Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. arrogant, ostentatious.

1951		E. Hemingway letter 5 Mar. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 721: Now I feel as unclean as when I read his fuck-off book.
1957		J. Blake letter 15 July in Joint (1972) 105: There’s usually sneering about my living with the lame clarinet player. And from the clarinetist, sneering about the fuckoff intellectual trumpet man.
1970		L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 47: A fuckoff group like Deep Purple is sloppy [...] generally behaving as if they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.
2000		J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 3: All that being flash with racy motors [...] the big fuck-off attitude, is just begging to get yourself nicked.
2011		J.J. Connolly Viva La Madness 161: ‘If you’ve got a problem,’ says Sonny with a fuck-off smile, ‘go see the welfare officer’.
2016		Guardian Guide 21 May 10/3: Sometimes I’m pissed off, sometimes fuck off.

2. lazy, idle.

1987		(con. c.1967) J. Ferrandino Firefight 146: There won’t be any fuckoff time.
2006		susiestheboss.blogspot.com 21 June [blog] We were total fuck off pot heads. We had a lot of fun, and made a lot of really bad art.

3. annoying.

1999

Observer Mag. 12 Dec. 62: It’s this big, fuck-off, great thing.

4. large, showy.

1997		‘Q’ Deadmeat 205: A devious black Mercedes with fuck off fat chrome wheels.
1999		J. Poller Reach 8: Fuck fairies [...] Kids want sex, drugs, violence. Big fuck-off guns.
2000		J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 191: ‘Binoculars!? Are you for fuckin real?’ [...] ‘Yeah. Big fuck-off ones from one of those shops on Oxford Street.’.
2001		K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 4: Big mad camera and that, all sorts of fuck-off lenses and secret tricky bits built in.
2009		J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 41: Personally, I love all that big fuck-off architecture, all that silvery looking stuff.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 118: Drinking heavily, a fuck-off glass of cheap red vino in front of her.
2018		KO ‘9er Ting’ 🎵 Fuck-off Sammy, ride out to London Fields with a bally.
2019		A. Killilea Boyo-wulf at https://boyowulf.home.blog 16 June 🌐 [T]hese big shiny cliffs [...] and some big fuck-off headlands.