eff

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Alternative spelling of ef

   Alternative spelling of ef; the name of the Latin script letter F/f.

   • Why against printers all this noise? This summoning of blackguard boys? Why so sagacious in your guesses? Your effs, and tees, and arrs, and eſſes? Take my advice; to make you safe, I know a shorter way be half.
   • ‘Eff. You. En,’ said Mr Banstead. ‘Fun![…]’
2. 2

   Synonym of fuck.

   • Eff off!
   • And he kept saying, "Effing this, effing that."
3. 3

   To put into words

   To put into words; to express.

   • […] and perhaps also because what we know partakes in no small measure of the nature of what has so happily been called the unutterable or ineffable, so that any attempt to utter or eff it is doomed to fail, doomed, doomed to fail.
   • They, no more than we, found it hard to eff the ineffable, but they, you see, needed to console themselves more.
   • It is another way of effing the ineffable, one with potentially serious practical effects.
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   1. 4

      Initialism of Electronic Frontier Foundation.

      • The EFF asked Legere about the issue on Twitter. After partially answering the question in a video, Legere said, "Who the f— are you anyway EFF? Why are you stirring up so much trouble, and who pays you?"
   2. 5

      Initialism of Economic Freedom Fighters.

   3. 6

      Alternative letter-case form of eff.

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