Green’s Dictionary of Slang

an intensified phr. meaning whatever, what.

1972		E. Shrake Strange Peaches 3: She laughed hoarsely and screamed, ‘What the fog are you doing, Francis?’.
1975		J. Wambaugh Choirboys (1976) 58: I know what the fuck it is!
1987		(con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 266: He owns Tampa. This is what the fuck I’m making a move for.
1988		Viz Oct.–Nov. 32: What the fuck are you playing at?
1989		Pileggi & Scorsese Goodfellas [film script] 56: Nobody knows what the fuck happened to him.
1990		G. Tate ‘Marc Anthony Thompson’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 118: I don’t know what the funk they think of him at his record company.
1993		Tarantino & Avery Pulp Fiction [film script] 9: They wouldn’t know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.
1998		P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 363: He was dealing with someone who knew what the shit he was doing.
2000		Hip-Hop Connection Jan.–Feb. 47: Motherfucker, I’m going to do what the fuck I want.
2010		IOL News (Western Cape) 28 Jan. 🌐 WTF is a popular online internet acronum for the rhetorical question ‘What the f***?’.
2017		A. Parks Bloody January 6: ‘Fuck off. I’m no a grass.’ McCoy laughed. ‘You’re no a grass? Fuck am I doing sitting here, then?’.
2021		S.A. Crosby Razorblade Tears 32: ‘Then he goes and does whatever the fuck he does during the day’.
2021		P Howard Braywatch 19: ‘[P]ordon me for trying to understand what the fock is going on in my son’s head’.
2021		C. Hammer Opal Country 6: What the fuck has the bastard been up to?