The F-Word Page 8

  2. to engage in a DOUBLE FUCK (with).

  1984 B. Baker Sally’s Anal Punishment 161: His brain buzzed with the ecstatic wonder of doublefucking both women. 1995 Sydney Star Reporter (Australia) (Nov. 9) 30 [personal ad]: Seek submissive guy to 30 to be double fucked & abused. 1998 (quotation at DOUBLE FUCK, noun). 2001 Playboy (Feb.) 41: Later she asked to be “double fucked” with me in her vagina and my friend in her ass.

  double-fucking adjective

  = FUCKING, adjective.—used for emphasis.

  1929 R. Graves Good-Bye to All That 79 [refers to 1917]: The Bandmaster, who was squeamish, reported it as: “Sir, he called me a double-effing c—.” 1945 in Verbatim (Autumn, 1989) 6: Double [fucking]…Embellished or emphatic [form] of fxxxing. 1991 M. Tolkin Rapture (film): No double-fuckin’ way would I stop. 2007 C. Adair White Heat 137: Damn, and double-fucking damn. That trail was now cold. No fingerprints on file, no form of ID.

  drug-fucked adjective

  Originally Australian. intoxicated by drugs. Compare FUCKED, adjective, definition 1.

  1991 Arena (Sydney) (No. 8) 13: When you’re that drug-fucked, a piece of navel lint can have occult significance. 1996 Catalog (Summer Extra) 9: Drew Barrymore…the world’s wildest drug-fucked child starlet. 1996 Capital Q Weekly (Sydney) (Mar. 29) 11: Three hundred drug-fucked and horny gay men. 1997 Rants (Sydney) (Oct. 23): Fuck you, yer dumb drug-fucked bitch! 2001 AXM (Aug.) 126/2: Closer to Heaven, although popular by word of mouth—especially with the brilliant Frances Barber as the drug-fucked club diva “Billie”—had not done too well with the critics. 2007 New Yorker (Dec. 17) 40/3: 1974. Bowie was absolutely drug-fucked. That’s when he was living on peppers and milk.

  dry fuck noun

  1. a simulated act of copulation, usually while fully clothed.

  1938 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 104: Maybe you’ll…get a dry fuck. 1965 J. Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words & Phrases 68: Dry Fuck…The act of two lovers rubbing up against each other while clothed and in public, as while dancing, etc., which results in great excitation and, in some cases, orgasm. 1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 71: Dry Fuck…n. The simulated act of sexual intercourse with clothes on. 1971 B. B. Johnson Blues for Sister 101: A professional virgin…The kind that always denied you penetration. A dry fuck. 1975 T. Williams Memoirs 27: They would give her what was then called “a dry fuck.” 1981 S. Hochman Playing Tahoe 124: Rev was the kind of guy you fell for in high school on a dry fuck in the back of a Chevrolet. 2003 L. Begley Shipwreck 58: Let’s take our clothes off. She shook her head vehemently. I got the point. She wanted a dry fuck.

  2. something that is exceedingly tedious or disappointing.

  1945 in T. Williams Letters 177: If only Margo could get something of this quality into “The Project.”…It is a dry fuck, really! 1972 Gram Parsons in B. Fong-Torres Hickory Wind 5: I’ve some sort of “rep” for starting what (I think) has turned out t’be pretty much of a “country-rock” (ugh!) plastic dry-fuck. 1998 S. Firestone Airless Spaces 58: It was a dry fuck, every word painful and laborious. 2005 D. DeFrain Salt Palace 82: “Was a bit of a dry fuck really, all that.” “What? The Church?” I say.

  dry-fuck verb [compare earlier synonym dry-bob]

  to simulate sexual intercourse without penetration; to engage in a DRY FUCK with. Also used figuratively.

  [1935 J. O’Hara in Selected Letters 106: Write something…that will help you get rid of the bitterness you must have stored up against all those patronizing cheap bastards in that dry-fucked excrescence on Sharp Mountain.] ca1937 in T. Atkinson Dirty Comics 106: Try to dry-fuck the hostess who is the big shot’s sweetie. 1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 20: Dry-Fuck.v. To rub stomach, thighs, and genitals together in an erotic manner while dancing. Popular in collegiate circles…U.S., 1925—. 1954 C. Himes Third Generation 243: Now seeing him in the arms of a sweet young girl she was scalded with jealousy. “What kind of dryfucking shit is this?” she screamed. 1958–59 L. Lipton Holy Barbarians 156: As long ago as the twenties dancing was considered “dry fucking” by the cognoscenti who regarded it as something for sub-teenagers only. 1965 D. A. Ward & G. G. Kassebaum Women’s Prison 99: That’s more or less a bulldagger’s…kick, this dry fucking. 1969 J. Briley Traitors 133: They had had a spell of intense sessions holding hands in the library and dry-fucking against the back wall of her sorority. 1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 71: Dry fuck…Go through the motions of sexual intercourse without entering the vagina, usually with clothes on. 1982 C. Bukowski Ham on Rye (2001) xxv. 111: You ought to try dry-fucking, Morrie, it’s great! 1983 E. Dodge Dau 110: They dry-fucked in the pre-dawn darkness. 1991 D. Jenkins Gotta Play Hurt 37: Heike…dry-fucked the rear fender. 2000 Seattle Weekly (Jan. 20) (Nexis): A dreadlocked couple is dry-fucking. 2000 A. L. Kennedy Everything You Need 361: The mutter and jump of manuscripts as they jerked off their watery efforts inside his mind, as they wasted his intelligence, as they dry-fucked his privacy.

  duck noun

  In phrase:

  fuck the duck, to loaf; fuck the dog under DOG. See also fuck a duck under FUCK verb.

  1968–77 M. Herr Dispatches 57: I met a man in the Cav who’d been “fucking the duck” one afternoon, sound asleep in a huge tent. 1978 H. Selby Requiem for a Dream 31: Well let’s stop fucking the duck and figure out how we can pick up the bread. 1979 L. Heinmann, in TriQuarterly (Spring) 180 [refers to Vietnam War]: He was taking one of his famous naps—fucking the duck, we called it.

  dumbfuck noun

  a contemptibly stupid person. Also as adjective.

  1946–50 J. Jones From Here to Eternity 531 [refers to 1941]: Shut up you dumb fuck Turniphead you. 1966 Folk Speech (Indiana University Folklore Archives): Denoting someone’s stupidity. Dumb fuck. 1970–71 J. Rubenstein City Police 427: You know why that dumb-fuck sergeant has Smith drive him? 1973 TULIPQ (coll. B.K. Dumas): Dingbat; super dumb fuck. 1980 P. Conroy Lords of Discipline 150: I want you to rack that chin into your beady, ugly neck, dumbfuck. a 1987C. Bunch & A. Cole Reckoning for Kings 151: Of all the dumb-fuck things to do. 1991 G. Dyer But Beautiful 46: The English bitch yelling, the cops yelling too.—Lemme get at this dumbfuck. 1998 Sick Puppy Comix (Sydney, Australia) (No. 8) 18: It’s not a demon it’s nicotine you dumb fuck! 2000 R. Barger et al. Hell’s Angel iv. 61: The dumb-fuck politicians didn’t even consider that’s how the everyday person controls their car. 2007 A. Bay Embrace the Suck 38: Puzzle Palace, a high-security or intelligence site, or a headquarters located in a high-security area… Usually a derogatory term. (“What do those dumbfucks at the Puzzle Palace say now?”). 2007 J. Hayes Precious Blood 122: In the future, try and watch just who the fuck you’re pointing your dumb-fuck cadet fingers at!

  Dutch fuck noun

  an act of lighting one cigarette from another.

  1948 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 3) 1039: Dutch f**k. Lighting one cigarette from another. Forces’: 1940 +. 1974 New York City man, age 23: A Dutch fuck is when you light someone’s cigarette with your own. 1993 J. Meades Pompey 457: She flinched ever after at the light of lighters, matches, the intimacy of shared flame; even a Dutch fuck frightened her. 1997 A. MacAndrew Bits of String 151: “Give us a light, Harry please.”…“It’ll have to be a Dutch fuck,” Harry answered, handing over his cigarette.

  E

  eff or F

  1. (a partial euphemism for) FUCK in various senses and parts of speech.

  1929 R. Graves Good-Bye to All That 79 [refers to 1917]: The Bandmaster, who was squeamish, reported it as: “Sir, he called me a double-effing c—.” 1931 E. E. Cummings I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big: I will not kiss your f.ing flag. 1931 J. Hanley Boy 252: Tell the effin bosun there’s only the crew’s stuff here now. 1945 E. Hemingway Letter (Apr. 2) in Selected Letters (1981) 579: You’ll hear I’m a phony, a liar, a coward, maybe even a Man of Honor. Just tell them to Eff off.1950 E. Hemingway Across the River and into the Trees 78: “Eff Florence,” the Colonel said. Ibid. 173: You would eff-off, discreetly.
1959 B. Cochrell Barren Beaches of Hell 130: They’ve come closer to solving the recreation problem than anyone else in this effing division. 1961 J.A. Williams Night Song 152: “Effyou, man,” Yards said. 1961 H. Ellison Memos from Purgatory 43: Turn that effin’ thing off before I put a fist through it. 1965 R. Hardman Chaplains Raid 34: An effing chaplain’s assistant! 1965 N. Simon Odd Couple III: “We’re all out of Corn Flakes. F.U.” It took me three hours to figure out that F.U. was Felix Ungar. It’s not your fault, Felix. It’s a rotten combination. 1967 D. Taggart Reunion 189: You effin well know it. 1970 E. E. Landy Underground Dictionary 76: F. you—Fuck you. Ibid. 77: F—ing v. Fucking; having sexual intercourse. Ibid. 78: F—ing around… Goofing off. 1973 W. Overgard Pieces of a Hero 61: Where in the effin hell have you been? 1977 N.Y. Post (Mar. 18) 37: With the language sensitivity of one who knows what will and will not get on TV he later asked: “Am I being effed around, or not?” He actually said “effed.” a1984 in W. Terry Bloods 127: What the F was I there for? 1987 Newsweek (Mar. 23) 58: Don’t F with him. Ibid. 63: He says he F’d you up. Ibid. 65: Stay the F out of the way. Ibid. 73: He said F the doctors. 1991 L. Bing Do or Die iv. 81: I looked crazy back at him, and I said, “Eff, yo’ set and eff yo’ dead homeboys.” 1993 Washington Post (Sept. 3) A8: What the f are you doing here? 1998 N. Hornby About a Boy viii. 52: “You should’ve told her to…”—she looked around to see whether Marcus, the strange kid they were apparently stuck with for the day, was still listening—“…to eff off.” 2008 Entertainment Weekly (Dec. 19) 31: Charlie “Slim” Hendrick, a don’t-eff-with-me ex-con, returns home to find that his sweetie has moved on and his bitter brother has gambling debts.

  2. British. to use the word “fuck”; chiefly in phrase:to eff and blind to swear frequently; to use strong language.

  1943 M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 31: They’d eff and blind till yer ear-’oles started ter frizzle. 1959 A. Wesker Chicken Soup with Barley i. ii: He started effing and blinding and threw their books on the floor. 1965 J. Gaskell Fabulous Heroine 50: He would argue and eff in an intellectual ecstasy all afternoon. 1977 J. Rosenthal Spend, Spend, Spend in Bar Mitzvah Boy & Other Television Plays (1987) 178: First Woman: Well, they haven’t the time really, fair’s fair. It’s a full-time job is boozing all day. Second Woman: I believe they were paralytic in the Miners Arms. Effing and blinding. You’d think they’d ban them … but they won’t. First Woman: Mrs Danby said the police were round to them three o’clock this morning. Disturbing the peace. 1981 W. Foley Back to Forest in Forest Trilogy (1992) 309: In winter he effed and blinded the queueing customers who were making life hard for him and his assistant fryer. 1989 J. Galloway Trick is to Keep Breathing (1991) 26: A man and a woman shouting, effing and blinding and the little girl starts screaming. 1995 M. Amis Information 48: Even the Asians and West Indians who lived there had somehow become saxonized—they loped and leered, they peed, veed, queued, effed and blinded, just like the locals. 1999 L. Hird Born Free xiv. 109: A bairn starts screaming up the back and I hear the mother effing away, smacking it. 2003 C. Birch Turn Again Home iii. 47: She’d turned up at Edmund and Isabel’s blind drunk in the middle of the afternoon. Disgusting! Effing and blinding she was in front of the children.

  em-eff variant of M.F.

  eye-fuck verb

  to gaze at lecherously; ogle. Also: (especially Military) to stare at, especially with hostility; (hence, Military) to look around.

  1916 H. N. Cary Slang of Venery I 79: Eye Fuck—To stare and leer at a woman. 1971 P. Barnes Pawns 69: The DI’s have picked out the recruits who don’t look sharp, who fall behind in the runs, or are caught “eye-fucking.” (“Eye-fucking” is a heinous crime in Marine Corps boot camp. It consists of moving one’s eyeballs to the side while standing at attention.) 1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 77: Eye fuck (late ’60s)…to stare holes through someone. 1980 M. Baker Nam 36: Smokey catches the dude looking at him out of the corner of his eye. He says, “Are you eye-fucking me, boy? I don’t want your scuzzy eyes looking at me.” 1980 J. DiFusco et al. Tracers 12: While maggots are at attention, they will not talk, they will not eye-fuck the area, they will listen to me and only me! 1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 30 [refers to 1966]: You will not talk. You will not eye-fuck the area. Ibid. 32: You eye-fuckin’ me, sweetpea? You wanna fuck me, scum? 1988 J. Norst Colors 17: Killer Bee…was… eye-fucking McGavin. 1991 J. T. Ward Dear Mom 5 [refers to 1968]: You will stand at attention, eyes forward. I don’t want you eyefucking me or the area. 1991 D. Simon Homicide 260: And damned if he didn’t always come back with some pieces of information about the dead man. Any other detective would get eyefucked and maybe cursed, but Worden somehow managed to take the corner boys beyond that. 1997 D. Simon & E. Burns Corner 16: Three of the plainclothesmen stand over them, shouting; a fourth stands in the street, eyefucking the crews on the Mount Street corners. 2000 E. Reid Midnight Sun 29: Her boyfriend, a tattooed biker, stood nearby…making sure we weren’t eyefucking her. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 155: The daughters of tourists in their sherbet-colored minis getting eyefucked by vendedores.

  F

  F variant of EFF.

  face-fuck verb

  = MOUTH-FUCK. Hence face-fucker noun.

  1972 “Coop” Sexy Southern Boy 66: He was lying on his back now, letting me do all the work, just enjoying it, rather than face-fucking me, like he’d done the first time. a1980 About Time: Anthology of California Prison Writing 19: One million days filled with cumdrunk bitches who facefuck and rimshot and tonguebathe. 1983 R. N. Boyd Joint Sissies in Sex behind Bars (1984) 56: Gary was a real face-fucker; it was hard to catch my breath while doing him. 1990 S. Morgan Homeboy xlvi. 277: Billy had grabbed Magdalena by the hair and lifted her around and slammed her up against the cage’s wire mesh, which he clutched to facefuck her. 1999 R. T. Davies Queer as Folk: Scripts (Episode 4) 113 (stage direction): Quickly, Stuart gets Nathan on to his knees, face-fucks him. With one hand on the back of Nathan’s head, Stuart reaches out to balance himself. 2006 R. Kick Everything You Know about Sex is Wrong 120/2: They want to open their throat, get facefucked, and swallow a load of cum.

  fan-fucking-tastic adjective

  wonderful; fantastic. See -FUCKING-, infix, for related forms.

  1970 T. Southern Blue Movie 108: Tony was delighted. “Fan-fucking-tastic!” 1971 National Lampoon (Aug.) 26: Just groove on those colors! Fan-fucking-tastic! 1976 A. Schroeder Shaking It Rough 78: “Fan-fucking-tastic!” Corso whistles in astonishment. 1977 D. Bredes Hard Feelings 42: He said “Fan-fucking-tastic!” over and over. 1981 R. Graziano & R. Corsel Somebody Down Here Likes Me Too 156: Frankie…is fanfuckintastic! 1988 M. Atwood Cat’s Eye 298: Fan-fuckin’-tastic. 1989 C. Hiaasen Skin Tight xxiii. 248: “Swell,” said Mur-dock. “That means it’s only what?—another four, five hours in the mud. Fanfuckingtastic. By then it’ll be good and dark too.” 1993 M. Crichton Disclosure i. 56: I am pleased to report…that as of half an hour ago, The Corridor is fan-fucking-tastic. 2004 J. Moore Dot.homme xiv. 171: “Isn’t this fan-fucking-tastic, Jess!” she’d shrieked above the music, spinning me around until I felt utterly sick.

  fanny verb

  British. (a euphemism for FUCK around verb). Usually as fanny about.

  1971 J. Leasor Love-All iv. 62: We haven’t much time to fanny about. 1996 P. Gregory Perfectly Correct 246: I’m not accustomed to being fannied about. I don’t like this will-you won’t-you stuff, Lou. You said you’d come for the weekend and I want you there with me. 2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty xxxix. 159: That’s three years wasted. Three years! If I hadn’t spent all that time fannying around in lecture halls I’d be twenty-seven now instead of thirty! 2004 Independent (Apr. 8) (Review section) 13/1: I took the family to Cowley Manor in Gloucestershire at the weekend, and having fannied around for 20 minutes in London deciding what to pack, eventually decided to go in what I was wearing. 2008 Guardian (Aug. 30) 7: It is time to end the British habit of fannying about with Olympic football.

  Fanny Adams verb
[euphemism for FUCK ALL noun, after Fanny Adams, young English girl murdered in 1867]

  British = FUCK ALL noun. Usually used with sweet.

  1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dialect 22: F.A., ‘Fanny Adams’, or ‘Sweet Fanny Adams’—nothing; vacuity. 1930 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang of the British Soldier 123: F.A. Sometimes lengthened into Sweet F.A. or bowdlerized into Sweet Fanny Adams. Used to mean ‘nothing’ where something was expected. 1949 J. R. Cole It was so Late 61: What do they do? Sweet Fanny Adams! 1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy 15: You’ll order sweet fanny adams from outside, and never you mind the regulations, I’ll regulate you. 1978 B. Ashley Kind of Wild Justice (2002) 92: There was sweet Fanny Adams around here, only mud and slippery wood, and stink. 1983 J. H. Heminway No Man’s Land 5: I was no ruddy star and I knew sweet Fanny Adams about acting, but I did have fun. 1990 M. Leigh Life is Sweet in Naked & Other Screenplays (1995) 145: So what you been doin’ all mornin’? Sweet Fanny Adams, as usual. 1999 S. Perera Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet xiv. 186: “You sound like my mum.” “And you’re going to end up like her: working your fingers to the bone for sweet Fanny Adams.” 2002 J. Diski Stranger on a Train 112: You’re completely drunk, you are drunk as a horse’s arse and you know sweet fanny adams about the little people. You are a fraud.

  fark verb

  Chiefly Australian. (a partial euphemism, in various senses, parts of speech, and derived forms, for) FUCK.