Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the act of copulation; also attrib.

1568		W. Scott Bannatyne MSS n.p.: To the Derisioun of Wantoun Wemen. Thir foure, the suth to sane, Enforsis thane to fucking Quod Scott [F&H].
1598		Florio World of wordes n.p.: Fottitura, a iaping, a swiuing, a fucking, a sarding, an occupying.
1656		Mennis & Smith et al. ‘An Epitaph on a Whore’ Wit and Drollery 20: Courteous she was [...] And in her calling so precise; That industry had made her prove, The fucking School-mistresse of Love.
1664		W. Killigrew Pandora Act I: cle.: Which [two ladies] will you assault? lin.: Neither, they are both virtuous? cle.: Who knows that? have they done fucking? lin.: Dost thou think there be none virtuous, beyond their infancy!
1673		Rochester ‘A Satyr on Charles II’ in Works (1999) 85: Peace was his Aime, his gentleness is such / And Love, he lov’d, For he lov’d Fucking much.
1689		‘Satire on Benting’ in Wilson Court Satires of the Restoration (1976) 221: The trophies of thy countless fuckings lay / Sincerely at the shrine of Modena.
1709		N. Chorier (trans.) of Meursius ‘The Delights of Venus’ in Cabinet of Love (1739) 195: If you will try once more, I will comply, / Tho’ I to fucking do a Martyr die.
1738		Man-Midwife Unmasqu’d 1: She wanted some Money, ’tis true, and some ---- / She fail’d of the first, but the latter had Luck in.
c.1760		‘The Rakes of Stony Batter’ in A. Carpenter Verse in Eng. in 18C Ireland (1998) 340: Is your apples ripe, are they fit for plucking, / Is your maid within, ready for the F—g?
1763		J. Wilkes Essay on Woman 20: [footnote] Now what has this to do with Fucking?
1797		M. Leeson Memoirs (1995) III 219: Why Captain when those inquisitive girls ask you again, tell them the honest truth, that you were F---g.
c.1800		‘The Rakes of Stony Batter’ in Holloway & Black I (1975) 224: Is your apples ripe, are they fit for plucking, / Is your maid within, ready for the F—g.
1840		Flash Mirror 19: A cock and hen club every Tuesday and Saturday, where a swell chaunter attends and plays the f—g pony.
1842		Flash (NY) 23 June n.p.: ‘A d—d pack of lies. She aid i got my living by working. That is an infernal lie, for I get it by *******!’.
1864		letter q. in Wiley Life of Billy Yank (1952) 259: We cannot get any thing here but f—king and that is plenty.
1867		Rosa Fielding 12: ‘There was a baby-faced girl in a shop here and [...] [Iif he would only give her a fucking and a five pound note [...] there would be no harm done’.
1870		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 6: Take your hand off my quim; / I much prefer fucking to feeling.
1881		Sins of the Cities of the Plain 25: At each visit we had a delicious turn at bottom-fucking.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 137: Fouterie, f. The sexual embrace; ‘fucking’.
1898		Forbidden Fruit n.p.: Do you know what you are doing to me, Percy [...] It’s ‘Fucking’, that is the word for it, and you are in my Cunt, dear.
1904		Lustful Memoirs of a Young and Passionated Girl 27: He stopped and looking down in her face asked her if fucking was as good as she thought it would be.
1919		Transcript Foster Inquiry in L.R. Murphy Perverts by Official Order (1989) 57: It was Gorham himself who had said that another sailor was ‘pretty tight but was good fucking’.
1925		E. Hemingway letter c.15 Sept. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 169: Would like to be in Venice and get a little romantic fucking.
1934		H. Miller Tropic of Cancer (1963) 87: It is a fine book about the fucking, Endree.
1947–53		W. Guthrie Seeds of Man (1995) 275: Maybe he’s too busy a-blowin’ his wad on one o’ them high nosey dames, kind that ya’ve gotta cram ’er hole with a thousand-dollar bill, an’ light up a big ha’f dollar seegar in ’er ass t’ git ’er juicy, t’ git ’em warmed up fer fockin’.
1950		in V. Randolph Pissing in the Snow (1988) 113: He just give the girl a pretty good fucking.
1962		H.S. Thompson letter 17 April in Proud Highway (1997) 331: If you know anybody who might buy a book full of flogging and fighting and fucking, by all means let me know.
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 43: When I look around me, all I see is fucking.
1980		M. Thelwell Harder They Come 242: If you watch a couple eating breakfast you can tell what kind of a fucking they did the night before.
1987		in Delacoste & Alexander Sex Work (1988) 43: He only wanted sex, which meant fucking.
1997		(con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 71: Fucking and so on is legal to do but illegal to show in any way, whereas murder is the exact opposite.
1999		L. Siegel Love in a Dead Lang. 13: Oh, Her use of the precious present participle, ‘fucking,’ from the Indo-European peik, cognate with the Latin pungere, related to the Germanic ficken, purloined from the Middle Dutch fokken.

2. anal intercourse.

1884		Victorian Public Records Office File 30 668/30: I heard the prisoner Nicholas say, ‘You are no bloody good at fucking’ [Simes:DLSS].
1905		Memoir Voluptuary (1996) 40: ‘I had an idea, you know, of what you’re supposed to do in fucking, although I had never done it before’ [Simes:DLSS].
1919		in L.R. Murphy Perverts by Official Order (1988) iii.57 ..another sailor was ‘pretty tight but good fucking’.
1941		C. Kallman in Davenport-Hines Auden 212: ‘Just the other night I picked up a 6 ft 2½ in merchant sailor from Brooklyn [...] I was prepared for an absolutely relentless fucking,—but—as it turned out in the end, that is what I had to provide him with’ [Simes:DLSS].
1974		‘B. McCord’ Oralist 93: David’s anus had been stretched by the two fuckings he had recently experienced, and his ass was slippery with spunk [Simes:DLSS].
1995		Tearoom Tales (N.J.) Nov. 102: ‘Oh man, that was fucking wonderful.’ Tim had got it wrong. ‘No, Tim, that was wonderful fucking’ [Simes:DLSS].

3. (also fuggin) harsh and/or unfair treatment.

1926		(ref. to 1918) H. Pease letter 26 Jan. in Canfield Coll. A wobbly job delegate was engaged in an argument in the Blue [illegible] in Red Lodge, Mont., in the summer of 1918. The 101 I.W.W. were then on trial in Chicago, and referring to the trial this fellow said (or rather, was later convicted of saying) ‘We will give the government a good fucking.’.
1948		N. Mailer Naked and Dead 577: Even if we do get back we’ll get a fuggin.
1967		H.S. Thompson letter 21 Mar. in Proud Highway (1997) 605: The indefensible fucking I got on the Hell’s Angels contract.
1977		(con. 1960s) D. Goines Black Gangster (1991) 220: We ain’t laying down for no fuckin’.
1978		S. Longstreet Straw Boss (1979) 229: I know the fucking the average working joe gets from his fat cat union international.
1986		J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 75: ‘Deal?’ Rice [...] knew it was a fucking he had to take.
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 49: Fritsch fucks him of LVPD. Wayne senior says don’t fuck my boy. The fucking ascends triumphant.