motherfucker

See also: mother-fucker and mother fucker

English

Alternative forms

• MF, mf, mofo, mothafucka, mothafucker, mothafugga, mothafuggah, mothafukka, mothahfuckah, mothahfucker, mothahfuggah, motherfucka, motherfuckah, mother-fucker, mother fucker, motherfugga, motherfukka, motherfukkah, motherfukker, muthafucka, mutha fucka, mutha phucka
• m*therfucker, motherf**ker, motherf****r (censored)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr

Proto-Germanic *mōdēr

Proto-West Germanic *mōder

Old English mōdor

Middle English moder

English mother

Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-

Proto-Germanic *fukkōną

Old English *fuccian

Middle English *fukken

English fuck

Latin -ariusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -er

English -er

English fucker

English motherfucker

Compound of mother +‎ fucker; attested since 1918. The injury comes from the implication of somebody sleeping with their own mother, but was probably not used literally until later.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mŭth'er-fŭk'er, mŭth'ŭ-fŭk'er
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌðəˌfʌkə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌðɚˌfʌkɚ/

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• Hyphenation: moth‧er‧fuck‧er

Interjection

motherfucker

1. (vulgar) Expressing dismay, discontent, or surprise.

   Synonyms: fuck, shit, son of a bitch, oh my God, Jesus Christ

Noun

motherfucker (plural motherfuckers)

1. (vulgar, offensive) An extremely contemptible, vicious or mean person.

   Up against the wall, motherfucker.

   There's an aggressive motherfucker!

   They're rapid motherfuckers!

   Motherfuckers don't take by chances.

   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., chapter 2 (pages 19–42), in Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Vintage edition (1991 paperback), London: Vintage Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 27:

     Roland Weary and the scouts were safe in a ditch, and Weary growled at Billy, ‘Get out of the road, you dumb motherfucker.’ The last word was still a novelty in the speech of white people in 1944. Itwas^[sic] fresh and astonishing to Billy, who had never fucked anybody — and it did its job. It woke him up and got him off the road.

   • 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson):

     English, motherfucker, do you speak it?

2. (vulgar) Any person, often but not always with the connotation that the person is disliked or is threatening.

   Check out this motherfucker.

   Look at that motherfucker.

   Which of those motherfuckers?

   What is it to these motherfuckers?

3. (vulgar) An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative.

   War is a motherfucker.

   Traffic congestion was a motherfucker.

   Possession of a firearm can be a motherfucker.

   Arsons are a total motherfucker.

   2. (with as or like, forming a compound unit adverbial intensifier) To an extreme degree.

      Coordinate terms: as fuck, as hell, as shit

      I jammed my finger in the door yesterday. It hurt like a motherfucker.

      You mess with me, and I will come at you like a motherfucker.

      It's hot as a motherfucker out here.

      They goin hard as a motherfucker out here.

4. (vulgar) A good very close friend or relative.

   How’ve you been, you crazy motherfucker?

   Who's hanging on motherfucker?

   The best one ever motherfuckers!

   Time for an invitation motherfuckers!

5. (vulgar, literally) One who engages in incest with their mother.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:motherfucker.
6. (vulgar, literally) One who engages in sex with a mother, not necessarily one's own.

Synonyms

• futhermucker (spoonerism)
• motherchucker, motherfouler, motherlicker, mothersucker (bowdlerizations)
• motherfunker, motherhumper, motherlover, mothertrucker (euphemistic)
• muhfugga, muthafucka (African American Vernacular)
• mofo, mf, MFer (shortenings)

Hypernyms

• inbreeder

Coordinate terms

• aunt fucker
• brotherfucker
• cousinfucker
• daughterfucker
• fatherfucker
• nephew fucker
• niece fucker
• sibling fucker
• sisterfucker
• sonfucker
• unclefucker
• child fucker

Derived terms

Derived terms

• motherfuck
• motherfucking
• muthafucka
• motherfuckery
• motherfuckerhood
• motherfuckerdom
• Shortenings: mofo, mug

Descendants

• → Mandarin: ㄇㄉㄈㄎ (mōdēfōkē) (Taiwan)

Translations

generic term of abuse

• Armenian: բոզի տղա (bozi tġa), բոզի տղեք pl (bozi tġekʻ), գանդոն (gandon)
• Assamese: মাকচুদাই (maksudai)
• Azerbaijani: gicdıllaq
• Belarusian: вы́радак (výradak)
• Bengali: মাদারচোদ (madarcōd)
• Bulgarian: шибаняк (bg) (šibanjak), копеле (bg) (kopele)
• Catalan: fill de puta m, malparit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 屌你老母 (diu² nei⁵ lou⁵ mou^5-2), 冚家鏟 / 冚家铲 (yue) (ham⁶ gaa¹ caan²)

  Mandarin: 肏你媽 / 肏你妈 (zh) (cào nǐ mā), 幹你娘 / 干你娘 (zh) (gàn nǐ niáng), 混蛋 (zh) (húndàn)

• Czech: zkurvysyn (cs) m, mamrd (cs) m, svině (cs) f, hajzl (cs)
• Danish: skiderik c, stodder (da) c
• Dutch: moederneuker (never used except to be funny), kankerlijer (nl) (more common), hoerenzoon (nl), hoerenjong (nl), klerelijer (nl), teringlijer (nl), tyfuslijer
• Esperanto: amovendistinido, amovendistinidino, bastardo (eo), bastardino
• Estonian: piider, munn (et), türapea, värdjas, sitapea
• Finnish: kusipää (fi), paskiainen (fi), mulkku (fi)
• French: fils de pute (fr) (son of a bitch), enculé de ta mère (fr), connard (fr) m, connasse (fr) f, brassière (fr)
• Galician: fillo de puta m, filla de puta f
• German: Hurensohn (de), Wichser (de), Scheißkerl (de), Drecksau (de), Nuttensohn
• Greek: καριόλης (el) (kariólis), παλιογαμιόλης (paliogamiólis), παλιοπαπάρας (paliopapáras), μαλάκας (el) (malákas)

  Ancient: μητροκοίτης m (mētrokoítēs)

• Gujarati: માદરચોદ (mādarcod) (strongly vulgar), માચોદ (mācod)
• Hebrew: בן זונה (he) (ben zona)
• Hindi: मादरचोद (mādarcod), कमीने (kamīne)
• Hungarian: anyaszomorító (hu), anyabaszó, köcsög (hu)
• Indonesian: keparat (id), bedebah (id), cukimai (id)
• Irish: mac soith m, mac soithe m
• Italian: figlio di puttana (it) (son of a bitch), pezzo di merda (piece of shit)
• Jamaican Creole: pussyhole
• Japanese: くそったれ (ja) (kusottare), 糞野郎 (くそやろう, kusoyarō), 下衆野郎 (げすやろう, gesuyarō), てめえ (ja) (temē)
• Javanese: mbokné ancok (East Java)
• Korean: 니기미 씹할놈 (nigimi ssiphallom) (literally), 개새끼 (ko) (gaesaekki), 개자식 (ko) (gaejasik) (both mean son of a bitch), 씨발놈 (ssiballom), 씹새끼 (ko) (ssipsaekki)
• Northern Kurdish: kîrquzdê (ku)
• Macedonian: ко́пиле n (kópile), пе́дер m (péder), мо́чко m (móčko), се́рко m (sérko)
• Malay: pukimak (ms)
• Malayalam: തായോളി (tāyōḷi)
• Nepali: माचिक्ने (mācikne)
• Norwegian: horunge (no) m, drittsekk m, rasshøl (no) n, jævel m
• Persian: مادر جنده (mâdar jende), مادر قحبه (mâdar qahbe)
• Polish: skurwysyn (pl) m pers, sukinsyn (pl) m pers, matkojebca (pl) m pers (literal calque), zasraniec (pl) m, chuj (pl) m, kutas (pl) m, gnój (pl) m, skurwiel (pl) m, dupek (pl) m, pizda (pl) f, fiut (pl) m, szmata (pl) f, złamas m, zjeb (pl) m, pojeb (pl) m, popierdoleniec (pl) m, jebaniec (pl) m, ciul (pl) m, wypierdek (pl) m
• Portuguese: filho da puta (pt), cabrão (pt) (Portugal), monte de merda (Portugal)
• Romanian: pulă bleagă (ro), futu-ți morții mă-tii, futu-ți pe mă-ta, nemernic (ro), nenorocit (ro)
• Russian: заёба m (zajóba), су́ка (ru) m or f (súka), ублю́док (ru) (ubljúdok), засра́нец (ru) m (zasránec), муда́к (ru) m (mudák), гад (ru) m (gad), пидора́с (ru) m (pidorás), пи́дор (ru) m (pídor), говню́к (ru) m (govnjúk), па́дла (ru) m or f (pádla), мудоёб (ru) m (mudojób), сво́лочь (ru) f (svóločʹ), су́ка (ru) m or f (súka), муди́ло (ru) n (mudílo), ебла́н (ru) m (jeblán), долбоёб m (dolbojób), муди́ла (ru) m or f (mudíla), урод (ru) m (urod), уёбок (ru) m (ujóbok)
• Serbo-Croatian: мамојебац, бабојебац, зајебант

  Roman: mamojebac, babojebac, zajebant (sh),

• Slovak: hajzel, zmrd m, sviňa (sk)
• Slovene: pizdun
• Spanish: hijo de puta (es) m, puta madre f, mal parido, huevón (es) m, pendejo (es) m, cojudo (es) m, cojonudo (es) m, trolazo m, rotocafé m (Latin America), hijo de la chingada (es) m (Mexico), cerdo (es) m (Central America), hijo de perra m
• Swedish: mammaknullare (literally, rarely used), jävel (sv) c (more common), horunge (sv) c, skitstövel (sv) c
• Tagalog: putang ina mo
• Turkish: orospu çocuğu (tr), piç (tr)
• Ukrainian: ублю́док m (ubljúdok)
• Vietnamese: địt con mẹ mày, đụ má mày (vi) (South Vietnam)

literally: One who engages in incest with their mother

• Finnish: äitinsä nussija
• German: Mutterficker m
• Polish: matkojebca (pl) m

literally: One who engages in sex with a mother, not necessarily one's own.

• Finnish: äidin nussija
• German: Mutterficker m
• Polish: matkojebca (pl) m

See also

• bastard
• inbred

Anagrams

• fothermucker