eff

[ ef ]

verb (used with or without object), interjection
  1. fuck: Stop effing around and get to work!Eff you, you lout!

noun
  1. the word “fuck”; the f-word: peppering his speech with superfluous and highly offensive effs.

Verb Phrases
  1. eff off, Go away!: Eff off and die, you piece of Martian scum!

Origin of eff

1
1940–45; euphemism for fuck, with eff as spelled form of the name of the initial letter

Other definitions for eff. (2 of 2)

eff.

abbreviation
  1. efficient, efficiency.

  2. effective, effectiveness.

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How to use eff in a sentence

  • Wal, I toled har, Id stan' by har eff evrithing went ter h—l—an I wil, by ——.

    Among the Pines | James R. Gilmore
  • She had a little maid who attended her,—eff she called her,—and the girl stood by to watch while Anne did my bidding.

  • So I got the tackle of eff's father—rude enough it was in all conscience—and in the early afternoon I set out to the sport.

  • Then she stopped exhausted, smiled on eff, who sat like a cinder-witch all the while, and smoothed the hair from her brow.

British Dictionary definitions for eff

eff

/ (ɛf) /


verb
  1. euphemism for fuck taboo eff off

  2. eff and blind slang to use obscene language

Derived forms of eff

  • effing, noun, adjective, adverb

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