Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. none, nothing; often ext. to sweet fuck all under sweet adj.¹

1918		Noyes MS. n.p.: Fuck-all....(1) nothing. ‘There’s not a fuck-all to do this afternoon’ [HDAS].
1924		(con. WWI) A.G. Pretty Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: f.a. [...] Fuck All; Fanny Adams; Nothing; vacuity.
1938		E. Hemingway letter 5 May in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 466: It’s been a fuck-all of a six weeks.
1945		P. Larkin letter 9 Aug. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 104: He goes on to say that he is twenty-three and has done fuck-all, while other bastards of his acquaintance are forging ahead like buggery.
1945		‘Fuck Air Board’ in Mess Songs & Rhymes of the RAAF 25: And the reason they gave for his being dead meat, / Was that he had fuck all but baked beans to eat.
1956		K. Amis letter 9 Sept. in Leader (2000) 478: It’s that filthy continental breakfast that does you. How do these fellows get on that have to do a morning’s work, starting at 8, on fuck-all.
1967		N. Dunn Poor Cow 6: I just like to feel that if I wanted something I could go out and buy it. Terrible when you ain’t got fuck all, you ain’t got nothing.
1973		Tharunka (Sydney) 8 Nov. 27/2: ‘You shithead good for fuck-all-illiterate-prick’.
1974		G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 58: Dunno about who, know what. Fuck all. There hasn’t been for a while. Difficult even to get a living nowadays.
1984		‘Derek Raymond’ He Died with His Eyes Open 55: They’re only business cunts and that; they only want to be made to feel they’re something special [...] don’t cost the driver fuck all to feed em a bit.
1987		T. Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities 107: You guys can sit here and fuck-all.
1990		A. Dangor Z Town Trilogy 24: You know fok-all about life and beauty!
1993		(con. 1918) P. Barker Eye in the Door 198: ‘Will you go?’ ‘Might.’ He looked round him, and the bitterness spilled. ‘Fuck all here.’.
1996		R. Doyle Woman Who Walked Into Doors 169: I’d done fuck-all all day.
1996		P. Temple Bad Debts (2012) [ebook] He was a runt, five foot fuckall.
2000		P. Temple Dead Point (2008) [ebook] I know fuck-all about business.
2004		Guardian G2 20 Feb. 6: Jesus had achieved quite a bit by the time he was 33 and I had achieved fuck all.
2009		P. Temple Truth 180: Got fuckall to do with you, okay?
2009		L. McIlvanney All the Colours 136: They told you fuck all.
2010		(con. 1973) C. Stella Johnny Porno 279: The Westie isn’t saying fuck all.
2010		Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 8 Jan. 🌐 Well, Smith, what heff you got to say? Fokol, hey?
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 100: We all come from nothing. A great big fuck-all that will never have an answer.
2015		N. Cummins Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] My experience in the real world amounted to zero times f*&k all.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 22: Fuck all else to do.
2021		P Howard Braywatch 4: The old dear crosses her legs and runs a hand up and down her stockinged thigh [...] It does very little for me. Fock-all, in fact.
2021		C. Hammer Opal Country 45: ‘I haven’t found fuck-all’.

2. a second-rate or worthless person.

2001

OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 fuck-all n. a person who is useless or pathetic. (eg ‘He’s Fuck all’).