Green’s Dictionary of Slang

fug v.

also fugg
[coined by Norman Mailer (1923–2007) as an all-purpose replacement for the taboo word in his book The Naked and The Dead (1948)]

a euph. for fuck v. in a variety of senses (cf. fugh v.).

[US](con. 1944) N. Mailer Naked and Dead 7: Even they can’t fug me this time. [Ibid.] 23: Fug the adjustments. [Ibid.] 25: Aaah, fug you. [Ibid.] 235: Fug it. [Ibid.] 617: It’s a pretty small grifter who fugs around for twenty-one bucks.
[UK]M.F. Caulfield Black City 109: One little boy [...] shouted ecstatically: ‘Fug the Pope!’.
[US]L. Uris Battle Cry (1964) 131: Semper Fi, hooray for me and fugg you.
[US]H. Simmons Corner Boy 48: I told you ’bout fugging with that pod. [Ibid.] 68: People will fugg up. [Ibid.] 149: ‘Fugg it,’ Jake said.
[WI]S. Selvon Housing Lark 53: Fug Gallows man, look I have some chargers here. [Ibid.] 55: Why don’t you go and fug a keyhole? [Ibid.] 125: Stop fugging around with that camera.
[US]Baker et al. CUSS 123: Fug Have sexual intercourse.
[US]E. Thompson Garden of Sand (1981) 423: Rotten goddamn swab jockeys. Fug ’em every damn one! Fug ’em all!
[SA]S. Roberts ‘All That Jazz’ Outside Life’s Feast 50: We passed another car [...] full of white guys! And Frankie stuck his head out of the window and yelled white man, you wantafuggakaffa!
[Ire]J. Morrow Confessions of Proinsias O’Toole 78: He raised a clabbered head to say, ‘Fugg aff!’.
[UK]Roger’s Profanisaurus 3 in Viz 98 Oct. 14: fuggit exclm. Ancient Egyptian curse used when denied a British passport.
[US]N. McCall Them (2008) 18: ‘Fug you.’ That’s what Barlowe had a mind to say. ‘Fug you and the law.’.

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