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fuck

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Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-
    Proto-Germanic *fukkōną
    Old English *fuccian
    Middle English *fukken
    English fuck

    From Middle English *fukken,[1] probably of Germanic origin: either from Old English *fuccian or Old Norse *fukka, both from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to strike, punch, stab”). Compare windfucker and its debated etymology.

    Possibly attested in a 772 C.E. charter that mentions a place called Fuccerham, which may mean "ham (“home”) of the fucker" or "hamm (“pasture”) of the fucker"; a John le Fucker in a record from 1278 may just be a variant of Fulcher; compare Fucher, Foker, etc.[2] The earliest unambiguous use of the word in a clearly sexual context, in any stage of English, appears to be in court documents from Cheshire, England, which mention a man called Roger Fuckebythenavele (possibly tongue-in-cheek or directly suggestive of a depraved sexual act) on 8 December 1310.[3][4] It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598.[5] Scots fuk or fuck is attested slightly earlier, probably reinforcing the Northern Germanic/Scandinavian origin theory. From 1500 onward, the word has been in continual use, superseding jape and sard and largely displacing swive.[2] See windfucker and fuckwind for more information.

    A range of folk-etymological backronyms, such as "fornication under consent of the king" and "for unlawful carnal knowledge", are all demonstrably false.

    Sense 10, from related sense feck.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    fuck (third-person singular simple present fucks, present participle fucking, simple past and past participle fucked)

    1. (vulgar, colloquial, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
      Synonyms: bang, do it, eff, have sex, hump, screw, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate
      Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.
    2. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
      Synonyms: bang, eff, give someone one, hump, ream, screw, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
      I really enjoyed fucking my girlfriend last night.
      • 1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb (Ted Levine):
        Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard. I'd fuck me so hard.
      • 2007, Lionel Shriver, The post-birthday world, →ISBN:
        She wanted to fuck him more than she had ever wanted to fuck any man in her life.
      • 2018 May 6, “Rudy Giuliani”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 5, episode 10, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
        They're both New Yorkers coasting on their reputations, they've both had three marriages, neither of them can shut up when in front of a camera, and perhaps most importantly, they both want to fuck Ivanka, which-which is weird for Trump because Ivanka is in his family, and it's weird for Giuliani because she isn't.
    3. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive or intransitive) To have penetrative sex, as opposed to oral sex or other sexual activities.
      We've done oral but never fucked.
      • 2019 September 4, Aiden Merchant, Kill for Them (A Collection), Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 226:
        “I didn't fuck him,” she said, simply.
        “Oral usually leads to that.”
        Ashley shrugged. “I was testing him.”
      • (Can we date this quote?), Adelynn Flowers, Large Erotica Compilation: 30 Erotic Stories, Aphrodite Publishing:
        "But Dan, I didn't fuck anybody, I swear, I only gave them bl ..., " I started.
    4. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To insert one's penis, a dildo, or other object, into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.
      We decided to switch things around and have him fuck me tonight.
      fuck me in the ass, really fuck my ass
      • 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...
      • 2019 September 25, April Lust, Outlaw in Black: A Dark Contemporary Bad Boy Motorcycle Club Romance, E-Book Publishing World Inc.:
        Her pussy had never taken this much cock in her entire life. […] Xander took the hint and began fucking her mouth with his fingers, moving both hands to the same rhythm while his cock gained even more speed and started moving the couch back a few inches with every push.  […]
    5. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
      I'm afraid they're gonna fuck you on this one.
      I'll be concerned if someone is about to fuck with that.
    6. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
      Synonyms: fuck over, screw, screw over
      I got fucked at the used car lot.
      They fucked us during a checkout.
    7. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
      Synonyms: bugger, eff, to hell with, screw
      Fuck those jerks, and fuck their stupid rules!
      • 1983 December 9, Scarface, spoken by Tony Montana (Al Pacino):
        Fuck the fuckin' Diaz Brothers, I bury those cockroaches!
      • 2010, “The Pope Song”, Tim Minchin (music)‎[2]:
        If he covered for a single motherfucker who's a kiddy-fucker, / fuck the motherfucker, he's as evil as the rapist.
      • 2010 August 19, “Fuck You”, performed by Cee Lo Green:
        I see you driving 'round town with the girl I love / and I'm like, "Fuck you!"
      • 2011, James D. Hornfischer, “28: Into the Light”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal‎[3], New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, retrieved 21 November 2022, pages 273–274:
        The Atlanta was swinging through her own turn to avoid a collision with the van when the searchlight, probably from the destroyer Akatsuki, lit upon her from abaft the port beam. Captain Jenkins reacted as commanders had been trained in peacetime: "Counter-illuminate!" he shouted. His gunnery officer, Lieutenant Commander William R. D. Nickelson, Jr., preferred to respond with other hardware. At once he shouted into his headset mike: "Fuck that! Open fire!"
    8. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive, usually followed by up) To break, to destroy.
      Synonyms: annihilate, obliterate, ruin; see also Thesaurus:destroy
      • 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...
      • 2004, S. Andrew Swann, Hostile Takeover‎[4]:
        She knew something had fucked the plan when she grabbed the headset off the door.
      • 2002, Peter Hawes, Royce, Royce, the people's choice‎[5]:
        Here we are a mile out to sea and you've fucked the motor.
      • 2016, John Peaseland, Astrum Vermis‎[6]:
        The symbols, all warnings of impending doom, might well have read: “You have fucked the engine, you arsehole.
    9. (vulgar, colloquial) Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
      Synonyms: mess, toy
      • 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.
    10. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive, Ireland, UK) To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
      Synonym: feck
      He fucked the dirty cloth out the window.
      She fucked her mobile at his head in anger.
    11. (Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, transitive, military slang) To scold.
      The sergeant fucked me upside down.
    12. (vulgar, colloquial, intransitive) To be very good, to rule, go hard.
      Yo dude, did you check out their new album? Shit fucks bro.
      • 2022, “Snack Video Games”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver‎[7]:
        It's true. For 6 weeks in 1996, Chex Cereal fucked.

    Conjugation

    Conjugation of fuck
    infinitive (to) fuck
    present tense past tense
    1st-person singular fuck fucked
    2nd-person singular fuck, fuckest† fucked, fuckedst†
    3rd-person singular fucks, fucketh† fucked
    plural fuck
    subjunctive fuck fucked
    imperative fuck —
    participles fucking fucked

    †Archaic or obsolete.

    Translations

    to insert an object into a specified body part
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    Noun

    fuck (plural fucks)

    1. (vulgar, colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation
      • 1975, Alexander Buzo, Tom, page 11:
        No, but I've got a film of a couple of crocodiles having a fuck.
      • 2001, Thomas Kelly, The Rackets‎[8], MysteriousPress.com, published 2012, →ISBN:
        He could count on a good fuck with Lorene later on.
      • 2012, Heather Rutman, The Girl's Guide to Depravity: How to Get Laid Without Getting Screwed‎[9], Running Press, published 2012, →ISBN:
        Are guys so intimidated by a girl who's totally blunt about the fact that she just wants a good fuck that they can't perform?
    2. (vulgar, colloquial) A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sexual partner
      • 1999, Joe Eszterhas, Basic Instinct (motion picture), spoken by Nick Curran (Michael Douglas):
        Let me ask you something, Rocky, man to man. I think she's the fuck of the century, what do you think?
      • 2005, Jaid Black, Strictly Taboo‎[10], Berkley Sensations, published 2005, →ISBN:
        In his mind, she was probably just another fuck, but in hers it had meant so much more than that.
      • 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...
      • 2008, Nicole Galland, Crossed, Harper, published 2008, →ISBN, page 32:
        “He'd rather have his favorite fuck with him on the greatest adventure of his life than pay money to lie with ugly strangers. […]
    3. (vulgar, colloquial) A highly contemptible person.
      Synonyms: dickhead; see also Thesaurus:jerk
      • 1965, Gershon Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor:
        Finally he gets up his courage, crosses over to her and says in her ear, "Hello, Beautiful. Whaddya say to a little fuck?" She measures him coolly with her eyes. "Hello, little fuck."
      • 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.
      • 2016, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol.26: Call to Arms:
        You sick fuck. Tear my pants off, prick. See what I got. I'll knock your fucking teeth out with my swinging dick! Last chance... you force yourself into that woman... and I'll force this knife into your dick hole!
    4. (vulgar, colloquial, chiefly in the negative) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
      Synonyms: shit, damn
      I don't give a fuck.
      • 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Elaaden:
        Ryder: You know, it's hard to calculate how few fucks I give about Tann's opinion.
      • 2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue‎[11]:
        Brit-pop, broadly speaking, was whimsical and essentially polite. Oasis were brash, lawless, and comprehensively out of fucks.
    5. (vulgar, colloquial) Semen.
      • 1866, The Romance of Lust, quoted in 2023, 12 Masterpieces of Erotic literature […] (Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing):
        Of course the cunt full of fuck only excited him the more, and he very soon racked off to her great satisfaction, and was dismissed, leaving the rooms vacant for the two at eleven. As there was not five minutes to spare she ran to No. 3, […]
      • (Can we date this quote?) Marquis de Sade, 120 Days of Sodom (2013 edition by Simon and Schuster: →ISBN):
        She would raise her skirts, display her ass, and the libertine, all smiles, would spray his fuck upon it. A fourth required the same preliminaries, but as soon as the strokes of the cane began to rain down upon his back, he would frig himself […]
      • 1993, "Farmer's Step-daughter" in alt.sex.stories (Usenet):
        She had thought often about what it would be like to let [him] shoot a full load of his fuck into her face. […] She felt the warm fuck filling her mouth, coating her tongue and draining back toward her throat.

    Derived terms

    Translations

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    Interjection

    fuck

    1. (vulgar) A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
    2. (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.
      Synonyms: fark, feck, fook, frick, fsck; see also Thesaurus:dammit
      Oh, fuck! We left the back door unlocked.
      Fuck! Why do you have to be so difficult all the time?
      Oh, fuck! I forgot to pay that parking ticket and now they want me to appear in court!
    3. (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing surprise or enjoyment.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:wow
      Fuck! That movie was good!

    Synonyms

    Descendants

    • Tok Pisin: fak
    • →⇒ Afrikaans: fok
    • → Chinese: 法克 (fǎkè)
    • → French: fuck, fucker
    • → Icelandic: fokk
    • → Irish: foc
    • → Japanese: ファック (fakku)
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: fucke, føkke
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: fucka, føkka
    • → Pitcairn-Norfolk: fak
    • → Russian: фак (fak)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: fak, фак
    • → Welsh: ffwcio

    Translations

    Adverb

    fuck (not comparable)

    1. (vulgar, colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no".
      Synonyms: hell, god, shit, heck
      Do you censor your swearing? – Fuck no.
    2. (UK, Ireland, vulgar, colloquial) Used after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically negate the verb.
      Synonyms: heck, buggery
      Do I want to? Do I fuck!
      They're your friends, aren't they? – Are they fuck my friends.

    Particle

    fuck

    2. (vulgar, slang, especially African-American Vernacular) Used as a shortened form of various common interrogative phrases.
      Synonym: the fuck
      People complainin' "Monday again"... course it's Monday; fuck you thought came after Sunday? Sunday Jr.?
      What the fuck did you think came after Sunday?
      Of course it's the mailman. Fuck you thought it was?
      Who the fuck did you think it was?

    Derived terms

    • fym, FYM (“fuck you mean”)
    • fytb, FYTB (“fuck you talking about”)

    Derived terms

    References

    1. ^ Not directly attested, but found in names, and in code hybridized with Latin in c. 1475, Flen flyys (Hrl 3362), page 91: Fratres Carmeli navigant in a bothe apud Eli, / Non sunt in cœli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk [=fuccant uuiuys of Heli]. / Omnes drencherunt, quia sterisman non habuerunt, / Fratres cum knyvys goth about and txxkxzv nfookt xxzxkt [=suuiuyt mennis uuyuis].
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Anatoly Liberman (2008) “FUCK”, in An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction‎[1], Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, pages 78-87
    3. ^ The earliest use of the F-word discovered, Medievalists.net, 2015-09-10
    4. ^ Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith, "Historian understood to have found first use of word f*** in 1310 English court case", The Independent, 13 September 2015
    5. ^ 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

    Further reading

    Anagrams

    Danish

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English fuck.

    Particle

    fuck

    1. (swear word) Expresses dislike of the postpositive complement.
      • 2017, Peder Frederik Jensen, Skullfucking, Rosinante & Co, →ISBN:
        Fuck jeres utopi. / Fuck jeres reservepræster, selvudnævnte biskopper uden liturgi.
        Fuck your utopia / Fuck your reserve priests, self-proclaimed bishops without liturgy.
      • 2011, Lyngby Bibliotek, Oprør, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 69:
        Fuck jer! Fuck jer! Og fuck jeres Gud!
        Fuck you! Fuck you! And fuck your God!

    Scots

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    From Middle Scots fuk, from Early Scots *fuken (“to copulate”), from Middle English *fukken, *fuken, probably of North Germanic origin: possibly from Old Norse *fukka, from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną.

    Verb

    fuck (third-person singular simple present fucks, present participle fuckin, simple past fucked, past participle fucked)

    1. (vulgar, slang) to fuck
      • c. 1510, William Dunbar, A Brash of Wowing:
        He clappit fast, he kist and chukkit, / As with the glaikis he wer ouirgane, / Ȝit be his feirris he wald have fukkit; / ‘Ȝe brek my hart, my bony ane!’
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