fuck

fuck (fŭk) Vulgar Slang

v. fucked, fuck·ing, fucks

v. tr. 1) To have sexual intercourse with. 2) To take advantage of, betray, or cheat; victimize. 3) Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal.

v. intr.

1. To engage in sexual intercourse.

2. To act wastefully or foolishly.

3. To tinker or meddle with something. Often used with with.

4. To tease or treat someone carelessly or indifferently. Often used with with.

n.

1. An act of sexual intercourse.

2. A partner in sexual intercourse.

3. A despised person.

4. Used as an intensive: »

What the fuck did you do that for?

interj. ▸ Used to express extreme displeasure.

Phrasal Verbs:

● fuck off 1) Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal. 2) To spend time idly. 3) To masturbate.

● fuck over ▸ To treat unfairly; take advantage of.

● fuck up 1) To make a mistake; bungle something. 2) To act carelessly, foolishly, or incorrectly. 3) To cause to be intoxicated.

╂ [Middle English (attested in pseudo-Latin fuccant, (they) fuck, deciphered from gxddbov), probably akin to Dutch fokken, to strike, have sexual intercourse with, breed (cattle), German ficken, to have sexual intercourse with, and Swedish dialectal fock, penis; see peuk-.]

Word History: Fuck is an old word, although throughout its history it has probably been uttered in speech much more than it has been written in manuscripts or printed in books. The first evidence we have of the existence of the word fuck is found in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. In the manuscript of the poem, some of the lines are even written in code—to hide the lewd nature of the text or perhaps to offer the reader the fun of deciphering the verses and discovering the bawdy words within. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, "Flen flyys," from the first words of its opening line, "Flen, flyys, and freris," that is, "fleas, flies, and friars." The line that contains fuck reads "Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk." The Latin words "Non sunt in coeli, quia," mean "they [the friars] are not in heaven, since." The code "gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk" is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields "fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli." The whole thus reads in translation: "They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge]."