fuck

• (bowdlerizations) f--k, f**k, f—k, the F-word, F-bomb, phuck, etc.

Unknown, but probably from Middle English *fukken, of North Germanic origin, related to dialectal Norwegian fukka (“to copulate; fuck”), Bohuslän Swedish fokka (“to fuck; thrust; push”) (a sense possibly preserved in English windfucker), modern Swedish focka (“to fire from work”), Swedish fock (“penis”), and Middle Dutch (and Modern Dutch) fokken (“to breed”). It may go back to the Proto-Indo-European *pug-, *puǵ- ("to strike"; source of Latin pugnus (“fist”) among many others), or to Proto-Indo-European *puḱn-, *pewḱ- ("to sting, stick, stab"; compare German ficken (“to fuck”)). The word may be attested in a 772 AD charter that mentions a place called Fuccerham, which possibly means "ham (“home”) of the fucker" or "hamm (“pasture”) of the fucker". The earliest verifiable use of the word, in an unambiguously sexual context in any stage of English, appears in court documents from Cheshire, England, which first mention a man called "Roger Fuckebythenavele" (possibly a tongue-in-cheek entry or directly suggestive of a depraved sexual act) on December 8, 1310.[1][2] It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598.[3]

Compare Scots fuk, fuck, attested slightly earlier.

A range of folk-etymological backronyms, such as "fornication under consent of the king" and "for unlawful carnal knowledge", are all demonstrably false (among other things, words like fornication are Anglo-Norman in origin, while "fuck" is of Germanic origin long predating the Norman Conquest).

• (UK, US) enPR: fŭk, IPA^(key): /fʌk/
• (some Northern English accents) enPR: fo͝ok, IPA^(key): /fʊk/

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• Rhymes: -ʌk, -ʊk

fuck (third-person singular simple present fucks, present participle fucking, simple past and past participle fucked)

1. (vulgar, colloquial) To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.

   Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.

2. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
   • 2007, Lionel Shriver, The post-birthday world

     She wanted to fuck him more than she had ever wanted to fuck any man in her life.

   • 2018 May 6, John Oliver, “Rudy Giuliani”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 5, episode 10, HBO:

     They’re both New Yorkers coasting on their reputations, they’ve both had three marriages, neither of them can shut up when in front of a camera, and perhaps most importantly, they both want to fuck Ivanka, which-which is weird for Trump because Ivanka is in his family, and it’s weird for Giuliani because she isn’t.

3. (vulgar, colloquial) To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft.
   • 2006, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Glamour Girls: Femme/Femme Erotica

     She shoved them up and together, pushing into me, forcing my foot to fuck her tits harder and harder while gasping as if I was shoving it deep into her body...

4. (vulgar, colloquial) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.

   I'm afraid they're gonna fuck you on this one.

5. (vulgar, colloquial) To defraud or otherwise treat badly.

   I got fucked at the used car lot.

   Don't fuck with me.

6. (vulgar, colloquial, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with someone or something.

   Fuck those jerks, and fuck their stupid rules!

   • 1983 December 9, Al Pacino as Tony Montana, Scarface:

     Fuck the fuckin' Diaz Brothers, I bury those cockroaches!

   • 2010, Tim Minchin (music), “The Pope Song”‎:

     If he covered for a single motherfucker who's a kiddy-fucker, / fuck the motherfucker, he's as evil as the rapist.

   • 2010 August 19, “Fuck You”, performed by Cee Lo Green:

     I see you driving 'round town with the girl I love / and I'm like, "Fuck you!"

7. (vulgar, colloquial, usually followed by up) to break, to destroy.
   • 2001, Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days

     Goodman says he wants him to come in tomorrow and Moses is so afraid he's fucked up his chance again that he says yeah...

   • 2004, S. Andrew Swann, Hostile Takeover‎:

     She knew something had fucked the plan when she grabbed the headset off the door.

   • 2002, Peter Hawes, Royce, Royce, the people's choice‎:

     Here we are a mile out to sea and you've fucked the motor.

   • 2016, John Peaseland, Astrum Vermis‎:

     The symbols, all warnings of impending doom, might well have read: “You have fucked the engine, you arsehole.

8. (vulgar, colloquial) Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
   • 2006, Kilian Betlach, This Feels Like A Riot Looks

     They couldn't hear a single note Ted was playing and the sound guy kept yelling at them to stop fucking with the levels so he could make adjustments.

• see also Thesaurus:copulate

fuck (plural fucks)

1. (vulgar, colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
   • 1975, Alexander Buzo, Tom, page 11:

     No, but I've got a film of a couple of crocodiles having a fuck.

   • 2001, Thomas Kelly, The Rackets, MysteriousPress.com (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     He could count on a good fuck with Lorene later on.

   • 2012, Heather Rutman, The Girl's Guide to Depravity: How to Get Laid Without Getting Screwed, Running Press (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Are guys so intimidated by a girl who's totally blunt about the fact that she just wants a good fuck that they can't perform?

2. (vulgar, colloquial) A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
   • 1999, Michael Douglas, Basic Instinct:

     I thought she was the fuck of the century.

   • 2005, Jaid Black, Strictly Taboo, Berkley Sensations (2005), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     In his mind, she was probably just another fuck, but in hers it had meant so much more than that.

   • 2005, Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flip-Out:

     If he's a lousy fuck, I can at least say I had a lousy fuck, and if he's a great fuck, well that's even better...

   • 2008, Nicole Galland, Crossed, Harper (2008), →ISBN, page 32:

     “He'd rather have his favorite fuck with him on the greatest adventure of his life than pay money to lie with ugly strangers. […]

3. (vulgar, colloquial) A highly contemptible person.
   • 1965, Gershon Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor:

     Finally he gets up his courage, crosses over to her and says in her ear, "Hello, Beautiful. Whaddya say to a little fuck?" She measures him coolly with her eyes. "Hello, little fuck."

   • 2002, Robert Williams, The Remembrance:

     She used to be a secretary but then she realized that she could run a business a hell of a lot better than those stupid fucks could.

4. (vulgar, colloquial) A thing of no value, a small amount.

   I don't give a fuck.

• (copulation): See also Thesaurus:copulation.
• (sexual partner): see also Thesaurus:sexual partner and Thesaurus:casual sexual partner.
• (contemptible person): dickhead; see also Thesaurus:jerk.

fuck

1. (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.

   Oh, fuck! We left the back door unlocked.

   Fuck! Why do you have to be so difficult all the time?

• (interjection): fark, feck, fook, frick
• See also Thesaurus:dammit

fuck (not comparable)

1. (vulgar, colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no".

   Do you censor your swearing? – Fuck no.

   Do you say it out loud and proud? – Fuck yeah.

• (intensifier with "yes" and "no"): hell, god, shit, heck

• fuckest
• fucketh

fuck

1. (vulgar, slang, especially African American Vernacular) Used as a shortened form of various common interrogative phrases.

   People complainin' "Monday again"... course it's Monday; fuck you thought came after Sunday? Sunday Jr.?

   What the fuck did you think came after Sunday?

   Of course it's the mailman. Fuck you thought it was?

   Who the fuck did you think it was?

• Sheidlower, Jesse, The F Word (1999) →ISBN.
• “Fuck” in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, 2004, →ISBN.

• FCUK, fcuk

Borrowed from English fuck.

fuck

1. (swear word) Expresses dislike of the postpositive complement.
   • 2017, Peder Frederik Jensen, Skullfucking, Rosinante & Co (→ISBN)

     Fuck jeres utopi. / Fuck jeres reservepræster, selvudnævnte biskopper uden liturgi.

     Fuck your utopia / Fuck your reserve priests, self-proclaimed bishops without liturgy.

   • 2011, Lyngby Bibliotek, Oprør, BoD – Books on Demand (→ISBN), page 69

     Fuck jer! Fuck jer! Og fuck jeres Gud!

     Fuck you! Fuck you! And fuck your God!

• fuk

fuck (third-person singular present fucks, present participle fuckin, past fucked, past participle fucked)

1. (vulgar, slang) to fuck
   • c, 1510, William Dunbar, ‘A Brash of Wowing’:

     He clappit fast, he kist and chukkit, / As with the glaikis he wer ouirgane, / Ȝit be his feirris he wald have fukkit; / ‘Ȝe brek my hart, my bony ane!’