fucking
adjEtymology From fuck + -ing.
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Vulgar 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!
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- Give me the fucking key!
- Open the fucking locker!
- Yeah, she caught my eye, as I walked on by / She could see from my face that I was fucking high2005, James Blunt, “You're Beautiful”, in Back to Bedlam:
- “Every time it’s shown, I get e-mail from young guys who want to get it on with me,” she said. “Which is wonderful. I’m seventy-seven fucking years old.”2006 March 6, Lauren Collins, quoting Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, “Last Bohemians”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2019:
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Vulgar Offensive, annoying or worthless.
- Get your fucking car out of the way.
- Get me off your fucking mailing list.
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- Even when Trump won, Murdoch was unconvinced, reportedly privately calling him a “fucking idiot” following one conversation about immigration.2022 November 10, Adam Gabbatt, quoting Rupert Murdoch, “Has ‘Trumpty Dumpty’ taken a great fall from Rupert Murdoch’s grace?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2023:
- Liam has more beefs than an episode of The Bear—with Damon “that dick out of blur” Albarn, the Spice Girls’ (Mel C (who offered to fight Liam at the Brits), and, in a seemingly neverending feud, with Robbie “fat fucking idiot” Williams. Liam once said, “Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher,” called footballer Wayne Rooney “a fucking balloon with a fucking Weetabix crushed on top,” and said, “Everyone [in Mumford & Sons] looks like they’ve got fucking nits and eat lentil soup with their sleeves rolled up.”2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2024: