fucking adj.
1. a general intensifier, e.g. fucking idiot.
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![]() | Proc. Old Bailey 2 Apr. 278: While I was holding Taylor he said to Smith, ‘Stick that f—g chivvy into him,’ meaning a knife. That was the time when Potter pushed him off me. Taylor said, ‘I will gnaw you, you f—g bastard’. | |
![]() | Proc. Old Bailey 12 Jan. 336: I went to him again and said, ‘Will you go?’ He said, ‘No, you f——g old bitch,’ at the same time striking me violently on the forehead with his fist. | |
![]() | Wine, Women and War (1926) 205: Hi, Tommy, ’ere’s one o’ yer fuckin’ English hofficers wants t’ be saluted. Kindly oblige! | diary 26 Sept. in|
![]() | Mint (1955) 36: Fucking bar’s shut. | |
![]() | (con. 1918) German Prisoner 8: These funkin’ bastards at the back; you never know what game they’re up to [Ibid.] 10: One of his unckin’ observation balloons at work. | |
![]() | Complete Works X (1998) 223: They were the kind of people who are generally drunk on Saturday nights and who tack a ‘fucking’ on to every noun. | ‘Hop-Picking Diary’ 2–19 Sept. in|
![]() | (con. WWI) Flesh in Armour 68: ‘Cheerful, ain’t it, bringing the troops to a —— graveyard’. | |
![]() | Death Ship 354: Why, for all the funking sons, didn’t you tell me this before, Pippip? | |
![]() | Tropic of Cancer (1963) 73: That woman of mine, she’s got no fucking gratitude. | |
![]() | letter 26 Oct. in Leader (2000) 7: I have got a fucking cough, a slight headache and intermittent toothache. | |
![]() | All Night Stand 68: It’s a waste of fucking money. | |
![]() | Tell Morning This 392: ‘Old Stripy’s been taking the invites pretty near all over the faking city’. | |
![]() | (con. 1940s) Andy 18: Listen, sport. You only got forty-two days in this fucken boob. Me, I’m in here for eighteen months. [Ibid.] 118: ‘K’n Judas. Fucken Judas.’ Andy could just hear Scotty’s words behind the M.P.’s back. | |
![]() | Norm and Ahmed (1973) 26: Fuckin’ boong. | |
![]() | Jamaica (1983) 70: These fuckin’ people, / fucked as they are, / fuckin’ well believe / in immortality. | ‘Saturday in Kingston’|
![]() | 1985 (1980) 216: Shut it, shut it, or you’ll get my fucking fist in your fucking face. | |
![]() | Train to Hell 11: Even if he hadn’t paid good hard-earned fucking money for it. | |
![]() | Tracks (Aus.) Feb. 13: An out of it committee member pathetically tried to keep the crowd quiet for a moment but each ‘shut up you fucken arseholes’ he screamed into the microphone was met with an even louder cheer from the crowd [Moore 1993]. | |
![]() | (con. WWII) Jack and Jamie Go to War 57: The fackin wogs used to give me a shave before they brought the gunsmoke in. | |
![]() | Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 166: I’m one of your fucking poofs and if you don’t get off the fucking bus now I’ll kick your fucking head in. | diary 8 July|
![]() | Secret World of the Irish Male (1995) 58: ‘Farking maad,’ he grinned. ‘Maad fat funking bawstidd, innee?’ [Ibid.] 94: You wonna see wot vem farking Arabs ’ave in their cases, mate. | |
![]() | Powder 26: The fucken uniforms are bad enough! | |
![]() | Turning (2005) 312: The boy called him five kinds of fucking cunt. | ‘Defender’ in|
![]() | Carnival 13: Out of my league. Out of my focking mind. | |
![]() | Sun. Times 19 Dec. 5/2: After being fined £2,500 over her pet dog’s attack on a sunbathing student, a senior judge stormed out of court [...] claiming its decision was a ‘f****** [sic] travesty’. | |
![]() | IOL News (S. Afr.) 5 Sept. 🌐 F*cken prick - we are already paying for Zuma’s million wives. | |
![]() | Panopticon (2013) 168: ‘You’ve got a very astute, intelligent head on your shoulders.’ ‘Fucking hardly’. | |
![]() | me-stepmums-too-fuckin-hot-mate at www.fakku.net 🌐 Have a gander at those massive fuckin’ tits. | |
![]() | Eve. Standard (London) 29 Feb. 🌐 These people, after all, are just fucking actors. | |
![]() | Lives Laid Away [ebook] ‘[Y]ou pathetic wankers are about three seconds away from a bloody fucking lawsuit!’. | |
![]() | Hitmen 218: ‘I wonder why they’re [i.e. traffic lights showing red] so fucking long?’. | |
![]() | Riker’s 37: It was like a fucking piece of hard metal. | |
![]() | Orphan Road 43: ‘I don’t have any grand scheme. I want the fucking money’. |
2. pertaining to sexual intercourse.
![]() | ‘The Queen and Louise’ in | (1979) 190: Said the Queen, ‘Now, my dear, your marriage draws near [...] So I feel that I should — as I promised I would — / Deliver some fucking advice.’.|
![]() | Cremorne I 19: To a house he lures her in, / Where a gaily jewelled woman, / Keeds some girls in fucking sin. | |
![]() | Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 218: I could well credit her with a pantheon of her own private fucking gods. |
3. implying a variety of negatives, e.g. vile, despicable, unpleasant, corrupt, dirty.
![]() | Chosen Few (1966) 65: This whole goddamn life is just so much bullshit if you’re a shoe in this lousy, fuckin’ country. | |
![]() | Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 87: Fucking Napoleon and all that crap. | |
![]() | Harder They Come 225: ‘Fucking maggot,’ Ivan cursed. | |
![]() | Campus Sl. Oct. 2: fuckin’ – unsuccessful, not living up to expectations. | |
![]() | Guardian Weekend 29 Jan. 17: Fuckin’ French! |
4. as infix -fucking- e.g. absofuckinglutely adv.; fanfuckingtastic adj.; guaranfuckingtee v.
![]() | N&Q 12 Ser. IX 415: The soldier’s actual speech [...] was absolutely impregnated with one word which (to use it as a basis for alliteration) the fastidious frown at as ‘filthy.’ [...] Words were split up to admit it : ‘absolutely’ became ‘abso------lutely,’ and Armentieres became ‘Armen------teers.’ ‘Bloody,’ so popular and helpful a word in civil life, quite lapsed as being too polite and inexpressive. | |
![]() | Mint (1955) 121: The Sergeant stared: then whispered to himself, ‘Jesus fucking Christ.’. | |
![]() | ‘In The Moonlight’ in Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 122: By Christ all fucking mighty. | |
![]() | letter 1 Oct. in Charters II (1999) 66: Thousands of screaming interviewers [...] big articles in Saturday Review, in World Telly, everyfucking where, everybody mad. | |
![]() | Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 148: ‘Hemp, of course! Indian fucking Hemp!’. | |
![]() | (con. 1958) Been Down So Long (1972) 62: Somebody better be careful, he gets himself infuckingvolved. | |
![]() | (con. 1940s) Andy 147: A spanner slipped and a voice cursed. ‘Well fucken stay fucken done up if you’re so indefuckenpendent.’. | |
![]() | Blue Movie (1974) 13: For Christ’s fucking sake you’ve simply got to meet my Miss Pilgrim! | |
![]() | Friends of Eddie Coyle 6: Test-firing’s all they ever had. Brand-fucking-new guns. | |
![]() | Digger’s Game (1981) 90: From you the Greek wants that. Infuckincredible. | |
![]() | Down and Out 81: I fucking hate pheno-fucking-barbitone. | |
![]() | Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 51: Prince leaves you blinking trying to figure out how he got so much style, music, and sexuality together in Minnefunkin’sota. | ‘Stagolee Versus the Proper Negro’ in|
![]() | Real Thing 49: I’m lucky I’m a-fuckin’-live. | |
![]() | Suicide Hill 270: ‘Unfucking real!’ Joe [...] hurled the missile of good news straight at the sun. | |
![]() | Buddha of Suburbia 13: ‘Jesus fucking Christ!’ I whispered. | |
![]() | Aus.-Amer. Dict. 2: As we were leaving the Aussie turned, doffed his hat, and with a grandiose bow sang out, ‘Sayo f—ing nara.’. | |
![]() | Lucky You 76: A-fucking-men. | |
![]() | Happy Like Murderers 333: Why don’t you fuck off and leave me a-fucking-lone. | |
![]() | Hip-Hop Connection Jan./Feb. 96: So fucking what? | |
![]() | Layer Cake 4: I wanna be un-fuckin-touchable. | |
![]() | Dead Point (2008) [ebook] Forget that, detective whatever the fuck you are. Whofuckingever. Piss off. | |
![]() | Mystery Bay Blues 231: Les [...] You are un-fuckin-believable. | |
![]() | Snitch Jacket 200: ‘Abomifuckingnation,’ I said. | |
![]() | Truth 64: . Embed? [...] Emfuckingbed? | |
![]() | (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 20: Un-fucking-believable [...] That was the best, baby. | |
![]() | Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 8 Jan. 🌐 On my return to Canada I find people’s self expression really vulgar: ‘won-fucking-derful’. | |
![]() | 🌐 ‘It’s end-of-the-fucking-world stuff out there,’ I said. | ‘Fjord of Killary’ in New Yorker 24 Jan.|
![]() | Panopticon (2013) 32: Paris. Defi-fucking-nately. | |
![]() | OG Dad 136: Tou-fucking-ché! | |
![]() | Bloody January 236: ‘It’s not fucking on’. | |
![]() | Joe Country [ebook] ‘Gadfuckingzooks’. | |
![]() | Hitmen 230: ‘You’re going to get us fucking nicked [...] wake fucking up’. | |
![]() | Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 129: [A] packet about the requirements and the benefits Benefuckingfits! and explained everything. |
In derivatives
(US) sexually enthusiastic.
![]() | J.R. Morton ‘Pallet on the Floor’ 🎵 You the fuckingest bitch I ever met. |
In phrases
an intensified form of sense 1
![]() | (con. 1917) Goodbye to All That (1995) 79: The Bandmaster, who was squeamish, reported it as: ‘Sir, he called me a double-effing c—.’. | |
![]() | Rapture [film script] If I was a chick... no double-fucking way would I give me a lift. |
see separate entries.
In exclamations
a general excl.
![]() | 🌐 And I thought, ‘Fucking Ada, I’ve never made a film’. | at Beatles Ultimate Experience|
![]() | 🎵 Fucking Ada, fucking Ada / Fucking Ada, fucking Ada. | ‘Fucking Ada’|
![]() | Submariners I i: Bloody Ada, gotta blow. | |
![]() | Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman 65: ‘Wait till you see her up a tree, she’s got eyes looking out of her arse.’ ‘Fucking Ada!’. | |
![]() | posting at www.darkforum.com 7 Jan. 🌐 You’re trying to tell me that this is a gothic site? Fucking ada, why didn’t anyone tell me? |
an excl. used to denote astonishment, dismay, acceptance, praise, recognition.
![]() | It Was An Accident 2: Fuckin’ Nora what’d I do? | |
![]() | Filth 314: Bleedin Nora, he snorts. | |
![]() | Curious Incident of the Dog 96: She [...] went into the water to swim and she said ‘Bloody Nora, it’s cold’. | |
![]() | Guardian 25 June 🌐 Bloody Nora... Lampard seizes on a loose ball right on the edge of the area [etc.]. | |
![]() | posting at www.kasabian.co.uk 12 June 🌐 Nothing like stating the bloody obvious. Fucking Nora. | |
![]() | Bluesky 5 Dec. 🌐 The level of contributors, the access to rarely seen places, plus HF's communication = flaming nora. |