fuck
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English *fukken,[1] probably of North Germanic origin: possibly from Old Norse *fukka, from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną. Related to dialectal Norwegian fukka (“to copulate; fuck”), Bohuslän Swedish fokka (“to fuck; thrust; push”) (a sense possibly preserved in English windfucker), Faroese fukka, modern Swedish focka (“to fire from work”), Swedish fock (“penis”), as well as German ficken (“fuck; rub, slide”) (Middle High German ficken (“to rub, solidify, strengthen”)) and Dutch fokken (“to breed”) (Middle Dutch fokken (“to breed, bump, fuck”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- ("to strike, punch, stab", whence Latin pugnus (“fist”) and many other words).
Possibly attested in a 772 AD 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, like 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 December 8, 1310.[3][4] It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598.[5] (Scots fuk/fuck is attested slightly earlier.) From 1500 onward, the word has been in continual use, and displaced jape, sard, and swive.[2]
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
- (UK, US) enPR: fŭk, IPA(key): /fʌk/, [fʌkʰ]
- (some Northern English accents) enPR: fo͝ok, IPA(key): /fʊk/
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Verb
fuck (third-person singular simple present fucks, present participle fucking, simple past and past participle fucked)
- (vulgar, colloquial) To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.
- (vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
- Synonyms: bang, eff, give someone one, hump, ream, screw, shag; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- 1991, Ted Levine as Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb, The Silence of the Lambs, written by Ted Tally:
- 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, John Oliver, “Rudy Giuliani”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 5, episode 10, 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.
- (vulgar, colloquial) To insert one’s penis, 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...
- (vulgar, colloquial) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
- I'm afraid they're gonna fuck you on this one.
- (vulgar, colloquial) To defraud or otherwise treat badly.
- I got fucked at the used car lot.
- Don't fuck with me.
- (vulgar, colloquial, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with someone or something.
- 1983 December 9, Al Pacino as Tony Montana, Scarface:
- Fuck the fuckin' Diaz Brothers, I bury those cockroaches!
- 2010, Tim Minchin (music), “The Pope Song”[1]:
- 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!"
- (vulgar, colloquial, 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[2]:
- She knew something had fucked the plan when she grabbed the headset off the door.
- 2002, Peter Hawes, Royce, Royce, the people's choice[3]:
- Here we are a mile out to sea and you've fucked the motor.
- 2016, John Peaseland, Astrum Vermis[4]:
- The symbols, all warnings of impending doom, might well have read: “You have fucked the engine, you arsehole.
- (vulgar, colloquial) Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
- 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.
- (vulgar, transitive, comedy) To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.
- (colloquial, vulgar, transitive, Ireland, Scotland) 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.
Translations
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Noun
fuck (plural fucks)
- (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, MysteriousPress.com (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- 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, Running Press (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- 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?
- (vulgar, colloquial) A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sexual partner
- 1999, Michael Douglas as Nick Curran, Basic Instinct, written by Joe Eszterhas:
- 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, Berkley Sensations (2005), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- 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 (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. […]
- (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.
- (vulgar, colloquial) A thing of no value, a small amount.
- Synonym: shit
- I don't give a fuck.
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Interjection
fuck
- (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.
- Synonyms: fark, feck, fook, frick; see also Thesaurus:dammit
- Oh, fuck! We left the back door unlocked.
- Fuck! Why do you have to be so difficult all the time?
Translations
Adverb
fuck (not comparable)
- (vulgar, colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no".
Derived terms
- assfuck
- buttfuck
- clusterfuck
- fanfuckingtastic
- for fuck's sake
- fuck about
- fuck all
- fuck around
- fuck book
- fuckbuddy
- fucked in the head
- fucked-up
- fucked up
- fuckhead
- fuckhole
- fuckhoofd
- fuckhouse
- -fucking-
- fucking
- fucking A
- fuckish
- fuck it
- fuckknuckle
- fuck like a mink
- fuck like rabbits
- fuckload
- fuckmachine
- fuckmate
- fuck-me
- fuck me
- fucknut
- fuck off
- fuck over
- fuckover
- fuckpad
- fuckroom
- fuck someone off
- fuck someone over
- fuck someone up
- fuckspeak
- fucktard
- fuck the dog
- fucktoy
- fuckup
- fuck up
- fuckwad
- fuckwit
- fuck with
- fuck you
- give a fuck
- go fuck yourself
- hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire
- how the fuck
- infuckingcredible
- mercy fuck
- mindfuck
- motherfucker
- pigfucker
- thank fuck
- the fuck
- the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get
- what the fuck
- when the fuck
- where the fuck
- whore-fucking
- who the fuck
- why the fuck
Related terms
Particle
fuck
- (vulgar, slang, especially African-American Vernacular) Used as a shortened form of various common interrogative phrases.
- 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?
References
- Sheidlower, Jesse, The F Word (1999) →ISBN.
- “Fuck” in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, 2004, →ISBN.
- ^ 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].
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Anatoly Liberman (2008), “FUCK”, in An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, pages 78-87
- ^ The earliest use of the F-word discovered, Medievalists.net, 2015-09-10
- ^ Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith, "Historian understood to have found first use of word f*** in 1310 English court case", The Independent, 13 September 2015
- ^ 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
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Particle
fuck
- (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.
- Fuck jeres utopi. / Fuck jeres reservepræster, selvudnævnte biskopper uden liturgi.
- 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!
- Fuck jer! Fuck jer! Og fuck jeres Gud!
- 2017, Peder Frederik Jensen, Skullfucking, Rosinante & Co (→ISBN)
Scots
Alternative forms
Verb
fuck (third-person singular present fucks, present participle fuckin, past fucked, past participle fucked)
- (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!’
- c, 1510, William Dunbar, ‘A Brash of Wowing’:
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