fuck you!, excl. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

fuck you! excl.

also f.u.! fuck yourself! f-you! uck you!

a general excl. of dismissal, contempt, I don’t believe you! go to hell! nonsense! don’t make me laugh!

1930		(con. 1918) J. Hanley German Prisoner 27: ‘Ah! uck you,’ growled O’Garra.
1935		H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) Ch. 13: ‘—— you,’ Gloria said.
1945		‘Horseferry Road’ in M. Page Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 114: Fuck you! I just came from the trenches in France, / Where [...] brave men were dying for shit-bags like you.
1951		S.J. Perelman letter 23 Nov. in Crowther Don’t Tread on Me (1987) 119: The phrase ‘Fuck you, big boy’ trembled on my lips.
1964		A. Baraka Slave in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Oh, fuck you, fuck you ... just fuck you, that’s all. Just fuck you!
1970		E. Tidyman Shaft 100: ‘Fuck you!’ he shouted.
1978		A. Burgess 1985 (1980) 149: Fuck you, matey.
1989		Pileggi & Scorsese Goodfellas [film script] 29: Fuck you, pay me.
1996		J. Cameron It Was An Accident 144: Fuck yourself is what I say.
1997		C. Hiaasen Lucky You 120: ‘Fuck yourself,’ said Chub, though secretly he worried that Bode might be right.
1999		Age (Melbourne) Good Weekend 20 Nov. 77/3: You feel the same generalized contempt for them [...] with their fat arses and shiny holsters carring their cups of tea and their little cakes. F... youse all!
2002		J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 83: You know what, Kansas? I really don’t give a rat’s fuck for what your precious woods think. As a matter of fact, fuck them, and if you have a problem with my choice of chess partners [...] then fuck you too!
2004		Shystie ‘Gutter’ 🎵 F.U. if you don’t like me.
2009		L. McIlvanney All the Colours 135: ‘Fuck you. [...] Smart cunt. Fuck you’.
2012		T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 188: He made sir sound like fuck you, shitheel.
2015		Capetown News 24 Online 30 May 🌐 Almost snow-white Springboks team is a big F-you to Madiba.
2023		Rayman & Blau Riker’s 45: ‘Look, man, fuck you. I’m not going through this shit no more’.

In exclamations

fuck you, Charley!

a general excl. of dismissal; often reversed as Chuck you, Farley!, but fooling no one.

1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 160: The term’s built-in aggression also is evident in such oft-heard expressions as fuck it, fuck you (Jack or Charlie).
1996		J. Patterson Thomas Berryman Number 134: That’s their way of saying fuck you, Charlie.
2004		E. Baker Ebenezer 121: ‘Fuck you, Charlie,’ said the it who’d become Gretchen.

fuck you, Jack(, I’m all right!) (also bugger you, George, I’m all right!) [orig. naut. catchphrase, denoting utter selfishness and disinterest in the plight of anyone else; general milit. use by WWI and thence to civilians; the best known use is bowdlerized in the film title I’m Alright, Jack (1959), which burlesqued bloody-minded industrial relations]

a general dismissive excl., don’t bother me! I don’t care!; also other exts., e.g. fuck you, Jack, I’ve got mine.

1921		N&Q 12 Ser. IX 417: The selfish would be rebuked with, ‘It’s all “---- you, Jack, I’m in the lifeboat” with you’.
1922		‘J.H. Ross’ Mint (1955) 122: Per ardua ad asbestos. What does that mean? All together after me, ‘Fuck you, Jack, I’m fireproof.’.
1937–84		Partridge DSUE (1984) 433/1: orig. nautical, late C.19; Services in WW1 [...] hence widespread.
1944		L. Glassop We Were the Rats 190: It’s the old army sayin’, ‘Bugger you, George, I’m all right’.
1949		K. Amis letter 6 Oct. in Leader (2000) 215: They now wire me to say that that will be quite all right, only they expect to make their choice on Saturday. In other words, fack you Jack.
1958		A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 114: In the army it was ‘F— you, Jack, I’m all right.’.
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 132: The Jack system, eh? Fuck you Jack, I’m all right.
1979		S. King Dead Zone (1980) 363: Does that sound like fuck you, Jack, I got mine, to you?
1989		(con. 1960) P. Theroux My Secret Hist. (1990) 105: I pulled my cap over my eyes and muttered, ‘Fuck you, Jack.’.
1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 160: The term’s built-in aggression also is evident in such oft-heard expressions as fuck it, fuck you (Jack or Charlie).
2000		(con. WWII) D. French Raising Churchill’s Army 128: The instinct for survival was epitomised in the immortal army principle, ‘Fuck you Jack, I’m all right.’.

fuck you very much!

sarcastic negation of SE thank you very much.

1974		Folk Speech of USAF Transport Pilots 94: I hate this fucking place This place sucks Fuck you very much Beautiful - just fucking beautiful.
1978		A. Maupin Tales of the City 70: Fuck you very much.
1993		E. Overmeyer Coll. Plays 11: HUNGRY MOTHER Fuck you very much. FREE LANCE Don't be bitter.
2004		S.J. Jordan Bipolar 29: [S]o thank you for sharing and fuck you very much.
2012		O. Tokai Social X 134: I can take care of myself and the production crew knew where I was as well as the shuttle driver, so fuck you very much.
2013		T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘Fuck you very much, gentlemen. Have a good one.’ I clipped a sharp one-fingered salute at them.