Green’s Dictionary of Slang

sex appeal.

1969		P. Manso Running against the Machine 285: I asked Norman [Mailer] what he thought of their fuckability quotient.
1978		T. Marenna Studio 171: Julie Christie [...] exudes more sex (fuckability) than any actress around.
1984		R. Boycott Nice Girl Like Me 62: The closest the index came to mentioning women's liberation was the ‘Female Fuckability Test’.
a.1990		M. Ritt in Ritt & Miller Martin Ritt (1914–1990) Interviews (2003) 202: There are a lot of great actors who are not, never will be movie stars. Want to know what makes a movie star? It’s fuckability. It’s having what I call high fuckability.
1992		M. Leyner Et Tu, Babe (1993) 126: I don’t think that those folks wrote to enhance their fuckability.
1999		Guardian Rev. 15 Oct. 3: I was told point blank that I had no ‘fuckability’ quotient.
2003		G. Tate Midnight Lightning 16: The apex of animal magnatism and fuckability in American pop is a skinny (white) guy with a screaming guitar.
2012		Guardian On Line 16 Oct. 🌐 The very phrase ‘yummy mummy’ leaks bile, marking mothers on their fuckability and almost always sneeringly deployed.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 229: ‘Listen, girls, defamation law, contempt of court the inverted pyramid, they’re all important. But it counts for nothing without fuckability’.

1. sexually desirable.

1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) XI 2253: How fine and firm and fuckable are these country wenches, what juicy cunts.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 137: Foutable, adj. Desirable; ‘fuckable’.
c.1900		‘Ramrod’ Nocturnal Meeting 84: It was likely to be eminently fuckable for many a year yet.
1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS 122: Fuckable A sexually attractive person, female.
1974		J. Lahr Hot to Trot 15: ‘I’d like to dip my wick into that.’ ‘Fuckable.’.
1987		S. Hite Hite Report on Male Sexuality 111: They’re really nice and fuckable all the time, but when they grow old, they are not worth looking at.
1995		C. Hiaasen Stormy Weather 6: All the fuckable Kennedys travelled up to Hyannis.
2004		H. Walsh Brass 21: And how a simple course of lazer treatment would [...] transform her from an unfuckable attractive lady to a fuckable stunner.
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 48: ‘You are unbelievably fuckable,’ he says.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 229: ‘To make it in this game [i.e. TV], women have to be fuckable’.
2021		T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] How do I look, laughable or fuckable?

2. (US campus) sexually available.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 89: fuckable 1. willing to be ass-fucked.

one who is obsessed with having sexual relations.

1981		D. Jenkins Baja Okla. 246: He’s just a fuckaholic, is all he is [HDAS].
1985		R.R. Ward Fuckers 🌐 I was’t just a casual or social fucker. I was a Fuckaholic.
2002		WC ‘Flirt’ 🎵 I got a problem, and it’s serious as cancer. / No matter what you call it baby I’m a fuckaholic.

see separate entries.

(orig. US) a long sexual encounter or orgy.

1991		D. Jenkins You Gotta Play Hurt 271: ‘Good to see you! I want you to promise me you’ll come to Palm Springs, sweetie. We’ll have an old-fashioned fuck-a-thon’ .
2002		www.suze-centerfolds.com 🌐 Among so many other feathers in her cap was the web cam fuckathon with a lead performer in the rock band Motley Crue.

sexual intercourse.

1663

Head Hic et Ubique I vi: Fuy by St. Patrick agra, he put de fuckation upon me weef.

an act of sex performed by one or more couples, thus an orgy.

1950		Crime Smashers Oct. 27: [comic] You’ll have to confess you were indulging in fuckery with a boy friend!
1961		J. Ashmead The Mountain and the Feather 132: By definition, homosexuals did not speak endlessly and monotonously of the drab arts of fuckery.
1969		Nation 260-83 272: He is testing his characters right the way through [...] following them assiduously through the pleasures. which mostly read like ordeals of fuckery in Paddo bedrooms.
1974		New Society 29 170: Now, although she assesses herself a unique phoenix of fuckery, Ms [Linda] Lovelace does only what any accomplished whore is expected to do.
1975		London Mag. 15 32: No one must be kept outside the game: child molesters, voyeurs, pederasts, potent and impotent, young and old, it is a free-for-all; everyone gets the gift of a ticket to enter the mindless world of indiscriminate fuckery.

sexually forward.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1969		‘Iceberg Slim’ Mama Black Widow 199: She’s acting fuckish tonight.

a copulator.

1899

Crissie 149: ‘By god, you are a lightning fuckist!’.

1. of a woman, sexually desirable.

1870		Cythera’s Hymnal 61: She’s spend and fart and shudder and bound, / My fucksome little Sally.
c.1900		‘Ramrod’ Nocturnal Meeting 41: Here’s a couple of loving and most fucksome women.
1937–84		Partridge DSUE (1984) 443/1: C.19–20.
2002		D. Goode Goodheart and The Pagan Princess Ch. 9 🌐 My eyes roved, picking out the more voluptuous and fucksome members of the crowd—those with firm, youthful tits and lightly-furred slits.

2. of an inanimate object, sexually arousing.

1902

G.R. Bacchus Confessions of Nemesis Hunt 2: When you start talking of fucksome drinks [...] take one quart bottle of champagne and four eggs. Divide bottle into four large glasses, break egg in each, and drink, then fuck!

a promiscuous man; occas. woman; thus fuckstering, copulating.

1676–84		‘Acrostick’ British Museum Additional Mss 34362.47: Each F–ster now this title’s grown so mean Rules his dull Whore & calls her Mazareen.
1687		‘Lovers’ Session’ in Wilson Court Satires of the Restoration (1976) 185: It’s unjust the fair sexes’ pride / Should run any risk with a fuckster untried.
1867		E. Sellon Ups & Downs of Life (1996) 110: Gentlemen, I leave such illicit pleasures to the clergy; as for me, I’m a mere fuckster. I like women, and I have them.
1868		The Index Expurgatorius of Martial [trans.] 33: You gamahuche, you do not poke my woman, and you brag about it as if you were her gallant and a fuckster.
1881		Amatory Experiences of a Surgeon 13: A tremendous lunge from the now dreadfully excited fuckster overturned the obstacle with a loud crash.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) III 552: She was a glorious fuckster; her cunt was tight inside, and yet so elastic as not to hurt or pinch.
1892		‘Lais Lovecock’ Bagnio Misc. 30: There was a house directly opposite to mine in which lived my former fuckster [...] He had taken the precaution to hide his light.
1902		Baumann Londinismen 70/2: fuckster P[opulär] unzüchtig: Ficker.
c.1935		Jem Wide Open in C.J. Scheiner Essential Guide to Erotic Literature I (1996) 242: As already explained, the voyeurs are persons, male or female, who do not care to be active participants in the party, but are content, and willing to pay, to assist passively at the spectacle offered by the real fucksters.
1990		Footlicker 62: Rocked her shoulders and threw back her sweat-drenched ponytail out at Marlborough’s fuckstering face.

1. a prostitute.

1868		The Index Expurgatorius of Martial 5: Fututor, ‘a fuckster.’ There is an auxesis in the term ‘fuckster’, applied to a woman, who ought to be called a ‘fuckstress’, but Martial calls her ‘a fuckster’, to brand her turpitude more signally; and this term is specially applied to tribades by Martial, for he constantly says of them that they ‘fuck’.
1999		Roger’s Profanisaurus 3 in Viz 98 Oct. 9: Covent Garden nunn. A fuckstress; a Fulham virgin. A prostitute.

2. a female sexual sophisticate.

1883		Boudoir (1984) VI 217: I’m spending...I’m coming...I spend!’ ‘And so do I...Ah! I can’t keep up...any longer...my darling!...my FUCKSTRESS...I...I spend...take it all...take all my SPUNK!
1884		Randiana 127: What a deep-drawn sigh of delight, my fresh fuckstress gave, as she heaved up her buttocks and felt my charger rush up to the very extremity of her burning sheath.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) V 894: As a fuckstress she was perfection. Rarely have I found such an exquisite fitting cunt.
1899		Horn Book: A Girl’s Guide to the Knowledge of Good and Evil Dialogue III 71: The man need not fear that his fuckstress will fall backwards, and if she did, she would fall upon him and not hurt herself.
1941		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 58: A talented Fuckstress, Miss Chisholm, / Was renowned for her fine paroxysm.
1990		Footlicker 77: Verushka and I will be waiting for your report on that little psychofuckstress.

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‘An impotent or almost impotent man whom none but a beggar-woman will allow to “kiss” her’ (Grose, 1785).

1785, 1788, 1796

Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

see fuck-me eyes under fuck-me adj.

a male or female masturbator.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

see separate entry.

1. (W.I., Jam.) promiscuous.

1980		(con. 1950s) M. Thelwell Harder They Come 68: She not to be confused with dem little droopy drawers fuck-a-bush gal.
1983		T. White Catch a Fire 57: A ‘foo-foo’ (foolish) country waif naïve enough to believe his ‘fuck-a-bush’ (backwoods seduction) talk of love!

2. as derog.

1983

T. White Catch a Fire 262: These fuck-a-bush ghetto rats [...] hum a few bars of some gully ditty, and they get sainted.

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(US black) to walk.

1968

J. Colebrook Cross of Lassitude 36: He is glad to be able to report: ‘Here Stretch fuckin’ along’.

pornographic.

1975		Ribald (Sydney) 13 Nov. 4/3: [W]e encourage other carnal photo connoisseurs who may be hoarding nude and or, fuck’n’suck photos of other famous dream girls.
1980		L. Lovelace Ordeal (1981) 197: Director Arthur Marks came over to us. ‘Okay, Linda,' he said, `get ready for the fuck-and-suck scenes’.

see separate entries.

to waste, to squander.

1975

S.P. Smith Amer. Boys 171: The others...fucked their bread away on booze [HDAS].

see knock into a cocked hat under knock into v.

to copulate enthusiastically.

1972		R.A. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words.
1977		(con. 1949) J.G. Dunne True Confessions (1979) 95: She fucks like a bunny rabbit, they tell me.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 291: I shall fuck fuck fuck like a bunny!
2005		B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 220: She fucks like a rabbit.

(Aus./US) of a woman, to copulate enthusiastically.

c.1930		(ref. to mid-19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 26: He [...] fucked like a mink.
1974		(con. 1940s) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 223: But, man, she fucked like a greased mink!
1977		Maledicta 1 (Summer) 17: If she is willing, [...] she’s got fire in her pants, she’s an angel looking for Peter, and she fucks like a mink.
2004		Urban Dict. 🌐 Debbi was picked from a bunch of Groupies to be a Band Aid because she fucks like a mink.

to copulate enthusiastically; often used of a woman who is presumed to be a sexual enthusiast, usu. in phr. I bet she...

c.1943		S .J. Baker Aus. Vulgarisms [t/s] 9: fuck like a rattlesnake: To coit vigorously and enthusiastically.
1969		B. Humphries Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 71: The Pope’s a Jew if that jam tart doesn’t root like a rattlesnake.
1997		Solar Project ‘Zeitgest’ 🎵 on ...in Time [album] Group grope, bunch punch / Gang bang, daisy chain / Leg work, Swedish culture, S & M / We are shagging like wild rattlesnakes / We bang like the shithouse door in a gale.
2003		BootPigJoseph ‘Cousins in Boots’ at SkinMarvin.com 🌐 Bill fucks like a rattlesnake and I enjoy it.

to copulate enthusiastically.

1996

K. Tindall ‘Estrangements’ at Hedge.com 🌐 A MOT WHOSE CUNT IS READY TO BITE HER ARSE NEEDS A COVE WHO FUCKS LIKE A STOAT. The laughter was somewhat less nervous. Ulla was blushing to the roots of her hair.

to masturbate.

1997		‘Q’ Deadmeat 107: The guy i was sharing a cell with, every time he went for a shower said, ‘I’m goin to fuck Mrs Palmer.’ [...] What would you do? It’s either that or another man.
2000–02		Amatory Ink 🌐.

see separate entries.

to copulate enthusiastically, usu. from the male point of view.

c.1936		in P. Smith Letter from My Father (1978) 367: I never left the hotel from one day to the other just laying there fucking my head off.
1969		‘Iceberg Slim’ Mama Black Widow 164: Them freak bitches [...] humping their asses off for the paddy pimp.
1977		J. Sayles Union Dues (1978) 366: You wanna go back [...] hump your little ass off with the college boys.
1979		T. Alibrandi Killshot 80: I don’t want you fucking away your brains and energy.
1992		R.C. Cruz Straight Outta Compton 82: He did me good. But I asked for it. You can fuck yo’ ass off, he says.

to masturbate.

1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) III 445: ‘As you won’t let me fuck you, I’ll frig myself.’ Suiting the action to the word I began fist-fucking.
1948		(con. 1900s) in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 634: Oh mamma, mamma, look at Sis, / Out in the back yard fuckin’ her fist!
1952		in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 767: Gents to the center and fuck your fist.
1966		B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 222: If I had a been strong like Samson, I’d a broke this damned door down, / I’d of fucked that lovely maiden and beat it out of town. / But therefore I was not Samson, so I fucked my fist once more, / but I taken good aim and shot it — through this keyhole in this door.
1971		(con. WWII) B. Aldiss Soldier Erect 80: Take the advice of an old soldier [...] Fuck your fist [...] Honeymoon in the hand.
1988		‘Victoria Parker’ Incest Schoolgirls 🌐 Mr. Davidson whacked his cock, pumped his prick, drubbed his dick. He fucked his fist in a fast jack-jerk.
1991		Horny Peeping Sister n.p.: Tom bucked his hips forward, fucking his fist. Pre-cum dripped from his fingers and dribbled down into the alley.
2005		‘Paul G.’ ‘My Truck Drivin’ Brother’ at Literotica.com 🌐 My brother kept on fucking his fist a minute more and came inside his hand.

1. to break down; thus fucked out, usu. of a man, exhausted by an excess of intercourse [on pattern of SE wear out].

1977		in K. Gilbert Living Black 65: They moved us to A division. It was so ... oh, it fucked me right out.
1988		N. Eastwood Gardener Got Her n.p.: ‘Yeah, Mike, give it to her!’ he panted. ‘This little lady can’t get enough!’ ‘Tell me about it,’ Mike said. ‘She fucked me out this afternoon.’.

2. to be sexually unfaithful [to have sex ‘out’ of the house, ‘out’ of one’s relationship].

1984

L. McCorkle Cheer Leader 15: ‘I cannot tell a lie’ is important and fucking out on Martha is not [HDAS].

3. to irritate, to annoy.

2012

(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 328: Don’t fuck Chef out, mate, he’s a real bastard.

4. see fuck off v.

1. to cheat someone.

1934		H. Miller Tropic of Cancer (1963) 54: One by one I’ve fucked myself out of all those free meals which I had planned so carefully.
1949		H. Miller Sexus (1969) 287: And then, b’Jesus, almost fucking me out of a job!
1959		W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 203: You’re trying to fuck me out of my commission.
1962		(con. 1940s) G. Mandel Wax Boom 189: Miss Lily, I believe I’ve been fucked out of some pay.
1973		G.V. Higgins Digger’s Game (1981) 123: You just fuck me out if a ten-K contract onna Greek.
1984		D. Jenkins Life Its Ownself (1985) 87: Offensive holding [...] was something a zebra called when it was time to fuck you out of your bet but win him his.
2006		C. Valentine Better Days Ahead 377: Tell him how you fucked me out of my share of the inheritance.
2008		J. Niven Kill Your Friends (2009) 21: Most beasts of Nicky’s stripe get thrown the odd break —the big tits, say [...] Nicky got fucked out of the lot.

2. (Irish) to eject, to throw out.

2000

P. Howard Miseducation of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (2004) 20: Me, Sophie, Amy, and clarinet Deirdre got focked out of the one [i.e. a café] in Donnybrook last week for ordering, like, a Diet Coke between us.

see separate entries.

to treat with deliberate hostility, to degrade.

1977

E. Torres Q&A 58: You got ten big ones—in cash—when you find me Roger Montalvo. We will fuck Reilly in the ass.

see under brain n.¹

see face-fuck v.

see fuck (with) someone’s mind under fuck with v.

(orig. US) usu. of a man, to have energetic sexual intercourse, to make someone the object of one’s enthusiastic or aggressive love-making; often in wishful phr. voiced by a man of a passing woman, I could/I’d like to fuck the arse off that.

1899		Crissie 108: All the other men [...] who, like him, could boast that they had helped to ‘fuck the arse off the bloody cow’.
1949		H. Miller Sexus (1969) 352: You wait, you lovely bitch ... I’ll fuck the ass off you.
c.1950		Nunnery versus Fuckery 38: He was going to fuck the arse off her and he licked his lips as he thought of it.
1964		H. Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn 156: He soliloquised about [...] how many more women who damned near fucked the ass offim.
1967		J. Orton Diaries (1986) 18 Dec. 188: I have fucked the arses off aging queens quite easily.
1975		J. Wambaugh Choirboys (1976) 307: Go over there and fuck old Ora Lee’s socks off.
1976		H. Selby Jr Demon (1979) 68: He told her he would like to fuck the ass off her.
1979		Maledicta III:2 231: To fuck the ass off someone doesn’t necessarily imply either anal intercourse or homosexuality (although UK fuck rotten usually does).
1991		R. Doyle Van (1998) 586: You could never respect a woman like tha’, said Bimbo. – No, Jimmy Sr agreed. – But yeh could ride the arse off her.
1994		I. Welsh ‘Where the Debris Meets the Sea’ in Acid House 88: Ah’d shag the erse oafay that anywey.
1998		R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘How’s it going there, sexy. You look alright. I wouldn’t mind taking you back to my place and fucking the arse off you?’.
1998		P. McCabe Breakfast on Pluto 84: They have the arse rode off me.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 53: He will fuck the arse off her tonight, he thinks, he will shag her senseless, screw her daft.
2001		A. Sillitoe Birthday 49: He was fucking her arse off, you can bet.
2006		posting at profile.adultfriendfinder.com 🌐 i would fuck the arse off Amy Nuttal (used to be in emmerdale – left now i think).
2006		Wife Slut’s Adventures at Literotica.org 🌐 We joined the two men whom were going to fuck the ass off my wife tonight.

see under dog n.²

to waste time; to relax.

1956		‘Ed Lacy’ Men from the Boys (1967) 100: One minute you’re stroking the duck, the next you’re an eager beaver.
1977		(con. 1969) M. Herr Dispatches 57: I met a man from the Cav who’d been ‘fucking the duck’ one afternoon, sound asleep in a huge tent with thirty cots inside.
1978		H. Selby Jr Requiem for a Dream (1987) 31: Lets stop fuckin the duck.
1986		L. Heinemann Paco’s Story (1987) 6: He was taking one of his famous naps — fucking the duck, we called it.
2003		Daily Dog 23 Jan. 🌐 [...] followed by a bit of fucking the duck on the back roads to Manitou Springs and back.

usu. of a man, to have sexual intercourse; usu. very energetically and repeatedly.

1978		L. Kramer Faggots 281: He could now fuck the shit out of him.
1981		S. King Cujo (1982) 88: I enjoyed fucking the shit out of her.
2002		‘Rev. of Total Corruption’ HisXpress.com 🌐 Beefcake Phil Bradley fucks the cum out of Wes Daniels then shots his own hot load.
2003		Salon.com 30 Aug. 🌐 I really dig your body and want to fuck the shit out of you.
2007		V. Honeycutt Diary of Questionable Journeys 109: I was so horny that part of me wanted to just fuck the crap out of him.

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(orig. US milit.) a response to any moment or act of betrayal; usu. as So it’s fuck-your-buddy week then...

1958		E. Gilbert Vice Trap 56: I forgot, this is buddy week.
1962		P. Crump Burn, Killer, Burn! 279: This is Frig Your Buddy Week.
1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS 190: Screw your buddy Take someone else’s date away.
1986–7		Maledicta IX 195: This article and series devoted to sexual slang would be incomplete without some notice of catch phrases, both British and American: […] it’s fuck-your-buddy week (betrayal time).
2005		www.thedailybulletin.com 11 May 🌐 Every week was Fuck Your Buddy Week. They would have tattled on me to my manager, to Human Resources, to the Political Correctness police.

a general term of masculine distaste, spoken on seeing what is considered an unattractive or unpleasant woman; cite 2003 is in lexbian context.

1977		Maledicta 1 (Summer) 17: If she falls short of the ideal of desirability, well, I wouldn’t fuck her with your prick, or with a borrowed pecker.
1983		R. Price Breaks 231: I’ve seen these motherfuckers with women I wouldn’t fuck with your dick.
1992		K. Lette Llama Parlour 97: Sheet [...] I vouldn’t fuck her with Cosmo’s cock.
2003		Simon & Burns ‘Ebb Tide’ Wire ser. 2 ep. 1 [TV script] With your pussy, I wouldn’t fuck any of these guys.
2003		www.thepantsman.com 🌐 I turned to my batting partner and said (louder than I realised) ‘Mate, I wouldn’t fuck them with your dick’.
2010		Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 43: I wouldn’t fuck that girl with your dick and Mike pushin’.
2012		(con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘I wouldna fucked her with your cock, mate. She was a monster’.

(Aus.) not here to waste time; let’s get on with it.

1995		Canberra Times (ACT) 15 July 56/4: ‘You can be rest assured that I’m going to be giving it my best from here to the end of my career,’ he said. ‘I’m not here to collect spiders, I’m here to play golf’.
1997		B. Harper Edge of the Rain [ebook] ‘Come on, boyo, come on, we’re not here to fuck spiders.’ Alex grinned at him and cracked his whip.
2009		J.T. Oakhill Blue Zone 19 July 🌐 Let’s roll our sleeves up and get on with it: ‘We are not here to fuck spiders after all’ .
2011		Courier Mail (Brisbane) 17 Apr. n.p.: Then I’d hear a whisper, just quiet at first: That weight’s not going to lift itself. And then a little bit louder, Dry your eyes, princess. Then louder still, I’m not here to f--- spiders.
2019		Reddit: Introductory Guide to Aust. Sl. 9 Dec. 🌐 ‘I’m not here to fuck spiders!’.
2023		X 26 Nov. 🌐 A: Nel really learned a lot at uni. B: Well she isn't there to fuck spiders, is she?

(Aus. prison) a phr. meaning that a prisoner may endure his punishment but need not necessarily enjoy it.

1990

Tupper & Wortley Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Baby. As in ‘you can fuck me but you can’t make me like the baby’, which is to say a prisoner may endure his punishment but need not necessarily enjoy it.

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a general excl. of dismissal, bravado, ‘to hell with them’.

1955		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 44: My name is Samuel Hall / And I’ve only got one ball, / But it’s better than none at all. Fuck ’em all.
1961		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 388: They’ll get no promotion this side of the ocean. / So cheer up, my lads, fuck ’em all.
1963		H.S. Thompson letter 20 Sept. Proud Highway (1997) 400: Books like that are like water when you want whiskey. Fuck ’em.
1970		A. Young Snakes (1971) 105: Fuck em, we’ll come anyway.
1986		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 389: Fuck ’em all, fuck ’em all, / The long and the short and the tall.
1997		C. Hiaasen Lucky You 185: ‘Fuck ’em.’ Arthur Battenkill snorted. ‘I hope they slaughter each other with blunt objects.’.

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(UK black) an excl. of surprise, annoyance etc.

1982		H. Beaton Outside In Act II: Fuck me days! Your father a multi-national?
1999		(con. 1979–80) A. Wheatle Brixton Rock (2004) 61: What is going on, he thought. Fuck my days, this might be my sister!
2001		(con. 1981) A. Wheatle East of Acre Lane 7: Fuck my days [...] Dat was close. [Ibid.] 226: Oh, frig my living days.

1. an excl. implying sorrow, disappointment.

1971

(con. WWII) B. Aldiss Soldier Erect 252: ‘Where were you in the war?’ ‘I was in Burma [...] Fuck my bloody luck!’.

2. I don’t believe it!

1999		F. Allan Milton’s Progress Ch. 13 🌐 ‘Fuck my luck!’ spat Rob, ‘not sharin’ an ass like that should be against the law!’.
2005		at www.248am.com 29 Oct. [blog] Fuck my luck, I have been waiting all day for a decent shot of something and finally when it happens turns out my camera was set on manual focus!

an excl. denoting one’s astonishment; orig. milit. use, sometimes euph. as seduce my ancient footwear!

1972		C. Bukowski Erections, Ejaculations etc. 423: Well, fuck my dead mother’s bones .
1975		‘P.B. Yuill’ Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 152: All he could say was: ‘Fuck my old boots!’.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 432/2: C.20.
2003		Spike mag. 22 Sept. 🌐 Fuck my old boots. The Financial Times, of all papers, runs a sweet piece on Robert Wyatt marking the release of a new LP.

a dismissive excl., often ext., e.g. fuck that for a bowl of cherries! fuck that for a comic song! fuck that for a top hat! and see below.

1957		K. Amis letter 19 Feb. in Leader (2000) 504: The first, any road, is The world of Ernest Hemingway. Fuck that.
1960		in G. Westwood A Minority 142: You know bloody well its buggery not burglary [...] F--- that for a lark, you’ll get me into more trouble.
1969		C. Brown Mr Jive-Ass Nigger 132: ‘Look, let’s go to your place [. . .. .] I’m sorry I said it, you know what I mean?’ ‘Oh, fuck that’.
1980		T. Lewis GBH 18: ‘How’s Jean?’ Collins asked. ‘Fuck that,’ I replied.
1981		A. Weller Day of the Dog 81: ‘Poxy judge give ’im six months just because ’e stole a blanket.’ ‘Fuck that,’ he murmurs in sympathy.
1987		T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 35: ‘Making $36,000 a year.’ [...] Fuck that.
1992		T. Williams Crackhouse 24: Everybody says they’re going to stop after their last hit – fuck that. I like it and I’m gonna continue to smoke.
1996		P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] Well fuck that for a joke. I’ve wasted enough time.
1999		N. Cohn Yes We Have No 338: Maladjusted, they said I was. Fuck that!
2001		I. Welsh Glue 12: Risk losing some fingers for a bonus for a bunch of rich shareholders living in Surrey or somewhere? Fuck that.

an excl. of derision, indicating that something is not working or that one is giving up.

1958		C. Lee diary 6 Nov. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 174: Stuff that for a game of soldiers. I don’t want it [i.e. illicitly gained money].
1959		W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: Routine Patrol! You can stick this for a game of soldiers.
1963		C. Wood ‘Spare’ in Cockade (1965) I i: harry: You’re sweating on him stopping ... garibaldi: Get some in. dickie bird: And that for a game of soldiers.
1972		K. Bonfiglioli Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 140: Well, fuck this for a game of darts.
1989		S. Armitage ‘All Beer and Skittles’ in Zoom 17: He was sodding this for a game of soldiers and angling for a lift into town.
1991		F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 90: Fuck this for a game of cowboys.
1992		Guardian 29 Oct. 19/8: All the others’ll be relaxing, saying ‘Sod this for a game of soldiers’.
1994		G. Byrne Pictures in my Head 2: Now I wanted to use words like ‘friggin’ [...] and say things like ‘Bugger that for a game of soldiers’.
1994		J. O’Connor Secret World of the Irish Male (1995) 245: You think ‘feck this anyway for a phoney game of cowboys’.
1998		I. Welsh Filth 193: Fuck that for a game of soldiers.
2004		P. Howard PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 199: In the end we were all, like, fock that for a game of soldiers.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 348: Takin ten gs ay uncut broon through the customs in ma strides [...] Fuck that for a game ay sodjirs.
2021		A. Billson on Twitter 9 July 🌐 Oh what, they won't acknowledge my Belgian double-Pfizer now? Fuck that for a game of soldiers.
2022		A. Parks May God Forgive 79: ‘And the other half [of me] thinks fuck that for a game of soldiers, no ready for the quiet life yet’.

1. an excl. of derision, indicating something is not working or that one is giving up.

1977		A. Bleasdale Who’s Been Sleeping in my Bed 162: ‘Lookin’?’ he said. ‘Fuck that f’a lark. I’m gonna blast it out of the sky.’.
1979		J. Morrow Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 108: Hiya, Francie oul’ son! Fuck this for a geg.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 432/2: C.19–20.
1989		H. Leonard Out After Dark 3: Cloggy said: ‘Shag that for a lark.’.
1997		C. McPherson The Weir 50: And I was all like ‘fuck this’ you know?
2000		(con. 1943) L/Cpl J.J. Bird at www.arnhemarchive.org 🌐 One of the Commandos in the craft asked Jack Bird ‘What mob do you blokes belong to?’, he replied ‘We’re airborne troops’, to which the man said ‘Fuck that for a lark.’ and pulled out his flask and offered Jack a drink.
2001		K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 136: Ah, fuck this for a lark, I think. I can’t listen to this shite.
2006		Skinhead Hamlet at sub-zero.mit.edu 🌐 fortinbras: Fuck this for a lark then. Let’s piss off. [Exeunt with alarums].

2. don’t expect me to get mixed up in that! that’s a stupid idea!

1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 432/2: C.19–20.
1988		J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 123: She started getting more sexy. Fuck this lark. Struggling to get out from under her, I saw Hogan [...] grinning, enjoying my discomfort.

an excl. of derision, indicating something is not satisfactory or rejecting an idea that is unfeasible.

1977		S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 48: I thought now fuck this for a laugh.
1993		I. Welsh Trainspotting 36: Fuck all that for a laugh. Tonight she’d take her chances at the gig.
2004		King & Love Football Factory [film script] Then go and spunk your wages on kebabs, fruit machines and brasses? Fuck that for a laugh!

see under noise n.¹

(Irish) a general excl. of defiance or scorn.

1970		A. Martin (ed.) Winter’s Tales from Ireland I 122: Be a blood. Come alive. Break out. Face them. Show them. Fuck the begrudgers. Die, if die you must, on your feet and fighting.
1972		P. Hutchinson Watching the Morning Grow 32: Rackrent came round, we left a note: ‘Fuck the begrudgers’.
1996		Irish Times 24 Sept. 🌐 ‘F**k the begrudgers!’ became the battle-cry of those determined on celebrating success at all costs .
2013		H. Browne Frontman 3: ‘Fuck the begrudgers’ is Ireland's ancient and venerable and ubiquitous version of 'haters gonna hate'.

(US, orig. milit.) a general oath of annoyance and hostility; often ext. with ...and save them for pallbearers!

[1917		Tennessee Folk. Society Bulletin XXI (1955) 100: Cuss ’em all, cuss ’em all, / Cuss ’em all but six! [HDAS]].
1953		L. Uris Battle Cry (1964) 310: ‘Fugg you guys and save six for pallbearers,’ Levin shouted.
1981		J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 189: I say fuck ’em all and save six for the pallbearers.
2002		P. Ford ‘4 Days, 4 Police Officers’ at Ftrain.com 25 July 🌐 I’d say fuck them all but six, and save those for Paulbearers [sic], but in the interest of consistency, fuck the six, too, and cremate me instead.
2004		posting at www.jackjohnsonmusic.com 8 Apr. 🌐 Fuck them all but six. We’ll use them as pall bearers.

see separate entry.

an excl. of dismissal, or disbelief.

1958		R. Chandler Playback 208: Why don’t you go kiss a duck?
1958		W. Talsman Gaudy Image (1966) 229: ‘Go fuck a fishnet,’ Minnie cooed. ‘There’s enough holes there for an army.’.
1961		(con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 235: ‘Oh go fuck a duck!’ Giff said angrily.
1988		Eble Campus Sl. Oct. 4: fuck a dog – exclamation of shock or displeasure: ‘I went out with another girl last night.’ ‘Oh, go fuck a dog!’.

an all-purpose dismissive excl., generally seen as a supremely offensive remark.

1964		H. Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn 16: Freddy [...] yelled at them to go fuck their mothers, ya cottonpickin bastards.
1972		C. Bukowski Erections, Ejaculations etc. 411: Arrr...go fuck your little sister...
1974		G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 130: Go fuck your dead mother. I can buy all you fuzz ten times over with loose change in my pocket.
1984		J. Ellroy Blood on the Moon 74: ‘I say fuck your mother.’ ‘A predictable response. Can't you guys come up with something original like 'Fuck your father'?’ ‘Fuck you, flatfoot’.
2008		M. Hanif Case of Exploding Mangoes (2009) 16: I salute him, using all my silent drill practice to contain the inner cadence [...] ‘Fuck your mother too’.

a general excl. of dismissal.

1894		cited in Report and Proceedings of the Senate Committee Appointed to Investigate the Police Dept of the City of N.Y. 3158: Q. Repeat what he said to you? A. He said, ‘Go on, fuck yourself, you son-of-a-bitch; I will give you a hundred dollars.’.
1920		‘Customer Cases’ Committee of Fourteen Papers 21 June 73: Go fuck yourself; it’s none of your damn business.
1922		‘J.H. Ross’ Mint (1955) 85: ‘You’re all very happy,’ he sneered. ‘Go and fuck rattlesnakes,’ retorted Templer.
1927		C. Sandburg ‘Shovellin’ Iron Ore’ in Amer. Songbag 183: I, ‘Old man now what will you pay?’ Says he, ‘Two bits a ton.’ Says I, ‘Old man, go diddle yourself, I’d rather bum.’.
1929		C. McKay Banjo 115: Let the crackers go fiddle themselves, and you, too.
c.1935		‘Betty Boop in “Flesh”’ [comic strip] in B. Adelman Tijuana Bibles (1997) 28: He didn’t do it for honor, / He didn’t do it for wealth; / He did it to accomodate an old pal / Who told him to ‘go fuck himself.’.
1937		R. Westerby Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 198: If you don’t – well, you can go and — yourself, that’s all.
1940s		‘Wild Buckaroo’ in G. Logsdon Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing (1995) 107: She screamed, ‘You jack rabbit! You shot off, you’re thru; / You can go fuck yourself now you Wild Buckaroo.’.
1948		N. Mailer Naked and Dead 10: Go fug yourself.
1950		E. Hemingway letter 2 June in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 698: Posterity can take care of herself or fuck herself.
1951		M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 149: I felt like telling the guy to go shoot himself.
1956		A. Ginsberg ‘America’ Howl & Other Poems (2000) 39: Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
1964		A. Baraka Slave in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: Go and fuck yourself.
1967		J. Hibberd White with Wire Wheels (1973) 227: rod: Don’t push me too far, Simon. simon: Go flog yourself!
1971		B. Malamud Tenants (1972) 77: If you don’t want to read what I show you, fuck your bloody ass.
1973		(con. mid-1960s) J. Patrick Glasgow Gang Observed 116: Awa’ an’ take a regimental fuck tae yirsel.
1977		Maledicta 1 (Summer) 12: In America one of the most usual insulting invitations today is go fuck yourself [...] This rather lacks bounce, and is sometimes varied or enlarged to: go fuck a dead horse, or go fuck yourself with a rubber weenie, or go fuck yourself in the ass and give yourself some brains.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 267: ‘Go fuck yourself.’ ‘Go fuck yourself yourself.’.
1982		G.V. Higgins Patriot Game (1985) 185: He will never [...] tell the client’s chief executive officer to go fuck himself.
1988		R. Doyle Commitments 47: Fuck yourself, you.
1989		S. Armitage ‘Phenomenology’ in Zoom 24: Harold Garfinkel can go fuck himself.
1993		(con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 101: Go jerk yourself, you stupid bastard.
1993		T. Jones Pugilist at Rest 83: ‘Well, fuck you,’ I said. ‘And fuck you, Go fuck yourself.’.
1998		P. McCabe Breakfast on Pluto 139: Oh, go and fuck yourself then!
1999		Guardian Weekend 18 Sept. 32: His eyes said, ‘Go fuck yourself’.
2003		P. Cornwell Blow Fly (2004) 127: Good riddance and go fuck yourself.
2010		(con. 1973) C. Stella Johnny Porno 97: We can use the recorder or you can go fuck yourself.
2010		L. Redhead Thrill City [ebook] Whoever the hell it was, I was gonna tell them to go fuck themselves.
2017		D. Winslow The Force [ebook] ‘Go fuck yourself.’ On Staten island it’s an expression of affection.
2017		G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘How about you go fuck yourself?’.
2020		S.A. Crosby Blacktop Wasteland 38: People always seemed to want to do what Ella Montage told them [...] Even if she was telling them to go fuck themselves.
2022		Guardian 25 Feb. 🌐 [headline] Ukraine soldiers told Russian officer ‘go fuck yourself’ before they died on island.