fucking

[ fuhk-ing, -in ]

adjective

, Slang: Vulgar.

1. damned; confounded; awful; detestable; (used to express displeasure, anger, or contempt):

   We’d been waiting an hour, and then this fucking guy just cut straight to the front of the line.

2. (used as an intensifier):

   This is fucking awesome!

fucking

/ ˈfʌkɪŋ /

adjective

1. (intensifier)

   turn off that fucking phone; a fucking good time

Grammar Note

Fucking and its euphemisms freaking, frigging, and fricking are used in adjectival or adverbial positions in a sentence as intensifiers. Something that is “fucking amazing” is really amazing. Someone who was there “the whole frigging time” was there for the absolute entirety of the time. These words are also among a very small number of words that work as infixes in English. That is, they can also be placed inside of a word to act as an intensifier for that word, as in “absofuckinglutely” or “a-freakin-mazing.” When infixed, the informal variants (those with the final -g dropped from their spellings) are the more common forms. Infix-intensified words can be spelled with or without hyphens to set off the inserted word. While fucking and its euphemisms are the most common words used in this construction, “damned” is also sometimes infixed in American English, and in British English “bloody” and “blooming” can also be inserted in this manner.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fucking¹

First recorded in 1520–30 for adjective sense, and 1860–65 as an intensifier; fuck + -ing ²

Example Sentences

You can file the bright and radiant Don Q Reserve 7 aged Puerto Rican rum under “Fucking Necessary,” and serve it on the rocks at this year’s six-feet-from-insanity holiday party.

From Washington Blade

Nocera, she said, initially refused to move his car and told someone to “get a fucking tape measure.”

From ProPublica

“Wirecard was a war, a four-and-a-half-year fucking war,” Perring groans.

From Fortune

So as we were paddling around in our kayaks, people were saying to each other, This whole fucking place is gone!

From Nautilus

However, in my culture, if you have a fucking problem with somebody, you tell them in two seconds.

From Eater

I physically felt like I was in a fishbowl, and I was sitting on the couch with one of my best friends and Julie Fucking Andrews.

From The Daily Beast

For my thesis show at RISD, I did this piece based on this book called Fucking James Franco.

From The Daily Beast

After knocking, I heard Mrs. Goode say, ‘Holy Fucking Christ.’

From The Daily Beast

"Fucking town," Harold grumbles as he reconnoiters the tourist-dense casino.

From The Daily Beast

Rather the Technology Itself is, so Please Don't Be Taking No Selfies With a Fucking Windows Phone.

From The Daily Beast

Related Words

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