fucking

noun
/ˈfʌkɪŋ//ˈfʊkɪŋ/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Austrian German Fucking. The association with the unrelated vulgar term fucking led to a name change in 2020.

  1. borrowed from Fucking

Definitions

  1. An act of sexual intercourse, especially one lacking passion or a feeling of sincere love.

    • I got a good fucking out of her, but I doubt we'll have another date.
    • c 1674, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II Like the French fool, that wanders up and down Starving his people, hazarding his crown. Peace is his aim, his gentleness is such, And love he loves, for he loves fucking much.
  2. An act of mistreatment.

    • I took a real fucking on the interest rate for that loan.
  3. An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it…

    An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically modifies.

    • No fucking way.
    • This is a fucking nightmare!
    • Give me the fucking key!
  4. + 5 more definitions
    1. Offensive, annoying or worthless.

      • Get your fucking car out of the way.
      • Get me off your fucking mailing list.
      • Even when Trump won, Murdoch was unconvinced, reportedly privately calling him a “fucking idiot” following one conversation about immigration.
    2. present participle and gerund of fuck

    3. Really, very

      Really, very; having intensive force, often applying to the whole sentence or clause.

      • This is fucking ridiculous!
      • I'm not fucking well paying this time.
      • You've never seen a bunch of guys more fucking shocked to lose
    4. Alternative form of -fucking-, used when the infix is put between two words.

      • New Fucking York.
      • She had been, as I say, drinking all afternoon and she suddenly howled, “Ten o’clock! It’s ten o’fucking clock! Why doesn’t he come? Why in God’s name doesn’t he come?” Something along those lines.
      • […] I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber.
    5. A village in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria, part of the municipality of…

      A village in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria, part of the municipality of Tarsdorf, now called Fugging.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fucking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA