fucking

See also: Fucking and -fucking-

English

Alternative forms

• fuckin, fuckin' (informal, slang)

Etymology

From fuck +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʌkɪŋ/, /ˈfʌkɪn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ

Verb

fucking

1. present participle of fuck

Noun

fucking (countable and uncountable, plural fuckings)

1. (vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse, especially one lacking passion or a feeling of sincere love.

   I got a good fucking out of her, but I doubt we'll have another date.

   • c 1674, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II

     Like the French fool, that wanders up and down

     Starving his people, hazarding his crown.

     Peace is his aim, his gentleness is such,

     And love he loves, for he loves fucking much.

2. (vulgar, figuratively) An act of mistreatment.

   I took a real fucking on the interest rate for that loan.

Synonyms

• frig
• frigging

Derived terms

• sofa king
• the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get

 

Translations

an act of sexual intercourse

• Dutch: neuken (nl)
• Esperanto: fiko
• Finnish: pano (fi)
• French: baise (fr) f
• German: Fick (de) m
• Hebrew: זִיּוּן m (ziyun)
• Italian: scopata (it) f, trombata (it) f, fottuta (it) f
• Korean: 빠구리 (ko) (ppaguri)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mızır

• Latin: futūtiō (la)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Navajo: jikʼeedgo
• Norwegian: knull n
• Pashto: غو m pl (γo), غوول (γowǝl)
• Polish: pierdolenie (pl) n, jebanie (pl) n, pieprzenie (pl) n, bzykanie (pl) n, posuwanie (pl) n, ruchanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: transa (pt) f
• Romanian: futere f
• Russian: е́бля (ru) f (jéblja), еба́ние (ru) n (jebánije)
• Sicilian: futtuta f, tignata f, trummata f
• Spanish: follando (es) f, jodiendo (es) f, (Mexico) chingando (es) f, (Mexico) cogiendo (es) f
• Swedish: ligg (sv) n

Adjective

fucking (not comparable)

2. (vulgar) An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically modifies.

   No fucking way.

   Synonyms: fecking, freaking, frigging, fuckening

   • 2006 March 6, Lauren Collins, quoting Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, “Last Bohemians”, in The New Yorker‎^[1]:

     “Every time it’s shown, I get e-mail from young guys who want to get it on with me,” she said. “Which is wonderful. I’m seventy-seven fucking years old.”

3. (vulgar) Offensive, annoying or worthless.

   Get your fucking car out of the way.

   Get me off your fucking mailing list.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:damned

Derived terms

• motherfucking

Descendants

• → Danish: fucking
• → Dutch: fucking
• → Swedish: fucking

Translations

as an intensifier

• Afrikaans: fokken
• Assamese: কেলা (kela), বালৰ (balor)
• Belarusian: яба́ны (jabány)
• Czech: kurva (cs) f, zasraný (cs)
• Danish: satans, helvedes
• Dutch: fucking (nl), focking, fakking, kanker (nl), kut (nl)
• Esperanto: fek-, damna
• Estonian: kuradima
• Finnish: vitun (fi), perkeleen, saatanan, helvetin (fi)
• French: (Europe) putain de (fr), (Canada) ostie de, (Canada) câlisse de
• German: (noun prefix) Scheiß- (de), fucking (de), verfickt (de)
• Greek: γαμημένος (el) (gamiménos)
• Greenlandic: -palaarsuaq
• Hebrew: מזדין (mizdayen)
• Hungarian: baszott, kibaszott (hu)
• Icelandic: helvítis
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: fottuto (it) m, cazzo di
• Japanese: no equivalent term in Japanese, but see
• Macedonian: е́бен m (ében)
• Northern Sami: helveha
• Norwegian: jævla
• Polish: jebany (pl) m, kurewski (pl) m, pierdolony (pl) m, zasrany (pl) m, cholerny (pl) m
• Portuguese: (slang, Brazil) puta (pt)
• Russian: ёбаный (ru) (jóbanyj), сра́ный (ru) (srányj)
• Sicilian: minchia (scn) di (scn) + (name of object) m or f, (name of object) m or f + di (scn) minchia (scn), (name of object) m or f + dâ (scn) minchia (scn); spacchiu di (scn) + (name of object) m or f, spacchimi di (scn) + (name of object) m or f
• Spanish: (Latin America) maldito (es), (Mexico) pinche (es), (Spain) puto (es), jodido (es)
• Swedish: jävla (sv)
• Thai: โคตร (th) (kôot), แม่โคตร
• Turkish: boktan (tr), lanet (tr), kahrolasıca, siktiğim, siktiğimin
• Ukrainian: ї́баний (jíbanyj)
• Yiddish: מסוכּן (mesukn)

offensive or worthless

• Bulgarian: шибан (šiban)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死 (zh) (sǐ), 破 (zh) (pò)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: -aĉ- (eo), aĉa (eo)
• Estonian: kuradima
• Finnish: vitun (fi), perkeleen, saatanan, helvetin (fi)
• French: putain de (fr) + (name of object) m or f, maudit (fr) m, maudite (fr) f + (name of object) (Québec), foutu (fr) m, foutue (fr) f + (name of object), sale (fr) m or f
• German: (noun prefix) Scheiß- (de)
• Greek: γαμημένος (el) (gamiménos)
• Hungarian: baszott, kibaszott (hu)
• Indonesian: sialan (id), keparat (id), brengsek (id), bedebah (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: cazzo di
• Japanese: 糞 (ja) (くそ)
• Northern Sami: helveha
• Norwegian: forpult
• Polish: jebany (pl) m, kurewski (pl) m, pierdolony (pl) m
• Portuguese: merda de + (name of object) m or f, porra de (pt) + (name of object) m or f, maldito (pt) m + (name of object) m, maldita (pt) f + (name of object) f
• Romanian: futut de m + (name of object), futută de f + (name of object), căcat de m + (name of object), în pula mea
• Russian: хуёвый (ru) (xujóvyj), ёбаный (ru) (jóbanyj), сра́ный (ru) (srányj)
• Sicilian: minchia (scn) di (scn) + (name of object) m or f, (name of object) m or f + di (scn) minchia (scn), (name of object) m or f + dâ (scn) minchia (scn); spacchiu di (scn) + (name of object) m or f, spacchimi di (scn) + (name of object) m or f
• Spanish: (Latin America) maldito (es), (Mexico) pinche (es), (Spain) puto (es), jodido (es)
• Swedish: jävla (sv), satans (sv)
• Thai: โคตร (th) (kôot)
• Turkish: pis (tr), kahrolası (tr), lanet olası, boktan (tr), sikindirik (tr)

Adverb

fucking (not comparable)

2. (vulgar) Really, very; having intensive force, often applying to the whole sentence or clause.
   • 2004, Tommy Lee with Anthony Bozza, Tommy Land, page 79:

     You've never seen a bunch of guys more fucking shocked to lose

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 81:

     A bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My reply is that you should fucking well have been there, and felt it for yourself.

Descendants

• → Danish: fucking
• → Dutch: fucking
• → Swedish: fucking
• → Icelandic: fokking

Translations

an intensifier

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: فشخ (fašḫ)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死 (zh) (sǐ), 他媽／他妈 (zh) (tāmā), 他妈 (zh) (tāmā)

• Esperanto: damne (eo), fek-
• Finnish: vittu (fi), vitun (fi)
• French: putain de (fr)
• Hebrew: אחושרמוטה (akhusharmúta)
• Hungarian: kurvára (hu), kibaszottul (hu), rohadtul
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: del cazzo, cazzo di
• Icelandic: fokking, andskotans
• Polish: kurwa (pl)
• Portuguese: puta (pt)
• Romanian: pula (ro)
• Russian: хуй (ru) (xuj)
• Sicilian: minchia (scn) di (scn) + (name of object) m or f, (name of object) m or f + di (scn) minchia (scn), (name of object) m or f + dâ (scn) minchia (scn); spacchiu di (scn) + (name of object) m or f, spacchimi di (scn) + (name of object) m or f
• Spanish: jodidamente (es), (Mexico, is used as adverb by some people even if identical to the adjective) pinche (es)
• Swedish: jävla (sv)
• Yiddish: מסוכּן (mesukn)

Infix

fucking

1. (vulgar) Alternative spelling of -fucking-, used when the word inflix is put between two words

   New Fucking York.

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 37:

     She had been, as I say, drinking all afternoon and she suddenly howled, ‘Ten o'clock! It's ten o'fucking clock! Why doesn't he come? Why in God's name doesn't he come?’ Something along those lines.

   • 1992, Roger Waters, in Q Magazine

     […] I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber.

   • 1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy (motion picture), spoken by Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams):

     If you wanted some background information on me, Holden, all you had to do was ask. I would have gladly volunteered it. You didn't have to go playing Hercule fucking Poirot!

   • 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by The Dude (Jeff Bridges):

     Far out, man. Far fucking out!

References

• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2009), The F Word, 3rd edition

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fucking.

Adjective

fucking (neuter fucking)

1. (slang, vulgar) fucking, intensifier, especially to indicate annoyance.
   • 2013, Lars AP, Fucking flink, Art People (→ISBN)

     For det er helt okay at udøve den danske nationalsport nr. 1: at brokke sig. Bare man gør det på en fucking flink måde. Guerillagartnere og guerilla-strikkere.

   • 2014, Christian Frost, Gud er bare hund stavet bagfra, Art People (→ISBN)

     Det kom fra hans far, som var en fucking bøsse.

   • 2014, Caroline Kepnes, DU, Politikens Forlag (→ISBN)

     “For helvede da, Karen! Fatter du ikke et vink med en fucking vognstang?

   Synonyms: fandens, sørens, helvedes

Adverb

fucking

1. (slang, vulgar, intensifier) fucking

   Synonym: fandens

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• fokking (homophonic modification)

Etymology

Borrowed from English fucking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʏ.kɪŋ/, /ˈfɑ.kɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: fuc‧king

Adjective

fucking (not comparable)

1. (slang, vulgar) fucking, intensifier, especially to indicate annoyance

   Die fucking klojo laat me niet met rust. ― That fucking asshole won't leave me alone.

Adverb

fucking

1. (slang, vulgar, intensifier) fucking

   Ik ga hier zo fucking hard op. ― I enjoy this so fucking much.

   Die nieuwe pooierbak ziet er fucking bruut uit. ― That new pimpmobile looks fucking bad-ass.

   De bedrijfsleider op haar werk is fucking lelijk. ― The company chief at her work is fucking ugly.

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from English fucking.

Adjective

fucking (not comparable)

1. (slang, vulgar, intensifier) fucking

   Synonym: verfickt

   • 2020 July 28, Uli Hannemann, “Die Wahrheit: Unser Dorf soll hässlicher werden”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Dabei fragt man sich hier jetzt schon, wie man den Wohnkomfort überhaupt noch mindern kann: Jede fucking Nacht, die ein hirnverbrannter Herrgott über diesen Amüsiertodesstreifen senkt, schreien Dealer und Obdachlose, Touristen und Jungberliner unten vor dem Fenster mit den Koksern oben auf der Dachterrasse wie am Spieß um die Wette.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fucking.

Adjective

fucking (not comparable)

1. (slang, vulgar) fucking, intensifier, especially to indicate annoyance

   Asså de där fucking råttorna ska dö! ― Ah, those fucking rats will die!

   Synonyms: jävla, helvetes, förbannad

Declension

No inflected forms.

Adverb

fucking (comparative mer fucking, superlative mest fucking)

1. (slang, vulgar) fucking, intensifier

   Han är så fucking jobbig, mammas död jag vill slakta han! ― He's so fucking annoying, I swear on my mother I want to kill him!

   Synonym: jävla