fuck
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English
Alternative forms
- (bowdlerizations) f-ck, f**k, etc.
Etymology
Uncertain, though almost certainly Germanic. The word may be attested in an AD 772 charter which mentions a place called Fuccerham, which possibly means “ham of the fucker” or “hamm (“‘pasture’”) of the fucker”. The first verifiable use of the word in writing appears in Flen flyys and freris, a medieval poem containing the pseudo-Latin form fvccant; first listed in a dictionary in 1598.[1] Compare dialectal Norwegian fukka (“‘fuck’”), Swedish fokka (earlier "fuck; thrust", nowadays focka (“‘fire from work’”)) and Dutch fokken (“‘to breed’”). It may go back to the Indo-European root *peuk- (“‘strike’”) (source of Latin pugnus (“‘fist’”) among many others), but the phonetic relations are inconclusive. A range of folk-etymological acronyms have been advanced (e.g. *"Fornication Under Consent of the King, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"), all demonstrably false.
Pronunciation
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to fuck (third-person singular simple present fucks, present participle fucking, simple past and past participle fucked) (transitive and intransitive)
- (often obscene, sometimes extremely vulgar) To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.
- 2007, Lionel Shriver, The post-birthday world
- She wanted to fuck him more than she had ever wanted to fuck any man in her life.
- 2007, Lionel Shriver, The post-birthday world
- (often obscene, sometimes extremely vulgar) To insert one’s penis, or a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft.
- 2006, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Glamour Girls: Femme/Femme Erotica
- She shoved them up and together, pushing into me, forcing my foot to fuck her tits harder and harder while gasping as if I was shoving it deep into her body...
- 2006, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Glamour Girls: Femme/Femme Erotica
- (markedly vulgar) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
- If you do that, I’m fucked.
- I'm afraid they're gonna fuck you on this one.
- (markedly vulgar, usually followed by “up”) To break; to destroy.
- You’re going to fuck up that TV!
- I fucked up my truck.
- 2001, Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days
- Goodman says he wants him to come in tomorrow and Moses is so afraid he's fucked up his chance again that he says yeah...
- (markedly vulgar) To defraud.
- I got fucked at the used car lot.
- (markedly vulgar) To play with; to tinker.
- Stop fucking with the remote control.
- 2006, Kilian Betlach, This Feels Like A Riot Looks
- They couldn't hear a single note Ted was playing and the sound guy kept yelling at them to stop fucking with the levels so he could make adjustments.
- (often derogatory) used to emphasize displeasure with someone or something
- (something) Fuck this shit!
- (someone) Fuck her!
- (often offensive, vulgar) To lose care for, to forget, to no longer regard as important.
- Well, fuck you, man.
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:copulate
Translations
to have sexual intercourse-obscene or vulgar
to insert an object into a specified body part
to put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation
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to break or destroy
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fuck (plural fucks)
- (vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- 1975, Alexander Buzo, Tom
- No, but I've got a film of a couple of crocodiles having a fuck.
- 1975, Alexander Buzo, Tom
- (vulgar) A sexual partner.
- 2005, Etgar Keret, The Nimrod flip-out
- If he's a lousy fuck, I can at least say I had a lousy fuck, and if he's a great fuck, well that's even better...
- 2005, Etgar Keret, The Nimrod flip-out
- (vulgar) A highly contemptible person.
- 2002, Robert Williams, The Remembrance
- She used to be a secretary but then she realized that she could run a business a hell of a lot better than those stupid fucks could.
- 2002, Robert Williams, The Remembrance
Synonyms
Translations
an act of sexual intercourse
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sexual partner
highly contemptible person
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Interjection
fuck
- (vulgar) Expressing dismay or discontent.
- Oh, fuck! We left the back door unlocked.
- Fuck! Why do you have to be so difficult all the time?
Synonyms
- fark
- feck
- fook
- frick
- See also Wikisaurus:dammit
Translations
fuck!
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Derived terms
terms derived from "fuck"
compound terms of "fuck"
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References
- Notes:
- ^ Can a Woman “Prong” a Man? Why it’s so hard to put sex in the dictionary, by Jesse Sheidlower, 2009-10-01, Slate.com
- Sheidlower, Jesse, The F Word (1999) ISBN 0-375-70634-8.
- Wang, Munç (pseudonym of Avery Andrews), Copulative sentences in English: a Germanic language spoken in Northern Delaware, in Studies Out in Left Field: Defamatory Essays Presented to James D. McCawley on the Occasion of His 33rd or 34th Birthday, eds Peter H. Salus, Arnold M. Zwicky, James D. McCawley, Robert I. Binnick, 1971:37–43, ISBN 978-1-55619460-3
- A tongue-in-cheek discussion of the grammaticalness of various uses of fuck.
