I have ever heard. 1942 N. Algren Never Come Morning 39: Dey ain’t a book in da f— place. 1943 F. Wakeman Shore Leave 184: “The f—ing island,” Crewson corrected. 1948 J. G. Cozzens Guard of Honor 561: Said why the f— holy hell didn’t they get a boat from Lake Armstrong. 1951 D. R. Morris China Station 129: You’re a fucking liar. 1953–55 MacK. Kantor Andersonville 224: What?—with this fucking pistol of yours? 1955 J. O’Hara Ten North Frederick 365: I think you’re a fucking hypocrite. 1960 in A. Sexton Letters 97: My (fucking) book comes out March 1st in case you’ve forgotten. 1964 I. Faust Steagle 105: I can’t ever get a fuckin break. 1972 Captain John W. Young on lunar surface in Newsweek (May 1) 24: “I haven’t eaten this much citrus fruit in twenty years,” he snorted. “And I’ll tell you one thing: in another twelve f— days, I ain’t ever eating any more.” 1987 T. Wolfe Bonfire of Vanities 59: I said please pick up the fucking phone! I mean holy shit! 1992 Newsweek (Nov. 23) 32: We’re going to blow up your f— building. 1995 New Yorker (July 17) 50: I’m not your fucking scribe! I write what’s meaningful to me! 1999 New Yorker (Aug. 23) 124/1: Keep you fokkin’ head down! 2004 J. Meno Hairstyles of Damned 113: But Bobby is a fucking asshole. 2007 M. Wall W.A.R.: Unauthorized Biography of W. Axl Rose 267: You can’t even hold a fucking candle to that fucking guy.

fucking adverb

exceedingly; damned; (often used with reduced force for emphasis).

a1890–93 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues III 80: Fucking… Adv. (common) Intensive and expletive; a more violent form of bloody. 1918 in E. Wilson Prelude 210: The situation is fucking serious! 1918 E. Pound in J. Joyce Letters II 424: The world is too fucking with us. 1929 F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune 6 [refers to WWI]: They can say what they bloody well like.… but we’re a fuckin’ fine mob. 1933 C. H. Ford & P. Tyler Young & Evil 31: It’s too fucking cold to be running around trying to raise fifty dollars. 1934 H. Miller in Letters to Emil (1989) 153: I’m getting fucking critical of people. Ibid. 156: Maybe I’ll get…fucking famous one day. 1942 H. Miller Roofs of Paris 250: I’m so fucking mad now that I don’t care what she does. 1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 10: Pretty fuggin funny. 1956 T. T. Chamales Never So Few 510: You’re asking too fucking much of me. 1963 S. Hayden Wanderer 126: You’re pretty fucking dumb, kid, you know that. 1964 A. Sexton in Letters 254: It’s too fucking hard to write. 1969–71 R. Kahn Boys of Summer 312: “Well, how did you get to play it like that?” “I worked, that’s fucking how.” 1973 R. Roth Sand in Wind 83: STOP! FUCKING STOP! 1977 R. Caron Go-Boy 152: I’ll be fucking seeing you later. 1979 B. Gutcheon New Girls 12: “You’re very fucking rude, Lisa,” said Jenny. 1987 T. Wolfe Bonfire of Vanities 47: Why did you just fucking stand there, doing nothing? 1993 New Yorker (Jan. 11) 78: I’m getting out of here, you fucking crazy. 1998 B. Elton Blast from Past ii. 15: You can’t just fucking use me—talk to me at the office and refuse to speak when I call. 2004 J. Meno Hairstyles of Damned 113: I mean, he fucking told that girl Laura that she is his “ideal woman.” Can you even believe that shit?

-fucking- infix

(used for emphasis in the middle of a word or set phrase). See also ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY, FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC, GUARANFUCKINGTEE.

1921 Notes & Queries (Nov. 19) 415 [refers to WWI]: Words were split up to admit [fucking]: “absolutely” became “abso—lutely,” and Armentières became Armen—teers.” “Bloody”…quite lapsed as being too polite and inexpressive. 1939 (quotation at fucked duck). 1945 in Verbatim (Autumn, 1989) 5: Twenty-fxxxing-four faces to feed. Blame it on your anti-fxxx’n-aircraft units, mate. 1952 in M. Russ Last Parallel 13: Reveille goes tomorrow at four o’fuckin’ clock. 1957 J. Kerouac Letter (Oct. 1) in Selected Letters 1957–69 (1999) 66: Bottles of Old Granddad, big articles in Sat. Review, in World Telly, everyfuckingwhere, everybody mad, Brooklyn College wanted me to lecture to eager students and big geek questions to answer. 1962 E. Sagarin Anatomy of Dirty Words 148: Irrefuckinsponsible, imfuckinpossible, unfuckinconscious,… unfuckinsociable. 1965 C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land 86: I wondered if he thought he was Jesus or some fucking body like that. 1966 R. Fariña Been Down So Long 84: He gets himself infuckingvolved. 1968 W. Mares Marine Machine xii: Outfucking-standing, Private Smith! 1968 R. Gover JC 158: That’s the ee-fuckin-end of it. 1971 Playboy (Mar.) 189: Unfucking-believable! 1971 W. Sonzski Punch Goes the Judy 19: Tele-fucking-phone for you. 1972 D. Pearce Pier Head Jump 6: It’s un-fuckin-believable sometimes. Ibid. 156: Six o’fuckin’ clock. 1973 McA. Layne How Audie Murphy Died in Vietnam (unpaged): Do me one more favor, Private. Dis-a-fuckin-pear! 1975 C.W. Smith Country Music 230: How po-fucking-etic! 1978 R. Price Ladies’ Man 128: Go away. Go afuckin’way. 1985 in Maledicta 8 (1984–85) 244: Of all the cocksucking, cuntlicking, asshole ideas I’ve ever heard of, this is the most unfuckingbelievable. 1998 T. Junod in Esquire (Nov.) 136: Holy shit! It’s Mister Fucking Rodgers! 2002 B. James Middleman i. 11: If ever Corbett incorporated himself he would call the company No Man’s Fucking Land. 2004 D. Barry in J. Williams Wales, Half Welsh 200: Very calmly, she said, “Where is she, then? If you know.” “I don’t know.… She’s still back home. or in Timbuc-fucking-too, as far as I care.” 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 111: You’re such a clownus. They don’t speak Flemish in Netherfuckingland.

fucking A noun

the least bit.

1966 S. Stevens Go Down Dead 203: Youth workers. Shit on them. They don’t know fucking A about us.

fucking-A adverb, adjective, interjection, & infix [FUCKING + a (origin unknown; perhaps taken from a phrase such as “you’re fucking A-number-one right!”)]

1.a. Especially Military. yes, indeed; absolutely (correct); especially in phrase:[you’re] fucking-A, occasionally with elaborations, especially fucking-A [well] told.

1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 21 [refers to WWII]: “You’re fuggin ay,” Gallegher snorted. 1961 J. Jones Thin Red Line 137 [refers to WWII]: “No, I never.” “You fucking A you never.” 1961 J. Peacock Valhalla 181 [refers to 1953]: Fucking A. 1967 M. Crowley Boys in the Band 827: Fuckin’ A, Mac. 1967 D. Brelis Face of South Vietnam 29: “It can’t be the same kid.” “You’re fuckin’ A, it’s the same fuckin’ kid.” 1969 J. Briley Traitors 273: You’re fucking A I had to work. 1969 G. Sidney For the Love of Dying 146: Fuckingeigh. 1970 D. Wakefield Going All the Way 42 [refers to ca1950s]: Fuckin-A John Do. 1970 J. Bouton Ball Four vii. 389: We also talked about the expressions we used in high school.… If somebody said, “Are you taking Louise to the dance,” you had to say, “Fuckin’ ay I am.” 1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 171: Fucking-ay-John Ditty-Bag-well-told I don’t. 1970 W. C. Woods Killing Zone 143: Fuckin-A-well-told. Ibid. Fuckin-A-number-one-well-told. 1975 M. Larsen Runner 38: Your fucking A told he is. Ibid. “Fucking A told,” Antonino agreed. 1982 H. Berry Semper Fi, Mac 192 [refers to WWII]: “Hey, Bull, you going on liberty?” “Fuckin’ A doodle de doo.” 1985 J. Dillinger Adrenaline 199: “You were traumatized.” “You’re fuckin’ A we were traumatized.” 1978 W. B. McCloskey Jr. Highliners (1980) Epilog 385: “You’d take me back?” “You’re fuckin’ A!… Need airfare?” 1985 N. Kazan At Close Range (film): “Looks like a nice gun.” “Fucking-A-plus it’s a nice gun.” 1988 S. Rushdie Satanic Verses (1998) 245: Her sister nodded assent: “Crucial. Fucking A.”

b. (used to express astonishment, dismay, or recognition).

1979 C. Hiler Monkey Mountain [refers to 1972] 103: “Three pair and…the deuce of spades.”…“Fuckin’ A!” 1980 J. Carroll Land of Laughs 168: Fuck-ing A!…The guy who walked around the world! 1988 C. Eble Campus Slang 4: Fuckin’ A—exclamation, either positive or negative. “What? A Quiz today?…Fuckin’ A!” 1992 Vanity Fair (July) 130: Fookin’ A, she looks good. 1997 New Yorker (Aug. 18) 51: I jumped out of my chair. Fucking A! I love football! 1997 L. Yablonsky Story of Junk 253: Mary’s no junkie, just a mule, and now she’s stoned. Fucking A. 2001 S. King Dreamcatcher ii. 85: He lost his rifle, too. A brand-new Remington .30-.30, fuckin A, you won’t never see that again.

c. splendid.

1986 J. C. Stinson & J. Carabatsos Heartbreak Ridge 29: The night had gone from fucking-A to all-fucked-up in record time. 1986 R. Chapman New Dictionary of American Slang: We won? Fucking a! 1987 W. Pelfrey & J. Carabatsos Hamburger Hill 51 [refers to Vietnam War]: The ham’s fucking A, Ma.

2.a. Especially Military. (used as an intensifier); = FUCKING; god-damned. [The 1955 quotation is euphemistic.]

1955 J. Sack Here to Shimbashi 18: “That was a mighty freaking-A loud sneeze,” declared the sergeant major. 1968 E. Bullins In the Wine Time 389: That’s right…that’s fucken “A” right. 1986 L. Heinemann Paco’s Story 20: Guys with their chests squashed flat from fuckin’-A booby-trapped bombs. 1987 B. Raskin Hot Flashes 87: “That was too-fucking-A-much,” Joanne says tersely. 1998 Schizo (#3) [inside front cover]: I can see you cum and cum…and finally DIE, all at the same fuckin-A time! 2003 N.Y. Magazine (May 5) 32/2: “We’re the fucking-A greatest,” he told employees, and then, shirtless, rolled onto his desk and did twenty push-ups. 2003 M. Lewis Moneyball ix. 193: This is the time to make a fucking A trade.

b. FUCKING WELL; very well; very; absolutely.

1960 G. Sire Deathmakers 211 [refers to WWII]: You can fucking-aye say that again. Ibid. 262: You fucking-aye have spoken, Captain. 1968 N. C. Heard Howard Street 72: You fuckin’-A-right! 1970 Evergreen Review (Apr.) 66: You know fucking-A I deserve it, Krim, now where is it going to be published? 1970 P. Appleman In the Twelfth Year of the War 89: You hear, I do not fuckin’-aye intend it! 1972 D. Ponicsan Cinderella Liberty 8: No one knew who first got carried away…and wound up with the melodious inventive “Fuckin’ aye John Ditty Bag,” but since then any number of sailors have gilded the lily and produced things like, “Fuckin’ well told aye John Ditty Bag I be go to hell on a forklift!” 1973 B. Hirschfeld Generation of Victors 38: Now that is fucking-A important. 1973 “J. Godey” Pelham 151: He fucking-aye-right better be. 1976 C. R. Anderson Grunts 78 [refers to 1969]: You know fucking A well you can’t ask the man no dumbass question like that. 1978 L. K. Truscott Dress Gray 443: You could fuckin’-A say that again. 1981 W. T. Hathaway World of Hurt 209: You’re my fuckin’-A favorite ridge-runner. a1982 H. Berry Semper Fi, Mac 192: Fuckin’ A told or Fuckin’ A right were everyday expressions [in the Marine Corps during WWII]. 1985 R. Frede Nurses 237: I am fucking-A ripped! 1985 D. Bodey F.N.G. 4: Marines. Fuckin’-A filthy. 1998 R. B. Parker Trouble in Paradise 80: We’re just going to fucking-A find that out, aren’t we, my little chickadee? a1999 D. F. Wallace Signifying Nothing in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) 78: I know, for fucking-“A” sure, my father was not going to say anything to her about it.

fucking Able [FUCKING + former military communications alphabet Able ‘A’]

Military. = FUCKING-A.

1966 R. Newhafer No More Bugles in the Sky 176: That certainly is tough shit, Danang. You are fucking able right I violated air space.

fucking-A well adverb

= FUCKING WELL.

1976 H. Crews Feast of Snakes 83: He fucking-A-well had the words right.

fuckingly adverb

extremely; incredibly.

[ca1890 My Secret Life IX. xii.: The cunt slightly open and fuckingly aromatic, smelling like the cunt of a woman.] 1927 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters (1981) 261: Got a sheet to fill out from Who’s Who and my life has been so fuckingly complicated that I was only able to answer two of the questions. 1930 J. C. Powys in Diary (1987) 191: Had Devilish & fuckingly sharp discomfort in my ulcer. a1932 A. Nin in Henry & June (1986) 181: Henry loves me, but not fuckingly, not fuckingly. 1952 in G. Legman Limerick (1954) 47: The skater, Barbara Ann Scott/Is so fuckingly “winsome” a snot. 1952 M. Horwitz Letter (Aug. 9) in We Will not be Strangers: Korean War Letters (1997) 54: Fuckingly well done. 1971 P. Zindel And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little 10: That whole pack of academically defunct eternally matriculated and fuckingly overpaid nuts and what are they saying? 2002 N. Vida End of Marriage 215: I have this connection in New York, he gets the most fuckingly beautiful Stickley pieces.

fucking well adverb

very well; absolutely; (often used for emphasis). Compare similar use of bloody well.

1922 T. E. Lawrence The Mint (1955) 80: She’ll stay as she fuckin’ well is. 1931 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang of the British Soldier (ed. 3) 17 [refers to WWI]: By adding -ing and -ingwell [to fuck] an adjective and adverb were formed and thrown into every sentence. 1939 A. C. Bessie Men in Battle 177: God send the—day when we’ll—fuckin’ well march no more! 1939 in Southern Folklore Quarterly XL. 104: Look at the people, furkin’ well cryin’;/Isn’t it nice to be furkin’ well dead. 1945 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters (1981) 590: If he doesn’t take care of you he better never fucking well run into me. 1948 R. Lowry Find Me in Fire 143: You’re fucking well right he had his pension—and they had his leg. Did he have to keep reminding them of the bargain? Or did they feel they were being cheated? He could fucking well assure them they hadn’t been. 1952 J. Kerouac Visions of Cody 201: You got the whole thing fuckingwell summed up. 1952 in M. Russ Last Parallel 13: I was behind the wheel of a fuckin’ Diesel truck before you ever learned to fuckin’ well drive.… 1965 S. Friedman Totempole 267: You better fucking-well believe it! 1971 H. Selby Room 42: You’re fucking well right he did. 1973 P. Maas Serpico 200: Get this fucking-well straight. 1974–77 A. Hoffman Property Of 166: I fucking well do not know, all right? 1986 W. Gibson Count Zero 148: So you can fucking well buy me some clothes, okay? 1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting (1994) 110: Whair ur ye fuckin well gaun?—That’s fir me tae ken n you tae find oot. What ye dinnae fuckin well ken they cannae fuckin beat oot ay ye, ah sais. 1999 H. Fielding Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason 57: Cannot believe he still hasn’t fucking, fucking, fucking well rung. 2000 M. Atwood Blind Assassin 346: Do whatever you fucking well feel like doing. 2006 M. Amis House of Meetings 103: Violence and escalation. You know fucking well what’s going to happen.

fuckish adjective

eager for copulation.

a1890–93 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues III 81: Fuckish…wanton;…inclined for coition. 1969 “Iceberg Slim” Mama Black Widow 246: Dorcas is fuckish as hell. 1992 W. Kennedy Very Old Bones 172: Does your stripper make you feel fuckish? 1992 K. Amis in Independent (London) (Apr. 12) (“Review page”) 37: If you wanna make me fuckish/get your ass into some lingerie & smell good. 1999 J. L’Heureux Having Everything 84: And so he was on Route 93 to Boston, dressed for the occasion, feeling fit and fuckish. And why not? He was a young man in his prime.

fuck job noun

an act of victimization; victimization.

1973 U.S. Air Force Sgt.: Someone’s always tryin’ to do the old fuck job on me. 1988 Southern attorney, age 36: I tell you, the fuck job never stops. 2003 J. Heywood Chasing Blond Moon 253: “This is a fuck job,” Tavolacci said. “One more word and you are in contempt, Mister Tavolacci.” 2006 J. Maberry Ghost Road Blues 306: You know, when I got up this morning I had no idea how much of a total fuck job this whole day was going to turn out to be. My team gets shot up, we get chased by the cops, crash our car, [etc.].

fuck-juice noun

semen or vaginal fluid.

1973 “D. H. Love” Dial-a-Dick 33: He ground his ass around to feel every spurt of fuck juice from Ken’s weapon. 1975 Ribald (Sydney, Australia) (May 29) 15: My wife began to suck him madley [sic], licking all of Brad’s and Trudy’s mingled fuck juices. 1976 J. Vasco Three-Hole Girl 10: Clear fuckjuice oozed from the slit at the tip of the huge member. 1988 N. Zedd in B. Stosuy Up is Up, But So is Down (1996) 297/1: I slurped away at her quivering clit, oozing fuckjuice and sweat. 1989 First Hand (May) 103/1: I let out a huge load of thick, creamy fuck juice, all the while pumping his ass good. 1998 A Fivesome Story, on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories (July 2): Her fuck-juice covered my face and hands and I smeared it all over her ass. 1999 J. Fletcher trans. A. P. de Mandiargues Portrait of an Englishman in his Chateau 113: I bit her pubes which were smeared with female fuck juice and alcohol. a2000 P. Califia No Mercy 71: She pulled away from Mack, curled up on her side, and was asleep in half a second, her thighs glued together with overworked lube and fuck juice.

fuck-knuckle noun

Chiefly Australian. a stupid or offensive person.

1981 A. Loukakis For the Patriarch 155: You stay outa this fucknuckle! 1994 in Macquarie Dictionary files: Don’t worry about him, he’s a fuck knuckle. 1997 Sick Puppy Comix (Sydney, Australia) (No. 6) 5: It’s been such a long time since I’ve been to the beach, I’ve forgotten what an oily, muscle-headed, fuck-knuckle looks like. 2001 T. O’Farrell Behind Enemy Lines: Australian SAS Soldier in Vietnam 12: Right fuck-knuckle, get into those dixies over there. 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xlvi. 740: What is it with these fuck-knuckles in rock that girls seem to like so much?

fuckless adjective

lacking in sexual activity.

1955 J. P. Donleavy Ginger Man 41: I’m hounded fuckless through the streets, beaten to the wall, scratching up pennies. 1967 N. Mailer Why are we in Vietnam? (1988) i. 19: Don’ ask if it’s Navaho, Apache, or any of those Jew shit questions, you anthropologist manqué, you fuckless wonder listening to the sex’l habits of all us mule-ass Texans. 1970 L. Gould Such Good Friends 8: It was the most beautiful solution a man could devise for keeping a fuckless marriage intact. 1974 U. K. Le Guin Dispossessed vi.145: As far as the eye can see the infertile desert lies in the pitiless glare of the merciless sun, a lifeless, trackless, feckless, fuckless, waste strewn with the bones of luckless wayfarers. 1982 S. Hite Hite Report on Male Sexuality 353: All those fuckless nights in college. 1995 W. H. Gass Tunnel 51: In a future which is to be fuckless between us as furniture. 2004 M. Barrowcliffe Lucky Dog 151: Health and fitness are the concerns of the fuckless.

fuckload noun

a large number or amount of; “shitload.”

[1978 “F. Pulsing” Whipped Cream 16: The combination drew the fuck-load from Ed’s shaking loins. He moaned and blasted. Ibid. 59: He gushed his fuck-load into the fink’s writhing mouth.] 1984 R. Meltzer in Whore Just Like Rest (2000) 324: I was struck by the fuckload of inner capacities the guy was perceptibly calling on. 1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere vii. 92 Him and Marty pulled a righteous fuckin’ fuckload of burglaries together. 1996 “Sublime” Caress Me Down (pop. song): I’m a star (with a fuckload of money ’cause you know I’m a star). 1999 W. Gibson All Tomorrow’s Parties 325: Those motherfucker bulklifters come drop a fuckload of water on it, got about a hundred firetrucks and everything here. 2006 G. Malkani Londonstani xxiii. 285: She was my girlfriend, we’d both landed in a fuck-load a trouble.

fuck machine noun

an extremely vigorous sexual partner. Compare fucking machine at FUCKING adjective sense 1.

1972 C. Bukowski Erections, Ejaculations, & General Tales of Ordinary Madness 35 (story title): The Fuck Machine. 1979 S. Spencer Endless Love 346: “They all know, everyone does.” “Know what?” “That you’re you, who you are. Mr. Fuck-Machine.” 1981 H. Robbins Goodbye, Janette 244: He was nothing but a fuck machine. Her loins and anus felt swollen and aching. 1992 Q. Tarantino Reservoir Dogs (film): The pain is reminding the fuck machine what it was like to be a virgin. 1999 C. D. Wright Floating Lady Retablo #1 in Steal Away (2002) 45: I was your/Personal all purpose all weather fuck machine. 2000 G. Duncan Love Remains ii. 120: I just can’t face that lot tonight. Bloody Anthony with some nineteen-year-old fuck-machine. You don’t mind, do you? 2006 K. Lobe Paris Hangover 90: It’s a personal best on the pleasure meter. To be crass—no, very crass—Nico is a fuck machine.

fuck-me noun

in plural = FUCK-ME shoes.

[1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 53: Come fuck-me’s…overly tight pants.] 1974 J. Mitzel & S. Abbott Myra & Gore 13: Shod in a pair of fabulous 1940’s-Joan-Crawford-fuck-mes. 1993 A. Adams & W. Stadiem Madam 125: In her garter belt and silk stockings and Blahnik fuck-mes. 2005 A. Miles Janet & John 152: I fastened stockings and slipped on a new pair of fuck-mes that I had recently invested in.

fuck-me adjective

(especially of an article of clothing, typically footwear) intended to invite sexual advances; seductive, vampish, sexy. Compare CFM.

1972 C. Ludlam Bluebeard in M. Smith More Plays from Off-Off Broadway III. ix. 406: She is completely nude except for her fuck-me pumps. 1974 D. Bowie We Are the Dead (pop. song): I love you in your fuck-me pumps / And your nimble dress that trails. 1989 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 41: Fuck-me boots…mid-calf or higher boots worn under a miniskirt. 1990 P. Munro Slang U. 86: Fuck-me eyes…flirtatious stares or glances / I’m feeling some serious fuck-me eyes from that guy in the corner. 1992 Letters to Penthouse III 63: Her legs ended in a pair of “fuck-me” stilettos. 1997 G. Williams Diamond Geezers ii. 15: Cindy C wearing nothing but a pink fuck-me swimsuit, still wet from the ocean, her hair slicked back and dripping. 1998 N.Y.C. writer, age 70: I remember clearly in the 1960s when the niece of the then-editor of Vogue, Diana Vreeland, startled me by referring to her “fuck-me boots.” I am prepared to sign an affidavit that this happened in the ’60s. High boots were just beginning to be the style. 1999 Pi Mag. (Univ. Coll. London Union) Feb. 17/2: They look the part—all spiky hair and fuck-me swagger—and they talk the talk—all big ideas and glammed-up dreams. 2002 I. Knight Don’t You Want Me? xiv. 191: “And you’ve grown, I see,” says Frank, still staring, looking down at my fuck-me footwear, a narrow, black suede pair of pointy boots with killer stiletto heels. 2006 G. Malkani Londonstani v. 47: They were upper sixth-formers, meanin they’d binned their dark green school uniforms a couple a years back an were now struttin around in their best casual garms. Good desi girls, though, so no fuck-me clothes.

fuck muscle noun

Esp. Homosexuals. the penis.

1977 F. Danton Fist Club 6: It was a big, thick, long thing that never quit, thirteen heavy inches of fuck muscle that any stud would be lucky to suck or take manfully up the ass. 1994 L. Eighner American Prelude 39: His muscles bulged—especially the fuck muscle in the middle of his slender belly. 2002 B. Vickery Cocksure 106: I’d love to fuck your ass right now. That is, if you think you can handle my throbbing gargantuan fuck muscle.

fucknob noun [probably from nob ‘head’; compare FUCKHEAD]

a stupid or contemptible person.

1995 New Yorker (May 8) 76: Look who’s talking, fucknob.… Your whole life is fucked up. 1998 Re: Crows & Umpiring, message on Usenet newsgroup aus.sport.aussie-rules (Aug. 9): It’s not considered polite to call someone a “fucknob.”

fucknut noun

a stupid or contemptible person. Also fucknuts.

1986 S. King It 199: “Why did you do that?” “Because I felt like it, fucknuts!” Henry roared back. 1992 Language in Society XXI. 283: Ugly male…dick, dof, drip, dwax, dweep, dweet, dwors, fucknut, fuckup, [etc.]. 1997 M. T. Sullivan Purification Ceremony 267: You fucknut, I should bust your ass right here, right now. 2002 A. Davies Frog King 188: I think you’re acting like a fucknut.… Say, “Evie, I’m sorry. Evie, I love you.” OK? 2004 Esquire (Sept.) 126/1: I don’t know anyone like the people on [TV family shows.].… I can’t relate to any of them. These people are all fucknuts.

fuck-nutty adjective

obsessed with thoughts of copulation.

1942 H. Miller Roofs of Paris 32: Those fuck-nutty kids.

fucko noun [probably influenced by bucko]

= FUCKER, definition 2.

1969 R. Thorp Dionysus 93: Well, fucko, I see you’ve made yourself right to home. 1973 A. Schiano & A. Burton Solo 76: Hey, fucko, what’re you following me for? 1974 S. Terkel Working 582: Hey, fucko, come over here.… You fucker. 1976 R. Price Bloodbrothers 247: No sweat, fucko. 1988 G. Gallo Midnight Run (film): My name’s Carmine, fucko! 1996 J. Díaz Edison, New Jersey in Drown 129: The boss wasn’t having it. You fuckos, he said. You butthogs. He tore us for a good two minutes and then dismissed us. 2003 A. Swofford Jarhead 50: I entered the room.… Someone said, “Fucko is here.”

fuck-off noun

Originally Military. a person who shirks duties or responsibilities; loafer or shirker; an incompetent.

1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 229 [refers to WWII]: You think I’m just a fug-off, don’t you? 1953 W. Eyster Far from Customary Skies 141 [refers to WWII]: How come you fuckoffs waited to now to start this fussing? How come you didn’t pray none in calm water? 1961 E. Hemingway Islands in the Stream 356: Where you two fuck-offs been? 1964 H.S. Thompson Letter (Jan. 29) in Proud Highway (1997) 436: I have turned into a fuck-off as far as this journalism is concerned—one of those woodsy types who talks a good article but never writes it. 1968 “J. Hudson” Case of Need 271: The radiologist for the night is Harrison. He’s a fuck-off. 1969 P. Spector in Rolling Stone (Nov. 1) 29/3: It’s a lot different today. I tell you the whole world is a drop-out. I mean, everybody’s a fuck-off. 1978 W. Wharton Birdy 176: I hate to think of going into combat with fuck-offs like these. 1984 J.R. Reeves Mekong 76: You fuck-off! 1996 M. Arax In My Father’s Name 142: You know your Dad was a fuck-off. Then he got married and almost overnight he got serious. 2003 Prospect (Sept.) 45/3: Around me, sipping coffees, seven or eight faces were familiar, even though the eagerness in some eyes had dimmed. “The fuck-offs are worse,” said one teacher I remembered. “The lippiness. The low-level misbehaviour is worse,” said another.

fuck-off adjective

1. Chiefly British. dismissive; hostile; threatening; (hence) impressive; huge.

1962 T. J. Scheff in Administrative Science Quarterly (vol. 7) 216: If there was shared role imagery on these wards, it was that of the cunning “gold-brick” who built what were called “fuck-off” kingdoms in the hospital. Within such kingdoms, treatment goals usually received lip service at the very most. 1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 12: Farmers’ll come up and say, “Why haven’t you introduced yourself round the village?”… That freaks us. We’re more used to fuck-off looks from people. 1996 Loaded (Sept.) 158/2: We had some fancy idea about making a few records, receiving a big cheque and all going off to live in a fuck-off mansion. 1997 “Q” Deadmeat 205: Goldie, a young man who had definitely put some of his money where his mouth was by coating his teeth in gold, pulled up in a devious black Mercedes with fuck off fat chrome wheels. 1999 J. Poller Reach iii. 8: Fuck fairies… Kids want sex, drugs, violence. Big fuck-off guns. 2001 K. Sampson Outlaws 7: He looked like one of them stereotype American tourists—big mad camera and that, all sorts of fuck-off lenses and fucking secret tricky bits built in. 2004 L. Sutherland Venus as Boy 36: I liked art. Double period last thing on a Friday. Mostly, it was still-life and handicrafts, but every once in a while they’d give you free rein to draw big fuck-off pictures of the sea and stars.

2. lazy; shiftless; idle.

1970 L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1987) 47: Eventually I apprehended that the music on Fun House is neither sloppy (in the sense that a fuckoff group like Deep Purple is sloppy…) nor inept. 1975 W. Harrington Scorpio 5 38: Whoever managed to steal fifty feet of mag tape off a reel and carry it out through Alpha Gemini plant security was somebody too smart for any fuckoff small-town cop to ever catch. a1996 R. Aman in Maledicta (vol. XII) 47: The University of Wisconsin…shamelessly protected an incompetent fuckoff professor who was more interested in peddling real estate than in teaching and thus cheated hard-working undergraduate and graduate students out of a decent education.

fuck off verb

1.a. to run away; get away; make off. [Comparatively rare in North American English.]

1929 F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune I. iii. 37 [refers to WWI]: As soon as a bit o’ shrapnel comes their way, [they] fuck off ’ome jildy, toot sweet. 1939 A. C. Bessie Men in Battle 89: No one ever saw him again. He “fucked off” over the border, as the men expressed it. 1943 in American Speech (Apr. 1944) 108: You would say of a man who has absented himself at the approach of some unpleasant job of work, “Oh, he fucked off.” 1948 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters 640: The opposing characters will fuck off once the column shows. 1953 K. Amis Letter in Z. Leader Letters of Kingsley Amis (2000) 302: They all thought it must be appendicitis…, but the medico was summoned, but he said it wasn’t. He gave me some filthy medicine…and fucked off. 1961 L. McMurtry Horseman, Pass By 58: “Fuck off,” he said. “You ain’t got no private milkin’ rights.” 1967 C. Aaron About Us 183: That wasn’t brave. I knew they’d fuck off. 1985 A. Sillitoe Life Goes On 171: I told him to…fuck off to Scotland, but he wouldn’t budge. 1999 The Score in M. Hunt Junk Yard 103: Me chips are done, so he sticks them in the bag and pours on plenty of salt and vinegar, just the way I like them. I give him eighty pence and fuck off. 2003 “DBC Pierre” Vernon God Little xvi. 170: Me, I snatch up my pack and fuck off.

b. imperative. “go away”; “go to hell.” Also (emphatically) fuck off and die.

1939 A. C. Bessie Men in Battle 91: “You’re talking through your hat.” “Fuck off.” 1944 in B. C. Bowker Out of Uniform 119: Another…use, exclusively intransitive, exists in combination with the preposition “off.” In this case, the meaning is “to leave hurriedly.” The most frequent usage occurs in connection with a request to stop annoying the speaker. Often it is followed by the words, “—will ya!” added for emphasis. 1948 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters (1981) 647: There is no substitute in English for the phrase “Fuck off, Jack,” if you mean it and will make it good. 1966 W. Manus Mott the Hoople 23: Fuck off, and quick. 1971 M. J. Harrison Committed Men 24: Oh, fuck off. 1981 “Dead Kennedys” Nazi Punks Fuck Off (rock song title). 1984 Maximum Rocknroll (Dec.), My reply is “fuck off and die!” Why don’t you do something original for a change? 1987 B. E. Ellis Rules of Attraction 224: Rip the pen that’s hanging off her door from the string it’s connected to and also a piece of paper and write “Fuck Off and Die” in big black letters. 1988 J. Cleese A Fish Called Wanda (film): Tell those pigs to fuck off. 1986–91 B. Hamper Rivethead 21: I…told everyone to fuck off. 1995 P. Roth in New Yorker (June 26) 117: He could have told her to fuck off, of course. 1999 S. Rushdie Ground Beneath Her Feet 463: You’re nothing in my life, Rai, you mean even less than this punk, so do me a favor, fuck off and die. 2006 K. Slaughter Triptych 81: “Fuck off, asshole!” the hooker screamed, slamming her hands into Ray-Ray’s chest.

2.a. to loaf; to evade work, shirk.

1945 in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K 275: What’s the use of being on the ball.… May as well fuck off. 1945 in D. Levin From Battlefield 55: They…fuckoff [sic],…quarrel, bellyache, beat their gums. 1946 American Journal of Sociology LI 42 [refers to WWII]: There is little stigma to the expression “f—off” applied to…acts, such as when a man gets away with something against the Army by evading a detail…or in some other way avoids an Army requirement. 1947 N. Cassady Letter (Apr. 15) in Collected Letters (2005) 39: I presume you’ll work up there in his hotel.… It is really unimportant what you do, for, really, all anyone does there is drink, bang & fuck off in general. 1955 J. Klaas Maybe I’m Dead 327 [refers to WWII]: Vat are you furkin’ off for? 1964 H. Rhodes Chosen Few 65: You missed formation. You fucked off and we don’t tolerate fuckoffs. 1968 H. Maule Rub-a-Dub-Dub 127: And I personal am gonna see you get logged if you fuck off. 1970 S. Terkel Hard Times 136: If he didn’t fuck off those four years in the steel mills, he could’ve gotten ahead. 1977 J. Sayles Union Dues 57: You let me know he stots fuckin off, right? 1980 U.S. college professor, age ca58: I first heard fuck off in 1939 when I was working in the railroad yards [in N.Y. state]. “Quit fuckin’ off,” they’d say. 1985 B.E. Ellis Less Than Zero 33: Don’t fuck off. Don’t be a bum. 1987 H. Zeybel Gunship 10: I fucked off in Bangkok a few days. 1989 D. F. Wallace Girl with Curious Hair 246: To accept prime wages for doing the bare minimal and spending the rest of his time fucking off. 1997 M. Huxley Nine Inch Nails 100: Hey, I’m not fucking off in there. It just takes a long time. 2005 J. C. Hartley Just Another Soldier 104: I wouldn’t get anything done. I would totally squander my time fucking off all day at my ridiculous palace.

b. to make a mistake; fail through inattention. Also: to ruin (something) by ineptitude.

1954–60 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang 204: Fuck off…to make a blunder or mistake. 1964 H. Rhodes Chosen Few 225: You were on yo way t’breakin’ some kinda record, son, bu’cha fucked off on th’ five hundred. 1972 E. Bunker No Beast 158: It’s too late. We fucked off a score because you weren’t here. 1996 S. Jackson Caught Up in the Rapture 102: I can’t go out like no sucka. Not now. Not after I done fucked off my relationships with everybody.

3. to disregard; brush aside; put off.

1962 G. Ross Last Campaign 431 [refers to 1951]: They been trying to retire him for months…but he keeps fucking them off and turning down his retirement and refusing to leave the division.

4. to idle away.

1966 M. Braly On the Yard 14: The big yard’s a cold place to fuck off your life. 1969 Playboy (Dec.) 301: You’re going to get tired of running around in a pair of dirty Levis, fucking off your time with those other young cats. 1972 in Journal of American Folklore LXXXVI (1973) 222: Do you know what an old whore does on her vacation?—She just fucks it off. a1979 A. Pepper & L. Pepper Straight Life 332: I used to get on his case all the time behind his talent, fuckin’ off that talent in the pen. 1999 D. A. Levy Buddhist Third Class Junk Mail Oracle 12: Graduated from high school/& fucked off a summer/before joining the navy.

5. Chiefly British. to anger; upset; “piss off.” Compare earlier FUCKED OFF.

1977 Sniffin’ Glue (Jan.) 3/1: I was fucked off by that. 1995 N. Hornby High Fidelity 297: “I’m glad you’re back to sort him out.”…This really fucks me off. 1998 Gay Times (Aug.) 54/2: How can I put this without completely fucking him off…? He is a fantastic mixture of huge charm with a piranha’s instinct. 2002 S. Orr Attempts to Draw Jesus 180: People like you fuck me off no end.

fuck-off money noun

= FUCK-YOU MONEY.

1993 “Bono” in Rolling Stone (Mar. 4) 42: Because we had been spoiled by success financially, we had what Groucho Marx called “fuck-off money.” 1999 T. Clayton-Lea Elvis Costello: Biography 194: You should always have your fuck-off money, as they say. 2000 H. Robbins Secret 246: She was his fuck-off money. He could walk away from his law firm or walk away from me. With Vicky he had a comfortable living available to him. 2007 New York Magazine (June 18) 40: She received a $1 million settlement of her Talk contract. “… I got my fuck-off money,” she [sc. Tina Brown] says, snickering.

fuckola

(used as an intensified form of FUCK in various senses).

1970 D. Rubin Enough of this Lovemaking 146: Right now killing is on top and the war has replaced the usual Hollywood fuckola as the national entertainment. 1979 L. Gonzales Jambeaux 194: “Fuckola,” Page said, entering the dressing room. 1988 T. Harris Silence of the Lambs 105: Fuckola, Starling thought. “Nuts,” she said aloud. 1990 C. Harrison Break & Enter 119: We got a call from the Mayor’s office saying they wanted this done by the book.… That means he wants no fuckola bullshit screwups. 1998 E. Coen & J. Coen Big Lebowski (film): Fuck me! Fuckola, man. 2004 C. Naylor & M. Hare Second Assistant 213: “Holy fuckola!” Scott suddenly leaped up in his chair and high-fived me.

fuck out verb

1. of a thing: to fail, to break down; of a person: to back out; renege.

1978 U.S. college student: My car fucked out on me. Motor conked. You can’t even jump it anymore. 1982 R. B. Wright Teacher’s Daughter 191: I just don’t want anybody to fuck out on this. We can make ourselves some nice money this morning if nobody fucks out. Ibid. 202: That’s what the job is worth. You fucked out on us. 1985 C. Hope Kruger’s Alp 154: “You fucked out on us, Trev,” said the man called Kramer from Accounts. 1993 J. Noon Vurt 96: lt works up to a point, and it’s not much of a point. lt can cure the tiny troubles; it fucks out on the big troubles.

2. to be sexually unfaithful.

ca1975 M. Moore Black Trade 62: You’re a loyal boy. You’ve never tried fucking out on me…like sometimes I suspect the others to do. 1984 J. McCorkle Cheer Leader 15: “I cannot tell a lie” is important and fucking out on Martha is not.

fuck over verb [probably FUCK (UP) + (work) over] Especially Black English.

1. to treat harshly or with contempt, in any manner whatsoever; mistreat, victimize, cheat, betray, etc.; damage. [The 1961 quotation is euphemistic.]

1961 J.A. Williams Night Song 155: Eagle ain’t even cold yet and you cats are effin’ over him already. 1965 C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land 98: We couldn’t be fucked over but so much. 1966 in Folk Speech (Indiana University Folklore Archives): Used to mean that someone or something has been used to the point of abuse. fucked over. 1967–68 N. von Hoffman We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against 55: My head’s pretty badly fucked over by life in general. 1968 W. Mares Marine Machine 93: You fucked over those weapons so much they probably will never fire again for other privates. 1969 D. Mitchell Thumb Tripping 125: He couldn’t let this Brylcreamer fuck over his head. He’d have to keep it together. 1969 E. Willis in New American Review 6 (Apr.) 103: Fuck over the city. Do them in. 1970 D. Ponicsan Last Detail 17: Don’t it sound like somebody’s fucking over Meadows? 1970 T. Whitmore Memphis-Nam-Sweden 134: I was refusing to be a part of that country which was fucking over my own people. 1972–76 C. Durden No Bugles, No Drums 16: It was a weird scene, a noncom fuckin’ over an officer in front of grunts. 1976 in S. Mack Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies (unpaged): Bill, it’s a dog eat dog world. They gonna fuck all over you, man! 1974–77 A. Hoffman Property Of 221: Something gets fucked over in the store, take it out of her wages. 1977 M. Torres in R. P. Rettig et al. Manny ii. 63/2: Just because you can’t prove me guilty of your armed robbery, now you’re going to fuck over me with some phony charge. 1979 Coleman Young, Mayor of Detroit, in S. Terkel American Dreams 357: I was attracted to this…way of fighting back at the thing that had been fuckin’ me over all my life. 1985 W. J. Boyne & S. L. Thompson Wild Blue 453: We can’t let these punks fuck over the whole goddam Air Force! 1988 S. Gray How’s that for Telling ’em, Fat Lady? ii. 68: All that he understood was that he was being ordered not to be the actor that he is, playing the character that he’s playing—his very soul as an actor was being “fucked over” in fact was how he put it. 1991 D. Simon Homicide (1993) 28: Is he really gonna go after a police on this Monroe Street thing? He’s gonna try and fuck over another police because of some dead yo? What is he, a rat or something? 1994 New Yorker (Mar. 21) 125: If Joel Silver fucked me over tomorrow, if he murdered my family, ruined me financially, I would still have to say, “But, God, when you add it all up, he was so great to me.” 2001 D. Lehane Mystic River 370: If you give ’em half a chance, they’ll fuck you over just to prove they can. 2005 N. Hornby Long Way Down 35: He’d been locked up for sleeping with a fifteen-year-old, and fucked over in the tabloids.

2. to beat up; work over.

1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 84: Fuck over…Beat someone up. 1971 T. Mayer Weary Falcon 31: The fourth mission I went on was the time they really fucked us over. 1986 College instructor, age 35: When I first heard fuck someone over in 1966, it meant specifically to beat them up. 2000 M. Albo Hornito 108: “I’m gonna fuck you up.” Just leave me alone, I say. “No. I’m gonna fuck you over.”

fuck pad noun

a dwelling or room used for esp. casual sexual encounters.

1975 B. Gonzales Movin’ On Down De Line 36: When I walk into his combination office and fuck pad I see this little jive broad from Howard of Tuskegee. 1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere (1994) iii. 28: He met Howard Hughes and started bird-dogging for him, picking up star-struck farm girls, ensconcing them in the fuck pads the big guy had set up all over LA. 1997 G. Williams Diamond Geezers xi. 77: If it weren’t for the horses this could be the fuck-pad of some Cuban cocaine king. 2002 W. Self Dorian iv. 57: Such was the congruity of their home with the Wotton’s relationship that this was Henry’s bedroom, or, more properly, his fuck pad. 2007 R. Ellis City of Fire 217: Burell thought he was keeping his lifestyle in the vault, but everybody in the hood knows this place is a fuck pad.

fuck-pig noun

British. a contemptible person. Compare PIG-FUCKER.

1922 T. E. Lawrence The Mint (1955) 127: “Look at me, look me in the face, you short-arsed little fuck-pig,” he is yelling again. 1949 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 3) 1054: F*ck-pig. A thoroughly unpleasant man…from ca. 1870. 1961 A. Sillitoe Key to the Door (1962) 435: They can stuff their rifles.… Next time, I turn mine against that fuckpig. 1973 K. Tynan Diary (Mar. 20) (2001) 126: Where most men of his age, referring to slightly unpleasant people whom they regard as inferiors, would use words like “chap,” “fellow,” “blighter”.., L.O. [= Laurence Olivier] habitually calls them “fuck-pigs.” 1981 R. Spears Slang & Euphemism 150: Fuck-pig a very low and worthless person; someone who would copulate with a pig. 1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting (1994) 260: I know all about the crucial role of the anaesthetist. They’re the punters that keep you alive, not sadistic fuck-pigs like Howison. 1997 Sick Puppy Comix (Sydney, Australia) (No. 4) 13: Ahh…what’s your name? Hey, ahh…fuckpig!…Where are you going? 1998 Schizo (#3) 5: My co-workers were all loutish…fuck-pigs. 2003 E. Docx Calligrapher 69: Will you stop being such a fuckpig and think of a plan?

fuckpole noun

the penis; FUCKSTICK, definition 2.

1965 in B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water & Swim like Me 159: A fuck-pole longer than mine. 1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 49: Bone…fuckpole…meat. 1975 Ribald (Sydney, Australia) (May 29) 15: My fuck-pole was growing. 1985 “J. Blowdryer” Modern English 72: Genitalia… Male…Fuck pole. 1995 G. Vidal Palimpsest 94: The verse, what I could recall, moved him, and he would idly play with what he called his “fuck-pole” but in no provocative way. 1997 “G. Indiana” Resentment 35: My cunt lips grab that juicy donghead & i’m pulling your fuck pole into me. 2002 D. Porter Rhinestone Country 304: The deep-throating of Hank’s enticingly large fuckpole.

fuckrag noun

a worthless, contemptible, or despicable person.

1993 Re: From the King, on Usenet newsgroup alt.tasteless (July 27): Yeah, sure, whatever, you dumbass Canuck fuckrag. 1996 K. Williamson Scream (film): It’s called tact, you fuckrag. 1998 D. Gaines in Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Mar. 10) 135: His gift can be used for something much more than generating chaos, using people like disposable whip- and fuck-rags, and attaining petty ego gains. 1998 Re: Question to MonkeyMan, on Usenet newsgroup alt.atheism (Oct. 7): Shit-for-brains…ASSWIPE! What say you now, FUCKRAG? a2007 C. Doctorow Overclocked 35: [“]Whoever wins, at least we’re doing SOMETHING[.” “]Not if they vote for one of the fuckrags[.”] Fuckrag was the epithet that some of the sysadmins were using to describe the contingent that wanted to shut down the Internet.

fuck rubber noun

a condom. Also fucking rubber.

1981 R. Spears Slang & Euphemism 150: Fucking-rubber a condom. 1984 K. Weaver Texas Crude 114: She found that fuckrubber under her pillow. 1991 M. Ruuth trans. R. Jönsson My Father, His Son 76: Comfortable armchairs worn to amiable perfection by a multitude of behinds, and probably more fuck-rubbers and more coins to count. 2000 L. Brown Fay 215: There were three knobs on the machine. She read slowly, out loud in a low voice: “Ribbed sen…shoo? Delight.” Then she nodded. Oh. Fucking rubbers.

fuckshit noun

a despicable person.

a1973 S. Elkin Condominium in Searches & Seizures (1978) 239: “You ask them, you cheap fuckshit, you goddamn errand boy, you ass stink and cunt grease,” punching him about the head and shoulders with all his might. 1998 D. Menaker Treatment 258: His practitioner comes to get him and he says, “Hi, fuckshit Scott.” 2001 R. Joshi Last Jet Engine Laugh 61: “Can you tell me why Poresh babu is living in this way, here now in Calcutta, alone? Why he is not in Paris, as he was?” You slimeball little fuckshit. What business is it of yours? 2003 T. Green Fifth Angel 259: Listen, fuckshit.… Didn’t you listen to me about who my uncle is? They can find a bag of cocaine in your cell by four o’clock, then you can eat vanilla ice cream out of your cellmate’s ass for the next ten years.

fuckshit interjection

(used to express dismay, anger, disappointment, etc.)

1970 J. Bouton Ball Four ii. 66: “Shitfuck,” he said, using one of his favorite words (“fuckshit” is the other). “Shitfuck. We’ve got a damned good ballclub here. We’re going to win some games.” 1996 Loaded (Sept.) 197/1: “Oh fuck-shit,” screams Tony, “it’s happy bloody hardcore!” 1999 P. Quarrington Spirit Cabinet 203: The black creature brought its teeth together and Rodolfo muttered, “Fuckshit.” 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 74: Oh fuckshit, it’s crashed! I slam the phone down so hard it bounces. 2007 S. Rao Chambermaid 208: “Shit. Damn. Damn it. Fuck. Fuck it.” And my personal favorite. “Fuckshit.”

fucksome adjective [perhaps punning on buxom]

sexually desirable.

1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 29: Hot, wriggling, moist-lipped, fucksome Columbine. 1890–93 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang and Its Analogues III. 80: Fuckable, adj.… Desirable. Also Fucksome. 1962 N. Thomas Ask at the Unicorn (1963) 134: Fucksome but diseased. 1969 C. Logue The Girls in Selected Poems (1996) 121: Suck this—you fucksome bitch! Suck this! 1992 W. Kennedy Very Old Bones 171: “I think you are probably at this moment…the most fucksome woman on this planet.” “What an exciting word.” 1998 Deadfuck owl, on Usenet newsgroup alt.tasteless (July 13): She is a comely young flapper, coiffed and petite and oh, so fucksome! 2007 T. Devine Bad As She Wants to Be 180: Marianne was telling us you all hooked up with some real fucksome guys on your road trip this week.

fuckster noun

= FUCKER, definition 1.

ca1675 Advice to a C—monger in E. J. Burford Bawdy Verse (1983) 170: Fucksters, you that would be happy,/Have a care that C—t don’t Clap yee. 1680 School of Venus in B. K. Mudge When Flesh Becomes Word (2004) 26: If all of this nature, with [what] our voluptuous fucksters know, were communicated to the world, we need not translate French. 1680 Satire on the Court Ladies in G. Williams Dict. Sexual Language & Imagery in Shakespearean & Stuart Literature (1994) I. 564: Her house and body have a thousand wayes/To let in fucksters. 1867–92 Capt. E. Sellon Ups and Downs of Life 110: I’m a mere fuckster. I like women, and I have them. ca1890 My Secret Life III. xiv., I used to think her a plain woman, one of the plainest, but she was a glorious fuckster. 1890–93 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Dictionary of Slang III. 81: Fuckster…A good performer…one specially addicted to the act. 1930 Lyra Ebriosa 20: Nearby there lived a fuckster tall. 1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xxx. 295: He is the only free fuckster on this ship then. 2002 S. Waters Fingersmith vi. 199: “You bloody swine!” I cried, twisting again, and pulling towards him. “You fuckster! Oh!”

fuckstick noun [perhaps modeled on British English slang funk stick ‘a coward’]

1. a worthless, contemptible, or despicable person.

1958 W. Talsman Gaudy Image 222: There’s still the heavenly debasement of the imperturbable fuckstick. Surely that appeals to you. 1968 C. Baker et al. College Undergraduate Slang Study 122: Fuck-stick. A person who always fools around. 1967–72 T. Weesner Car Thief 47: Go to sleep, fuckstick. Ibid. 67: You dumb fuckstick. 1974 N.Y.C. man, age ca28: A fuckstick is a really foul, ugly prostitute. This was at Fort Polk and environs in 1969. It’s like a skank. 1978 L. K. Truscott Dress Gray 152: Hey, fuckstick, buck up, man. 1980 P. Conroy Lords of Discipline 145: Get your fucking chin in.… Rack it in, fuckstick. a1983 S. King Christine 362: The fuckstick had parked at the far set. 1993 R. Peters Flames of Heaven 190: One…spit at Samsonov’s feet, saying: “Fuckstick.” 1999 J. Cahill Guy Walks into Psychiatrist’s Office in Sopranos (TV shooting script) (Second Series) 38: Those two fucksticks ripped off a Porsche Carrera from our own building. 2008 New York Magazine (July 21) 56/2: Crazybastard…drying out in Aspen, looked at all the greedheads and fucksticks, real-estate scum, resort developers.

2. the penis.

1973 E. Parnay Stud Seeker 63: The soldier threw his ass higher, pistoning up to the huge fuckstick as Grain went with him, in and out so fast that the soldier could hardly keep the pace. 1976 J. Vasco Three-Hole Girl 139: Bob had been filming the whole lewd performance she had been giving Trish’s butt and Craig’s fuckstick. 1977 E. Torres Q & A 239: My pistol is like my fuck-stick. Don’t go nowhere without it. 1981 Penthouse (Apr.) 26: I pulled my fuck-stick out of her cunt. 1993 L. Colton Goat Brothers 238: I’d be happy to let Lurleen do a tongue stand on my fuck stick. 2002 S. Home 69 Things to do with Dead Princess i. 13: Holding the base of Dudley’s erection with my index finger and thumb, I took his fuck stick in my mouth. 2003 C. R. Kiernan Low Red Moon 44: You want to suck on my fuckstick, faggot?

fuckstrated adjective

sexually frustrated.

a1990 P. Munro Slang U 86: Biff broke up with his girlfriend and hasn’t had sex in three weeks; he’s so fuckstrated. 1995 D. E. Kaun Ru$$ia 136: I’m so totally fuckstrated I got cobwebs. 2007 in “Zane” Dear G-Spot 216: Feeling fuckstrated, my yearlong “no job-no pussy” drought felt like decades.

fuckstress noun

a woman who copulates.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Letter (May) in Selected Letters of R. L. Stevenson (1997) 223: To be quite frank, there is a risqué character. The Countess von Rosen, a jolly, elderly—how shall I say?—fuckstress. ca1890 My Secret Life VIII. x.: The red haired strumpet seemingly pleased, knelt down and licked the clitoris of my fuckstress, whilst with almost imperceptable joggings of her cunt, and heaving of my bum, we fucked. 1890–93 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Dictionary of Slang III. 81: Fuckster…A good performer.… in feminine fuckstress. 1933 A. Crowley in L. Sutin Do what thou Wilt (2000) 365: The most marvellous fuckstress alive. 1990 Footlicker 77: Verushka and I will be waiting for your report on that little psychofuckstress. 1996 Boarding School Adventures, on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories (Dec. 18): You are going to be an accomplished fuckstress.

fuck-struck adjective

obsessed with copulation; extremely lustful. Compare cunt-struck.

1966 E. Shepard Doom Pussy 160: Like a tomcat at a petting party, Alby tried to force two B-girls to sit on his knee. Tors eyed him with distaste. “He’s fuck-struck,” observed the Swede to no one in particular. 1990 J. Barnes Love, Etc. 70: I was duly fuck-struck as I waved him off on a night as foul as that which saw the return of St Mark’s body to Venice. 2004 P. Reizin Fiends Reunited vi. 199: I was still in something of a post-coital fugue; part hungover, part sleep-deprived, part lovesick. One of those peculiar states where…it was hard to tell how much to put down to being abroad, and how much to being what Jay once…described as fuck-struck.

fucktard noun [from FUCK + retard]

a despicably stupid person.

1994 Re: Rush on usenet newsgroup alt.music.alternative (June 13): You worthless fucktard. Go crawl back under whatever stinking bigoted little rock you crawled out of. 1998 Face (Apr.) 46/1: Beaver beer. Blow jobs. Weenies, stoners and “fucktards.” Who said Kevin Smith was a borderline misogynist with limited pop-cultural imagination? 2003 OC Weekly (June 13) 22: So why then, aside from the fact that they’re stupid and selfish fucktards, are they breaking up? 2005 M. Malkin Unhinged 17 The latter site allows angry leftists to leave uncensored, incoherent messages for the president, whom they refer to as a “fucktard.” 2008 New York Magazine (June 2) 28/2: In spreading his dire message, he favors colorful curses like “asshat” and “fucktard.”

fuck toy noun

1. a person regarded or treated as a sex object.

1988 P. Beck & P. Massman Rich Men, Single Women 87: This little number was for him, for his pleasure, a fuck-toy for his frequent business jaunts to L.A. 1995 D. Coupland Microserfs 300: I don’t call you a piece of meat. I call you my fuck toy. 1996 I. Welsh Ecstasy 125: You’ve got it all there, access to my breasts, my cunt, my arse. Anything you like.… Just a fuck toy. 2004 J. Jameson & N. Strauss How to Make Love Like a Porn Star iv. ix. 368: I looked at how the other girls were being treated (basically, like Tinkertoys).… I was determined not to just be a fuck toy but also to retain as much power as possible off camera. 2006 A. Blake Called to the Wild 95: You’re nothing but a slut. A fuck toy. Only sluts like sucking men off as much as you do.

2. a sex toy, as a dildo or vibrator.

2007 V. Crowley Longing for Toys 216: [She] shoved the vibrator all the way up her cunt.… Lucille felt the big fuck toy slip out of her.

fucktruck noun

1. a vehicle in which people engage in sexual activity; esp. a van or large car having bedding, etc., in the back.

1979 in Australian National Dictionary: The boys wearing blue singlets in their striped fuck trucks yelled & pressed down on the horns but fifi [sic] kept going. 1982 J. Breslin Forsaking All Others 47: An overnight stay with her husband in the trailer parked outside the prison fence—“the fuck truck,” the inmates called it. 1990 T. Thorne Dictionary of Contemporary Slang: Fuck truck…another term for passion wagon. 1993 Independent (London) (June 9) (“Focus”) 22: There was this Australian freak who had this van called the Fuck Truck. 1995 Time Out New York (Oct. 25) 25: Fucktruck…was common parlance in a certain Tennessee town in the late ’70s. 1998 N.Y.C. editor: We used fuck truck in the ’60s to mean “passion wagon.” 2006 J. Iversen High School Confidential 221: Steve drove and old Chevy minivan with a mattress in the back that he had dubbed the “fuck truck.”

2. a bus that brings prospective sexual partners together; esp. one of various shuttle buses in the Boston area running between nearby women’s colleges and Harvard or M.I.T.

1990 S. Orlean Saturday Night 21: Many Wellesley students consider the Fuck Truck a source of personal growth. 1998 N.Y.C. woman: As a student at Wellesley, I—and most of my classmates—referred to the bus that took us from campus to M.I.T. and Harvard as the “fucktruck.”… the M.I.T. and Harvard guys called it the same thing. 1998 N.Y.C. man: The fucktruck was the bus that went from M.I.T. out to Wellesley. 1998 R. Campo Desire to Heal 77: Frequent trips on the free shuttle bus (called the “fuck truck”) to Mount Holyoke and Smith. 2002 B. Mezrich Bringing Down the House 118: At MIT, there was no place better to meet eager young women, bused right to the building’s front steps from the nearby all-girl colleges. The bus was lovingly renamed the “fuck truck.” 2005 H. Winston Unchosen 153: Brandeis is not actually in Boston, but nine miles west of the city, accessible to him only by commuter rail—or, he later learned, the “fuck truck” from Harvard, named for the supposed sexual libertinism of the Brandeis students.

fuck-up noun Especially Military.

1. an incompetent person; a chronic bungler; a misfit. [The 1942 quotation, collected from Australian schoolchildren, may have resulted from a misunderstanding of this term.]

[1942 S.J. Baker Australian Language 206: Fug-up. A stodgy person, one who prefers a “fuggy” atmosphere to playing out of doors.] [1944 Newsweek (Jan. 24) 68: I am not a messup any more. I like the army.] ca1945 J. Cheever in Letters (1988) 108: Last night two fuckups were discussing their disatisfactions [sic] with the army. 1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 224 [refers to WWII]: Bunch of fug-ups, lose a goddam gun, won’t even take a drink when it’s free. 1946–50 J. Jones From Here to Eternity ch. iv: He’s such a fuckup I was afraid we’d shoot somebody on a problem. 1951 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters (1981) 721: To me he is an enormously skillful fuck-up and his book will do great damage to our country. 1954 F.I. Gwaltney Heaven & Hell 194 [refers to WWII]: You’re not commanding a fuckup company. This is a regiment, and not every man in it is a fuckup. 1955 T. Anderson Your Own Beloved Sons 8: Whenever he screwed up they knew it. He was a fuckup. 1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 39 [refers to WWII]: You’re nothing but a first-class fuck-up. 1965 C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land 145: The cats who had a little bit of sense but who were just general fuck-ups were sent to the Annex. 1967 J. Kornbluth Notes from the New Underground 14: What stupid fuck-ups men are! 1971 Playboy (May) 207: You mean we’re gonna let them fuck-ups play on our ball diamond? 1979 in S. Terkel American Dreams 396: I’m not a great believer in failure as a sin. A couple of our writers are fuckups. 1980 S. Kopp Mirror, Mask, & Shadow 81: I become…[an] uncomfortably vulnerable fuck-up whose blunder is now exposed to my eyes and to theirs. 1985 E. Leonard Glitz 152: I thought maybe I was a total fuckup. a1990 E. Currie Dope & Trouble 22: I used to be a real fuck-up, you know? 1996 M. Aftel Story of your Life iv. 79: How do you portray yourself in this plot—as a seeker, a journeyman, a budding entrepreneur, an indentured servant, a hired hand, an expert, a fuckup, an uninspired drudge, a hotshot? 2000 R. Barger et al. Hell’s Angel ii. 15: I was considered a fuckup. I didn’t take to authority. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confidential 90: He, more than anyone else I encountered in my professional life, transformed me from a bright but druggie fuck-up into a serious, capable and responsible chef. 2005 K. MacNeil Stornoway Way 68: I wish for the ten millionth time that I enjoyed, or could even tolerate, violence. I’m a fuck-up when it comes to being anything other than peaceful.

2. a blunder; botch; FOUL-UP, definition 1. Compare 1941 quotation at FRIG-UP.

1949 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 3) 1054: F*ck-up of, make a. To fail miserably at; to spoil utterly; low coll.: C.20. 1951 J. Kerouac in Selected Letters (1981) 321: [Interference] promises fuckups. 1958 J. O’Hara From the Terrace 257: Such a Goddam fuck-up. 1964 R. Allen High White Forest 266 [refers to WWII]: Two of our divisions got tangled up there…and the Krauts hit them from the slope. What a fuck-up! 1968–71 M. Cole & S. Black Checking it Out 105: Not only was that a fuck-up of LEAP’s name but why the hell did I accept their stealing? 1972 Metropolitan Review (May) 4: No fuck-up should go unridiculed. 1977 R. Coover Public Burning 455: And now it scared them that somebody might catch them in a fuck-up. 1984 “W.T. Tyler” Shadow Cabinet 241: A royal bureaucratic fuck-up, take my word. 1986 D. Tate Bravo Burning 96: A small…, probably perfectly explainable fuck-up. 1994 J. Kelman How Late it Was 208: Whatever brains he had man he had to use them. Nay fuck-ups. 2005 Z. Smith On Beauty 44: He felt he couldn’t tell his own family this fact; it was easier for them to believe that last year was Jerome’s “romantic fuck-up” or—more pleasing to the Belsey mentality—his “flirtation with Christianity.”

fuck up verb [compare synonyms bugger up, FRIG UP, screw up; also influenced by (if not the inspiration for) muck up].

1. to ruin, spoil, or destroy; to botch; in phrase: fuck up the detail, Military. to bungle. See also earlier FUCKED UP.

1929 F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune I. v. 92: And they’ll call up all the women/When they’ve fucked up all the men. [1932 E. Halyburton & R. Goll Shoot & Be Damned 206 [refers to 1918]: That big tub of sour owl milk will jazz up the detail for all of us. You’d better dust off a court martial for him.] 1942 H. Miller Roofs of Paris 248: You and Sid are going to fuck up everything before you’re through. 1942 in M. Morriss & R. Day South Pacific Diary (1996) 33: If there is any way for a thing to be fucked up, the Army will find it.… Sometimes they’ll even fuck it up when you’d think it’s impossible. 1944 J. O’Hara in Selected Letters (1981) 184: I know I fucked up your afternoon schedule. 1951 in International Journal of Psycho-Analysis XXXV (1954) 35: When a man says: “I got my day all fucked up,” he is [yet] fully aware of the primary sexual meaning of the word. 1952 in S. J. Perelman Don’t Tread on Me 123: So many bothersome and ridiculous complications with which you’d managed to fuck up your life here. 1953 M. Harris Southpaw 143: Them goddam bastards would as soon f— up my ball club as not. 1956 T. T. Chamales Never So Few 574: They fucked something up when they moved that piece.… They’re missing us. 1965 S. Yurick Warriors 71: That fucked everything up, Hector thought. 1966–67 W. Stevens Gunner 119 [refers to WWII]: It’s not going to do…anybody…any good if you go around fucking up the detail. 1968 W. Mares Marine Machine 29: Mouse, the coffee’s cold! You’re a Kremlin spy sent here to fuck up my stomach. 1969 R. M. Stern Brood of Eagles 341: Oh, I would have fucked it up for fair. I know that. 1974 P. Larkin This Be the Verse: They fuck you up, your mum and dad./They may not mean to, but they do./They fill you with the faults they had/And add some extra, just for you. 1984 J. Fuller Fragments 23: Duds, the drill sergeants would call us.… Fuck up a two-car funeral. 1991 “R. Brown” & R. Angus A.K.A. Narc 188: They’ll fuck this up like they fucked up everything else. 1998 Starr Report VIII L: Ms. Lewinsky said she wanted two things from the President. The first was contrition: He needed to “acknowledge…that he helped fuck up my life.” 2000 C. Bushnell Four Blondes 23: You really fucked it up.… You had a chance. We could have spent the summer together. You blew it. 2005 P. Jillette & M. D. Lynn How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker vi. 27: Don’t forget that cutting the deck doesn’t fuck up the order.

2.a. Of a person: to blunder badly; to make a (serious) error; (hence) get oneself into trouble of any kind; to fail.

1943 in M. Morriss & R. Day South Pacific Diary (1996) 114: They… fucked up beautifully. 1945 in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K 115: We always fuck up when we march. 1953 M. Harris Southpaw 201: The first man that f—s up in this respect is going to get hit in the pocketbook, and hit hard. 1944–57 L. Atwell Private 33: He f—ed up there too, so they sent him down to us in C Company. 1957 H. Simmons Corner Boy 73: People will fugg up. 1961 G. Forbes Goodbye to Some 53: I really fucked up. We were going way too fast. 1961 L. McMurtry Horseman, Pass By 48: “You fucked up,” Hermy said. 1963 J. Ross Dead Are Mine 87: Keep your nose clean and this will all be forgotten. Fuck up and you’re dead. 1964– 66 R. Stone Hall of Mirrors 271: But in my journalistic opinion they’re gonna fuck up. 1971 D. Meggyesy Out of Their League 189: I also watched how Ernie and Larry did and I must admit I was pleased when they made mistakes and fucked up. 1972 D. Halberstam Best & Brightest 281 [refers to 1963]: Americans in Vietnam…had come up with a slogan to describe the ARVN promotion system: “Fuck up and move up.” 1978 Rascoe & Stone Who’ll Stop the Rain? (film): “I’ve been waiting all my life to fuck up like this.” “Well, you’ve finally made the big time.” 1972–79 T. Wolfe Right Stuff 221: Falling behind put you on the threshold of fucking up. 1982 C. Gino Nurse’s Story 318: Maybe somebody fucked up. 1987 M. Piercy Gone to Soldiers 631: I fucked up, I know it, I fucked up everything that counted, I know it, listen to me, I know it. 1987 J. D. Pistone Donnie Bras-co 209: Tony, the responsibility I gave Donnie just now…if he fucks up, I’m a dead man. 1993 P. Roth Operation Shylock 259: But if he gets actively involved, he fucks up everything. Jews don’t put trust in the bank, they have private trusts. 1998 E. Reid If I Don’t Six 24: I’ve watched him on television kicking grass at refs, tossing his headset to the ground in fury, snapping clipboards and even smacking players in the facemask when they fuck up. 2002 D. Eggers You Shall Know Our Velocity! 325: “They fucked up,” he said to me. “They fucked up and they’re hiding something.” 2006 “Iggy Pop” in L. McNeil & G. McCain Please Kill Me 142: Coral had had enough of me. I was no longer happening. I was fucking up, and fucking up, and losing, and losing—and she could see it.

b. Of a thing, a situation, etc.: to go awry; malfunction; break down.

1976 D. Mamet American Buffalo 35: There’s the least chance something might fuck up. 1980 J. Carroll Land of Laughs 90: How many things are going to fuck up before we get this straightened out. 1982 D.J. Williams Hit Hard 175 [refers to WWII]: A-17 gun fucked up. 1985 A. Sawislak Dwarf Rapes Nun 193: In case you miss a transmission or the radios fuck up. 2003 New York Magazine (Mar. 31) 25/3: But on the other side, the global opposition, and the new, excited homegrown anti-Bush front line, are anticipating…the myriad ways this colossal and quixotic undertaking will invariably fuck up. 2004 S. Kernick Crime Trade 32: All I was trying to do was nail one of the bad guys. It fucked up, the whole thing fucked up, and I lost a good mate.

3.a. to confound; thwart; interfere with; to befuddle or confuse.

1945 in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K 133: I bet that fuckin’ CO stays awake every night tryin’ to think up some new way to fuck us up. 1950 J. Kerouac in Selected Letters 239: I don’t see how these cocksuckers could have done a better job trying to fuck me up as a…novelist. 1968 in E. Knight Belly Song 15: Perhaps it was just the brother’s definition that fucked me up. 1968–71 M. Cole & S. Black Checking It Out 223: “It will be six months before they use those rooms again.… ” “That’s cool…I dig fucking up white prejudiced pricks.” 1971–72 L. Giovanitti Man Who Won the Medal of Honor 109: I said what I said because I had nothing else to go on. I ain’t changing that story now. And nobody’s going to fuck me up. You understand? 1972 D. Wolf Foul! 313: We could have won, if that dumb coach didn’t fuck us up. 1976 R. E. Chinn Dig the Nigger Up 37: I’d sure like to do it to her!…She fucks me all up! 1978 E. Thompson Devil to Pay 156: It was Milt’s idea to cook out. “Really fuck up the neighbors, man. They’ll think it’s springtime.” 1983 D. Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross 96: What you’re hired for is to help us—does that seem clear to you? To help us. Not to fuck us up. 1989 M. Davis Miles 193: But Cannonball just fucked me up the way he played the blues and nobody had ever heard of him. 1991 D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland 232: If you tell anybody who I am, if you fuck me up, man, I’ll find you. 1995 Journal of American Folklore CVIII. 215: Why aren’t…voices that would fuck theory up included in this collection? 1997 G. Meade Brandenburg 325: Don’t compromise me, Gonzi. Don’t fuck me up. 2004 M. Boland & M. Bodey Aussiewood vi. 100: Once I got into this game and saw how it fucks people up, just fucks them up, I’d grown up and knew what was bullshit.

b. to make intoxicated.

1971 in H.S. Thompson Shark Hunt 147: Five reds, enough to fuck anybody up. 1980 J. DiFusco et al. Tracers 46 [refers to Vietnam War]: There’s enough shit here to fuck up the entire squad for at least a week. 2001 Maximum Rocknroll (Apr.), Man, I wanna get high!… Something to fuck us up. Drugs.

4. Especially Black English. to injure, especially severely; mangle; wound; (especially Military) to kill.

1962 in D. Wepman et al. The Life (1976) 23: He romped and stomped, and he fucked up his face. 1965 C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land 144: Man, those bullets can really fuck you up. 1966–67 P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets [refers to ca1950]: I felt his fist fuck up my shoulder. Ibid. 209: Louie, if the motherfucker makes a move, fuck him up good. 1967 in B. Edelman Dear America87: The company lost 5 KIA and about 40 wounded. We fucked up at least two times as many Charlies as far as KIA, but we have more wounded. 1970 L. Cole Street Kids 88: The guy who was on our kid fucked the other guy up. The guy was bleeding from his eye. 1970–71 J. Rubinstein City Police 358: You think it was a gun?… O.K., pal, just relax, at least he didn’t fuck you up. 1972 T. O’Brien Combat Zone 76: You don’t get mangled by a mine, you get fucked up. 1972–74 H. Hawes & D. Asher Raise Up off Me 84: My man from Harlem had overheard the…hassle…and asked if I wanted him to get some cats to fuck up the bass player. 1975 S.P. Smith American Boys 162: A few losers who’d been fucked up not quite bad enough to be sent home. 1978 W. Brown Tragic Magic 152: “Fuck him up!” “Waste his ass!” 1982 J. M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley 22: Some innocent dudes always get fucked up and blown away. 1987 L. S. Whiteley Deadly Green 201 [refers to Vietnam War]: Fuck them up! Fuck them fuckers up!…Get some! 1996 P. Godwin Mukiwa xii. 221: Don’t wade in. Let them fuck each other up first, then arrest anything that doesn’t move. 1997 New Yorker (July 21) 38: Or I can wait for you after work and fuck you up. 2000 G. Marinovich & J. Silva Bang-Bang Club xv. 221: Joao responded by telling Dave, a good friend, that if he did not leave him alone he’d fuck him up.

5. Black English. to fool around.

1969 U. Hannerz Soulside 62: I earn good money, you know, with those two jobs, and my old lady earns a lot on her job, so actually I don’t have to leave too much money at home ’cause she takes care of much of that. So this means I got a lot to spend just fucking up. 1970 A. Young Snakes 125: We both need to get away from this old school grind for awhile. Why don’t we go out and fuck up tonight? It’s Friday, man.… Let’s go out and party!

In Phrase:

could fuck up a wet dream, Originally Military. is or are exceedingly clumsy, stupid, or despicable.

1967 A. Dubus Lieutenant 52 [refers to 1956]: Freeman, you are nothing but a skinny turd and would fuck up a wet dream. 1971 R. Flanagan Maggot 242 [refers to ca1956]: They fuck-up everything. Some of them would fuck-up a wet dream. 1975 J. Wambaugh Choirboys 185: Roscoe Rules could fuck up a wet dream. 1966–80 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 391 [refers to ca1951]: Billy, I swear you’d fuck up a wet dream. 1984 W. J. Caunitz One Police Plaza 193: That guy could fuck up a wet dream. 1987 D. Sherman Main Force 191 [refers to 1966]: Lewis, you’d fuck up a wet dream. Go back to sleep. 1988 J. L. Burke Heaven’s Prisoners 221: Then they see a guy that’s got all the things they want and can’t have because most of them are so dumb they’d fuck up a wet dream. 1990 C. Lucas Prelude to a Kiss 48: It’s a real busman’s holiday with you around, you know? You could fuck up a wet dream! 2002 M. A. Kahn Trophy Widow 37: Those five-hundred-dollar-an-hour yahoos could fuck up a wet dream. 2003 C. Weber Baby Momma Drama 76: Damn, Jasmine, you could fuck up a wet dream, you know that? Why don’t you lighten the fuck up for once?

fuckwad noun

a stupid or contemptible person; an asshole.

1974 U.S. student slang survey: Motherfucker, fuckwad, sonofabitch, [etc.]. 1986 J. Cain Suicide Squad 97: I wanna see ID cards on all these fuckwads. 1987 “J. Hawkins” Tunnel Warriors 144: That goofy fuckwad. 1990 E. W. Rukuza West Coast Turnaround 8: Some fuckwad was shootin’ up da scenery wit’ a machine gun. 1997 S. Lopez Sunday Macaroni Club 209: These fuckwads decide to go swimming and now they complain about getting wet. Joey hated working with amateurs. 2002 A. Davies Frog King 284: Think about someone else for a change, fuckwad. 2006 J. McManus Physical 87: As I performed my husbandly duty sans condom, however, I was hoping, like a bona fide fuckwad, that somehow it wouldn’t quite take.

fuckwind noun

the kestrel. Cf. WINDFUCKER noun.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dictionary of the French & English Tongues s.v. Crecerelle, A Rattle, or Clacke for children to play wtih; also, a Kestrell, Fleingall, or Fuck-winde. [1847 J. O. Halliwell Dictionary of Archaic & Provincial Words I., Fuckwind, a species of hawk. North.]

fuckwit noun

Chiefly Australian & British a stupid person. Hence fuckwittage, noun, stupidity.

1968 A. Buzo in Plays 89: Well, ta-ta for now, fuckwit. 1970 S. Jarratt Permissive Australia 142: Of course they do, you fuckwit. 1979 in Australian National Dictionary: It sounded like a load of fuck-wit shit to me. 1986 M. Johnson Lear 7: It is not your turn, fuckwits! 1992 I. Banks Crow Road vi. 144: How can he be such a great guy, and clever and just…just a good friend, and some fuckwit forgetting to look both ways cancels out all that…probably not even a fuckwit; probably some ordinary guy thinking about something else. 1995 Will Self in Esquire (Feb.) 108: Dear Fuckwit. 1997 N.Y. Press (Aug. 27) 30: Fuckwit on a wet-bike. 1998 H. Fielding Bridget Jones’s Diary 18: Sharon started on a long illustrative list of emotional fuckwittage in progress in our friends: one whose boyfriend of thirteen years refuses to even discuss living together [etc.]. Ibid. 66: I am not interested in fuckwittage. 2000 Z. Smith White Teeth viii. 185: I’m the sympathetic side of the service industry, I’m service with a fucking smile, I’d wear a little red tie and a little red hat like them fuckwits in Mr Burger if my fuckin’ head weren’t so big. 2004 Vanity Fair (Apr.) 222/1: I just can’t believe I got mixed up with such a strange group of fuckwits. 2007 B. Eisler Requiem for an Assassin 98: The first time it had been in the gut, but Dox had seen it coming and even though the fuckwit knew how to punch, the damage hadn’t been too bad.

fuckwitted adjective

Chiefly Australian & British stupid.

1971 in J. Hibberd Stretch of Imagination 40: You two-timing, fuckwitted mongrel of a slut! 1973 in Australian National Dictionary: That fuckwitted agent of yours is really driving me right off my brain. 1982 E. Haley & L. Rosser Memories of an Australian Girlhood 25: Pancho’s the only guy fuck-witted enough to put up with her. 1996 ikon (Jan.–Feb.) 35/2: She understands business enough to know that mindlessly “political” songs about Ireland will go down a storm 7,000 miles away with fuckwitted Americans who have just decided that they are, like, rilly down with the situation in Northern Ireland. 1998 E. Brimson Hooligan xxxv. 98: He knew the city lads well and now had a pub full of serious drinkers rather than soppy, fuck-witted tourists. 2008 G. Canardeaux Cuisine du Moi iii. 66: Like, it’s cost me zero to make, a few quid to serve, but—on the other side of the ledger—it’s made these fuckwitted customers think their own shit doesn’t stink.

fuck with verb

to trifle, toy, meddle, or interfere; fool; play; (hence) to harass, tease, or provoke; mess. [Both Chandler quotations are euphemistic; compare FUCK AROUND, definition 2 and FRIG, verb, definition 3.]

1938 R. Chandler Big Sleep ch. 26: Don’t fuss with me, little man. 1940 R. Chandler Farewell, My Lovely 5: I’m feelin’ good…I wouldn’t want anybody to fuss with me. 1946 in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K 391: The Boochies won’t fuck with him because they don’t want to catch shit. 1948 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters (1981) 644 [refers to ca1915]: I learned early to walk very dangerous so people would leave you alone; think the phrase in our part of the country was not fuck with you. Don’t fuck with me, Jack, you say in a toneless voice. 1953 M. Harris Southpaw 239: Do Not F— With Me. 1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 221 [refers to WWII]: Why do you fuck with me so much, man? There are millions of other people in the Army. 1965 C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land 189: It was practically a twenty-four-hour-a-day job trying to get some money to get some stuff to keep the [heroin] habit from fucking with you. Ibid.: If you fuck wit that rent money, I’m gon kill you. 1968 P. Tauber Sunshine Soldiers 169: No one fucks with chow. You eat when you’re supposed to. 1968 R. Gover JC 100: Can’t rezist fuckin with him jes one more time. 1970 T. Thackrey Thief 209: Took the carburetor off and soaked it in solvent and put it back on. Fiddled and fucked with it. And finally it seemed to be okay again running good. 1968–71 M. Cole & S. Black Checking it Out 113: I…turn around and scream, “Don’t fuck with my mind!” Ibid. 198: Stay the fuck away.… And if you think I’m fucking with you, try me. 1971 Playboy (June) 216: I don’t like anyone fucking with my head while I’m doing [a movie]. 1977 E. Bunker Animal Factory 46: “Tony tells me you’re good at law.” “I used to fuck with it. No more.” 1977 L. Jordan Hype 230: Them people are fuckin’ with us, man! 1981 C. Crowe Fast Times at Ridgemont High 92: They’re just fuckin’ with us! 1990 L. Bing Do or Die 122: ’Cause he fucked with my food…took one of my French fries. 1997 TV Guide (May 18) 48: “Don’t f—with the Babe!” is her boldface battle cry throughout her book. 1998 New Yorker (Mar. 16) 34: You don’t say no to the Mafia, you don’t challenge the Mafia, you generally don’t fuck with the Mafia. 2000 Z. Smith White Teeth ix. 232: But mainly their mission was to put the Invincible back in Indian, the Bad-aaaass back in Bengali, the P-Funk back in Pakistani. People had fucked with Rajik back in the days when he was into chess and wore V-necks. 2005 M. M. Frisby Wifebeater iii. 16: Do I know? You’re fucking with me right? He’s all you talk about. 2007 D. Johnson Tree of Smoke 287: Hanson’s…finger’s on the trigger. If it comes, the enemy will feel sincerely fucked with.

fucky noun

see under FUCKEE.

fucky adjective

sexually attractive or stimulating.

1958 J. Kerouac Letter (Sept. 8) in Selected Letters 1957–69 (1999) 150: There’s a girl here, J. L., rich, sexy, thin fucky who went with me to visit Lafcadio last Sat nite. 1969 A. Ginsberg Interview in Spontaneous Mind: Interviews (2001) 170: I get into a deeper emotional intimacy if the chick is lissome and springy, skinny and pretty. I like little blonde furry fucky dolls. 1973 N. Mailer Marilyn: A Biography 102: Never again in her career will she look so sexually perfect as in 1953 making Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, no, never—if we are to examine a verb through its adverb [sic]—will she appear so fucky again. 1976 in G. Legman New Limerick 461: I feel fucky. 1991 “Red Hot Chili Peppers” If You Have to Ask (pop. song): A little lust/To the fucky-ass Flea [sc., the band’s bass player]. 1994 Guardian (London) (June 29) T8: T-shirts with slogans like Have You Wanked Over Me Yet? and I’m So Fucky. 1998 Playboy (Dec.) 86: What was a sweet fucky marriage but the sublimation of orgies never taken? 2007 J. Sandford Invisible Prey 105: I know you’re attracted to fucky blondes, especially the kind with small but firm breasts.

fuck-you noun

a statement or expression of contempt, hostility, or the like. [In 1943 and 1951 quotations, referring literally to statements of the phrase fuck you.]

1943 G. Biddle Journal (July 31) in Artist at War (1944) 77: Teddy’s run of literary allusions is a pleasant relief after the too concentrated diet of “fuck me’s” and “fuck you’s” of the G.I.’s. 1951 J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye 202: I went down by a different staircase, and I saw another “Fuck you” on the wall. 1965 H.S. Thompson Letter (Aug. 10) in Proud Highway (1997) 537: I had a bad wrangle with them on a Tom Wolfe review, and we said a mutual fuck you, with me about $500 ahead. 1976 L. Bangs in L. Bangs & J. Morthland Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste (2003) 165: His entire performance, from music to personal bearing, was a giant fuck-you to everybody present. 1992 Rolling Stone (Dec. 10) 45: The disc was a relentlessly catchy and fuzz-filled “fuck you.” 1993 Rolling Stone (Oct. 14) 68: Who else could insult Budweiser, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Calvin Klein, the entire recording industry and MTV all in one video? “This Note’s for You” is Neil Young’s finest “fuck you.” 1994 Granta 47 (Spring) 129: She never learned English, even though she had come here at sixteen: a fuck-you to the New World. 1995 New York Magazine (Mar. 13) 33: When it’s as bad as it can be, and people still act like there’s nothing wrong, then it’s sort of like a fuck-you to the audience—“we don’t have to be good, because we’re Saturday Night Live!” 1996 N.Y. Observer (Apr. 1) 3: The line was a veiled fuck-you to David Letterman,…the symbolic whipping boy for how the East Coast element screwed up the Oscars. 2000 N.Y. Press (Mar. 29) ii. 14/1: Searching for friendly faces, I get only fuck-yous. 2007 J. Picoult Nineteen Minutes 114: She had pictured suicide as a final statement, a fuck you to the people who hadn’t understood how hard it was for her to be the Josie they wanted her to be.

fuck-you adjective

that expresses or is characterized by a desire to insult or to demonstrate defiant indifference; provocative; contemptuous; hostile; confrontational.

[1954 “Lars Lawrence” Morning, Noon & Night 148: The critic’s immaculate mind had attracted him powerfully, though he rejected the utility of such refinement in a fuck-you-Jack, my-belly-first period of history.] 1962 J. Kerouac Letter (Apr. 4) in Selected Letters 1957–69 (1999) 334: Funny how they look so old-fashioned now, they were written in ’54 but not everyone writes like that (with that fuckyou freedom). 1972 Rolling Stone (July 20) 8: For clenched fists and gritted teeth and fuck-you rock and roll. 1973 Rolling Stone (Mar. 1) 42: See if you can keep your integrity without a flat out fuck-you challenge. 1981 Times Literary Supplement (May 15) 548: The Beatles.… A pretentious gobbledygook introduction by Leonard Bernstein: “…the Fuck-You coolness of these Four Horsemen of Our Apocalypse.” 1993 N. Maclean in Harper’s (Feb.) 35: Under the influence of those dreams, some of the finest fuck-you prose in the English language has been composed but, alas, never published. 1994 Rolling Stone (Feb. 10) 53: We’ve endured so much phony Hollywood nobility about disease that Jean’s fuck-you rampage against death comes off as horrifically honest. 1996 Newsweek (Feb. 19) 39: The bombing…is “the politics of fuck-you rage and resentment rather than political calculation.” 1997 New Yorker (Oct. 6) 48: Youthful hubris or fuck-you candor. 1998 New Yorker (Dec. 1) 64: He has the real fuck-you blood. 2002 Ministry Jan. 91/1: I’ve just got to give them respect for doing something that’s completely balls-to-the-wall and fuck-you. 2005 T. Brookes Guitar 260: He gave me his usual fuck-you stare and set his guitar…on the stage. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 232: Pushing out of a sleeve is a chronograph the size of a biscuit. It looks like it could tell you the time, the moon phase, the weather in Tokyo, and precisely how much money you don’t have in your checking account. It’s a fuck-you watch, attached to the fat wrist that’s attached to the kill-you hand. So this is the magus who sends agents into my life to ruin me.

fuck-you lizard noun [suggested by a fancied resemblance between the English phrase and the gecko’s call]

Military in Southeast Asia. a tokay gecko.

[1934 C. L. Clifford Too Many Boats 309: A gecko lizard in a nearby papaya tree croaked throatily. “Obscene devils, those,” he went on dryly. The colonel laughed.] [1970 Pacific Stars & Stripes (May 15): A 2nd Brigade chaplains’s assistant is trying to put his outdoorsman’s skills to work on a somewhat embarrassing problem at the 4th Inf. Div.’s Highlander Chapel. The nemesis in this case was the infamous Vietnamese “insulting lizard.”] 1971 Playboy (Aug.) 199: From the underground comes the chant of “Fuck you, fuck you” from small lizards, not unexpectedly called fuck-you lizards. 1978 G. Hasford Short-Timers 151 [refers to Vietnam War]: The fuck-you lizards greet us. 1984 J. Fuller Fragments 78: Did you know that if you grab one of those Fuck You lizards by the tail, he just lets go and walks away? 1986 J. Thacker Finally the Pawn 133: That’s because of the fuck-you lizard. 1987 M. L. Lanning Only War We Had 253: FNGs were told that the “fuck-you” lizards were NVA taunting us. 1988 M. Clodfelter Mad Minutes 33 [refers to 1965]: Naturally we labeled these leftovers from the prehistoric past “Fuck You Lizards.” 1996 S. O’Nan Names of the Dead 124: They’d told him about this; it was a gecko—a fuck-you lizard. 2002 R. Hoyt Old Soldiers Sometimes Lie 245: American sailors at Subic Bay and airmen at Clark Air Force Base had famously called it the Fuck You lizard.

fuck-you money noun

Especially Business. sufficient money to give one personal freedom, esp. the freedom to quit one’s job; (broadly) an (unexpected) financial windfall.

1969 C. Blair Board Room 294: I don’t care. I’ve got my fuck-you money. 1975 L. Rust Hills in Esquire (Dec.) 180: “But all that money.… ”…“Well, it’s ‘fuck-you’ money.… It gives me freedom and independence so I won’t have to write something that doesn’t appeal to me.” 1986 New Republic (Dec. 8) 11: [Donald] Regan huddled in the Oval Office with the president.… “I’ve got something that none of those other guys have.”…“What is it?” To which Regan, wealthy from his days as boss of Merrill Lynch, replied, “Fuck you money.” 1988 Granta 23 (Spring) 246: Earning more doesn’t make the problem go away unless you’re saving for “fuck you” money. A month ago Brian told me about “fuck you” money. “It’s the amount of money you need to be able to say ‘Fuck you’ to anyone.” Brian reckoned the current amount to be three million pounds. 1994 N.Y.C. man, age 30: When you win the lottery, you get fuck-you money. Anyone you don’t want to bother with, you can afford to say “Fuck you!” 1994 Times Literary Supplement (Nov. 18) 9: “Fuck-you-money,” for having enough money set aside to tell one’s boss to screw off, should the impulse to do so arise. 1995 New York Times Magazine (Nov. 19) 46: The Number is often used interchangeably with another term, an unprintable one that describes the sum you need to be able to tell your boss you’ve had enough. Its family-newspaper approximation would be Forget You Money. 1999 Vanity Fair (Dec.) 216/2: I came up with a figure of something like $7 million. But “fuck-you money,” as the retirement number is commonly referred to out here, can be a lot less. 2004 T. L. Lee & C. M. Anthony Gotham Diaries 7: He had yet to make the transaction that would put him over the top, give him some fuck-you money and social respect.

fuck-your-buddy week noun

Especially Military. a hypothetical period during which betrayal and exploitation of one’s friends is supposedly encouraged. Jocular. Also variants. Compare BUDDY-FUCK.

[1952 Haines & Krims One Minute to Zero (film): John, this isn’t help-your-buddy week. We might need those guys again.] 1958 T. Berger Crazy in Berlin 302: What is this, fuck-your-buddy week? 1960 D. MacCuish Do Not Go Gentle 342 [refers to WWII]: National American custom of Screw Your Buddy Week. 1962 P. Crump Burn, Killer, Burn 279: Don’t worry about it, weed.… This is Frig Your Buddy Week. ca1963 in H. Schwendinger & H. Schwendinger Adolescent Subculture 296: It’s fuck your buddy week, fifty-two weeks of the year.… If you have a buddy kind and true, you fuck him before he fucks you. a1967 in M.W. Klein Juvenile Gangs 98: It’s fuck your buddy week, fifty-two weeks of the year. 1971 Playboy (Apr.) 182: That old Army expression, “Every week is fuck-your-buddy week!” 1973 W. Crawford Gunship Commander 148: The whole army overreacted, filed charges against everybody in sight, good old fuck-your-brother week. 1980 W. Manchester Goodbye Darkness 156 [refers to WWII]: The school’s shabbiest custom [was] known as “fuck-your-buddy night.” Every candidate was required to fill out a form rating his fellows. 1984 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 8) 1323: What is this?—International Fuck-Your-Buddy Week?…Prob. adopted from the US forces in Korea, 1950–53. 1997 D. DeLillo Underworld 690: Somebody says, “What’s this, fuck-your-buddy week?” 2004 R. Arellano Don Dimaio of La Plata 180: You backstabbing spic! What is this, Fuck Your Buddy Week?

fuddle-duddle

Canadian. a euphemism for FUCK in various senses and parts of speech. [After an incident in the House of Commons, when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, being criticized by the opposition, mouthed something claimed to have been “fuck off.” In an interview with CBC Television, he denied having mouthed “fuck off “ but acknowledged having moved his lips; when asked what he had been thinking when he did so, he responded “What is the nature of your thoughts, gentlemen, when you say ‘fuddle duddle’ or something like that?” Though the exact nature of his original words remains unclear, popular perception quickly arose that he did say “fuck” and then later claimed that he had only said “fuddle-duddle.”]

1971 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Feb. 17) 1: Mr. Trudeau, however, said he had not mouthed any vulgar words. “I would never say anything like that.” Pressed by reporters to reveal the words he had mouthed, the Prime Minister said they were “Fuddle-duddle.” 1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nov. 22) 8/5: Pierre Trudeau is stepping down. His place in history will depend on where Quebec goes in future. I’m confident he will be ranked among the three greatest prime ministers, along with John A. Macdonald and Wilfrid Laurier. And fuddle-duddle to anyone who thinks otherwise. 1984 L. Rooke Sing Me No Love Songs 289: “Oh fuddle-duddle,” exclaims Anne. 1986 R. Graham One-Eyed Kings: Promise & Illusion in Canadian Politics 112: It outraged the premiers, angered Washington, sent London into a tizzy, and fuddle-duddled the opposition. 1991 Ottawa Citizen (Dec. 25): When Brian Mulroney said—or did not say—fuddle-duddle in the Commons last week, he was—or was not—merely reflecting the mood of the times. There was very little Christmas cheer on Parliament Hill. 2001 Maclean’s (June 18) 56/2: George was the first person to put the dreaded F-word into Canadian newspapers after P. Trudeau “claimed” he had just aimed “fuddle-duddle” at an opposition MP.

fug

(a written euphemism for FUCK in various senses and parts of speech; see FUCK for examples). [Associated chiefly with Norman Mailer, who was required by his publishers to use the euphemism in The Naked and the Dead (1948).]

fugly noun [blend of FUCKING + ugly]

Originally Australian Military. an extremely ugly person.

a1970 in R. J. Rayward More than Mere Bravo (1989) 122: Fugly—an extremely ugly woman. A blending of “fucking” and “ugly” to describe the woman. 1993 B. Moore Lexicon of Cadet Language 157/2: Seeing your fugly tonight, Bill? 2005 Cosmopolitan (U.K. edition) (Aug.) 21/1: 33% of women have dated someone “as ugly as sin” because he made them laugh. Here’s to all the fuglies!

fugly adjective

Originally Students. especially of a person: very ugly.

[1962 in H.S. Thompson Proud Highway 316: Get these dogs off me! These fucking ugly dogs!] 1980 E. Segal Man, Woman, & Child 60: “In other words she’s fugly, right?” Bob smiled. “Don’t you think I could pick a winner, Bern?” 1984 Mason & Rheingold Slanguage: Fugly, adj.… fucking ugly. 1988 C. Eble Campus Slang (Fall) 4: Fugly—extremely ugly. 1989 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 41: She’s so fugly she makes my mother-in-law look cute. 1993 N.Y. man, age 23: This girl asked me out yesterday, but man, she was fugly. 1998 Personal letter to editor (Aug. 25): Fugly—I picked up the term from my college roomie, 1974–75. 2004 J. Weiner Little Earthquakes 357: Do you realize I’m going to have to wear those fugly maternity clothes again? 2006 New York Magazine (Sept. 4) 86/1: Well, what if the show was called Ugly Betty—and you were playing Betty? What if the other characters routinely deride you as “fugly”?

FUJIGMO interjection Military.

“ fuck you, Jack, I got my orders.” Jocular. Compare FUIGMO under FIGMO.

1950 Saturday Evening Post (Aug. 5) 89: With him flew Lt. Col. “Pappy” Hatfield, in his famous bomber the “Fujigmo”—translation unprintable. 1953 in G. M. Valant Vintage Aircraft Nose Art 295: FUJIGMO. 1980 D. J. Cragg Lexicon Militaris 158: FUJIGMO. Fuck You, Jack, I Got My Orders.

futhermucker noun [intentional spoonerism]

= MOTHERFUCKER. Jocular.

1961 T. Joans All of Ted Joans & No More. 1965 Walnut Ridge, Ark., high school student: Every one of your Hoxie friends turns out to be a futhermucker, if you ask me. 1972 R. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 171: Mammy-jammer,… futher-mucker. 1972–76 C. Durden No Bugles, No Drums 41: Thanks, futhermucker. 1982 in G. Tate Flyboy in the Buttermilk 21: Well, goddamn, these furthermuckers [sic] must not be bullshitting. 1998 G. Tate in Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Mar. 10) 124: His peers are those lofty, low-rent, high-concept, swing-baiting furthermuckers [sic].

futz noun

1. a foolish or unpleasant fellow.

1935 Bedroom Companion 79: Some crusty old futz who has had too much drink starts off on this tangent. 1940 W. R. Burnett High Sierra 35: He was an old phutz and a has-been. 1959–60 R. Bloch Dead Beat 84: The old futz inside the loan office gave him a cold eye. 1984 B. Haskin Byron Haskin 80: The screenplay was written by Sir Reginald Barclay, a puffy old futz who knew nothing about anything dramatic. 1996 M. Daheim Auntie Mayhem 128: “Old futz,” muttered Renie. “How could you encourage him to launch his war stories?”

2. (used as a euphemism for the fuck, under FUCK, noun).

1947 B. Schulberg Harder They Fall 104: Nobody knows what the futz you’re talkin’ about. 1961 A. Maund International 4: He promised me three years ago he would run Nick Sarpedon the futz out of the International. 1996 L. Niven Ringworld Throne 318: What the futz was Bram expecting?

futz verb

1. [probably an alteration of Yiddish arumfartsn] to fool or play.—used with around or with. [Often regarded as a euphemism for FUCK, verb, definition 5, or FUCK AROUND.]

1929–30 J.T. Farrell Young Lonigan 63: Studs kept futzing around until Helen Shires came out with her soccer ball. 1932 American Speech VII (June) 335: Phutz around—to trifle; to interfere; “to horse around.” 1936 M. Levin Old Bunch 64: There was a fellow that never wasted time. No fuzzy futzing around. Ibid. 249: No more futzing around being a schoolboy. 1941 C. Brackett & “B. Wilder” Ball of Fire (film): Why do you think we’re futzin’ around with these? 1941 in A. Boucher Werewolf 129: Futzing around with the occult. 1944 A. J. Liebling Back to Paris 113: Have we really started, or are we still futzing around? 1948 I. Wolfert Act of Love 158: What’s he futzing around for? 1949 H. Robbins Dream Merchants 14: At least he didn’t say a word about my futsing around all those years. 1959–60 R. Bloch Dead Beat 3: “Good crowd,” said Eddie, futzing around with his mustache. 1964–66 R. Stone Hall of Mirrors 78: To…watch a room full of stooges futz with soap. 1968 P. Roth Portnoy’s Complaint 263: I am nobody to futz around with. 1970 C. Harrison No Score 55: You futz around in the darkroom all the time. 1973 A. Schiano & A. Burton Solo 106: All that futzing around with bits of paper. 1984 USA Today (Nov. 7) 3A: President Reagan…[suggested] it is time to “stop this futzing around.” 1998 New Yorker (Oct. 5) [inside back cover] [advertisement]: Da Vinci didn’t mess with the Mona Lisa. Beethoven didn’t futz with his 5th Symphony. 1998 T. C. Wilson Systems Librarian 88: In its most basic definition, “futzing” is playing around with a technology to get it to work as needed or to improve its operation—tweaking so to speak. 2000 Wired (Jan.) 216/2: The Air Force report acknowledges the controversy inherent in futzing with Mother Nature. 2003 D. Gaines Misfit’s Manifesto xv. 331: But I got hold of myself and started futzing with the tape recorder.

2. to treat with contempt.—used with around; = FUCK AROUND, verb, sense 3.

1966 B. Brunner Face of Night 165: Futz me around a little more and find out. 1989 E. Segal Doctors 138: “I bet you’ll be back with us by spring.” “Don’t futz me around. I’m gonna be here forever.”

futzer noun

= FUTZ, noun, definition 1.

1938 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 30: You poor old futzer, you, just wait. 2002 D. Reuter Gaydar 119/1: This obsessive-compulsive futzer can be one mean “queen” bee, as he endlessly buzzes around his hive, picking up pollen and depositing it in its proper place.

futz off verb

to loaf; FUCK OFF, verb, definition 2.a.

1968 C. Baker et al. College Undergraduate Slang Study 123: Futz off. Waste time, not study.

futz out verb

= FUTZ UP; fizzle out.

1963 G. L. Coon Short End 254: What happens to you, if you are Halstead…and the whole shooting match futzes out right in your face and lies there? 1992 F. Kellerman False Prophet 187: Peter Jedidiah Decker, don’t you dare futz out on me! 2005 J. J. Ordover Star Trek S.C.E.: Identity Crisis 14: I think they might be futzing out on us and causing feedback through the system.

futz up verb

to spoil, confound; mess up; FUCK UP.

1947 C. Willingham End as a Man 296: I’ve got her all futzed up. She does everything I tell her. 1948 I. Wolfert Act of Love 293: If you’re futzing it up I want to know. 1965 R. Hardman Chaplains Raid 64: Not while you’re futzing up the clergy I won’t! 1966 A. Drury Capable of Honor 300: The President wants me to run…to balance the ticket, to futz up the image, and to blur the issues so that he can be elected. 1987 B. Sills Beverly: An Autobiography 290: Rosalinda was a pretentious lady who made Adele wear a uniform, but because Rosalinda didn’t know what she was doing, Adele’s uniform was all futzed up. 1992 R. W. White Heat Islands 125: He knew Sutter had futzed up the bilge pump of his skiff, then snuck back later and cut the boat free. 2003 G. Spence Smoking Gun 184: There is an ethical obligation for them not to futz up the evidence.

F-word noun

(used as a euphemism to refer to the word FUCK or one of its derivatives or compounds).

1956 W. E. Collinson in Moderna Språk (Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Sweden) L. 13: Even today the British printer would draw the line at the f-word used in Lady Chatterley’s Lover. 1964 Labor Arbitration Reports (Bureau of National Affairs) XLII. 494/2: Two witness stated X— used the “F-word” epithet to MM, the female jobber clerk. The gravamen of House Rule 2 lies in the use of profanity maliciously against others. 1970 Evergreen Review XIV. 72/3: Another undercover police lady said that in one defendant’s speech “every other word was the ‘F’ word.” 1973 New York Times Book Review (May 6) II. 10/3: I ain’t got time to be outraged about these books. I dismiss them. The kids use the expression “f-word,” the “f-word,” when they want to talk about it without saying it. Well, I say, “f-word” them books, and “f-word” the pretentious writers who write them. 1987 F. Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes 41: Here she was, at her age, and she’d never said the F word. 1995 N. Hornby High Fidelity xvi. 194: “And don’t fucking say ‘Oh’ like that.” A couple of people look round when I use the “f”-word, and Jo puts her hand on my arm. I shake it off. 2001 D. Lehane Mystic River 232: “You said the f-word, Dad.”… “Sorry, Mike. Won’t happen again.” 2007 L. McMurtry When the Light Goes 36: These are modern times, you know.… Old ladies can say the F-word if they want to.

F-word verb & interjection

(used as a euphemism for FUCK verb and interjection). Compare EFF.

1973 New York Times Book Review (May 6) II. 10/3: I ain’t got time to be outraged about these books. I dismiss them. The kids use the expression “f-word,” the “f-word,” when they want to talk about it without saying it. Well, I say, “f-word” them books, and “f-word” the pretentious writers who write them. 1989 J. Kirkwood Diary of a Mad Playwright 39: I thought: Oh, F-word, I can’t go around beggin on my knees anymore, it’s just too F-wording boring and demeaning. 1995 Re: Help Me! on Usenet newsgroup rec.bicycles.off-road (Feb. 18): I personally have witnessed “newbie” mtb kids with the F-word off attitude. Scaring horses, walkers, and even Me! 2003 Detroit Free Press 9 Oct. (Electronic ed.): That hulking groper is not the (F-word)ing governor!

FYFI [initialism punning on standard FYI]

Especially Business. “for your fucking information.” Jocular.

1995 N.Y.C. publisher, age 52: FYFI means “for your fucking information.” I’ve seen it used on memos for at least ten years—everyone knows what it means. 1996 Re: 2 10,000 Maniacs Questions, on Usenet newsgroup alt.music.alternative.female (Feb. 23): This “some guy or something” is called Salman Rushdie, FYFI. 1998 Re: Truth, on Usenet newsgroup rec.audio.tubes (July 20): FYFI, it is easy to spot an unsuccessful author. He publishes two books and is gone.

G

gaggle-fuck noun

= CLUSTERFUCK, sense 2.

1996 A Whole “Wack”? on Usenet newsgroup alt.tv.x-files (Nov. 15): I wouldn’t place any bets on that being an actual term. The Canadian military make up our own all the time. My personal favourite is “gaggle-fuck”: a formation resembling a bunch of guys standing together. 2001 O. West Sharkman Six 30: He’s smart enough to stay hidden; the last thing he wants is to be associated with the gaggle fuck on the beach. 2007 D. Bellavia & J. R. Bruning House to House 118: We’ve got one big gaggle fuck right in the front yard, and we’re vulnerable as hell.

gang-fuck noun

1. a gangbang: an occasion on which a number of people copulate successively with one person; (also) gang rape; (also) a sexual orgy. Also gang-screw.

1941 G. Legman in G.V. Henry Sex Variants II 1166: Gang-fuck. An instance of pedication or irrumation of a single boy or homosexual by two or more men consecutively, and with or without his consent. Also used as a verb, and in both senses heterosexually. 1946–51 W. Motley We Fished All Night 350: The fellows had the girl back behind a stairway. She was willing. It was another gang-screw. a1968 in Haines & Taggart Fort Lauderdale 60: Gang fucks. 1972 D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 58: Less fun than being next-to-last on a high school gang-fuck. 1979 C. McCarthy Sut-tree (1992) 416: A female simpleton is waking naked from a gang-fuck in the backseat of an abandoned car. 2003 N. Hynd Enemy Within 118: The same trio wanted to share a girl for the night. The three of them with one female. They were celebrating some deal they had struck, Anna said, and their way of closing out the transaction was a gang fuck.

2. chiefly British. = CLUSTERFUCK noun sense 2.

1995 A. McNab Immediate Action 230: If we started losing contact, it would all go to a gang fuck. 2000 T. Carew Jihad! v. 121: I’d thought that Salim knew his stuff, but the move was a complete gang-fuck. We made the first ten kilometres in good time, but then they stopped to pray. We set off again half an hour later, but now we were going much slower and I could see that we certainly weren’t going to get there before 10 p.m. 2006 M. J. Pass & D. Pass Waiting for Red 18: It’s a gang-fuck. The house is far from town so the chances of shots being heard are next to nothing.

gang-fuck verb

to copulate with (someone) in a GANG-FUCK.

1916 H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I 103: Gang Fucked—Said of a woman who, willingly or unwillingly, submits to the embraces of the individuals in a crowd of men in succession. 1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 24: A gang of boys or young men escorts a girl or young woman to its rendezvous and proceeds to gang-fuck her. U.S. vulgarism, C. 20. 1940 Tale of a Twist 77: I guess I’ve been gang-fucked a few times. 1959 W. Burroughs Naked Lunch 125: I been gang fucked. 1971 H. S. Thompson Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas 114: These cops will go fifty bucks a head to beat her into submission and then gang fuck her. 1975 C.W. Smith Country Music 84: They’d just as soon gang-fuck you as look at you! 1984 W. D. Ehrhart Marking Time 66: What kind of person could gang-fuck some poor starving refugee in the middle of a war? 2007 A. H. Vachss Terminal 33: They were gonna throw gasoline in my cell and fire me up, put glass in my food, gang-fuck me until I was dead.

genderfuck noun

(an instance of) reversal of normal gender roles; (specifically) transvestism.

1972 L. Humphreys Out of the Closets: Sociology of Homosexual Liberation 164: This technique (also known as “gender fuck”) is a form of extended guerilla theater. 1973 Rolling Stone (Aug. 30): The new “macho” transvestitism, called vulgarly “gender-fuck,” a curious satire of female impersonation—dresses, pumps, full make-up and beards—is represented by, among others, three men in WAC uniforms and big moustaches. 1979 Robert Christgau in Greil Marcus Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island 133: Ordinarily, their [sc. the New York Dolls’] gender-fuck was a lot subtler. 1985 Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Sept. 10) 74: Part of Phranc’s appeal is the genderfuck of her sweet feminine voice coming from such a masculine frame. a1988 Maledicta IX (1987–88) 173: Real transvestites and transsexuals are…embarrassed…[by] the gender-fuck Cockettes and such (in dresses and beards). 1995 E. Weisbard Spin Alternative Record Guide 135: Gender-fuck goddess Annie Lennox and wacky rock professor Dave Stewart were a match made in video-pop heaven. 1995 in Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Jan. 2, 1996) 6: The hot-off-the-press Gender Fuck issue of Porn Free—“the Porn ‘Zine Dedicated to Getting You Off for Nothin’.” 1996 N.Y. Press (Nov. 6) 36: “The boys wanna be girls and the girls wanna be boys.” He was right—the crowd was pure third-sexer genderfuck. 2003 Bitch (Fall) 63/2: Representations of queer parents show them to be extremely gender-determinate gay men or lesbian women, without a hint of genderfuck anywhere in the picture…as with the super-femmy lesbian moms in Friends. 2005 J. Gamson Fabulous Sylvester 139: Sexy genderfuck was one of her signatures: she…wore her hair short and sharp; often dressed in…men’s tailored suits with breasts revealed.

GFO noun [general fuck-off]

Military. a lazy individual. Jocular.

1948 N.Y. Folklore Quarterly 20 [refers to WWII]. 1957 A. Myrer Big War 213 [refers to WWII]: Snap-to, you pitiful gutless GFO!

GFU noun [general fuck-up]

Military. an incompetent individual. Jocular.

1942 Yank (Nov. 25) 21: G.I. Jones…was the GFU of Bat. B 66th CA (AA). 1944 in American Speech XX 148: G.F.U. General foul up; a soldier who does not do the work he is supposed to do. 1945 Saturday Review of Literature (Nov. 3) 7: He had better learn. Otherwise he will be known as a GFU… and that would be just TS. 1945 American Speech (Dec.) 262: G.F.U., “a soldier who never does anything correctly.” 1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 208 [refers to WWII]: Sad sacks and GFUs and…goldbricks. 1991 L. Reinberg In the Field 93 [refers to Vietnam War]: G F U abbr. for General Fuck-Up, usually referring to specific persons. 2001 J. Iannuzzi Mafia Cookbook (ed. 2) 9: I was a GFU (General Flake-Up), so I was constantly on KP.

goat fuck noun

Especially Military. a fiasco; mess; CLUSTERFUCK. Also (euphemistically) goat dance, goat screw, goat rope.

1965 H. S. Thompson Letter (Jan. 29) in Proud Highway (1997) 481: Kentucky was a Wolfean nightmare and New York was a goatdance. 1971 T. Mayer Weary Falcon 15: “What a goatfuck,” I said. 1981 F. Knebel Crossing in Berlin 89: We got a real goat fuck going here today, Mr. Simmons. 1990 E. Ruggero 38 North Yankee 80: There seemed to be some order creeping into Barrow’s “goat screw.” 1991 R. Marcinko & J. Weisman Rogue Warrior 199: It had been one humongous goatfuck. a 1991 W. Kross Splash One 34 [refers to Vietnam War]: What’s a guy like you doing in a goat rope like this? 1995 Guardian (London) (Sept. 2) 1: Britain now has what the Americans call “goat-fucks,” those swaying edifices of cameramen, snappers, sound recorders and hacks which lurch perilously round press conferences. 2004 G. Crile Charlie Wilson’s War 384: Even in the heyday of Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, when the Cold War was one big fucking goatfuck, no one was publicly calling for more money for the CIA to use in Guatemala or Cuba or anywhere. 2005 S. Brockmann Hot Target 219: What I can’t figure out—and maybe you could help me with this—is the difference between a goatfuck and a clusterfuck.

goat-fucking noun

In phrase:

been to three county fairs and a goat-fucking [or (euphemistically) goat-roping] Southern. seen many astounding sights. Jocular.

1974 U.S. college student: I been to three county fairs and a goat-fuckin’ and I ain’t never seen the like of that. 1981 B. Bowman If I Tell You 98: “I’ve been to three county fairs, two goat-ropings and a “‘tater digging.” I know what’s going on; I’ve been around. 1984 K. Weaver Texas Crude 30: I’ve seen a goat-roping, a fat stock show and a duck fart under water, but if that don’t beat any damn thing I’ve ever seen, I’ll put in with you!! 1988 D. Dye Outrage 16: Colonel, you and me been to three county fairs and a goat-fuckin’ contest and I ain’t seen you hit by nothin’ heavier than shrapnel.

goat-fucking adjective

= MOTHERFUCKING.

1960 H. S. Thompson Letter (Mar. 22) in Proud Highway (1997) 209: I would give at least one ball for one (or three) of your sandwiches right at this goat-fucking instant. 1989 S. Hunter Day before Midnight 404: Drown your sorrows in vodka as better men before you have, you goat-fucking son of a bitch. 2004 D. Sosnowski Vamped 302: He’s a dickless, ball-less, gutless, spineless, goat-fucking pederast from the bad part of hell. 2007 A. Franklin Mistress of the Art of Death 313: A jellybag, she called him, a snot-faced, arse-licking, goat-fucking, bum-bellied, farting, turd-breathed apology.

green motherfucker noun

Army & U.S. Marine Corps. the U.S. Army or U.S. Marine Corps.—usually used with this. Also variants. [Quotations refer to Vietnam War. The 1968 quotation is a euphemism.]

1968 Stuart Typescript (unpaged): I’ll be out of this “green thing” in another year. 1973 W. Karlin et al. Free Fire Zone 137: Plan on getting out of this green amphibious motherfucker. 1976 C.R. Anderson Grunts 146: How did you ever get in this green mother anyway? 1978 J. Webb Fields of Fire 210: The Corps…I love this green motherfucker. 1982 R.A. Anderson Cooks & Bakers 116: They talked about how much they hated Vietnam and the Marine Corps—the “Crotch,” the “Green Motherfucker.” 1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 54: The Army buys…jeeps that work. But the Green Mother spend money for good equipment? 1985 D. Dye Run Between the Raindrops 144: Could have gotten out of this green motherfucker and been set, man. 1999 T. Jones Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine 63: I’m in the Green Motherfucker already. I guess that makes me a citizen.

GRF noun

see under RATFUCK, noun, definition 2a.

guaranfuckingtee verb

to guarantee absolutely. Compare -FUCKING-, infix.

1948 W. Manone & P. Vandervoort Trumpet on the Wing 180: I guaran-(fussin’)-tee you, when we got the place fixed up it was real pretty. 1961 J. Jones Thin Red Line 42 [refers to WWII]: I guaran-fucking-tee you! 1974 P. Roth My Life as a Man 19: I guaranfuckintee you gentlemen, not one swingin’ dick will be leavin’ this fiddlefuckin’ area to so much as chew on a nanny goat’s tittie. 1976 W. Goldman Magic 102: I’ll guaranfuckingtee ya I’m an expert. 1986 J. C. Stinson & J. Carabatsos Heartbreak Ridge 14: I’ll guaranfuckintee you. 1988 New Yorker (Dec. 5) 61: They say they never do it, but I guaranfuckintee you someone fooled with the ball this year. 1993 J. Mowry Six out Seven i. x. 151: Cause there gonna be a popquiz, man. I guaran-fuckin-tee y’all that right now, this minute, there least one little sucka…bleedin his little ass off in the sun! 2000 G. V. Higgins At End of Day 29: If that’s where they’re comin’ from, Nova Scotia’s where the crew’s gonna end up—guaranfuckintee it. 2004 C. Rammelkamp Secretkeepers 76: They are not, I repeat not Mafia. I guaran-fuckin-tee you they are not Mafia. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 99: It’s not a probability. It’s not a fucking Miss-Cleo-says-the-future-is-cloudy-so-who-knows-what-will-happen. It’s for real. It is going to happen. It’s guaranfuckingteed.

H

ham and motherfuckers (or mothers)

see under MOTHERFUCKER.

handfuck noun

an act of masturbation performed (esp. on another person) with the fingers or hands. Also hand frig.

1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 4: Hand frig, stand frig,/That’s the sport for him. 1979 D. Bryan Hard Hat Fucker 111: Beaten into submission by the sheer, vicious force of his hand fuck. He knew the young man could not take much of of [sic] this pounding. 1996 L. McK. Bienen in Ploughshares (Sept. 1): You want hand fuck…How much you give me? 2003 V. Redel Swoon 8: Standing in a dark corner of our home/leaning into your hand fuck/while in their room the children toss in sleep.

handfuck verb

to masturbate (another person or oneself) with the fingers or hands. Also (as in 1989 quotation) figurative.

1975 W. B. Huie In the Hours of Night 189: The boy would put on a rubber and his girl would hand-fuck him while he clutched her with one arm, kissed her and finger-fucked her with his other hand. 1982 N. Friday Men in Love 361: He watched as I slowly hand fucked myself and shot my come at least five feet in the air. a1989 C. S. Crawford Four Deuces 48 [refers to Korean War]: To find the break they wrap their hands around the telephone line…and let it run between their fists. That’s what they call “hand-fucking” the line.… They were out hand-fuckin’ a line lookin’ for a break in it. 1992 A. McGahan Praise 44: I set to with three fingers and finally she came.… “Hand fucking is wonderful.” 2006 J. Ross in Bad Boys Southern Style 60: The top of her dress was down around her waist, and somehow her skirt had ended up there, as well, as he’d hand-fucked her.

hate-fuck noun

an esp. aggressive act of intercourse motivated by animosity towards one’s partner.

1968 Paul Newman in Playboy (July) 69: There was the hate fuck, the prestige fuck—and the medicinal fuck, which is, “Feel better now, sweetie?” a1976 Jack Nicholson in A. W. Read An Obscenity Symbol After Four Decades 3: People that I don’t like are not sexually attractive to me at all. I remember in my early 20s I had a few hate-fucks and they were groovy. But not now. 1977 “Iceberg Slim” Long White Con 18: He was palpitating to despoil her, hurt her, violate her with a hate fuck. 1987 “Pussy Galore” Groovy Hate Fuck [rock album title]. 1995 R. Athey in Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Feb. 14) 32: When he comes home fucked up, I’m sure to give him a good hate fuck. 1997 D. DeLillo Underworld 293: If you fuck me, it’ll be a hate fuck. This what you want? This what you mean by aggressive? 2003 N. Kelman Girls 118: You had been attracted to her all those years before but had never wanted to admit it could be anything more than a “hate fuck.”

hate-fuck verb

to engage in a HATE-FUCK with.

1966 R. Gover Poorboy at the Party xvi. 195: Was into it enough now to be itching for a bitch I could hatefuck, not looking for a girl who was happy and full of joy. 1975 R. Rapoport Super-Doctors 87: “I know if you really try, you can stop hate fucking and learn to start really loving your wife.” The hate-fucker nods. 1999 R. Kean Pledge 208: “He’s in a tough spot—us on one side, his girlfriend on the other.” “ Shawn. That girl needs to be hate-fucked.” 2008 Californication (Showtime TV) (Oct. 26): “Something about that woman. I want to fuck her, but I kinda want to punch her in the face too, it’s weird.” “Ah, you want to hate-fuck her.”

headfuck noun

1. an act of fellatio. Also: a person who performs fellatio. Cf. MOUTH FUCK, SKULLFUCK.

1974 “T. Andrews” Story of Harold 208: “Marcius give me a headfuck.” “A what?” “A headfuck. A blow job.” 1999 K. Cairns Surviving Paedophilia 30: Give us a head-fuck, girl. Give us your mouth. 2004 Gay Times (Feb.) 237/2: A truly great storyteller and a brilliant head-fuck.

2. Chiefly British. a state of confusion.

1983 R. Price Breaks 236: I got a panicky feeling that every second that passed in conversation was just increasing the headfuck. 1997 Dazed & Confused (June) 22/1: I wrote it while I was having a bit of a head-fuck. It’s about being in an oppressive, testing situation—be it mental or physical—and at that moment when you fly out of it and feel like you’re coming alive again. 2003 D. Adebayo Westside Storeys 154: When you finally exhale, the violent headfuck you were expecting fails to materialize. You feel a pleasant, manageable rush.

3. something or someone that causes confusion or disorientation.

1993 “Wildhearts” (song title): My baby is a headfuck. 1996 P. Attanasio Donnie Brasco (film script) (second Green rev. pages) 93: You sit in your little fucking house…and you complain on the phone to your little fucking friends and you dream up this latest hundred dollar headfuck. 2003 Word (May) 47/1: Jacob’s Ladder is great because it’s just a headfuck. 2004 Vice (Feb.) 36/2: Now we have films like Spike Jonze’s Adaptation, a multi-levelled, metatextural headfuck that you need to debate afterwards with your friends.

4. imaginary sexual activity; MINDFUCK noun sense 1.

1997 Good Vibrations Guide to Sex 99/1: We decided it was only unfaithful if we touched each other…so we…talked utter filth to each other while masturbating. A true “head-fuck” that lasted for about eight hours. 2007 A. Tyler G is for Games 68: I imagin[e] taking him into my mouth, feeling his cock stiffen further.… I’m lost in my headfuck when he returns.

headfuck adjective

Chiefly British. confusing; misleading.

1992 i-D (July) 61/3: We’re trying to reflect the scene; the balearic, the techno and the late night post-club ambient headfuck music. 1999 S. Reynolds Generation Ecstasy 217: With its premium on headfuck weirdness and disorienting effects, darkcore opened up a vital space for experimentation. 2003 T. Neradin Last Train 40: Pete was now strapped firmly into his seat on the head-fuck roller-coaster and it was making its first ascent.

headfuck verb

1. to confuse, mislead, or the like, especially deliberately; MIND-FUCK.

1974 B. Hoddeson Porn People 117: Other typical Ball stories include…“Fucking and Headfucking.” 1978 R. Price Ladies’ Man 211: I feel like you’re fucking with my head.… I feel head-fucked. 1985 R. Frede Nurses 287: I told you, Trina. Don’t pull that headfucking with me. 1994 I. Welsh Marriage in Acid House 278: It’s strong acid, real head-fucking gear, but when we get to Roxy’s we start drinking like there’s no tomorrow. 1999 L. Hird Born Free 97: Why do mentally ill people always try and bring you down to their level? I’m leaving if she’s going to head-fuck me like this. 2005 B. Paloff trans. Dorota Maslowska Snow White & Russian Red 111: I don’t know how head-fucked you have to be to ring the doorbell to a stranger’s house in such an assholey way.

2. to engage in fellatio; SKULL-FUCK.

1979 F. Picano Lure 97: Head fucking. Cocksucking. Words from gymnasium locker rooms. 1987 T. Boyle Post-Mortem Effects 225: Then having head-fucked her and ejaculated in her ears, hair, eyes, nostrils, mouth, they hopped in a car and drove away, leaving the woman behind. 1988 “Ultra Violet” Famous for 15 Minutes 165: You know about fist fucking and head fucking? 2007 P. Frost Deep Inside 216: I pumped his dick, squeezed his balls, and lost myself in the sensation of being head-fucked.

headfucker noun

1. a person who deliberately confuses or misleads people.

1967 R. Drexler Line of Least Existence 23: You know something —you’re a real head fucker. 1972 R. Drexler To Smithereens 25: If you don’t stop being such a head-fucker I’m gonna walk in the other direction. 1985 R. Frede Nurses 314: You’re a real headfucker, aren’t you? 2003 Time Out (London) (Feb. 26) 192: While searching, people try, usually unsuccessfully, to protect themselves from wrong ’uns, of which there are many: commitmentphobics; headfuckers; manipulators; liars; and deeply damaged, addicted people who will never be able to put anyone but themselves first.

2. a powerful hallucinogenic or psychotropic drug; (also) a strong alcoholic drink.

1975 in R. Spears Slang & Jargon of Drugs & Drink 254: Headfucker [“a potent head drug”]. a1989 R. Spears NTC Slang Dictionary 176: This stuff is a real headfucker. Stay away from it. 2006 Urban Dictionary (Apr. 20) (online): Headfucker, A large bowl of mixed alcoholic drinks with a small amount of juice which fucks your head up and makes you do silly things and forget them.

HMFIC noun [probably modeled on HNIC ‘Head Nigger In Charge’]

“ Head Mother Fucker In Charge.”

1994 T. Reed & J. Cummings Compromised 187: Max boasted to Terry that he had been “hand-selected by the White House” to set up and oversee this operation. He made it very clear that he would be what Terry later termed the HMFIC, “the head mother-fucker in charge.” 1997 J. Crotty How to Talk American 200: HMFIC: Head “Military Figure” in Charge. 2001 R. Martini Hot Straight and Normal 114: When going below decks looking for a decision maker whether a chief or an officer a sailor would say who’s the HMFIC? 2004 B. Williams Spare Parts 219: This is all mine, brother. I might be a private, but I’m the HMFIC of this prison camp.

honeyfuck noun

a sexy young woman. Also: an unusually gratifying act of copulation.

1967 F. Pollini Crown 259: “You’re some honey,” he said. “ Some honeyfuck.” 1970 E. Thompson Garden of Sand 295: Come on,… honey-fuck. 1979 L. Heinemann in Tri-Quarterly (Spring) 184: The snazziest hot-to-trot honey fuck to hit the mainland since the first French settlers. 1993 R. O’Connor Buffalo Soldiers 130: This is the honeyfuck of honeyfucks. She has you in her power. 2002 D. Ayres Other Girls 162: I got you that.… A real honey-fuck.… Instead, you fall in love with her.

honeyfuck verb [probably an alteration of earlier honeyfuggle in its sense ‘to engage in kissing and hugging’]

to engage in unusually gratifying copulation.

1954–60 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang: Honey-fuck…v.i., v.t. To have sexual intercourse in a romantic, idyllic way; to have intercourse with a very young girl…honey-fucking…extremely gratifying and slow intercourse. 1980 L. Heinemann in Harper’s (June) 64: She’s honey-fucking the everlasting daylights out of some guy. 1986 R. B. Merkin Zombie Jamboree 121: We were honey-fuckin’, real slow and low, takin’ our time. 1990 J. Fitzgerald Belle Haven 176: Did you know that your former husband’s son has been honey-fucking your young niece, probably daily, am I right, Dabney? 2007 Black Lace Quickies I. 9: She remembered teenage boyfriends honey fucking her on parents’ sofas in front of the television, for hours sometimes.

horsefuck verb

to copulate with (someone) from behind; DOGFUCK.

1971 R. J. Minton Inside: Prison American Style 60: I think you could take one of them, sit him down, and run a three-hour movie of his mother getting horse-fucked by an ape. 1972 J. Wambaugh Blue Knight 114: Sexy little twist.… I’d like to break her open like a shotgun and horsefuck her. 1977 College student: Horsefuckin’ is the best position. 2006 T. Phillips Blacktop Cowboys 69: You stick it in her ass or anything exciting?… Well, did she lick your balls or anything?… Did you horsefuck her?

horse-fucking adjective

huge.

a1968 in G. Legman Rationale of Dirty Joke 549: Two great horse-fucking volumes.

hot adjective

In phrase:

hot enough to fuck, furiously angry.

1966 M. Braly On the Yard 201: The doc was hot enough to fuck. 1971 R. J. Minton Inside: Prison American Style 56: He’s all red in the face now! He’s hot enough to fuck! 1966–80 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 358: Miller’s gonna be hot enough to fuck before this mess is over. 2003 N. McMahon To the Bone 38: I walk into my office, and first thing, I get a call from Welles D’Anton.… Hot enough to fuck twice. Yelling that we killed a patient of his.

I

IHTFP interjection

“ I hate this fucking place.” [Associated with both the U.S. military (esp. the Navy) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]

1962 P. Trese Penguins Have Square Eyes 132 [refers to 1956]: The community bulletin board, which contained…one piece of cardboard with the inscription “IHTFP!” “What’s that mean?” I asked the Seabee. “Oh,” he said, filling in the blank, “I hate this place.” 1962 Voo Doo Magazine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Jan.) 10: IHTFP—An expression of loyalty towards the Institute, meaning “Institute Has The Finest Professors.” 1969 J. Crumley One to Count Cadence 27: All the way back to the barracks he explained why I too would soon adhere to the motto IHTFP or I Hate This Fucking Place. 1981 J. H. Webb Sense of Honor IV. i. 194: For those assigned to the [Naval] Academy, “IHTFP” became a slogan even before the institution formally existed. 1983 Elting, Cragg, & Deal Dictionary of Soldier Talk 161: IHTFP…gained wide currency during the Vietnam War, when it was…seen…on helmet camouflage covers or cardboard placards. 1990 J. Pournelle Falkenberg’s Legion 124: I found a trooper painting I.H.T.F.P. on the orderly room wall. 2002 S. Williams Free as in Freedom 208: The cruiser’s vanity license plate read IHTFP, a popular MIT acronym with many meanings.

J

JAFO noun

“Just Another Fucking Observer.”

1983 D. O’Bannon & D. Jakoby Blue Thunder (film): “I found out what JAFO is.” “Just Another Fucking Observer.” 1991 Sydney Morning Herald (Oct. 3) (Northern Herald section) 13: Among other things, he explains how he came to be a “jafo” (Antarctic slang for “just another effing observer”). 1998 Guardian (Aug. 20) 15: The Paras are fond of JAFO (Just Another F***ing Observer). 2002 U.S. News & World Report (Sept. 16) 42: From the first chaotic hours after the crash, Miller has firmly kept the media and meddling officials he calls “JAFOs” (“Just Another F - - - ing Observer”) from “tromping around” in the woods and among the handful of small cabins and houses at the scene.

JANFU noun [joint army-navy fuck-up; suggested by SNAFU]

Military. a bungled military operation involving the Army and Navy. Jocular. [The 1943 and 1944 quotations are euphemistic.]

1943 Time (Aug. 30) 36: Victory it was, but seldom has a victory been acknowledged with such wry humor. Among the echoing cliffs of Kiska a new word was born: JANFU (“Joint Army-Navy foul-up”). 1944 Newsweek (Feb. 7) 61: Janfu: Joint Army-Navy foul-up… Jaafu: Joint Anglo-American foul-up. 1944 in American Speech XX 148: JANFU. Joint army-navy foulup. 1945 in Verbatim XVI (Autumn 1989) 6: Janfu… “joint army-navy fxxx up.” A failed amphibious military operation considered badly planned and/or executed. 1946 American Speech (Feb.) 72: JANFU (Joint Army-Navy FU)…became fairly common in [the Pacific] theater, especially around the time of the Saipan operation. 1993 H. J. Riker Seals: The Warrior Breed: Silver Star 161: “I knew the whole Navy couldn’t be snafued!” “Looks to me more like a janfu.”

Jesus fuck interjection

(used to express astonishment, fear, anger, etc.); “Jesus Christ!”

1967 M. Baldwin Great Cham 147: When he’d opened his mouth to say Cor Jesus Fuck, his mouth had instead said Ooomooolooo. 1974 R. Price Wanderers 146: She was laying in a pool of diarrhea.… “Jesus fuck! You got it onna mattress! Goddamnit! That’s it! You did it an’ you’re gonna lay in it!” 1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 186: “We’re gonna get wasted by our own people,” I thought. “Jesus fuck!” 1988 W. Boyd New Confessions 425: Oh no, Jesus fuck no! 1993 “J. Le Carré” Night Manager xii. 188: “I’m going on down, Mike! I’ll go start the boat, hear me? Jesus fuck,” he complained. 1999 C. Brookmyre One Fine Day in Middle of Night 325: Matt heard Vale fire two rounds from his handgun. It was met by a yelp of “Jesus fuck!”, then followed immediately after that by the sight of an Uzi flying through the air and skidding along the hall amidst the squillion pieces of glass. 2006 I. Welsh Bedroom Secrets of Master Chefs 289: Jesus fuck almighty…I get a big shock as a stunningly beautiful girl of about nineteen, twenty, appears before me.

jug-fuck noun Military.

1. a drinking bout.

1980 Retired U.S. Army sergeant: I first ran across this in a list of Pro Signs given to me after April, 1977. “Let’s go have us a jug fuck!”

2. a confused or frustrating situation; mess; CLUSTERFUCK, noun, definition 2.

a1987 H. Coyle Team Yankee 116: Not until, and only if, we get this jug fuck unscrewed. 1988 D. Dye Outrage 10: Until we get out of this Ethiopian jug-fuck, I don’t want to see you any more than six feet away from…your squad. 1992 E. Ruggero Common Defense 189: The FBI and the CIA, not to mention the German police, are all in on this investigation—what a jug fuck that must be.

jumble-fuck noun

= CLUSTERFUCK, noun, definition 1.

1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 27: Jumble-Fuck, n. U.S., low coll., ca20 for Daisy-Chain.

L

LBFM noun [little brown fucking machine]

Military. a Southeast Asian woman who is sexually promiscuous, especially a bar girl or a prostitute. [Quotations refer to the Vietnam War.]

1971 Playboy (Aug.) 203: LBFM’s never come. What’s an LBFM? A little brown fucking machine. 1974 J. Platt Laotian Fragments 12: Remember: The Golden Palace LBFMs in their spangled padded bras saying “Melly Clistmas, GI.” 1985 J. T. Heywood Taxi Dancer 61: The… Thais—what the airmen called Little Brown Fucking Machines, LBFMs for short. Ibid. 225: Where’s my LBFM?…Colonel loves LBFMs. 1991 R. Marcinko & J. Weisman Rogue Warrior 165: No LBFM’s today. a1992 T. Wilson Termite Hill 377: Swede probably thought she was just another LBFM. 1993 C. W. Henderson Marshalling the Faithful iii. 58: They seemed to spend every free hour searching for that fresh, young LBFM that had not yet been spoiled by too many hard nights. 2001 S. Bird Yokota Officers Club 124: Bring back the LBFM with the melons!

M

mammy-dodger noun

Black English. (a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER. Hence mammy-dodging adjective.

1939 in A. Banks First-Person America 256: Hell yes, mammydodger. 1970 in Dictionary of American Regional English (1996) III. 493/2: Why that mammy-dodging potlicker didn’t even know what shoes was till he was twenty-nine.

mammy-jammer noun

Especially Black English. (a partial euphemism for) MOTHER-FUCKER, in any sense. Also variants.

1948 J. E. Webb Four Steps to the Wall 100: I sure nuff show ol’ white boy mammy-dugger how’s feel. 1956 J. Resko Reprieve 48: The mammy-jammer…puts the rope aroun mah neck. 1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 31 [refers to WWII]: I just don’t like the goddamn mama-jabbing Army, that’s all. Ibid. 32: Now ain’t that a mama-jabber? Ibid. 195: You fat-ass mother-huncher. Ibid. 266: We gonna step higher than a mama-jabber. 1963 M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles 97: You know what that dirty mammy-jammer did to me? 1963 L. Cameron Black Camp 12: Grab your socks, mammyjammers. 1967 A. Baraka Tales 18: You talking about a lightweight mammy-tapper. Ibid. 20: Yeh, mammy-rammer. 1969 H. R. Brown Die, Nigger, Die 109: I’d bought a rifle, which…was a sweet mama-jammer, too. 1969 C. Gordone No Place to be Somebody 413: I rassle with light’nin’, put a cap on thunder. Set every mammy-jammer in the graveyard on a wonder. 1971 K. W. Keith Long Line Rider 75: Hey, Max, this mammyjammer don’t like my cookin’. Y’all oughta have his butt busted. 1972 R. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 165: Mammy-Sucker In black slang, an insult that is felt to be even more offensive than motherfucker. 1974 U.S. college student: You mama-sticker. 1980 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 31: You…dirty Yankee mammie-jammer. 1982 B. Downey Uncle Sam Must be Losing the War 59 [refers to WWII]: What the fuck do we do with three of these mammy-jabbers? 1985 D. Dye Run Between the Raindrops 279: I’d been outa this mammy-jammer like a fuckin’ shot. Ibid. 291: We…a lucky bunch of mammy-jammers. 1987 J. Waters Hairspray (film) [refers to 1962]: Just to see me, the big mammy-jammer. 1991 In Living Color (Fox-TV): This is one bad mammy-jammer. 1992 Jerry Springer Show (syndicated TV series): I’m a bad mammy-jammer…I’m Wonder Woman!

mammy-jamming adjective

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKING. Also variants.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really the Blues 105: Those Jim Crow mammyjamming whites. 1958 W. Talsman Gaudy Image 30: Yeah, some real mammy-lovin’ goddamn cheap tinhorn place. 1969 R. Jessup Sailor 268: Who! The mammy-rammy law! That’s who! 1974 R. Carter 16th Round 55: You must be out of your mammy-jammy mind! 1974 A. Murray Train Whistle Guitar 117: That ain’t no goddamn mammy-hunching patent leather walk. 1977 E. Bunker Animal Factory 59: I ain’ no mammy-fuckin’ dawg! 1977 J. Langone Life at the Bottom 76: Pour the stuff in the trench and it packs hard as a mammy-jammin’ cement load.

maw-dicker noun

Southwest. = MOTHERFUCKER. Hence maw-dicking, adjective.

1984 A. R. Sample Racehoss 145 [refers to 1950s]: Why you Gotdam impudent shit-colored mawdicker. Ibid. 202 [refers to ca1960]: I oughta throw yore mawdickin ass in the pisser.

mercy fuck noun

an act of intercourse engaged in out of pity. Cf. PITY FUCK.

1975 I. Macnab 42nd Year of Mrs. Charles Prescott 111: Having a high old time throwing mercy fucks into every cunt who thinks she needs it. 1978 T. Alibrandi Killshot 174: Consider your work here a mercy fuck. 1981 in National Lampoon (Jan. 1982) 22: But let’s not consider this a mercy fuck. There’s no joy in that. 1988 J. Krantz Till We Meet Again 506: “Please, mister, throw me a mercy fuck”—that was what a man must see when he looked at her. 1996 “Soul Coughing” 4 out of 5 (pop. song): Quantify my luck I need a mercy fuck. 2004 J. Picoult My Sister’s Keeper 219: Who called Janet for a mercy fuck the night after she dumped you? 2005 Vanity Fair (Mar.) 222/3: Emily is an angel of death, falling for men.… and sending them off to war with the fondest of farewells, a mercy fuck.

mercy fuck verb

to engage in a MERCY FUCK (with).

1968 Paul Newman in Playboy (July) 69: Mercy fucking…would be reserved for spinsters and librarians. 1980 M. Gordon Company of Women 141: “Who’s this one?”…“One of Robert’s rescuees. He believes in mercy fucking.” 1992 M. Blonsky American Mythologies xv. 344: She’s the beautiful American sans superego.… If she has a beer too many, she’ll even mercy fuck you. 2003 Village Voice (Feb. 9) 135/1: It seems to me that an ex who’s willing to bang you on a business trip might be willing to make a special trip and mercy-fuck you right away.

m.f. or em-eff noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER.

1953 R. Ellison Letter (Apr. 9) in A. Murray & J. F. Callahan Trading Twelves (2000) 42: Doc looked at me as though to say “come on, m.f., this ain’t the time to start no shit.” 1959 in R.S. Gold Jazz Lexicon 209: You go and buy me a tenor saxophone and I’ll play the m-f. 1964 C. Howe Valley of Fire 190: Being able to call a gook an emm-eff in pig Latin and get away with it. 1965 E. Cleaver Soul on Ice 58: Why’n’t they kill some of the Uncle-Tomming m.f.s? 1965 in S. Sanchez We be Word Sorcerers 193: I’m a lucky M.F. to have found you. 1965 in W. King Black Anthology 304: So I stole the m—f [sic]. 1966–67 P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets 236: You poor m.f. 1968 B. Caldwell in G.M. Simmons et al. Black Culture 213: Let’s get these m.f.’s now! 1970 S. Terkel Hard Times 407: Today you get a guy in court, [he] don’t like what the judge says, he calls him a m f, you know what I mean? 1970 G. Cain Blueschild Baby 77: A bunch of dirty white M.F.’s. 1971 in V. Matthews & N. Amdur My Race be Won (1974) 246: There’d be a lot of dead “M.F.’s” around. 1971–73 G. Sheehy Hustling 89: Then in comes this m.f. from Midtown North, our precinct. 1974 R. Blount 3 Bricks Shy 159: They say “m-f” worse than a colored person. 1976 G. Kirkham Signal Zero 63: Adios, MF! 1986 B. Clayton & N. M. Elliott Jazz World 101: I did provoke the fight by calling him an MF. Ibid. [refers to 1930s]: Billie [Holiday] called all of her close friends MF. 1987 Newsweek (Mar. 23) 61: He could stand out on the corner looking sharp as a MF in his Stacy-Adams wingtips and a $100 hat. 1992 Donahue (NBC-TV): I’m gonna take all you m.f.s with me. 1992 “Prince” Sexy M.F. (pop. song title). 1997 Y. Jah & Sister Shah’Keyah Uprising: The other day your baby was a “punk, mf, stupid, ignorant so-and-so.” You’ve been telling him that all of his life. 2004 K. Adams Ex-Girlfriends 42: Life was hard core. No coddling necessary. Her mantra: bring it on, m.f.

In phrase:

MFWIC, mother fucker what’s in charge.

1980 D. J. Cragg Lexicon Militaris 285: MFWIC. Mother fucker What’s In Charge. 2002 C. Bartolomeo Side of the Angels 52: “Can you have Nicky up there pronto?” “By this weekend. Who’s the MFWIC again?” Ron asked. (MFWIC, pronounced “miffwick,” was an old campaign acronym which meant “mother-fucker-what’s-in-charge.”) 2007 K. S. Bodman Checkmate 156: Anyway, after that debacle, we had a meeting, and Austin demanded to know who the MFWIC was on that project.

m.f. or em-eff adjective

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKING. Also emeffing.

1958 W. Motley Epitaph 120: Them emeffing guards is bringing it in fountain pens. Ibid. 149: You emeffing right. a1972 in G.M. Simmons et al. Black Culture 219: That M-F-in’ jive. 1973 A. Childress Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich 34: All over the emm-eff community. 1975 J. McCourt Mawrdew Czgowchwz (2002) iv. 83: Wait a minute, hon, I’ll write it down—where’s my m. f. lipstick. 1990 New Yorker (Apr. 2) 46: Graffiti…on the… training ship of the Maine Maritime Academy…“Only 13 more MFD’s, Only 12 more MFD’s, Only 11 more MFD’s,” and so on down a toilet stall. The “D” stood for “day.”

MILF noun [mother (or mom) I’d like to fuck]

a sexually attractive woman who is a mother or (generally) in early middle age.

1991 (name of rock band): milf. 1995 Re: Fabulous after Forty in Usenet newsgroup alt.mag.playboy (Jan. 12): Those moms are babes!!… We have a term for it around here, its [sic] called “MILF”.… “Mothers I’d Like to Fuck.” 1998 A. Herz American Pie (film script): Freshman guy. Dude! That chick—is a MILF! Freshman guy #2 What the hell is that? Freshman guy M-I-L-F! Mom I’d Like to Fuck! 2005 “Belle De Jour” Intimate Adventures of London Call Girl 45: There seems to be a leggy blonde or brunette sex goddess for every potential horny businessman on earth, with maybe a MILF or two to spare.

mindfuck noun

1. imaginary sexual activity. Cf. HEADFUCK noun sense 4. Jocular.

1964 I. Faust Steagle 265: We could lie down side by side and think. Oh, a mind fuck? That’s nowhere. 1968 Zap Comix (No. 3) (unpaged): A mind-fuck. a1977 M. French Women’s Room 574: They masturbate to it.… It’s a mind-fuck. a1991 J. Phillips You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again 163: He rarely gets a hard-on, but the mind-fuck is really irresistible. 2008 B. Kahr Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head? 39: The patient from Berlin explained that he derived more pleasure from the fantasy than he did from the reality… As one of my patients admitted, “Sometimes a mind-fuck is better than the other kind.”

2.a. a disturbing or overwhelming experience, esp. one caused by deliberate psychological manipulation.

1971 It (June 2) 19/3 The title track “The Man Who Sold the World” is possibl[y] the most spaced out cut, but each one has its own individual mind fuck inside. 1972 R. Barrett Lovomaniacs 385: Dolly’s eyes said she was stoned…I…know when someone’s full of the…original superfreak mindfuck. 1977 National Lampoon (Aug.) 33: His Pressed Wang on Stained Glass is a religious mind-fuck. 1980 M. Baker Nam 40: When you weren’t going through that, you had your recruit regs held up in front of your face memorizing your eleven general orders. It was a real mind fuck. 1986 J. Cain Suicide Squad 85: Mindfuck would be terminal this time. 1988–90 M. Hunter Abused Boys 279: The mind-fuck you did on me. 1993 K. Scott Monster 164: You simply prepared ahead of time for the mind-fuck of being a prisoner. 2001 M. Azerrad Our Band could be your Life viii. 289: It was…a mind-fuck of a show. 2006 Giant Robot No. 43 56/2: I was a film geek who was heavily mining through Euro and Asian cinema in college, and it was a total mind fuck to see all-Asian casts speaking American English when Yellow and Shopping for Fangs came out.

b. something that causes confusion or bafflement; a confusing or mentally challenging thing.

1971 L. Bangs in Creem (June 17) 7 : That electro-distort stuff that rocked you guys to sleep when you were first tokin’ in your cradles was really unheard-of then, a real earthquake mindfuck. 1987 “J. Hawkins” Tunnel Warriors 37: Despite the obvious game of mindfuck. 1997 Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Sept. 30) 88: Fincher’s new movie…is a cynical mindfuck thriller that builds, with increasing pointlessness, to a deflating punchline. 2001 Premiere (Apr.) 42/2: We had a great screening early one morning.… It was packed—for a mind-fuck at 9 o’clock.… a mesmerizing meditation on memory, identity, and loss. 2007 P. Spiegelman Wall Street Noir 351: Time is an invidious mind fuck. You look around one day and everything’s unfamiliar.

3. a counterintelligence deception; an act of psychological manipulation.

1974 C. Bernstein & B. Woodward All the President’s Men 119: Somewhere, Bernstein had been told that the CIA did that kind of thing abroad. He had heard it called Mindfuck but the agency called it Black Operation. 2005 N. Fick One Bullet Away 153: A voice began to fire questions at me—name, rank, service.… I struggled to use the resistance techniques I had been taught.… I smiled in the tight confines of the cell and waited for my next mind-fuck. 2006 E. M. Katz & L. Holmes Why You’re Still Single 57: He might be starting a bizarre mind-fuck in which he’s going to cancel every fourth date in order to keep you from ever getting comfortable.

4. a crazy person; a psychotic. Also: a person who manipulates others; MIND-FUCKER, definition 2.

1977 J. Sayles Union Dues 312: Comes back such a mindfuck he can’t remember. Fuckin space cowboy. Ibid. 176: He was a certifiable mindfuck and you had to keep him on a tight leash. 1992 H. Childress Reality Bites (film script) 25: Lelaina stops at the door confused, kind of bummed out. Then she looks at Vickie, who has on a Cheshire cat grin. Lelaina smiles as she realizes Vickie was stringing her along. LELAINA. You little mind-fuck. 2005 J. Trunk Dirty Fan Male 3: So there I was, with a job, a tiny salary, working for a shit company, working with a total mindfuck, hating it all and still seeing no way out.

mindfuck verb

1. to psychologically manipulate; to disturb psychologically.

1966 (quotation at fuck (someone’s) mind under fuck, verb). 1967 L. Wolf Voices from the Love Generation 17: Their consciousness has been permanently altered. Forever altered. They’ve been mind-fucked. Ibid. 281: Mind-fucked. Profoundly influenced by something. 1970 J. Howard Please Touch 235: Some [encounter] groups dismiss all abstractions as “headshit” and “mindfucking.” 1971 S. Miller Hot Springs 66: They have nothing to teach you—they mind-fucked you. 1972 R. Gover Mr. Big 11: She mindfucks me again. 1976 J. W. Thomas Heavy Number 105: He’s really mind-fucked you. 1987 R. Miller Slob 156: They both felt giddy, hysterical, a little confused, mindfucked, spent. 1989 E. Gilchrist Light can be both Wave & Particle 164: Rhoda, stop mindfucking. Love people that love you. 1991 R. Marcinko & J. Weisman Rogue Warrior 165: I was a veteran of mind-fucking the Vietnamese. 1997 A. Beattie My Life, Starring Dara Falcon 136: Suddenly she’s selling his mother’s ring. His mother’s ring! Tell me that isn’t mind-fucking him. 2006 R. Barger & K. Zimmerman 6 Chambers, 1 Bullet 309: Was it fruitless trying to get into Vladimir’s head in a last-ditch attempt to mind-fuck him?

2. to engage in imaginary intercourse (with).

1970 J. S. Grendahl Mad Dog Press Archives 144: And a bad stripper, really she’s ashamed to be up there, isn’t really into mind-fucking with everyone in the crowd. 1996 E. G. Colter et al. Policing Public Sex 161: Mindfucking is no longer better than the real thing if safer sex education is about sex. 2004 “Annalise” Venus Rising 126: You used to mind fuck me all the time. I used to come in my uniform just by listening to you whisper in my ear. 2008 K. Jaye Good Girls Pole Riders Club 146: I let my middle finger fall away from my clit.… It had been four days since visiting him, and my vagina was almost raw. I had mind-fucked Darius so many times, it was starting to wear on my body.

mindfucker noun

1. something that is extremely disturbing, amazing, or astounding.

1969 J. Sebastian in Woodstock (film): This thing is a real mindfucker! 1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 133: Mind fucker… Thing or situation that upsets or disturbs one. 1972 W. Pelfrey Big V 24: Wow man, that’s a mind-fucker. 1980 A. Maupin More Tales of City lvii. 188: Michael rattled on about…Mrs. Madrigal’s recent revelation to her “family.” Jon shook his head incredulously. “That is…a mindfucker.” 1985 J. P. Kelly Solstice in B. Sterling Mirrorshades (1986) 93: They would have called the Stonehenge free festival a mind-fucker. 2007 E. Schweikher & P. Diamond Cycling’s Greatest Misadventures 30: The thought of getting lost was a complete mindfucker.

2. a person who psychologically manipulates another person; one who MIND-FUCKS.

1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 133: Mind fucker n. Individual who asserts personal pressure to persuade people to believe his way without regard for the feelings of the people he influences; person who attempts to manipulate another’s thinking without regard for the other. 1980 National Lampoon (Aug.) 67: You’re some kind of mindfucker. You’re a witch. 1982 H. Gold True Love 140: You, mindfucker.… You’ve done nothing but lie to us. You think this is a liar’s game? 1996 N. T. Rosenberg Trial by Fire 70: The woman is a mind-fucker, Stella. She’ll use anything and anyone to get what she wants. 2004 K. Schwartz Clearing the Aisle 297: He was a mindfucker. Very charming, but a real snake.

mind-fucking adjective

baffling or astounding; (also) that psychologically manipulates.

1971 S. B. Kopp Guru 145: Away from intellectual “mind-fucking” words. 1977 R. A. Wilson Cosmic Trigger 93: “They” turned some kind of “mindfucking” machine on the two men. 1986 Atlanta, Ga., man, age ca30: [Hands Across America] was mindfucking, man! Such a great thing! 1990 S. Frith & A. Goodwin On Record 233: You think of those weird ways of ending one song and having some kind of transitional riff to get into the next one. That’s really the most fun—especially when you can pull off some mind-fucking key change. 1996 E. Leonard Out of Sight 51: In an altogether different kind of mind-fucking incarceration. 2004 J. D. Vinge Dreamfall (revised edition) 399: Get off him, you mindfucking bitch!

mo dicker noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER.

1968–70 Current Slang Cumulation III & IV 84: Mo dicker, n. A lazy, irresponsible person.—New Mexico State. 1989 D. Sherman There I Was 129: It started raining like a mo-dicker.… I…said “mo-dicker”… ’cause your momma don’t like me saying “motherfucker,” but it’s really the same word.

mofo noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER. Jocular.

1965 in H.S. Thompson Hell’s Angels 33: The “Mofo” club from San Francisco. 1966 F. Reynolds & M. McClure Freewheelin Frank 116: The Mofos (a motorcycle club that isn’t in existence now). 1972 R. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 171: Mother-jumper, mother-ferrier, mo’-fo’, mammy-jammer,…futher-mucker. 1973 Oui (Mar.) 69: And now you, too (you jive mofo) can control the minds of women! 1977 U.S. college student: I’m sincerely beginning to believe that mofo is a goddamn female impersonator. 1979 L. Blum, D. Goldberg, J. Allen & H. Ramis Meatballs (film): I will twist that mofo. 1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways 124: He’s one useless black mofo. 1983 Leeson Survivors (film): Hey, you honky mofo, get the lead out of your ass! Ibid.: Your gun jammed, Mr. Honky Mofo? 1987 National Lampoon (June) 79: It hurt like a mofo. 1989 W.E. Merritt Rivers Ran Backward 20: Get your white ass in the truck, mofo. 1995 Guardian (May 13) (Guide) 18/1: Although Ike Turner may be a former coke-headed, woman-beating ex-con mofo, he’s also one of the most important unsung figures of American music. 1999 Y. M. Murray What it Takes to Get to Vegas xi. 186: He’d found part-time work at a Taco Bell downtown, but his full-time job was being a radical mofo with a mission. 2005 SL (Cape Town, South Africa) (Feb.) 8/3: Keane better than Coldplay? You must be kidding.… I hope the Chris Martin mafia comes to take you mofos down! 2006 Navy Times (Aug. 28) 33: Much of the credit, of course, goes to Jackson, Mr. Mofo himself, proving anew that he’s one of the baddest movie men on the planet.

mofo adjective & adverb

= MOTHERFUCKING. Jocular.

1973 O. Z. Acosta Revolt of Cockroach People (1989) ii. 28: What about all those books that got me through the long Mofo nights? 1989 W.E. Merritt Rivers Ran Backward 20: You mofo lucky they sent me along. 1996 Observer (Dec. 29) 31/2: Peter…has been trying to pretend he’s terribly bothered about all this press attention re. personal chauffeur-driven limo from Palumbo. It’s actually rather hideous—every time it draws up I expect to see Huggy Bear slink out in purple pimp-suit and mo’fo’ fedora. 2007 “Zane” Dear G-Spot 135: She was laying there, stiff as a mofo board, while I drilled this big pipe in and out that poontang.

mofuck noun

= MOTHERFUCKER; MOTHERFUCKING.

1962 H. Simmons On Eggshells 143: Get out the way, moa-fugg. 1978 T. C. Fox Cops 47: If the Killer is played by a black actor, the following changes should be made in the dialogue… pg. 30—Killer I don’t give a fuck, mo’fuck. 1982 J. M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley 477: This mofuck division fucked up. 1983 R.C. Mason Chickenhawk 105 [refers to 1965]: [The mongoose] was young and tame, and he named it Mo’fuck. 1985 G. Bear Dead Run in Collected Stories of Greg Bear (2002) 333: “You can take us back, mister! You really can!” “Can he?” “Shit no, mofuck pig.” 1990 J. Levy Squeeze Play 287: There were street punks in ripped-off Nikes screaming “Mo’fuck” in my ear.

Mongolian cluster fuck noun

see under CLUSTERFUCK noun.

monkey noun

In phrases:

a monkey fucking a football and variants, a ridiculous or clumsy figure.

1968 P. Tauber Sunshine Soldiers 117: You know what you look like, Pea-zer, stupid? You look like a monkey trying to fuck a football. 1977 in S. Lyle & P. Golenbock Bronx Zoo 17: Jesus Christ! You looked like a monkey trying to fuck a football out there! 1981 W. T. Hathaway World of Hurt 47: You look like a monkey fucking a football. 1984 K. Weaver Texas Crude 34: That guy tryin’ to change a tire looks like a monkey tryin’ to fuck a football. 1988 D. Poyer The Med 422: You people cry like fifteen monkeys fuckin’ a football. 2005 E. Puchner Music through the Floor 74: Watching you work is like watching a monkey fuck a football.

monkey’s fuck, British. the least bit, a damn; FUCK noun, definition 2.a. Also in euphemized variants.

[1893 R. G. Hampton Major in Washington 97: A poker I.O.U. that wasn’t worth a monkey’s snicker.] [1942 P. Larkin Letter (Mar. 20) in Selected Letters (1992) 32: I rather liked the way the words “monkey’s fuck” and “bugger” shone like sign posts in the strange country of this drunken Scotch.] 1960 G. W. Target Teachers 100: The Old Man’s door opened and the pair of them came out, Stillwell not seeming to give a monkey’s, but too casual, and poor Jimmy Taylor with his hands clenched before him. 1961 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 5) Suppl. 1188/1: Monkey’s f*ck, not to care a, not to care a rap; low (esp. Naval). 1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby xii. 116: I don’t give a monkey’s knee if he was with the Resistance or the Mafia. 1970 Observer (May 10) 33/5: Tony Martin has booked himself a vasectomy… “I was brought up a Catholic…but I don’t give a monkey’s; you’ve got to be practical.” 1975 J. Wainwright Square Dance 26: “Not,” snarled Sugden, “that I give a solitary monkey’s toss what you wear.” 1990 Lancet (June 2) 1313/2: In the words of one member of the underclass, [the government] “doesn’t give a monkey’s.” 2006 S. Hill Risk of Darkness 161: “I don’t give a monkey’s fuck,” Nathan said viciously, “about Frankie Nixon.”

mother noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER (in any sense).

1935 in P. Oliver Blues Tradition 232: Dirty Mother For You. 1936 in M. Leadbitter & N. Slaven Blues Records 297: She’s A Mellow Mother For You. 1944 in C. Himes Black on Black 209: That old mother, cotton, is gonna kill me yet. 1958 E. Gilbert Vice Trap 110: Jive and lush don’t use together, you mother. 1960 in T.C. Bambara Gorilla 49: Now this jive mother who is my boss thinks he can make some bread by recording some of the old-timers. 1961 J. Brosnan Pennant Race 74: Malone pulls that ball on a line and Willie is a dead mother. 1961 G. Forbes Goodbye to Some 82 [refers to WWII]: That mother Stevens dropped a crab in the beer. 1961 H. Ellison Gentleman Junkie 144: He just grabbed that muthuh by the neck and…beat the crap outta him. 1962 K. Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 175: Drive, you puny mothers, drive!…Practice, you mothers, get that ball and let’s get a little sweat rollin’! 1961–64 D. Barthelme Come Back, Dr. Caligari 142: You brought the darkness, you black mother. 1964 R. Newhafer Last Tallyho 182: If ever…I get out of this mother of a thunderstorm. Ibid. 302: There’s nothing wrong with these mothers at all. 1965 J. L. Herlihy Midnight Cowboy 101: It’s a powerful mothah, ain’t it? 1967 G. Moorse Duck May be Somebody’s Mother 139: Jeez, Doc,…you’re about the smartest muther in the whole world. 1971 J. P. Sloan War Games 125: There sits a man who is going to go home and tell his wife a mother of a story. 1972 D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 188: Some wives is gonna read that mother you writin’, you dig what I’m sayin’? 1972 C. Gaines Stay Hungry 34: He had worked [his calves] so hard he thought they would pop off, but the mothers wouldn’t grow. 1973 W. Karlin et al. Free Fire Zone 164: I can take work!…I can work like a mother! 1976 C. R. Anderson Grunts 47 [refers to 1969]: You mean it’s that hill over there, the bald mother? 1978 H. Selby Requiem for a Dream 247: Yeah, he be a cool mutha jim. 1984 G. Holland Let a Soldier Die 156: Deal those mothers! 1985 D. Killerman Hellrider 9: You muvva. 1986 B. Breathed Bloom County (syndicated comic strip) (Dec. 3): Just wing that mother. 1987 N.Y. Daily News (July 2) M3: Here comes that evil mother; we can’t win now. 1988 Living Dangerously (A&E-TV): The river is one tough mother [to cross]. 1992 New York Magazine (Mar. 30) 61: He has never tried a case before, but he’s a tough little mother. 1999 M. Foley Have Nice Day v. 73: I climbed into the front seat [of the car] and attempted to fire the mother up. Needless to say, the mother didn’t fire. Neither did it flicker or even spark. It was one dead mother. 2007 On Board (Jan.) 48/2: This year’s goggles come in a variety of different colours: check these gold mothers.

In phrases:

ham and mothers, see ham and motherfuckers under MOTHERFUCKER.

1973 (quotation at ham and motherfuckers under MOTHERFUCKER). 1978 G. Hasford Short-Timers 86 [refers to Vietnam War]: Ham and mothers.… I hate…ham and lima beans. 1990 G.R. Clark Words of Vietnam War 52: Ham and lima beans…“ham-and-mothers.” 1996 D. Jauss Black Maps 27: You look like you’ve put on a couple of pounds since yesterday.… Maybe you had an extra helping of ham and mothers? 2004 R. E. Peavey Praying for Slack 251: Nobody eats ham and mothers up here.

your mother! Especially Juvenile. (used as a derisive retort). [It is widely perceived that the phrase abbreviates go fuck your mother and is therefore especially provoking; it is also reminiscent of the “dozens,” a game of ritually exchanging insults.]

[1891 in J. F. Dobie Rainbow in the Morning (1965) 172: Talk about one thing, talk about another;/But ef you talk about me, I’m gwain to talk about your mother.] [1929 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters 298: In a purely conversational way in a latin language in an argument one man says to another “Cogar su madre!”] 1937 C. Odets Golden Boy 243: [On telephone:] I’ll bring him right over…you can take my word—the kid’s a cock-eyed wonder …your mother too! 1939 in A. Dundes Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel (1990) 288: An upper-class Negro woman [in a northern city] said…[that] in her high school group…a simple reference to “your ma” or “your mother” was a fighting challenge. The woman herself did not know why one had to fight when she heard this but did know that fight one must. 1953 “F. Paley” Rumble on the Docks 86: “Your mother!” Pooch murmured with thick lips. 1957 H. Simmons Corner Boy 79: Your mother, your mother. 1968 K. Hunter Soul Brothers 39: If a Southside boy wanted to start a fight, all he had to say…was, “Your mother—.” He didn’t even have to finish the sentence. The other boy would tear into him…in a blind fury. 1972 in W. King Black Anthology 145: “Your motha’!” she yelled. 1973 Lucas, Katz & Huyck America Graffiti 23: “What happened to you, flathead?” “Ah, your mother!” 1974 V. C. Strasburger Rounding Third & Heading Home 159: Carter turned around. “Your mother,” he said to the guy who had just finished talking. 1977 E. Bunker Animal Factory 29: “I’m gonna bust you someday.” “You’ll bust your mother.” “Your mother wears combat boots!” 1978 P. Schrader Hardcore 65: “You’re thinking about your father.”…“Keep him out of this or I’ll break your balls.” “Who?” “Your mother, smart-ass.” 1985 Cheers (NBC-TV): Ya mother! 1999 F. McCourt ’Tis xv. 118: Weber gives him the finger and says, Your mother, and Buck has to be stopped from attacking him by the duty sergeant who tells us all get out.

mother adjective

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKING.

1958 Meltzer & Blees High School Confidential (film): You’re the swingin’est chick in the whole mother kingdom. 1962 T. Reiter Night in Sodom 134: You a fool, Chollie. A rotten muvva fool. 1966–67 P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets 201: What a sick mudder scene! 1968 G. Vidal Myra Breckinridge 98: I am going to sell the whole mother score. ca1969 D. Rabe Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel 23: Jesus God Almighty I hate this mother army stickin’ me in with weird people! 1970 La Motta, Carter, & Savage Raging Bull (film) 25: Everybody down on his knees, you mothers, down on your fuckin’ mother knees! 1971 Go Ask Alice 102: The fuzz has clamped down till the town is mother dry. 1976 J.W. Thomas Heavy Number 44: Wait a mother-minute! Ibid. 115: I…can’t use them…in the middle of the mother desert! 1988 D. Ing Chernobyl Syndrome 113: A bigmotha’ windmill, with 4-meter epoxy-coated high-aspect ratio blades and a capstan drive made from a wheelchair.

motherfather noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHER-FUCKER.

1991 Redd Foxx on Royal Family (CBS-TV): Oh, motherfather! 1993 S. Womack Dead Folks’ Blues 231: What the motherfather you talking about? 2005 C. Coleman Cage’s Bend 204: You son of a bitch. You don’t care about me. You motherfather!

motherfouler noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHER-FUCKER.

1947–52 R. Ellison Invisible Man 422: Coolcrack the motherfouler! 1962 L. Hughes Tambourines to Glory 238: Sister Laura’s going to crack-up and all over Buddy Lomax—who everybody knows is a motherfouler.

motherfuck noun

1. = MOTHERFUCKER, noun, sense 1.a., 1.b.

1964 R. Gover Here Goes Kitten 110: I hop back in bed beside this great big mountain of a mothahfug, an I get down t’bizness. 1967 N. Mailer Why We Are in Vietnam 54: Don’t come near, motherfuck. 1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 135: Mother fuck, greeting to another person. It has a positive connotation… Negative connotation when used in anger to express hostility—e.g. You mother fuck! 1972 N.Y.U. Cold Duck (Apr. 17): Fuck you, motherfuck, you’re trying to censor my work! 1978 P. Schrader Hardcore 99: You muthafuck! 1986 D. Tate Bravo Burning 96: Hey, motherfucks, you don’t have to treat him like that. a1990 E. Currie Dope & Trouble 14: She a grown motherfuck. 2000 T. A. Kessler D-Girl in Sopranos ((TV shooting script) 2nd Ser.) 42: You miserable motherfuck, I’m the kid’s [confirmation] sponsor!

2. a thing or state of affairs, esp. if hateful or infuriating; = MOTHERFUCKER, noun, sense 2.a., 2.b.

1967 N. Mailer Why Are We in Vietnam? 82: How’d you get this motherfuck? 1982 J. M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley 271: How they gonna get a bird inta the middle a dis mothafuck?

3.a. a damn.

1967 “Iceberg Slim” Pimp 277: I wouldn’t give a mother-fuck. 1970 in B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water & Swim Like Me 232: This is my friend,/this is my kin,/I don’t give a motherfuck/if he don’t come in. 1972 W. Pelfrey Big V 106: And I don’t give a motherfuck. 1984 S. P. Smith American Boys 147: Tell ’em I’m like Donald Duck—got web feet and don’t give a motherfuck! 1992 S. Frazier I Married Vietnam 94: You ever do that again motherfucker I’ll kill you. I don’t give a motherfuck if you got one day and a wakeup. 2006 R. Shydner & M. Schiff I Killed 49: We’re not leaving until we get our motherfucking money. I don’t give a motherfuck.

b. (used as an emphatic expletive); hell; FUCK.—used with the.

1975 N. De Mille Smack Man 70: How the motherfuck do a pimp’s girl get jealous, man? 1973–76 J. Allen Assault 188: You better get the motherfuck out of my place. 1982 J. M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley 309: Where the motherfuck is the C-4? 1986 T. Philbin Under Cover 120: Who the motherfuck are you? 1988 J. Norst Colors 22: What the motherfuck was that you just did. 1994 S. Hunter Dirty White Boys 150: You got nothing but a staff of assholes what hates their goddamned jobs and ain’t about to die for no Denny, whosoever the motherfuck he may be. 2006 J. Burke On the Road to Kandahar 143: I’m on fucking patrol.… Why do you think I am wearing my body armor, motherfucker? For the motherfucking fun? So shut the motherfuck up.

motherfuck adverb

(used for emphasis); = MOTHERFUCKING.

1970 E. Sanders in Padgett & Shapiro New York Poets 386: And don’t you motherfuck forget it!!! 1971 S. Stevens Way Uptown in Another World 54: The motherfuck whites don’t never look close enough at a black man to tell how old he is.

motherfuck verb

1. (used to express rejection, dismissal, hatred, etc.); God damn; FUCK, verb, definition 4a; curse; to hell with.

1942 in W. N. Hess B-17 32: [Inscription on U.S. bomber, with picture of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo receiving an obscene gesture:] MFUTU [i.e. mother fuck you too]. 1965 in Social Problems XIII 351: Mother Fuck the Police! 1969 Black Panther (Oakland, Calif.): Well, motherfuck the police. 1972 B. Davidson Cut Off 29 [refers to 1944]: Mother-fuck this fuckin’ war. 1968–73 M. Agar Ripping & Running 137: Aw man, mother-fuck it. 1975 S.P. Smith American Boys 37: “Three tears in the bucket,” he yelled. “They don’t flow, mother fuck it!” 1977 E. Torres Q & A 16: Motha fuck you, ain’t tellin’ you shit. Who the hell’re you! 1989 C. Ridenhour et al. Fight the Power (song, perf. “Public Enemy”) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 259: Straight up racist that sucker was simple and plain/Mother-fuck him [sc. Elvis] and John Wayne/’Cause I’m black and I’m proud. 1994 J. Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 114: If I offended anyone, two tears in a bucket, honey. Motherfuck it. 2000 J. Womack Going, Going, Gone 23: Half the room turned to look, and then the same half of the room turned deaf mute. “Motherfuck you,” she broadcast.

2. to destroy, confuse, FUCK UP; to treat with hostility, insult.

1975 in Urban Life IV (1976) 489: We’ll motherfuck the bastard’s mind! 1990 L. Rooke Good Baby 136: That bitch who tried to motherfuck and hogtie me. 1991 Vanity Fair Aug. 169/1: I don’t know if he was “motherfucking” them—if he was still being verbally aggressive. 2000 R. Barger et al. Hell’s Angel vii. 128: We motherfucked them for a while until they finally gave up and drove away. 2007 J. R. Daniels Mr. Pleasant 3: I could read her lips. She was motherfucking me to her little brother.

motherfuck interjection

(used to express astonishment, anger, etc.).

1970 W. C. Woods Killing Zone 143: Motherfuck—what happened to you? 1976 R. Price Bloodbrothers 20: Mother-fuck! 1979 B. Gutcheon New Girls 249: Motherfuck, guess who that is? 1998 GQ (Nov.) 172: He spins around, kicks the ground, stares down the offending patch of wood. “Mother fuck,” he mutters. 1998 J. Manos Jr. & D. Chase College in Sopranos ((television shooting script) 1st Ser.) 12: Chris’s car jerks to a stop. Jacket over his head, Chris runs to a pay phone, jams his body under the shell, inserts quarters while rain pelts his back. Christopher. Mothefuck. 2005 “Noire” Candy Licker xxvi. 279: “Motherfuck!” Hurricane cursed.

motherfucker noun

1.a. a despicable or contemptible person. [The 1928, 1935, 1939, and 1946 quotations are euphemistic.]

1918 Letter in Journal of American History (1995) LXXXI 1585: You low-down Mother Fuckers can put a gun in our hands but who is able to take it out? [1918 in H. De Witt Bawdy Barrack-Room Ballads: The little red runt he grew and grew/****ed his mother and sister too.] 1928 C. McKay Banjo 229: I’ve been made a fool of by many a skirt, but it’s the first time a mother-plugger done got me like this. 1935 G.W. Henderson Ollie Miss 82: The man from Swanson had passed the ugly word then, and the Hannon boy had flung it back… neatly compounded, with the word “mother” preceding it. The Swanson boy… whipped out his razor. ca1935 in G. Logsdon Whorehouse Bells were Ringing 95: Motherfucker, I’ll slice off your prick. 1935 in P. Oliver Blues Tradition 232: He’s a dirty mother fuyer, he don’t mean no good. [1936 A. W. Little From Harlem to the Rhine 5 [refers to 1917]: And so I saiz ter him, Cap’n Suh, “Ever-ting you saiz Ah am—yoo is double—even de part against yoo mudder.… Ef yoo saiz anyt’ing mo’ ter me Ah’ll cut yoo heart out.”] 1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 29: Mother-Fucker. n. An incestuous male. The most intense term of opprobrium among the U.S. lower classes. Probable Sicilian origin. C. 20. Urban communities only. No sexual connotation; used merely as an epithet. 1939 in A. Banks First-Person 255: Why you poor Brooklyn motherfrigger, I’ll wreck this goddamn place with you. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really the Blues 14: A motherferyer that would cut your throat for looking. 1946 J. Del Torto Graffiti Transcript (Kinsey Institute): Susie is a mother fucker. 1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 152: I was gonna shoot the mother-fugger but you were in the way. 1950 Commentary X 62: When asked what his chief duties were in a Negro settlement house for boys, a social worker answered, “Teaching them euphemisms for mother—(unprintable word).” 1954 R. Lindner 50-Minute Hour 152 [refers to ca1938]: During my years in prison work I had observed that one expletive, that referring to intercourse between son and mother (m-f), was at once the most dangerous and the most frequent on the lips of the psychopath. I had actually seen men killed for using it. 1954 in D. Wepman et al. The Life (1976) 110: Cocksuckers by the dozens, motherfuckers and their cousins. 1956 in P. Oliver Blues Tradition 240: Your mama…she’s a runnin’ motherfucker, cheap cocksucker. 1957 H. Simmons Corner Boy 79: Kill that mother fug—. 1958 Stack A Lee (typescript, Kinsey Institute) 1: I’m that bad motherfucker they call Stack A Lee. 1958 E. Gilbert Vice Trap 44: “You mother—” she said to me, crying. 1959 W. Burroughs Naked Lunch 40: I’ll cut your throat you white mother fucker. 1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 284: Every time I walk up the company street I hear somebody calling somebody else a mother-fucker or a sonofabitch. 1963–64 K. Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion 71: My brother is a motherfucker. 1965 C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land 137: Don’t explain yourself to that mother-fucker. 1965 R. E. Conot Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness 222: Even the word motherfucker takes on different connotation. For the white it is the image of incest; for the Negro it is the picture of a white man lying with a black woman who is his, the Negro’s, mother. 1968 A. Montagu Letter to P. Tamony (June 24): Mr. Donald C. Greason has written to me that he heard the epithet [motherfucker] often from a friend of his at the front during late 1917. 1968 H. Van Dyke Blood of Strawberries 177: If you even touch it, motherfucker, you die. 1968 R. Gover JC 34: Sonny you nacheral sack a twenty diffrent mothahfuggahs. 1971 O. Guffy & C. Ledner Ossie 46 [refers to ca1940]: “You’re a motherfucker.” “Your mama’s one.” 1974 V. E. Smith Jones Men 18: Look at that bitch. Nasty motherfucker. 1992 T. Hosansky & P. Sparling Working Vice 197: People called her motherfucker…[and] bitch. 1995 Jerry Springer Show (syndicated TV series): Come on, motherf-cker! [vowel bleeped out].

b. Especially Black English & Military. (in positive contexts) a fellow; person; an admirable person; (often) a formidable person.

1958 Stack A Lee (typescript, Kinsey Institute) 1: He…said who put the hole in this motherfucker’s head?/Who could the murderer of this poor man be? 1964 R. D. Abrahams Deep down in Jungle (Appendix II) 261: One of the best things which can be said of a man is that he is a “mean motherfucker” or a “tough motherfucker,” but to call him just a “mother-fucker” is to invite reprisal. 1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 135: Mother fucker… Positive, complimentary name for a friend—e.g., Hey, mother fucker, what’s happening? 1971 in S. D. Horwitt Let Them Call Me Rebel 4 [refers to 1930s]: Pretty soon word of the incident spread throughout the gang. “That Alinsky, he’s an all-right motherfucker,” the kids would say, and… they began to trust me. 1971 J. Cheever in Letters (1988) 284: A puertorican drug-pusher…exclaimed: “Oh what a cool motherfucker was that Machiavelli.” 1972 in W. King Black Anthology 101: Joe was a motherfucker. A revolutionary motherfucker. A black man made of steel iron. 1973 J.R. Coleman Blue-Collar 62: A word like “motherfucker” here is often just a synonym for man, no more and no less. (“Who’s that new motherfucker over there?” or “I told the motherfucker we’d pick up him and his bitch at eight.”) 1973 L. Bangs Canned Heat in Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste (2003) 37: Vestine was an incredible, scorching motherfucker of a guitarist, knocking you through the wall. 1973 R. Roth Sand in Wind 154: Hey, motherfuckers, look at this. Ibid. 438: I’ve met some of the best motherfuckers I’ve ever known in the [Marine Corps]. 1972–74 H. Hawes & D. Asher Raise Up off Me 3 [refers to 1930s]: Anybody who looked good was automatically a motherfucker. Ibid. 98: We…talked about Debussy and Bach and what bad motherfuckers those cats were hundreds of years ago. 1974 L. A. Lacy Native Daughter 108: Fine…nice legs…tall…would be a motherfucker if she didn’t talk so much. 1974 V.E. Smith Jones Men 156: I’m just as cool as the next motherfucker. 1977 L. Jordan Hype 44: “C’mere, you little motherfucker,” he said tenderly, reaching for her. 1978 B. Johnson What’s Happenin’? 57: Once I figured out that a “bad mother-fucker” was an all-right dude, I at least had a shot at communicating. 1978 W. Strieber Wolfen 127: You the scaredest motherfucker I’ve seen in a good long while. a1983 J. Baugh Black Street Speech 24: See, like if a brother gets on my case I can tell blood, “Hey motherfucker, you can kiss my ass,” and the brother can…take it in stride—cause he know where I’m comin from. But you can’t be tellin no white dude that. 1987 D. Sherman Main Force 96 [refers to 1966]: “That bad out there, huh?” “Worse, except we’re the baddest mother-fuckers in the valley.” 1984–88 D. Hackworth & J. Sherman About Face 510 [refers to Vietnam War]: In the Airborne, the term “motherfucker,” unless spoken harshly, was among the highest terms of endearment. 1993 Face (Sept.) 141/1: Ice-T recorded an as yet unre-leased version of Sly Stone’s “Don’t Call Me Nigger Whitey” with Perry Farell, who he calls “the ultimate cool motherfucker.” 2003 A. Swofford Jarhead 25: He’s an all right motherfucker.… He’s all right for a reporter.

2.a. an infuriating, hateful, or oppressive thing, difficult task, etc.; (broadly) a thing.

1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 345: You know what the mother-fugger’ll be like?…We’ll be lucky to get out of there with our goddam heads on. 1960 J. Peacock Valhalla ch. iv: “I’ll get the motherfuckers [beer cans],” Dallas offered. 1962 B. Jackson In the Life 156: Oh, life’s a motherfucker, Bruce. 1962 T. Berger Reinhart 386: Let me run that big motherfu—. 1967–68 N. von Hoffman We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against 98: The street is a rough motherfucker. 1969 Playboy (Dec.) 290: Let’s burn this motherfucker down. 1973 E. Jong Fear of Flying 4: So I keep concentrating very hard, helping the pilot…fly the 250-passenger motherfucker. 1974 D. Goines Daddy Cool ix. 115: Damn, baby…whose goddamn poolroom is this anyway? To listen to him talk, you’d think he owned the motherfucker! 1975 N. De Mille Smack Man 108: What a motherfucker that’s going to be, given the rules of evidence in this state. 1978 S. King Stand 84: Eight milkshakes (why…had he bought eight of the mother-fuckers?) 1981 L. Heinemann in Harper’s (Aug.) 58: The whole company… caught some mean kind of shit and every swinging dick but him bought the motherfucker. 1981 National Lampoon (July) 16: Being 7’4” is a motherfucker. 1981 Penthouse (Mar.) 174: Heroin is…an insidious motherfucker. 1982 B. Downey Uncle Sam Must be Losing the War 23 [refers to WWII]: Some of them… cussed their native state for being a “prejudiced motherfucker.” 1991 J. Lamar Bourgeois Blues 32: I knew how to make those motherfuckers gleam. 1993 K. Scott Monster 163: The threat of being in prison for life was a muthafucka. 2005 “Noire” Candy Licker xxiii. 241: He tossed me a pair of sunglasses.… “Put these motherfuckers on and make sure you don’t take ’em off.”

b. an infuriating or surprising situation or state of affairs.

1968 in B. Edelman Dear America 81: Sometimes it gets pretty hairy in this motherfucker. 1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 135: Mother fucker… Hard-to-solve problem; rough situation. 1976 R. E. Chinn Dig the Nigger Up 61: Now ain’t this a muthafucker! 1981 W. T. Hathaway World of Hurt 14: This is the dumbest motherfucker I ever been in. 1987 J. Ferrandino Firefight 98: I don’t want to die in this miserable mother-fucker. 1989 Z. Chafets Devil’s Night 44: We’ll probably never solve the motherfucker. 1989 S. Robinson & D. Ritz Smokey 78: We’re going to remember this motherfucker…’cause I don’t intend to let it happen again. 1994 T. Woods True to Game xiii. 152: Where’s Bridgette, ’cause she could get her ass kicked next up in this motherfucker.

c. an impressive or outstanding thing; humdinger.

1977 National Lampoon (Aug.) 33: Have I got a motherfucker of a stunt for you! 1981 C. M. Brown in Black Scholar (Sept./Oct.) 8/2: They got some skies in Africa that are a motherfucker, man! 2001 Village Voice (May 22) 124/1: The Berkeley quartet opened its set jamming and vamping… From then on it was a motherfucker; nothing like the current wave of junior Black Sabbaths and Blue Cheers trudging through the low end.

3. (used as an indefinite standard of comparison).

1962 in D. Wepman et al. The Life (1976) 139: I just come back.… Mad as a motherfucker. 1962 V. Riccio & B. Slocum All the Way Down 149: Something new has been added…the letters LAMF under a personal name or a gang name.… It means “Like A Mother Fucker,” and it’s supposed to suggest to all who read it that the person or the gang…is rough and tough and hell-bent for war or what may come. 1966–67 P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets 160: He went limper’n a motherfucker. 1973 J. E. Wideman Lynchers 39: It be dark as a muthafucka. 1975 S.P. Smith American Boys 100: LaMont was [running] like fifty motherfuckers. 1976 R. Telander Heaven is Playground (1995) 170: Who wants to go to college?.… Where’s the talent? A strong finish. I’m losing my voice. The phone never stops ringing, coaches, high schools, prep schools, colleges. I’m closing like a motherfucker!’ 1990 E. W. Rukuza West Coast Turnaround 39: It was raining like six motherfuckers. 1991 J. Singleton Boyz N the Hood (film): This fool got more comics than a motherfucker.

In phrases:

beans and motherfuckers, Military. a C-ration portion of lima beans and ham.

1980 M. Baker Nam 11: I’m not going to say he had cold beans and motherfuckers for breakfast. Ibid. 320: Beans and motherfuckers—C-ration delicacy composed of lima beans and ham. 1990 G.R. Clark Words of Vietnam War 52: Beans-and-Motherfuckers (Ham and Lima Beans). 1991 L. Reinberg In the Field: Beans and motherfuckers, slang for unpopular C-ration lima beans and ham. 2004 C. Burke Camp All-American 111: Soldiers in Vietnam complained about the food they were served: the “beans and baby dicks” (beans and franks), the “beans and motherfuckers” (lima beans and ham). 2004 L. Reardon Mercy Killers 86: He eats that nasty beans and motherfuckers like it’s steak and eggs.

bends and motherfuckers, Military. calisthenic squats and thrusts.

1980 M. Baker Nam 39 [refers to ca1970]: You look like shit, so we’re going to do a little PT now. Bends and motherfuckers. Many, many, many of them. Ibid. 320: Bends and motherfuckers: the squat-thrust exercise. 1990 G.R. Clark Words of Vietnam War 55: Bends-and-Motherfuckers… squat-thrust exercises. ca2000 J. DiFusco et al. Tracers (rev. ed) 56: Bends and motherfuckers—cadence count—one hundred repetitions. Ready. Exercise. (The five begin doing squat thrusts, counting off.)

ham and motherfuckers, Military. a C-ration portion of canned ham and lima beans.

1973 McA. Layne How Audie Murphy Died in Vietnam (unpaged): Packaged into the 1942 C-ration case.… Ham & little muther fahckers,/Affectionately called,/Ham/&/Mutha’s. 1980 J. DiFusco et al. Tracers 41 [refers to Vietnam War]: I haven’t got anything left except some ham and motherfuckers, man. 1982 E. Leonard Cat Chaser 76: Ham and lima beans: ham and motherfuckers. 1987 “J. Hawkins” Tunnel Warriors 332 [refers to Vietnam War]: Ham & Motherfuckers. C-rations serving of ham and lima beans. 1988 M. Clodfelter Mad Minutes 258 [refers to 1966]: Cans of “ham and mother fuckers” (ham and lima beans). a1989 C.S. Crawford Four Deuces 107 [refers to Korean War]: Ham and lima beans… was considered to be one of the good rations even though we called them “ham and motherfuckers.” 1990 E. M. Helms Proud Bastards 125: I think I’ve got a sudden craving for ham and motherfuckers. 2008 J. C. McManus 7th Infanry Regiment 70: Ham and lima beans (always referred to as “ham and motherfuckers”).

motherfucker interjection

(used to express astonishment, anger, etc.).

1968 Nation (Dec. 2) 595: I said how come you din’ sing the National Anthem?…Motherfucker!…You a bunch of jive motherfuckers. 1974 L.D. Miller Valiant 21 [refers to WWII]: Mudderfucker!… I’m hit! 1985 D. Bodey F.N.G. 144: Muthafucker, can this be? 1988 J. Norst Colors x. 138: But the pain only incensed Hightop, rejuvenated his awesome wired strength. Motherfucker! Motherfucker! 2008 J. Picoult Change of Heart 56: Calloway sank down to the floor of his cell, cradling the dead bird. “Motherfucker. Motherfucker.”

motherfucking interjection & infix

(used for emphasis). [The 1962–63 quotation is euphemistic.]

1962–63 K. Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion 7: How do you expect any-motherkilling-one to know Hank Stamper’s reasons? 1967 G. Ragni & J. Rado Hair 154: Yeah! Emanci-motherfuckin’-pator of the slave. 1977 E. Torres Q & A 54: Motherfuckin’-A right. 1987 J. Ferrandino Firefight 124: Just hats up and dismotherfuckinappears. 1999 D. Century Street Kingdom ii. 77: I’m gettin’ ready to go up north my-muthafuckin’-self!

motherfucking adjective & adverb

1. goddamned; FUCKING.

1889 Texas Court of Appeals Report (1890) XXVIII 206: According to Sumner, he spoke of defendant as “that God damned lying, thieving son-of-a-bitch”;…and according to McKinney, as “that God damned mother-f—cking, bastardly son-of-a-bitch!” 1898 Texas Criminal Reports XXXVII 22: You are instructed, that if prior to the shooting of deceased by defendant, the deceased called the defendant a “mother-fucking son-of-a-bitch,” and the defendant…shot and killed the deceased, then you are instructed, in such a case, the defendant could not be guilty of a higher offense than manslaughter, if guilty of anything. 1933 J. O’Hara Appointment in Samarra 154: Why, you small-time chiseling bastard, you. You dirty mother—bastard. [1933 J. Conroy Disinherited 30: Scab! Scab! O,you bloody mother-killin’bastards! O,you lowdown sons of bitches!] 1936 M. Levin Old Bunch 122: Listen, you mother-f—little runt, if you don’t—. 1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead 12: Of all the mother-fuggin luck, that sonofabitch takes it all. Ibid. 400: That’s the mother-fuggin’ truth. [1948 W. Manone & P. Vandervoort Trumpet on the Wing 131: If I hurt your beat-out feelings, I beg your mother-robbin’ pardon.] 1951 J. Jones Face of War 62: Mother fuggin’ bastards. 1951 J. Kerouac Visions of Cody 119: I read every WORD of that motherfuckin thing. 1953–55 MacK. Kantor Andersonville 524: Mother-fucking old Yankee mudsills. [1957 T.H. White Mountain Road 21: The next guy doesn’t know a mother-frigging thing about it.] 1958 T. Berger Crazy in Berlin 168 [refers to WWII]: A Southerner or a Negro, passing on the sidewalk out front, described to a mute companion a succession of events that were invariably mothafuhn. 1961 in C. Himes Black on Black 69: I’ll cut your motherfucking throat. 1961 G. Forbes Goodbye to Some 128 [refers to WWII]: You ain’t home with you mother-fuckin’ mother! [1963–64 K. Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion 7: The whole motherkilling agreement.] 1965 S. Linakis In Spring the War Ended 75: He’s a mother-fuckin’ liar. 1962–65 R. Giallombardo Society of Women 49: She said…“I’m not showing you a mother—’ thing.” 1965 C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land 140: I’m gon bust your mother-fuckin’ ass. 1966–67 P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets 129: They don’t come no motherfuckin’ better. 1967 W. Crawford Gresham’s War 161: You motherhunching son of a hounddog whore. 1967 W. Stevens Gunner 231: It was that motherfucking Ploesti that reached up and tore his ass apart. 1964–69 in S. Calt Rather Be Devil 57 [refers to ca1919]: The guys…wouldn’t say: “Pass me such and such a thing, if they wanted a big pan of meat or biscuits or rice.… They said, “Let such-and-such a thing walk up that motherfuckin’ table.” 1970 J. Neary Julian Bond: Black Rebel 174: Mayor Richard J. Daley yelled “Get that motherfucking Jew out of here!” at United States Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. 1977 T. Jones Incredible Voyage 284: But you tell that mother-fucking chief, Manco Quispe, I want a clan meeting right now. 1986 P. Welsh Tales Out of School 64: [The pupils] lapse into street dialect, saying “be” for “are,” “mines” for “mine” and of course the ubiquitous adjective “mother-f—.” 1989 S. Robinson & D. Ritz Smokey 42: This is my motherfucking house and I’m gonna live here and no one’s gonna stop me. 1993 New Yorker (Feb. 8) 35: Motherfucking cockroach. 1993 J. Mowry Six out Seven ii. i. 272: It cause of what Bates say to you! That…that bullshit! That cock-suckin motherfuckin liar!

2. (used to emphasize the positive qualities of a following noun).

1954 in D. Wepman et al. The Life (1976) 42: I love him madly, he’s my motherfucking man. 1961 R. Gover $100 Misunderstanding 95: Tee vee man talkin up a mothahfuggin storm! 1973 J. Flaherty Fogarty & Co. 157: What a motherfucking man he was, Shamus! 1978 R. Andrews Appalachee Red (1987) 254: From Carolina to Alabama to Mississippi back to Alabama to here, home sweet motherfucking home! a1990 in M. Costello & D. F. Wallace Signifying Rappers 79: I shoulda kicked your ass/My-motherfuckin-self. 1991 C. E. Faupel Shooting Dope 75: Hey man, let’s go get us some good motherfucking dope. 2000 Village Voice (Jan. 18)107/2: Damn girl! Look at that motherfucking ass! Whatup baby! You see that ass on her? Talk about stopping traffic. 2003 “Zoe Trope” Please Don’t Kill the Freshman 76: My beautiful fantastic motherfucking cocksucking brilliant queer.

mothergrabber noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER.

1963 in J. Blake Joint 357: You set me up, mother-grabber. 1966 I. Reed Pall-Bearers 34: Goofy mother-grabber! 1968 H. Sackler Great White Hope I. 46: Ellie. (With Negro inflection.) You slimy two-bit no-dick mothergrabber. 1994 A. D. Foster in Impossible Places (2002) 101: You lazy good-for-nuthin’ orbitin’ mothergrabber!

mother-grabbing adjective

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKING.

1953–58 J. C. Holmes Horn 68: Those mother-grabbin’ slacks… were full of seeds! 1961 J. Jones Thin Red Line 60: He’s a jerkoff. A goddam mother-grabbing jerkoff. 1961 T. Williams Night of the Iguana in Three by Tennessee (1976) 95: Oh, my God, the money. They haven’t paid the mother-grabbin’ bill. 1962 R. Serling New Stories 67: Are you out of your mothergrab-bing mind? 1971 Playboy (Mar.) 92: “Out of your mother-grabbing mind,” Joanne said. 1990 M. Newton Blood Sport 134: “Life’s hard,” Flynn said. “Ain’t that the mother-grabbin’ truth?”

motherhumper noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER.

[1959 A. Anderson Lover Man 52: There’s a bad mother-hubber/Down the road a way.] 1963 T. Doulis Path for our Valor 81: Death, I think, you mother-humper. 1967 D. Ford Incident at Muc Wa 133: “C’mon, you mother-humpers!” Ski yelled at his Raiders. 1970 J. Grissim Country Music 281: Anybody that can follow me is a motha-humper. And they ain’t many that can do it.… I’m a violent motha-humper today. Don’t nobody fool with me or I’ll kill! 1972 National Lampoon (Sept.) 6: There are fourteen fuck you’s, nine cocksucker’s, and six mother-humper’s left over. 1986 J. C. Stinson & J. Carabatsos Heartbreak Ridge 77: Let’s smoke this motherhumper’s ass. 2000 L. Brown Fay 423: He was toting one motherhumper of a buzz. 2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand lxxiv. 395: By my lights, he’s a mean motherhumper. Probably gargles with antifreeze and flosses with razor blades. 2006 Men’s Health (July/Aug.) 118/1: “I’ll mess him up so bad he’ll have to eat through a straw!… I’ll sue the motherhumper!” says the chairman, although maybe not with those exact words.

mother-humping adjective

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKING.

1949 D. Alman World Full of Strangers 54: I’ll fatigue you, you mother-humpin’ little bastard! 1961 R. Gover $100 Misunderstanding 19: He kin hardly git his mothahhumpin hands roun that wad! 1963 T. Doulis Path for our Valor 80: Why, that no-good, sneaky, mother-humpin’ rebel. 1964 H. Rhodes Chosen Few 99 [refers to ca1950]: That mother-humpin’ fuckoff wanted satisfaction! 1964 in R. Gover Trilogy 215: Right inta this mothah-humpin lounge. 1968 W. Crawford Gresham’s War 197: Motherhumping cowards. 1969 C. Brown Life & Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger 20: Like, it’s none of their motherhumping business, right? 1970 D. Quammen To Walk the Line 86: I thought we been fittin’ to make it to a gray jam, not do a suicide mission with some mother-humping cage-case. 1986 J. C. Stinson & J. Carabatsos Heartbreak Ridge 163: Friggin’ motherhumpin’ Highway. 1990 J. E. Wideman Philadelphia Fire 122: This mother-humping play can’t end no oder way. 1998 B. Bova Moonwar 391: We got a damned good chance of still being out here and getting fried to a crisp by the mother-humpin’ nuke. 2000 P. Kerr Mañana Mañana (2003) 114: “Mother-humpin’ faggot!” a raucous voice behind me shouted out.

mothering adjective & adverb

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKING.

1951 J. Blake Letter (June 21) in Joint (1972) 21: He said if the motherin’ screw ever caught up to us, he’d wish he hadn’t. 1956 N. Algren A Walk on the Wild Side 160: His whole life he ain’t worked one single mothering day! 1957 E. Brown Locust Fire 95 [refers to 1944]: No more mothering flying. Well, hucklety buck. I don’t give a one. 1959 W. Miller Cool World 15: Why shitman them Colts is the same motheren piece they was usen at Cussers Last Stan. Ibid. 37: Them headbreakers. Motheren headbreakers. 1959 in H. Ellison Sex Misspelled 103: You try my mutherin’ patience. 1961 R. Russell Sound 31: You’re too motherin’ much, man. 1962 V. Riccio & B. Slocum All the Way Down 43: We’ll show these mothern bastards. 1963–64 K. Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion 210: I feel…pretty motherin’ good. 1965 P. Matthiessen At Play in the Fields of the Lord 37: Them poor mothering Indians. 1966–67 W. Stevens Gunner 56: They got some motherin big idea. 1968 Saturday Evening Post (Sept. 16) 27: I hope you have four motherin’ flat tires. ca1969 D. Rabe Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel 26: You ain’t no motherin’ exception to that whistle! 1975 Black World (June) 75: Not that motherin day. 1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 100: We are one hundred percent spent, but we seem actually to have weathered this mothering storm. 2005 J. MacGregor Sunday Money xii. 310: But then the misery index was high all the way around this weekend, hot and humid as gumbo.… On Sunday six cars with Hendrick engines blew up in that mothering funk.

mother-jumper noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER.

1949 H. Ellson Tomboy 5: It was that no good mother-jumper that owns the store. 1952 H. Ellson Golden Spike 22: What mother-jumpers you been listening to? Ibid. 40: Let’s kill that mother-jumper! 1955 H. Ellson Rock 121: I hit for the candy store then, mad as a mother-jumper. 1957 L. Margulies Young Punks 43: But this motherjumper is a white stud. 1963–64 K. Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion 334: I thought…the mother-jumper wasn’t even gonna. 1965 A. Borowik Lions 3, Christians 0 155: Yessir, you motherjumper, you’ll be laughing outa the other side of your mouth when the cops come for you. 1966 R. Fariña Been Down So Long 120: You old benevolent motherjumper, I love you! [1966–67 P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets 91: I hate all you white motherjumps.] 1970 W. C. Woods Killing Zone 88: He used to be a sad mother jumper. 1977 J. Wylie Homestead Grays 242: He was as quick as a motherjumper. 1977 M. Butler & D. Shryack Gauntlet 130: All right, you mother-jumpers. 1988 R. McKnight Moustapha’s Eclipse 15: I really don’t believe this motherjumper works. 2003 D. Hamill Sins of Two Fathers 358: I’ll kill him.… I’m washing dishes for a mother jumper who knocked up my kid sister! I’ll kill him!

mother-jumping adjective

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKING.

1942 K. Fearing Clark Gifford’s Body 215: You mother-jumping cockroach. I’ll cut the heart out of your breast and eat it with my bare hands. 1952 H. Ellson Golden Spike 19: You mother-jumping thief! 1961 R. Gover $100 Misunderstanding 35: He sit up like a mothah jumpin jack-in-a-box. 1962 P. Crump Burn, Killer, Burn 163: You’re a mother-jumping coward. 1963–64 K. Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion 209: And good motherjumpin’ riddance. 1969 in E. G. Romm Open Conspiracy 138: Fucking sonofabitch Fascist mother jumping cops! 1980 E. McDowell To Keep Our Honor Clean 156: Sanders, you seem to think you’re running this mother-jumping platoon, only it’s about time you learned differently. 1983 M. S. Bell Washington Square Ensemble 155: The dealer calls me a motherjumping guinea. 1992 B. Gifford Night People 96: That wife of his made him too mother-jumpin’ certain, and that’s no good. 2001 R. Green & M. Burgess To Save Us All from Satan’s Power in Sopranos (HBO-TV) (Apr. 29): It’s a great mother-jumping lyric, Jan.

motherlover noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER.

1950 L. Brown Iron City 69: And as for that mother-lover—. 1954 E. Hunter Runaway Black 18: You broke the mother-lover. 1955 R. Graziano & R. Barber Somebody Up There Likes Me 215: “Stand straight, you little mother-lover,” he says. 1963 L. Cameron Black Camp 63 [refers to WWII]: On your feet, motherlover! 1996 G. Phillips Perdition, U.S.A. 75: All you motherlovers drop to the ground on your knees. Now. 2001 M. Azerrad Our Band Could be Your Life xii. 445: Mudhoney are geeky motherlovers, all matchstick arms and legs and horn-rimmed glasses and small bottoms and boyish fun.

motherloving adjective

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKING.

1951 “W. Williams” Enemy 149: Oh, those foggers. Those mother-loving foggers. 1954 B. Schulberg On the Waterfront 308: You’re a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin’, mother-lovin’ bastard. 1955 J. Klaas Maybe I’m Dead 36: The dirty mother-loving bastards. 1955 “E. Hunter” Jungle Kids 103: He didn’t get out of that mother-lovin’ cellar. 1957 Laurents & Sondheim West Side Story 145: On the whole! Ever—! Mother—! Lovin’—! Street! 1959 G. Morrill Dark Sea Running 88: Don’t be so mother-lovin’ nosy. 1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 16: That’s a smooth mother-loving curve you throwing. 1968 J. D. Spooner Three Cheers for War in General 53: We got ourselves a mother lovin’ home. 1972 N.Y. Times (Feb. 6) 19: His one indulgence: a St. Bernard weighing 260 mother-lovin’ pounds. 1975 Atlantic (May) 43: I’m the Paul mother-lovin Bunyan of the Interstate system. 1983 W. Prochnau Trinity’s Child 154: He switched to the intercom and radioed downstairs: “Keep your mother-lovin’ eyes peeled down there.” 1991 Creem (Apr.–May) 108/1: Some mother-loving hi-fi crankatron that will make strong men weak with envy. 2000 New York Magazine (Dec. 18) 18: Has John Simon gone off the mother-loving deep end? Making theatergoing plans based on his reviews has always been akin to asking your crazy uncle Abe for hygiene tips, but Simon has outdone himself in his review of Comic Potential. 2003 T. Carson Gilligan’s Wake 74: At ease, down boy, and hello sailor, which oughta cover pretty much every mother-lovin’ one of you.

mother-raper noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER.

1959 C. Himes Crazy Kill v. 27: Turn me loose, you mother-rapers! He’s my brother and some mother-raper’s going to pay—. 1965 C. Himes Imabelle 92: Mother-raper, step on it! Ibid. 127: I bled that mother-raper like a boar hog. 1989 R. Miller Profane Men 62: I didn’t even read that mother raper. 1991 M. Jacobson Gojiro 186: Gojiro turned on the Dish and saw that grinning moron of a presidential candidate stealing his best line.… How the monster longed to make that mother-raper’s day—it figured that the thick electorate fell for his act. 2000 R. Skinner Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting 278: Now, you pissant mother-raper.… You and me goin’ for a li’l ride and you’re gonna show me where the money is.

mother-raping adjective

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKING.

1932 E. Halyburton & R. Goll Shoot & Be Damned 306 [refers to 1918]: When I talked to you mother-raping sewer rats at roll call I thought you were Americans. 1959 C. Himes Crazy Kill 57: I ain’t given Dulcy any mother-raping knife. 1960 D. MacCuish Do Not Go Gentle 191 [refers to WWII]: An’ that queer’s really a first-class A-1 mother-rapin’ gutless wonder of a horse’s ass! 1962 S. Brent Seven Stairs (1989) 11: You mother-raping bastard, I’ll cut your throat! 1965 C. Himes Imabelle 67: Leave me see that mother-rapin’ roll. Ibid. 122: Let’s take the mother-raping hearse, too. 1972 C. Gaines Stay Hungry 213: The last motharapin straw, Newton called it. 2002 R. Marcinko Violence of Action 16: You’d best expect the mother-raping bastards to die and die damned hard where I find them.

motorcycle noun

(a jocular euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER.—usually used with bad.

1938 in P. Oliver Blues Tradition 235: Ridin’ Dirty Motorsickle…He’s a dirty motor-cycle. 1967 H. Lit Dictionary 2: Bad motorcycle—One who is very sharp, cool, hip, and gets what he wants but, this type of cat is also a little sneaky tricky. 1973 Oui (Feb.) 38: She’s a bad motorcycle. 1985 J. T. Heywood Taxi Dancer 92: We got us a bad motor-cycle this mornin’, gents.

motor flicker noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER.

1967 in Trans-action VI (Feb. 1969) 33: This black slick head motor flicker. 1974 S. Stevens Rat Pack 39: Lookit what says black, you funky motorflikker nigger. 1975 B. Silverstein & R. Krate Dark Ghetto 107 [refers to ca1965]: This black slick head motor flicker got nerve ’nough to call somebody “fat head.”

motor scooter noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER.—usually used with bad. Cf. earlier MOTORCYCLE.

1960 D. Frazier Alley-Oop (pop. song): A mean motor scooter and a bad go-getter. 1974 R. Carter 16th Round 168: Some real bad motor-scooters!… Some bad motherfuckers! 1986 D. Tate Bravo Burning 44: Called “a darn great soldier” by Captain Billy Wilson, “a bad motor scooter” by others—in admiration. 2004 Fantasy & Science Fiction (Dec.) 123/2: Riddick is the last surviving Furyan, a race of bad motor scooters who were thoroughly Necromongered some time back, but put up one hell of a fight.

mouth fuck noun

an act of MOUTH-FUCKING.

ca1866 Romance of Lust 447: Finishing off with a mouth fuck from one or the other, and a double gamahuche. 1975 S. West Blow Boy 146: Seven mouth-fucks on a slow week wasn’t my idea of salvation. 2000 R. Gordon Sexual Service 40: Blond eyed her pink tongue peeping between her succulent lips. “How about a mouth fuck?” 2007 “Noire” Thong on Fire 155: Free was really moaning now, going from some short tight humps to a straight-out mouth fuck.

mouth-fuck verb

to thrust the penis into (a person’s) mouth; (also) to vigorously perform fellatio on.

1966 A. Wainhouse & R. Seaver trans. Marquis de Sade 120 Days of Sodom in 120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings 673: The man who mouth-fucks the little girl prostituted by her father is the same man…who fucks with a dirty prick. 1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 89: [Fuck] in the face…mouth fucking…as opposed to cocksucking. 1975 M. Amis Dead Babies (1991) 113: “Have Lucy last night?” “Nah—Just let her mouth-fuck me.” 1976 “Studs” Creative Head 39: He mouthfucked her in earnest, slapping his hairy crotch against her face. 1978 L. Kramer Faggots 72: Holding…his hand while mouth-fucking the impaled acolyte. 1979 C. Keller Subway Orgy 78: She concentrated on the stiff rod in her mouth and kept on sucking and mouth-fucking the kidnapper. 1981 Penthouse (Apr.) 196: She popped my purple glans into her mouth.… Then she began mouth-fucking me rapidly. 1998 Taxi!, pornographic story on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories (Oct. 26): I take his glans in my mouth.… Covering my teeth with my lips, I mouth-fuck him vindictively. Tender isn’t what’s required. 2005 M. Christakos Sooner 120: She mouthfucked and assfucked and swam in the nude. 2007 “Noire” Hood 234: He slid his hands up and held her head like it was an ass, then mouth-fucked her standing up.

muck verb

(used as a euphemism for FUCK in various figurative senses). See also MUCK UP. [Perhaps originally suggested by mess (around), but the rhyme with FUCK has ultimately given the word the euphemistic quality with which it is now used.]

a1890–96 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang & Its Analogues VI 372: To muck about.… To fondle; to mess about. 1896 R. Kipling in Oxford English Dictionary: Our Colonel…mucks about in ’orspital. 1928 in Oxford English Dictionary Supplement: His art…[is] the one thing a genuine artist won’t muck about with. 1929 R. Aldington Death of a Hero III. x. 376: Spree be mucked—one of you ** fired his rifle and muckin’ near copped me. 1936 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English: Muck!, mucker, mucking, have from ca. 1915 represented f**k!, etc. 1940 E. Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls 369: You’re just mucked.… Muck this whole treacherous muck-faced mucking country. 1950 E. Hemingway Across River 58: Now muck off. 1950 in H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang: Too many bones mucking about. 1958 T. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s 8: You got to be rich to go mucking around in Africa. 1961 Time (Jan. 27) 57: There is one in every outfit—the sniveling, creepy little muckup who not only fails to pull his weight but manages to add it to the load carried by others. 1982 N.Y. Times IV E19: Muck around with us and you’ll reap the typhoon—unless you have H-bombs, rockets [etc.]. 1990 Future Watch (CNN-TV) (Aug. 18): I want to muck with real astrophysics.

muck up verb

to botch; spoil; ruin; FUCK UP. [Perhaps originally suggested by mess up, but now always regarded as a euphemism for FUCK UP.]

1886 (cited in E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English). 1922 in Oxford English Dictionary Supplement: You seem to have pretty well mucked it up. 1949 Saturday Evening Post (Oct. 8) 125: That does make it bad, doesn’t it? Makes a pair of us mucking things up. 1951 N.Y. Times (July 22) I 11: The Iranians had always done something to “muck things up.” 1954–60 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang: Muck up…= fuck up, a euphem. 1967–68 N. von Hoffman We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against 91: We need the tourists even if they may have mucked up the Haight. 1968 C. Victor Sky Burned 44: The squad would probably muck up the mission on top of it. 1982 N.Y. Times (Mar. 25) D2: You mucked it all up, gang. 1987 D. Mamet House of Games (film): You’re mucking up my timing. 1988 Newsday (N.Y.) (June 20) II 6: By the mid-70’s, Thompson…had already mucked up nicely. 1994 New Republic (Nov. 28) 56: Francis Ford Coppola… has been mucking up his own career lately. 1996 Dr. Katz (Comedy Central TV): Dad, please. Don’t muck it up with conversation!

muh fuh noun

(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER.

1969 B. Beckham Main Mother 148: Where you muh fuhs from? 1972 B. Beckham Runner Mack 186: We’re taking over, muhfuh. 1974 Black World (June) 72/2: “Okay, muhfuh, gimme whatchu got.” The voice was low and even. 1975 Black World (Jan.) 57: Get out of here, you muh-fuh! 1980 H. Gould Fort Apache 81: Hey, muh fuh, I ain’t no junkie. 1994 Vibe (Aug.) 108/2: If you want to hear jazz the way they probably swing to it on the rings of Saturn, you need to check in with brother Taylor. Loop this, muhfuhs!!! 2003 Village Voice (Oct. 1) 84/1: Verbal panache and… funk we once snootily considered the sole province of us uppity uncouth cosmopolite muhfuhs.

muscle-fuck noun

1. an act of rubbing the penis between a woman’s breasts.

1974 (quotation at FRENCH FUCK). 1992 Playboy (July) 37: Sex quiz… Been involved in breast fucking (a.k.a. the Hawaiian muscle fuck)?

2. sexual intercourse in which the woman aggressively contracts her vaginal muscles as a means of stimulation. Also as verb.

1977 Vermont student: A muscle-fuck is one where the Jane can contract the muscles in her vagina. It can drive you up the wall. I heard about muscle-fucks in the marines. 1991 N. Friday Women on Top 168: In the early 1980s a man wrote to me asking if I’d ever heard of a “muscle fuck.” He knew of a young woman on his college campus who had developed the talent of painfully fucking a man dry by using her vaginal muscles and thighs; the word on campus was that she was tired of macho studs and had developed her muscle fuck as revenge. 2001 in C. Taylor Brown Sugar 116: Just stopped, altogether, and muscle fucked me, contracting and relaxing while I grew inside her, harder, longer. 2005 W. Christie Threat Level 145: First time I got muscle-fucked, I almost married the girl right then and there.… She had an act. Slipped a banana right into her pussy and it came out sliced.

N

NFG adjective

1. [elaboration of earlier N.G. ‘no good’; compare earlier (1903 in OED3) N.B.G. ‘no bloody good’] “no fucking good.” Also as interjection.

1945 in Verbatim (Autumn, 1989) 6: NFG…Abbrev. for no fxxxn’ good.… An individual, situation or state without any redeeming features; hopeless, incompetent, utterly worthless: I’m NFG before my coffee in the morning. 1977 E. Torres Q&A 162: He’s…N.F.G., with the oak leaf cluster. 1988 T. Logan Harder They Fall 106: N.F.G.! Start grouping your shots.… Like this. 1990 G.R. Clark Words of Vietnam War 356: NFG…no-fuckin’-good. 1991 S. Fry Liar xii. 332: The other half, which the Hungoes got ahold of this afternoon, is n.f.g. without the book of words that you have so cunningly kept clasped to your sagging bosom. 2000 A. H. Vachss Dead & Gone 33: No matter how I played it out, it came up NFG all the way.

2. Army. = FNG.

1992 D. R. Rodrique Heading Home 152 [refers to Vietnam War]: “You’re just one more N.F.G.” “An N.F.G.” “New Fucking Guy; a cherry.”

NFW interjection

“no fucking way.”

1974 J. Mills One Just Man 125: Just NFW. No fuckin’ way. 1987 Wall St. Journal (Oct. 26): “N.F.W.” Loosely translated: “No Feasible Way.” 1993 S. Manes & P. Andrews Gates 238: On the way up to Seattle, Hanson had been thinking “NFW. No way am I going to take this job.” 2006 B. A. Masters Spoiling for a Fight 83: “imho” = “in my humble opinion” and “nfw” for an unprintable expletive.

O

OMFG interjection

“Oh My Fucking God.”

1997 Re: Favorite Anime Character on Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.anime. misc (Apr. 7): If you don’t get impressed by the harem and the OMFG plotlines, this is a snoozer. 2002 Thrasher (Nov. 1) 172: The Ice Age hit and survival of the fittest let the young ’uns pass on through. Can’t fight evolution. New Found Glory! OMFG! 2005 New York Magazine (July 4) 79/1: But then, as the kids themselves might say: OMFG. 2008 (caption of advertising poster for Gossip Girls (CW TV), featuring teenagers in sexually provocative poses): OMFG.

P

Philadelphia rat fuck noun

see under RAT-FUCK, noun, definition 4.

pigfuck noun

1. = PIG-FUCKER noun, definition 1.

1970 in Fire! Reports from the Underground Press 14: You too, you racist pig-fuck with your star badge and your crippled trigger mind. 1990 P. Monette in G. Stambolian Men on Men 3: Best New Gay Fiction 25: Nevertheless, the last thing I will do is acknowledge Jerry Curran, the pigfuck who rode shotgun through my brother’s arrogant youth. 2003 A. Swofford Jarhead 200: I turn against my brother, and I insult the U.S. Army and any pigfuck who would join such a shitpoor organization. 2003 T. Carson Gilligan’s Wake 219: No I did not you pigfuck bastard shitass fucker.

2. a genre of music, associated with the late 1980s and typically regarded as an outgrowth of punk and a precursor to grunge, characterized by a gritty, noisy sound.

1989 Sound Choice (Autumn) 87/1: This LP packs a wallop…and keeps the noise/pigfuck crown firmly entrenched on Trench ‘N’ Go’s mantle. 2001 Terrorizer (Sept.) 68/4: Good ol’ American pigfuck—politely known as noise rock—nearly fell of the map in the late 90’s, as the once-mighty Amphetamine Reptile label fizzled out and took its influence with it. 2001 M. Azerrad Our Band could be your Life xi. 402: They didn’t socialize with the SST bands or the so-called “pigfuck” bands on Homestead and Touch & Go. 2005 New Yorker (Apr. 11) 80/1: Slint and Slaughterhouse had roots in a subgenre of nineteen-eighties independent rock which was sometimes called “pig-fuck” by the music press.

3. a confused or disappointing situation or state of affairs.

1998 B. J. Nelson Keepers 200: The car ahead finally careened from the road… Acne and Toothy were looking back, throwing the finger. What a pigfuck. 2001 M. Wynne No Other Option 247: It’s a pigfuck. FUBAR from start to finish. 2007 R. Leleux Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy 5: “Pig Fuck” was Mother’s phrase for the absolute nadir of something.… So when Daddy left, taking Nana and Papa’s money with him, Mother and I quickly realized we were nouveau poor. Which was the pig fuck of all time. 2009 J. Stewart on Daily Show (Comedy Central TV) (Jan. 13): Abu Ghraib and the weapons of mass destruction are international pig-fucks.

pig-fucker noun

a worthless, disgusting, or despicable person.

1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 31: Pig-Fucker, n. A concupiscent man whose sensibilities are so atrophied that he would even “fuck a pig.”… Obsolete Br., U.S., C. 19–20. Obsolescent. 1965 H.S. Thompson Letter (Apr. 18) in Proud Highway (1997) 509: Ah, this fucking rotten machine. One more strike against those pigfuckers. 1970 in H.S. Thompson Shark Hunt 40: Bug off, you worthless faggot! You twisted pigfucker! 1972–76 C. Durden No Bugles, No Drums 263: Five fuckin’ people against five thousand pissed-off pig fuckers. 1976 C. Rosen Mile Above the Rim 82: Wayne Smalley was a racist white pigfucker and Jeremy hated him. 1982 D.A. Harper Good Company 70: Why I’d be a lyin’ pigfucker if I told you that! 1983 R. Thomas Missionary 145: Just call him a pig fucker and let him deny it. 1987 Robbins Ravens 69: “Pig Fucker.”… The name hails from the early days of Vietnam when fighter pilots called each other by it as a form of affectionate…abuse. a1989 R. Herman, Jr. Warbirds 97: All right, you pig-fuckers. I do not like surprises. 1990 “My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult” Days of Swine & Roses (pop. song): Fuck you, pig fucker! 1992 D. Allison Bastard out of Carolina vii. 100: “Your daddy’s a son of a bitch himself, a purely crazy pigfucker,” Grey was always telling me with a little awe in his voice, a hunger to be half again as dangerous. 2007 Believer (Nov.–Dec.) 56/2: He refers to John Wayne as an “evil white racist honky pigfucker.”

pig-fucking adjective

worthless; disgusting; despicable.

1948 I. Wolfert Act of Love 503: Frig you, you pig-frigging turd. 1968 H. S. Thompson Letter (Jan. 3) in Fear & Loathing in America (2000) 14: That evil pigfucking skunk. For the past year he’s been hounding me like some sort of cop out of Dostoyevsky. 1972 B. Bertolucci Last Tango in Paris (film): You goddam pig-fucking liar! 1972–76 C. Durden No Bugles, No Drums 175: I knew the pig-fuckin’ cocksucker was settin’ me up. 1977 T. Jones Incredible Voyage 371: The fair-haired bastard of a pig-fucking detective… kicked out the boy’s eye! 1978 E. Thompson Devil to Pay 103: They’ll hang your ass in this pigfucking country and look for justification later. 1999 T. Parker et al. South Park (film script) 138: Dripping vagina eating son of a pigfucking crack whore!!! Hairy cock slurping maggot fuuuuuck!!!! 2005 L. Purdue Perfect Killer xxxvi. 146: You pig-fucking shit-bird.

pity-fuck noun

= MERCY FUCK.

1969 J. Nuttall Pig 33: He’d reached two hands to her, face to her belly, willing tears to his eyes to lure her to a pity-fuck. 1993 O. Goldsmith Flavor of the Month 27: It might have started as a pity fuck, but she blew him away. 1994 B. Maher True Story 107: “Need some loving,” she had said—what was this, a pity fuck? 1996 Frontiers (Sept. 1): We have a horror of the pity fuck. We cannot face the charity of the mercy orgasm. 1997 Re: Daniel Mocsny’s writing style, on Usenet newsgroup soc.singles: Why are you banging a woman so repulsive she wouldn’t rate a pity-fuck from me on my worst day? 2006 “L. Burana” Try xii. 137: A stark contrast to Alex who, despite his best efforts, made going down on me feel like a pity fuck delivered by mouth.

R

rat-fuck noun

1. (used as a term of abuse), “asshole,” etc.

1922 in E. Wilson Twenties (1975) 116 [undefined list of terms]: Dumbbell upstage lousy highhat rat-fuck to crab someone or someone’s act. 1955 in D. Wepman et al. The Life (1976) 171: That dirty rat fuck—/He thought he was slick. 1970 T. Southern Blue Movie 173: Yes, you rat fuck! What heinous deception! 1970 G. Sorrentino Steelwork 16: He stood in front of them and kicked their balls off! The rat fucks. 1973 J. Breslin World Without End, Amen 109: Is that where the rat-fuck… is going? 1976 L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1987) 199: Those rat-fucks in Chicago can suck my asshole. 1990 E. W. Rukuza West Coast Turnaround 230: He was watching…, the ratfuck! 1991 Southern Atlantic Quarterly XC 836: The ratfuck FCC.… The…fuckwad station manager. 1996 D. McCumber Playing off the Rail 95: That’s right, you ratfuck bastard. 1999 T. Parker et al. South Park (film script) 138: Fuck a hunk a shit, you rat fuck!!! 2006 G. Lawson & W. Oldham Brotherhoods 132: There were no references to “motherfuckers” or “cocksuckers” or “rat fucks”—the streams of expletives that were standard on the street.

2.a. Originally Army. a confused or bungled situation, especially an assault. [The 1930 examples are euphemistic.]

1930 L. H. Nason Corporal Once 139 [refers to WWI]: This here gigantic rat-copulation they call a war. Ibid. 171: This isn’t going to be the same kind of a damned disgusting…rat-copulation such as we’ve been going through on the Border. Ibid. 260: This will be just the same old rat dinging all over again. a1964 A. J. Liebling in Mollie & Other War Pieces 151: “Whoever checked them out in a bomber ought to have his head examined! What a ratfuck!” He explained that a ratfuck was “a rat race, but all bollixed up.” 1968 H. S. Thompson Letter (May 31) in Fear & Loathing in America (2000) 85: You are one of the few people who read my book on the Hell’s Angels closely enough to realize that the whole thing was a wonderful rat-fuck and—as you put it—“a perpetual ball.” 1971 R. Vaughan & M. Lynch Brandywine’s War 57: A GRF…means Giant Rat Fuck.… It’s a nickname the men have for an aerial assault mission. 1983 J. Groen & D. Groen Huey 217: Every insertion was a Romeo Foxtrot (RF), translated rat fuck, the name given by flyers to doomed missions. Ibid. 272: He was mad as hell about that rat fuck already. 1984 G. Holland Let a Soldier Die 184 [refers to 1967]: I was on this rat fuck down south…and on short final the whole world went up. 1987 P. D. Chinnery Life on the Line 35 [refers to 1965]: The next day was my first combat assault or GRF (Grand Rat F***) as they were called. 1991 Vanity Fair (Sept.) 244/1: It’s been a real rat fuck at Columbia and I’ll bet the Japanese don’t have the vaguest idea what’s happening in their own company. 2004 J. F. Mullins Into the Treeline 237: Damn good thing I was there.… What a ratfuck operation that was!

b. an unimportant task or mission.

1987 P. D. Chinnery Life on the Line 227 [refers to 1970]: As a new scout pilot they send you out on…rat-f*** missions, in areas where you don’t expect to see much.… They generally sent him on the rat-f***s so that no one would have to depend on him in a bad situation. 1990 M. Brennan Hunter-Killer Squadron 237: Nobody wanted to fly real combat missions with him, so they usually sent him on the rat fucks.

3. a damn; FUCK noun definition 2.a.

1971 H. Dahlskog Dictionary of Contemporary & Colloquial Usage 48: Ratfuck, R.F.…a damn, as: I don’t give a rat-fuck what you do! 1980 D. Hamill Stomping Ground 245: Me, I couldn’t give a hairy rat fuck. 1996 J. Díaz Drown in Drown 102: With our bus drivers you didn’t have to hide. Two of them didn’t give a rat fuck and the third one, the Brazilian preacher, was too busy talking Bible to notice anything but the traffic in front of him. 2000 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon xlvi. 696: Wars are not rational acts. They are not begun by rational men. They’re begun by people who don’t care a rat-fuck about the people they rule.

4. a crowded or frenetic social event.—sometimes in phrase: Philadelphia rat fuck.

[1965 R. Gehman The Had 135: I would go if you invited me to a ratfuck.] 1979 J. Houseman Front & Center The flashiest, richest, swiftest, best conducted theatrical rat-fuck ever staged in this city. 1986 P. Klein Growing up Spoiled in Beverly Hills 185: He has described certain parties to me as “rat fucks.” 1987 W. McPherson Sargasso Sea ii. 87: “I much prefer a quiet supper to one of these”—he was about to say “rat fucks,” but restrained himself—“one of these after-the-opening feeding frenzies in some designer shark tent.” 1987 S. Quinn Regrets Only 162: “You could tell from a glance that it was going to be”—she lowered her voice—“what the late Mrs. John T. used to call a Philadelphia rat fuck.” 1995 in Vanity Fair (Jan. 1996) 118: The only thing I went to was that Michael Fuchs HBO thing in Sag Harbor arranged by Peggy Siegal, and I’d never go again. It was a real rat fuck. 1997 Guardian (London) (June 3) (“Feature”) 18: The luxe preview of the Harriman goods…was “the ratfuck to end all ratfucks,” attracting about as repellent a collection of people as can be imagined. 1997 N.Y. Observer (Oct. 6) 42: Glenn Bernbaum…throws a Philadelphia rat-f*#k for Joan Collins and her new autobiography. 1997 S. Quinn The Party 42: A huge cocktail party where you’ve invited everyone you’ve ever known and everyone you’ve ever owed.… This sort of event has a name, coined by the late Marie Harriman, the dazzling second wife of statesman Averell Harriman. It is called a “Philadelphia rat fuck”—“P.R.F.” or “rat fuck” for short. 2003 M. Atwood Oryx & Crake x. 292: Every week there was a Compound social barbecue, a comprehensive ratfuck that all employees were expected to attend. 2008 J. J. Salem Tan Lines 296: Everything had been beautifully decorated and lavishly appointed with food and liquor, but the overall affair was a total ratfuck—shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Tommy Lee, Bruce Willis, Pamela Anderson, [etc.].

rat-fuck verb

1. to botch; FUCK UP.

1966 Folk Speech (Indiana University Folklore Archives): Used as a verb meaning to botch in the worst possible way. Rat-fuck. 2006 T. Phillips Blacktop Cowboys 119: Jensen was always getting rat fucked, which is his way of describing a plan that goes terribly awry.

2. to outwit; trick.

1964 in American Speech (Oct. 1965) 195: Rat fuck, n. v.… This was a widely used slang term at Stanford… It is seldom used except in abbreviatory coinage (R.F.)… An R.F. is a practical joke…but this…has been broadened in its use. To some undergraduates, it connotes anything unacceptable to the Establishment.… To R.F., however, may mean also simply having a good time, or perhaps doing something that has no practical purpose. 1989 S. Chapple & D. Talbot Burning Desires 290: Gotta rat-fuck those guys, Missy! It’s the only way. 1989 W. Brashler Traders 299: Here I was in the middle of the most irresponsible, self-centered, selfish, rat-fucking business in the world and doing well at it. 1989 F. A. Leib Fire Dream 400: Poor rat-fucked back-stabbed…bastard. 2000 P. Baker Breach 188: Somebody in this room rat-fucked the president last night. 2002 D. Brock Blinded by the Right 81: David Sullivan was…a master of bureaucratic intrigue and strategic leaking to the press—“rat fucking” the enemy, in Sullivan’s words.

3. to harm irreparably, victimize; FUCK verb definition 2.a.

1989 M. Kittredge Dead & Gone 94: Unless I could get a goddamned thesis written in three weeks, I was, you should excuse the expression, rat-fucked. 1993 J. L. Burke In the Electric Mist 282: You got wax in your ears, you talk shit, you rat-fuck your friends. 2006 T. Phillips Blacktop Cowboys 119: If a steer walks all over him, Jensen got rat fucked. If a horse bucks him off, again rat fucked. 2008 T. Bell Tsar 437: That noman’s-land between safe and totally rat-fucked.

4. Military. to rummage through with the intent to steal; to rifle.

1997 M. C. Hodgins Reluctant Warrior 28: Curry had rat-fucked (rifled) a case of C rations on the deck under his rack. 2000 G. P. Pellecanos Shame the Devil 15: Go ahead, Maroulis.… Just keep ratfucking through that closet. 2006 P. K. O’Donnell We Were One 113: In the rubble-strewn rooms, the men “rat fucked” several boxes of MREs (Meals Ready-to-Eat), picking out the cookies, candy, and other goodies. 2007 M. Eriksen My River Home 91: “Who ratfucked my pack?” one might say in response to a pair of goggles missing from an unbuttoned pouch. 2007 A. Bay Embrace the Suck 39: Rat-fuck, slang meaning “to ransack something and take what you want.” (“Private Baggadonuts rat-fucked that whole case of MREs just to get all the Pop-Tarts.”)

rat fuck interjection

(used as an interjection); = FUCK verb definition 1.d.

1996 S. King Desperation 449: “Dear me,” he said. “I’ve lost the respect of a man once in charge of throwing out Steven Tyler’s barf-bags. Rat-fuck.” 1997 D. Hunt Magician’s Tale 264: Ratfuck! Kids don’t give a damn. 2006 S. King Lisey’s Story 89: “Oh, ratfuck,” Darla said dismally, and began to cry again. 2007 M. Davidson Undead & Uneasy 60: “Rat fuck,” Tina muttered, and I nearly toppled off the counter. Tina, ancient bloodsucking thing that she was…had the manners of an Elizabethan lady and almost never swore. She was perfectly proper at all times. “Mother fuck,” she continued.

rat fucker noun

a hated or offensive person.—used as a term of abuse. Also: one who engages in RAT-FUCKING; a dirty trickster, a saboteur. [The 1914 quotation may be a chance coincidence.]

[1914 J. London Jacket 19: It is so absurd, my dear Warden, to think that your rat-throttlers of guards can shake out of my brain the things that are clear and definite in my brain.] 1967 P. Welles Babyhip 61: “Scum,” John mumbled. “Ratfucker, prick,” George said. 1974 C. Bernstein & B. Woodward All the President’s Men 135: For the first time, he considered the possibility that the President of the United States was the head ratfucker. ca1978 P. Schrader & L. Schrader Blue Collar (film script) 62: We’ll get the fifty grand those ratfuckers are getting from the insurance company. 1987 H. Zeybel Gunship 138: Them dirty… Commie ratfuckers. 2000 G. Blunt Forty Words for Sorrow lvii. 370: Rick Bouchard…is a subliterate ratfucker. They’ll have to add a special extension onto hell just to house that creep. 2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic 242: I could not possibly list all the mendacious shitwads and unconscionable scum and thieving ratfuckers who, taking complete advantage of the woman, stuck to her like remoras.

rat-fucking noun

destructive activity, as pranks; (specifically) dirty trickery or sabotage; (also) a confusing situation. [The early examples are probably euphemisms; the 1930 euphemistic quotation at RAT-FUCK, definition 2a, may belong here instead.]

1928 L. H. Nason Sgt. Eadie 110 [refers to 1918]: This time to-morrow, Jake, I’ll be with my own outfit and that’s the only ray of sun in my black sky at present. All other troubles fade when I think of that. No more of this rat-kissing. 1928–29 L. H. Nason White Slicker 88: You know, I had a sergeancy clinched if we hadn’t run into all this rat-kissing! 1944 in P. Smith Letters from Father 391: Rat fucking…at Hanover [New Hampshire] means the raiding of the students rooms on one floor by the students from another floor—the boys go in groups of eight or ten—turn everything upside down…even fire buckets of water are employed to make the wreck complete. 1972 in C. Bernstein & B. Woodward All the President’s Men 132: Yes, political sabotage is associated with Segretti. I’ve heard a term for it, “ratfucking.” Ibid. 138: Ratfucking? He had heard the term. It meant double-cross and, as used by the Nixon forces, it referred to infiltration of the Democrats. 1992 Vanity Fair (June) 111: Donald Segretti…was an alumnus of the U.S.C. Republican Mafia and a practitioner of the dirty tricks campaign tactics known as “rat fucking.” 1993 J. Hubner Bottom Feeders 335: Known as “rat fucking,” the tricks could be Jim slipping a huge cockroach in an enchilada Hunter Thompson was about to eat. 1996 G. Gordon Liddy Will 282: By this time I knew that rat-fucking was a University of California fraternity term for glorified Halloween pranks. 2007 M. Eriksen My River Home 91: “Ratfucking” is a brute phrase that collectively describes looting, pillaging, trophy hunting, stealing, souvenir collecting, scavenging, and borrowing with no intention to return.

rat-fucking adjective

despicable; MOTHERFUCKING adjective.

1977 J. Cheever Falconer 36: You rat-fucking, cock-sucking, asstonguing, sneaky, stinking fleabag. 1992 N. DeMille General’s Daughter 429: You fucking well better, you rat-fucking, mother-fucking —. 1993 Dangerous Game (film): Some rat-fucking bastard who’s leading a little girl…to a concentration camp, that rat-fucking cocksucker isn’t feeling anything. If he was, he couldn’t take her to the gas chamber. 2006 J. Karp Futile and Stupid Gesture 307: If a stranger objected, he would scream that the hapless interrupter was “a rat fucking, mother fucking son of a bitch.”

REMF noun [from rear echelon motherfucker]

a soldier in a support or administrative role; any non-combatant soldier.

1971 Newsweek (Jan. 11) 31/3: “Those REMF’s don’t even know what Vietnam is all about,” sneered one grunt. 1982 J. M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley 2: Hey, REMF,…you seen Murphy? 1993 Soldier of Fortune (Feb.) 54/1: One of my favorites is KGB General Vadim Kirpichenko. No REMF here. Vadim has been out in the streets doing things to the bad guys. 1998 T. Clancy Rainbow Six Prologue p. 2: He was respectable now as Director of the new agency. Director. A polite term for a REMF. 2007 A. Bay Embrace the Suck 1: But God—or the first sergeant—help the fake macho and especially the “REMF,” “fobbit,” or “suit” who talks the talk but hasn’t walked the walk.

RTFM interjection

Computers. “read the fucking manual.”

1983 Wanted VMS BACKUP for UNIX on Usenet newsgroup net.unix-wizards (Sept. 30): The VMS people have a cute little piece of advice for people who are too slug-headed to read the manuals: RTFM. 1988 MacUser (Mar.) 73: RTFM [heading of question-and-answer column]. 1991 E. Raymond New Hacker’s Dictionary: RTFM…Used by gurus to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying. 1993 S. Lambert & W. Howe Internet Basics 472: RTFM (Read The Fine Manual) This acronym is often used when someone asks a simple question for the 100th time. The word “fine” is only one way to translate the acronym. 2003 C. Crawford Art of Interactive Design x. 122: Does this line of argument boil down to RTFM? 2008 G. A. Landis in Analog Science Fiction & Fact (Jan./Feb.) 109/2: When in doubt RTFM, he thought.

S

shitfuck noun

a despicable person; FUCK noun definition 4.

1985 A. Lamott Joe Jones 26: You’re a rotten shitfuck slut, and I hope you rot in hell. Ibid. 58: Joe’s shitfuck soul cringes. 1991 M. Weller Lake No Bottom 71: You fuck. You lunatic bastard king hell crazy shitfuck, this isn’t funny any more. 2004 B. Land Goat 137: Fuck him. He’s a shitfuck.

shitfuck interjection

(used to express dismay, anger, disappointment, etc.); FUCK, interjection.

1970 J. Bouton Ball Four ii. 66: “Shitfuck,” he said, using one of his favorite words (“fuckshit” is the other). “Shitfuck. We’ve got a damned good ballclub here. We’re going to win some games.” 1975 J. Wambaugh Choirboys v. 45: “Shit fuck!” said Roscoe Rules, an expression he seldom used anymore…“Shit fuck! Give her the handcuffs, partner.” 1989 Blind Fury (film): “Shit!” “Fuck!” “Shitfuck!” 1995 D. Hays & D. Hays My Old Man & the Sea 112: Last night I woke up to “Shitfuck!” which is how Dad gets himself really angry. 2007 R. Curtis Twenty Grand 11: Shitfuck! he screamed.

shitfuck verb

(used as an intensified elaboration of FUCK, verb, in various senses).

1988 M. Montecino Crosskiller 233: I didn’t ask for this shitfucking job, and I don’t want it now. I never wanted it. 1994 T. O’Brien In the Lake of the Woods 54: “Well, sure,” he was saying. “Shitfuck Jesus.” 2001 S. Lipsyte Subject Steve 109: How many times have I used my gift of language to explicate myself out of this or that shit-fucked situation?

skull fuck verb

1. = MOUTH FUCK. Also as noun, an act of skull fucking.

[1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 34: BJ…knob job…skull job.] 1985 R. Daniell Sleeping with Soldiers 62: The macho man never asks whether he can indulge in “skull-fucking” (semi-forced oral sex). 1993 B. Moore Lexicon of Cadet Language 345: Skull fuck…the act of fucking a woman in the mouth. 1996 Skull-fuck Me, title of advertisement on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.telephone (Aug. 23). 1997 L.A. Weekly (Oct. 24) 27: A woman advertising over the CB that she would “skullfuck” anyone listening for $50. 1998 Review: “Sex Lies,” review of pornographic movie on Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica (Apr. 27): Both ladies take turns sucking him off when he says he wants to skull-fuck them. 1998 N.Y. man: You ever hear the term skull fuck for a blowjob? 2004 Vice (Feb.) 63/1: Stop skull-fucking me like that, you’re hitting my gag reflex. 2005 B. Mullen Whores 281: He just dropped jaw right there in front of me and gave Perry a blowjob on my couch. I was only mildly interested in watching my boyfriend getting skullfucked.

2. to thrust the penis into the eye socket of (a person).—chiefly as an exaggeratedly violent threat.

1986 P. Nobile & E. Nadler United States of America vs. Sex 149: She unveiled the new paraphilia of “skull-fucking.”…These are films in which a woman is killed and the orifices in her head are penetrated with a man’s penis—her eyes, her mouth, and so on. 1987 Full Metal Jacket (film): I’m going to give you three seconds, exactly three fucking seconds, to wipe that stupid-looking grin off your face, or I will gouge out your eyes and skull-fuck you. 1996 C. Logan Hunter’s Moon 153: Call off the tribe or I swear to God I’ll pop out your left eyeball and skull-fuck you to death. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confidential 144: I made the mistake of telling a garde-manger man that if he didn’t hurry up with an order I’d tear his eyes out and skull-fuck him. 2002 J. Goad Shit Magnet vii. 93: This from someone who had slaughtered at least thirteen people and skull-fucked an elderly woman after murdering her and plucking out her eyeball. 2002 J. Dee Palladio 225: I want to rip his head off and shit into it, I want to pop his lying eyes out with a spoon and skullfuck him. 2009 J. Stewart on Daily Show (Comedy Central TV) (Feb. 9): This bill will fuck our economy in the eye. And after skull-fucking our economy this bill—this bill and Hitler will laugh and laugh.

snafu noun [situation normal: all fucked up; often interpreted in euphemistic variants, especially with fouled].

1. Army. Especially in early use: used as an expression indicating the botched or confused nature of the military.

1941 San Francisco Chronicle (June 15) 5/4: “Snafu” means “situation normal, all fuddled up.” 1941 American Notes & Queries I (Sept. 4) 94: Snafu—situation normal [sic]. 1942 Time (June 15): The Army has a laconic term for chronic befuddlement: snafu, situation normal; all fouled up. 2002 T. Lott Rumours of Hurricane i. 22: The local binmen are in the midst of a dispute. This does not seem extraordinary to Charlie, merely an irritatingly private blip in an otherwise consistent pattern of public life. “Snafu,” thinks Charlie, his mind skipping back to army language. Situation normal, all fucked up.

2. Originally Army. a botched or confused situation, especially a military operation botched by incompetent planning or execution of orders. Also in mass use: confusion, disorder.

1943 Best from Yank (Sept. 10) 9: They worked hard and steadily, with a minimum of snafu. 1946 W. W. Haines Command Decision 11: But yesterday they [sic] was a SNAFU at the Quartermaster’s and he run clean out of Spam. 1948 J. G. Cozzens Guard of Honor 184: It’s a stupid damn snafu. 1953 M. Dibner Deep Six 23: He’s chasing down another of your snafus. 1958 A. Hailey & J. Castle Runway Zero-Eight 9: It would have to be a big show in Vancouver to justify this snafu. 1962 E. Shepard Forgive us Our Press Passes 60: On the housing snafu, he displayed the statement of a leading Soviet lawyer [etc.]. 1963 T. Doulis Path for our Valor 223: There’s gonna be a big snafu.… It means situation normal, all…fucked up. 1982 J. M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley 1: It was one more snafu in a series of snafus. 1983 J. Groen & D. Groen Huey 105: John, your orders won’t be coming in for two or three weeks. Some kind of a snafu. 1984 N.Y. Post (Aug. 2) 60: Bettors furious over Big A snafus. 1992 H. N. Schwarzkopf It Doesn’t Take a Hero xvii. 311: All were competing for space in the same airplanes and cargo ships, and an enormous amount of my time was devoted to untangling snafus. 1999 Scientific American (Nov.) 35/3: Two years ago corporate and individual domain name registrants were united in their hatred of Network Solutions, complaining of billing snafus, unwarranted suspensions and technical ineptitude.

snafu adjective Army.

1. Of a situation, etc.: hopelessly botched or confused. [Most early quotations refer to WWII.]

1941 Kansas City Star (July 27) 5A: That time you wrote you’d been talking to your captain for half an hour and everything was snafu, you got us terribly worked up.… Everything is strictly snafu. 1942 in C.R. Bond & T. Anderson Flying T. Diary 183: What a SNAFU operation. 1943 J. Twist Bombardier (film): You’ll be plenty snafu if Captain Oliver hears about this. 1943 R. L. Scott God Is My Co-Pilot 22: And so we began our airmail flying—slightly SNAFU, as we have learned to say from the gremlins in World War II. 1944 Collier’s (Apr. 1) 21: This all sounds snafu. 1945 Chase This Man’s Navy (film): This place is all mixed up, snafu. 1945 Scowley & Friel 513th Retrospect (unpaged): Once on shore things began to go SNAFU. 1947 Startling Stories (May) 112/2: Poor printing and snafu artwork keeps this Detroit zine down in the doldrums despite a high-powered lineup that includes Brazier, Elsner, Tigrina and Joe Kennedy. 1948 A. Murphy To Hell and Back 1: If the landing schedule had not gone snafu, we would have come ashore with the assault waves. 1953 K. Dodson Away All Boats 285: This is the most snafu beach I ever did see. 1959 B. Cochrell Barren Beaches of Hell 84: “Jesus,” Willy said. “Sounds sort of snafu.” 1970 J. W. Corrington Bombardier 53: The coffee splashed out, and the sugar fell into the eggs, and it was snafu. 1995 T. Clancy Op-Center xxxv. 157: They were all part of the same SNAFU scheme of things.

2. Or a person: worthless, useless; mentally confused; crazy.

1946 I. Gershwin My Son-in-Law in R. Kimball Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin (1993) 346/2: He may look good to you,/Your son-in-law:/To me he’s just snafu,/Your son-in-law. 1975 J. Stanley WWIII 87: He’s snafu, Sarge, snafu. I’m on your side. I swear it.

snafu verb Originally Army.

1. to bring into a state of great confusion; ruin through incompetence; botch; confuse; FUCK UP. Usually snafued, adjective.

1943 L. Cane Letter (July 6) in Fighting Facism in Europe (2003) 56: Gosh everything seems to be snafued for me the past few days. 1943 F. Wakeman Shore Leave 66: “There you go,” the P-Boat pilot said. “Letting a lot of big sloppy words get you all snafued.” 1944 B. Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird 74: It can snafu the works. 1948 B. Lay & S. Bartlett Twelve O’Clock High! 45: The warning order just came down.… Snafu’d as usual. It says we’re low group at nine thousand feet. 1970 J. R. Lincke Jenny Was No Lady 20: St. Jude, the patron saint of snafued ventures. 1979 in J. Raban Old Glory 348: He ain’t going to allow some dumbhead bargeman to snafu the whole rest of his life for a can of Bud. 2002 J. J. Gobbell When Duty Whispers Low 74: Whoever snafued that plane’s engine saved my life.

2. to blunder elaborately; FUCK UP.

1946 J. H. Burns Gallery 317: I snafu’d just like the rest of them. 1948 Military Engineer (Vol. XL) 64: Too often men seemed not to care if they “snafued.” 1951 R. Leveridge Walk on Water 179 [refers to WWII]: Maybe the Army Post Office snafued again! 1992 A. Codevilla Informing Statecraft 327: Soviet factories have been known to snafu in grand style all by themselves.

3. Originally Military. to go wrong, especially to become botched or confused.

1957 W. P. McGivern Odds Against Tomorrow 175: But when things snafu they start acting like a bunch of crazy women. 1991 L. Niven et al. Fallen Angels 122: If the targeting system snafued… No, you’re probably right. 1992 Car (Feb.) 86/1: Munich’s weekend bound traffic snafus and we travel four miles in 40 minutes. 2001 E. H. Rosen Think Like a Shrink 157: Every move, every encounter has the potential to snafu.

snefu adjective [situation normal: everything fucked up; variant of SNAFU]

Military. = SNAFU adjective.

1942 in P. Jordan Tunis Diary 38: SNEFU, as an American officer said at dinner.… Snefu means Situation Normal: Everything F—d Up. 1943 Hartford Courant (Mar. 6) 6/4: The same man reports that a common expression now at the Capitol when one is asked about the state of affairs is that it is “Snefu.” After considerable probing this turns out to be “situation normal, everything fogged up.”

sportfuck noun

an act of casual sex. Also: a person regarded as a casual sexual partner.

1990 L. Hutchins Bi Any Other Name 328: Lesbians who end up doing what some call a “sport fuck” with a man have been in a situation, such as travel, in which a good time with a kindred spirit just happened along. 1991 D. Jenkins Gotta Play Hurt 43: Even enjoying a sport-fuck occasionally. 1994 J. L. Burke Dixie City Jam 275: “Wouldn’t you like a little sport fuck on the side?” I opened her car door and fitted my hand tightly around her upper arm. 1996 C. Logan Hunter’s Moon 55: I gave up a lot for him. And not just to be his sport fuck. So yeah, I got him to make it legal. 2005 P. Levine Solomon Vs. Lord 292: Chet, you’re adorable in your own way, but you’re just a sport fuck and we both know it.

sportfuck verb

to engage in casual, indiscriminate copulation [with].

1968 Paul Newman in Playboy (July) 69: There was sport fucking. There was mercy fucking. 1976 J. Bode View from Another Closet 91: After we separated and eventually divorced, I went through the typical reactions of sport-fucking, long-term affairs, brief interludes, but always with men. 1987 C. Hiaasen Double Whammy xxiv. 235: Lanie gave a shallow laugh. “The sportfucking, he didn’t mind. A different fella each night and he’d never say a word to me.” 1989 S. Chapple & D. Talbot Burning Desires 124: I still sportfish. I no longer sportfuck. 1991 University professor, age 60: You’d think he’d have some better form of recreation than sportfucking some groupie on the lawn.… Sportfuck is a word I remember from Chicago, about 1959. 2003 J. McManus Positively Fifth Street 143: As far as she was concerned, getting sport-fucked by Tabish before they burked [sc. suffocated] Ted made perfect sense. 2005 R. Hoban Come Dance with Me xv. 91: I’ve had my share of one-night stands and sport fucking and I don’t know if any of those men who didn’t mean anything to me ran into the Curse of Christabel. 2006 L. Kipnis Female Thing 4: Feminism Plan A: Strive for empowerment, smash those glass ceilings, sport-fuck like the guys.

starfucker noun

= CELEBRITY-FUCKER. Hence starfucking.

1970 J. Barnes Deceivers 72: Those star-fuckers at the other agencies were probably sucking up to Curtis and Lang till hell wouldn’t have it. 1970 J. Grissim Country Music 259: In the rock and roll fifties they were called star-fuckers. In the acid rock world of the Sixties (and now Seventies) they were called groupies. 1972 Playboy (Aug.) 70: Groupies and star-fuckers abound and you certainly don’t have to marry them, though a lot of poor fools do. 1973 M. Jagger & K. Richards Star Star (song, perf. “Rolling Stones”): Lead guitars and movie stars get their tongue beneath your hood.Yeah! You’re a star fucker, star fucker, star fucker, star fucker. 1978 C. Crawford Mommie Dearest 277: They were the “starfuckers,” people who…would go to any lengths to have their own names associated with anyone famous. These people were not just fans, they had professions and services to sell. 1981 C. Nelson Picked Bullets Up 181: Because of his notoriety as a bisexual star-fucker. 1990 Nation (June 4) 796: Wenner,…inveterate starfucker (he once claimed to have started the magazine [Rolling Stone] in order to meet John Lennon). 1992 Vanity Fair (Nov.) 283: Some people might say he’s star-fucking. 1993 New Republic (Nov. 15) 34: The ’60s turned even serious people into starfuckers. 1998 “M. Manson” & N. Strauss Marilyn Manson xvi. 253: Another starfucker and sycophant sucking the life out of me and distracting me from the conversation that I want to have. 2003 L. Block Small Town 286: That didn’t mean he could abandon her and trot off after some tail-wagging cupcake.… This wasn’t the night for a romp with a starfucker.

STFU interjection

“Shut The Fuck Up.”

1991 Re: ALL: How to Save alt.evil!!! on Usenet newsgroup alt.evil (Dec. 29): When you find your brain, let us know. Until then, STFU. 1997 C. Parker Joy of Cybersex 183: STFU Shut the fuck up. 1998 Independent (Apr. 2) 6: Unfortunately the “STFU-During Performances” sign was too subtle a warning. 2002 E. Jansen NetLingo 458: STFU “Shut The F*#k Up.” 2006 Bucks County Courier Times (Jan. 26) 2G: I bet they doodle on their paper and write things like, stfu kerry.

sympathy fuck noun

= PITY FUCK.

1973 J. Harrison Good Day to Die 68: Nobody wants a sympathy fuck. I would never fuck a girl again if it was a sympathy fuck. 1978 W. Brown Tragic Magic 97: You’d be surprised how many sympathy fucks I got cause I didn’t have no hand. 1987 C. J. Hribal American Beauty 38: “So he wants a sympathy fuck.” Mia exhales at the ceiling. “Exactly.” 2001 J. Weiner Good in Bed 203: “You’re not back together?” “No. It was…”…“Not to worry,” she said, effectively ending my attempts to think of an appropriate euphemism for sympathy fuck. 2007 J. McPhee Man of no Moon 208: You should know by now that every time I fuck it’s a sympathy fuck.

T

tarfu noun & adjective [things are really fucked up; suggested by SNAFU]

Especially U.S. Army. = SNAFU.

1942 Time (Nov. 30) 70: “Snafu,” pronounced “snaffoo”—a good, grumbling Army word, now has a superlative… The new superlative, discovered by correspondents in Britain: “tarfu” (“things are really fouled up”). 1944 E. Pyle Brave Men 212: The colonel had a coal-black Labrador retriever named Tarfu. That’s one of those mytic military names which you’ll have to get somebody else to explain to you. ca1944 in G. M. Valant Vintage Aircraft Nose Art 295: Tarfu. 1945 in California Folklore Quarterly V (1946) 387: TARFU. fouled up. 1948 J. G. Cozzens Guard of Honor 409: On the side of the plane’s black nose, spiritedly sketched in dark red paint, was a cavorting skeleton who danced with a nude woman. Under it, in fancy letters, were the words: Tarfu Tessie. 1972 B. Davidson Cut Off 30: Tarfu, a word coined around the time of the Battle of the Bulge, was…the acronym for Things Are Really Fucked Up. Ibid.: In a Tarfu like this, nothing surprises me. 2007 R. Atkinson Day of Battle 78: The action, in Gavin’s assessment was “self-adjusting,” a SAFU, as well as a TARFU and a JAAFU.

throat-fuck verb

= MOUTH-FUCK, verb.

1975 N. Jennings Bondage & Boyflesh 96: The others gathered around to watch their thick-cocked leader throat-fucking the handsome young queen. 1980 S. McCarthy in Humanist (Sept./Oct.) 15: The February Penthouse contains an ugly letter from someone who claims to be a sophomore at a large midwestern university and is “into throat-fucking.” He writes of Kathy and how he was “ramming his huge eleven-inch tool down her throat.” 1990 G. Fisher Journal (Apr. 14) in Gary in your Pocket (1996) 234: Jan sucks Ham near climax (he throat-fucks her)… Description of the face-fuck. 2007 J. Norton Happy Endings 126: Twenty minutes later you’re back in your hotel room throat-fucking her bareback while praying she’s HIV negative.

tit-fuck noun

an act of rubbing the penis between a woman’s breasts; FRENCH FUCK. Also as verb. Also titty-fuck.

[1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 4: Breast fuck, best fuck, Cherry’s prick shall ne’er be in it.] 1972 R.A. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 285: Tit fuck Insertion of the penis between a lady’s breasts. 1975 Ribald (Sydney, Australia) (Sept. 18) 2: “Down in the valley something stirred.” English-speaking people called it a tit-fuck. 1976 J. Vasco Three-Hole Girl 20: Lisa’s jugs looked like they’d feel great if she pressed them down around his dick and let him tit-fuck her. 1984 R. Coover in Playboy (Jan. 1985) 122: Safely closeted off in his rooms over the town saloon, tit-fucking the hero’s wife. 1986 Penthouse Letters (Mar.) 89: In the soft version of Annie’s flick, we lose a great tit-fucking scene. 1987 Penthouse Letters (Oct.) 27: Her scene…ends quite rightly with a tit-fuck. 1991 B. E. Ellis American Psycho viii. 79: I tell her I would like to tit-fuck her and then maybe cut her arms off. 1998 Schizo (#3) [back cover]: I heard Gary Coleman titty-fucked your DAD! 1999 F. Renzulli Toodle-fucking-oo (television shooting script) in Sopranos (2nd Series) 35: Shaen: (Ed Sullivan) And now for you youngsters, with visions of tit-fucking in your heads, the Bing girls! Come on out here. Pole-dancing resumes. 2007 S. Seligson Stacked 72: Have you seen this month’s issue of Hard Nipple Hotties? They ran a feature about tit fucking.

tongue fuck verb

to perform oral sex on (a person, or a body part). Also as noun.

1870 Cythera’s Hymnal in G. Legman Limerick (1954) 91: He shyly confessed,/“I like tongue-fucking best.” 1870 Cythera’s Hymnal in G. Legman Limerick (1954) 91: His whores said he always was poking ’em,/But all he could do/Was to tongue-fuck a few. 1968 L. Harrington In Drag 98: He felt for sure, Jeff had managed to tongue-fuck him. 1974 R. Price Wanderers 203: Tokyo had whorehouses where they did Japanese tongue fucks that drove a man crazy. 1979 P. J. Farmer Image of Beast 89: He…tongue-fucked her while his fingers increased the speed of their in-and-outs into her cunt and anus. 1982 S. Hite Hite Report on Male Sexuality 728: I also “tongue-fuck” her by shoving my tongue in and out of her hole. 1982 N. Friday Forbidden Flowers 184: After a while, she takes it out and tongue fucks me and after a while would place her finger in my juicy wet cunt up and down till I had an orgasm. 1991 R. Meltzer Of Peep Shows & Piano Bars in Whore Just Like Rest (2000) 429: A little overboard on anilingus…, lines like “‘Ooooh,’ she wailed, ‘you’re tongue-fucking my shitter!’” 2005 “Noire” Candy Licker ii. 27: I got my first tongue fuck when I was fourteen.… Not one person had prepared me for what it would be like when a man actually opened me up and touched me with his tongue. 2007 H. Hunter Insatiable 149: I licked the juices off the side of her thighs…before I began to tongue-fuck her.

U

unfuck verb

1. (used as an imprecation or oath); God damn; to hell with; curse. [Used as a substitution for FUCK verb definition 4.a., on the grounds that fuck denotes a pleasurable act that one would not want to wish on the person being cursed.]

1963 A. Ellis If This be Sexual Heresy 95: By the same token you should say “I had an unfucking bad time.” Q. I can see this, you know?—In the subways, two or three centuries from now: “Unfuck you!” a1966 L. Bruce in S. Pinker Stuff of Thought (2007) 346: If I really wanted to hurt you I should say “Unfuck you, Mister.” Because “Fuck you” is really nice! 1966 B. Deming Prison Notes: A former prisoner has scratched in wide letters: FUCK THE COPS! It should really be UNFUCK THE COPS, one peacewalker has suggested; unlove them is what is meant.

2. to correct (a fault); fix (a problem); etc. Sometimes used with up.

1971 S. Stevens Way Uptown in Another World 148: She was just a nice little fox who was all fucked up and didn’t know how to unfuck herself. 1973 Psychiatry XXXVI. 145/2: These residents don’t know nothing. These poor patients. The staff has to unfuck what the doctors fuck up. 1975 O. Hall Adelita 164: “I’ll keep them plenty busy if I can just get this fucker unfucked,” Birdwell said. Nicanor sat slumped with the sack on his shoulder until this was accomplished. 1976 B. A. Floyd Lance Corporal Purdue Grace, USMC in Long War Dead 21: Know this about this fucked-up war/that will never unfuck itself—/Life in Vietnam is a sea of shit. 1978 W. B. McCloskey Jr. Highliners xix. 242: Go on, now, unfuck those room assignments before something else happens. 1988 W. Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive 11: Little Bird fumbled the Mech-5 microsoft from the socket behind his ear—instantly forgetting the eight-point servo-calibration procedure needed to unfuck the Judge’s buzzsaw. 1995 S. Rushdie Moor’s Last Sigh 49: If you fuck up what I unfucked for you once, you better hope on I’m around to unfuck it for you twice. 1997 2nd Lieutenant, USMC: “Unfuck it, Corporal!”…That means “fix it,” “make it not fucked up.” Almost any kind of screw-up. 2003 K. Friedman Kill Two Birds & Get Stoned 43: It’s a fucked-up world…and sometimes you gotta just try to unfuck it. 2004 in M. Eversmann & D. Schilling Battle of Mogadishu 161: I did some last-minute coordination with the commo guys trying to unfuck the confusion surrounding communication.

unfuckable adjective

sexually unavailable; (also) sexually undesirable. Hence unfuckably adverb.

a1968 P. Levine By Animals, By Men, and By Machines in Not This Pig (1968) 73: The doctor, he tells me, is a “nice nigger,”/the nurses are all unfuckable,/even the tight-assed one who calls him Sugar. 1970 L. Gould Such Good Friends 8: I was the failure. Hopelessly unfuckable. 1981 T. McGuane Nobody’s Angel 85: In the Castilian walk-up an unfuckable crone has the say of things and brings vegetables. 1984 B. Woodward Wired 293: She was sophisticated, sensual and hard, but they wanted even more of the stonelike, unreachable side: she was the elusive, truly unfuckable woman. 1991 Z. Z. Gabor One Lifetime is not Enough 262: If a woman wants to be attractive to a man, she should have a little flesh on her body and not just be skin and bones. All the men I ever met in my life, when they look at these models’ pictures exclaimed, “My God, how could I ever make love to that?” Rubi used to describe them as “unfuckable.” 2001 A. Dangor Bitter Fruit xxiii. 247: Dull afternoon shadows on her face. Prissy Priscilla, unshockable, and unfuckable. 2003 R. Liddle Too Beautiful for You 168: Duvalier is thin and sharp with a recherché quiff and keeps trying to paw Sophie who is acting all cool and above it all and unfuckable. 2006 Esquire (Jan.) 65: When you are a male entering the 10th grade, there are only four kinds of people on the entire planet: girls you want to fuck, girls who are unfuckable, guys you want to kill, and guys who generally seem OK. 2006 Time Out N.Y. (Mar. 30)147/2: She is fat. Unfuckably fat.

unfucked adjective

1. not having engaged in sexual intercourse.

ca1890 My Secret Life X. iv.: The lass kneeling over me, sucked my prick as if she loved it, and had practised the art of gamahuching from her infancy,—yet this girl was unfucked and but fourteen years of age.—I pushed up her bum, and I pulled open her little cunt lips—yes she was still intact, unbroken. 1952 J. Kerouac Visions of Cody 115: I’m hot and unfucked. 1973 E. Jong Fear of Flying 213: I began to hate myself, to feel ugly, unloved, bodily odoriferous—all the classic symptoms of the unfucked wife. 1975 C. Willingham Big Nickel 260: Your poor little unfucked pussy. 1979 J. Friedman Queen of Gang-Bang in Tales of Time Square (1993) 95: Mobs of unfucked men were milling about in the lounges and getting restless. 1983 A. Codrescu In America’s Shoes 136: Needless to say, the ad didn’t net [him] any lovers. He went unfucked and grew more menacing by the day. 1997 C. Shields Larry’s Party 127: He thinks of Sally as a random force, a zephyr, who by chance crossed his path and—with purpose, pity, giggling a little as she unzipped his pants—rescued him from shame. There he was, a mere boy at eighteen, unkissed, untouched, unfucked, numbly average, bashfully unexamined. 2000 GQ (Nov.) 372/1: The plan was Hemingway simple. Experience. Women. Novel. Instead, I wrote one slim poem, then came home broke, unfucked and even more confused. 2003 K. Saunders Marrying Game 210: He had been trained to fall asleep in tanks and trenches, and other places even more uncomfortable than a double bed with an unfucked wife in it.

2. not fucked (in other senses).

1967 N. Mailer Why Are We in Vietnam? 184: They got the unfucked heaven of seeing twelve Dall ram on an outcropping of snow two miles away across two ridges. 1968 P. Roth Portnoy’s Complaint 259: Yes, this was my kind of girl, all right—innocent, good-hearted, zaftig, unsophisticated and unfucked-up. 1972 Black World (May) 80/1: Fuck over no one so you will not have to worry about whose [sic] going to fuck over you. The “unfucked-over” are both unfuckable and have no need to fuck over anybody else. 1988 L. McMurtry Texasville 239: I doubt my life will ever be unfucked again. 1993 Guardian (Sept. 25) (Weekend Suppl.) 66/1: Their other children, especially the delightful Catherine Zeta Jones, are paragons of unfuckedupness. 1999 K. Sampson Powder 281: They were like a breath of fresh air—cool, young, motivated team players, unfucked by drugs or baggage, mad on music, ready to go in to bat for you. 2000 E. Reid Midnight Sun 138: This is one of the last unfucked-up places you’re going to find. It’s too remote for the timber and oil companies to get their grubby paws on it and no way the National Park Service is going to be bussing tourists in here. 2005 J. MacGregor Sunday Money i. 30: For white folks about the only thing left unscorched or unsullied or unstolen or unfucked with in the South after the Civil War were stories and ideas.

un-fucking-believable adjective

see under -FUCKING-, infix.

W

windfucker noun

a type of kestrel; (hence) (used as a vague term of opprobrium). Cf. FUCKWIND noun.

1599 T. Nashe in Oxford English Dictionary: The Kistrilles or windfuckers that filling themselues with winde, fly against the winde euermore. 1602 in Oxford English Dictionary: I tell you, my little windfuckers, had not a certaine melancholye ingendred with a nippinge dolour overshadowed the sunne shine of my mirthe, I had been I pre, sequor, one of your consorte. 1609 B. Jonson Epicene, or the Silent Woman I.iv: Did you euer heare such a Wind-fucker, as this? ca1611 G. Chapman Iliad (preface): There is a certaine enuious Windfucker, that houers vp and downe, laboriously ingrossing al the air with his luxurious ambition. 1614 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Wit Without Money IV.i: Husbands for Whores and Bawdes, away you wind-suckers [sic].

WTF interjection

“what (or where or who) the fuck?”

1985 Ramblings 5/85, on Usenet newsgroup net.micro.mac (May 18): I asked myself, “W.T.F.?” 1985 Proline C preliminary review, on Usenet newsgroup net.micro.cbm (May 26): WTF do I need a C primer if I am buying the compiler for the language? 1988 sgipie.ps (file 2 of 5), on Usenet newsgroup comp.windows.news (Aug. 28): wtf did all that junk on the stack come from? 2006 New York Magazine (July 24) 28/2: So I told her it must be nice to afford designer clothes & go on luxurious vacations 2x a yr. Now she is mad at me! WTF? 2007 Wired (Oct.) 80/2: If the voice in your head doesn’t scream “WTF?!” it’s not strange enough.

X

XXXX noun

British. = FUCK noun definition 2.a. [After an advertising campaign for Castlemaine XXXX beer, having the tagline “Australians couldn’t give a XXXX for any other lager.”]

[1944 M. Elevitch Letter (Jan. 15) in Dog Tags Yapping (2003) 35: We sat around talking softly—not knowing what had been accomplished and not giving a xxxx.] 1985 Times (London) (Sept. 6) 19/1: Allied does not give a XXXX for Elders. 1988 Guardian (June 10) 6/7: Quite a few of the party’s MPs don’t give a XXXX for the whole affair, since they don’t fancy either of the candidates. 1991 South (Aug.) 6/2: Algerians like their rams to be rams, and it was foolish to expect them to give a XXXX for anything else. 1995–6 Arena (Dec.–Jan.) 59/1: Most of the world couldn’t give a XXXX about it, something that has long rankled with the marketing men who run the game in the States. 2001 Adrenalin (No. 9) 133/3: He said it was corrupted by the West, and, because the presence of so many ugly yobbo Australians who couldn’t give a XXXX for anything remotely connected to Indonesian culture, it made him feel ashamed of his nationality. 2006 Independent (Nov. 25) 39/1: Labour did it before the last election when they circulated, via text message, the loutish slogan: “Don’t give a xxxx for last orders? Vote Labour.”

Z

zipless fuck noun

an act of intercourse without an emotional connection; (hence) a person with whom one has such an act of intercourse.

1973 E. Jong Fear of Flying 11: My fantasy of the Zipless Fuck.… Zipless because when you came together zippers fell away like petals. 1978 G. Vidal Kalki 79: Girls who feared flying tended to race blindly through zipless fucks. 1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects 158: Talk about the zipless fuck, this was real anonymity, cold and soulless as an execution. 1992 in Esquire (Jan. 1993) 109: I stumbled through the early ’80s and an address book filled with zipless fucks. 1994 Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Aug. 2) 38: Ever dedicated to the zipless fuck, Patsy, the predator, exhibits the kind of natural cleavage that renders the Wonderbra irrelevant. 2001 F. North Fen 22: You can’t go on the rebound with your ex-girlfriend. It defeats the objects of the exercise. You need a good old zipless fuck.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Lewis Black

Introduction

Introduction to the Third Edition

Acknowledgments

The F-Word