fucking
fucking Lexical Profile
fucking Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
(vulgar slang) Used attributively before a noun as an intensive expletive to express extreme anger, annoyance, contempt, or general emphasis.
"He lost his keys again and couldn't open the fucking door."
• adverb
(vulgar slang) To a very great degree or extent; extremely; used as an intensifier to modify an adjective, adverb, or verb.
"The weather outside is fucking freezing tonight."
• interjection
(vulgar slang) Used to express sudden anger, frustration, disbelief, or strong emotion.
"Fucking hell, I completely forgot about the deadline!"
• noun
(vulgar slang) An act or instance of sexual intercourse.
"The novel contained frank depictions of drinking and fucking that shocked Victorian censors."
Word Nuance & Usage
Because 'fucking' is a strong vulgarity, it is inappropriate in formal, academic, and professional registers. Syntactically, as an adjective it occurs strictly in the attributive position before a noun (never predicatively), and it is one of the few English words frequently used in tmesis (infixation) inside another word for emphasis (e.g., 'abso-fucking-lutely').
• Rhymes for fucking
Word Origin & Etymology
Formed as the present participle of the verb 'fuck' (attested since the late 15th century, likely from a Germanic root meaning 'to strike' or 'to move back and forth'), its use as a purely grammatical intensifier and attributive expletive became widespread in English slang during the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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