The Complete History of the Word. Yes, That One.
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2009
Today’s new entry:
¶ I wouldn’t fuck her with your dick and variants, (used to describe a sexually unappealing woman).
I made an effort to include more phrases in this edition. In many cases I promoted phrases that were already included in catch-all entries into proper entries in their own right, but I also added a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
F-word noun (used as a euphemism to refer to the word fuck or one of its derivatives or compounds).
and
F-word verb & interjection (used as a euphemism for fuck verb and interjection). Compare eff.
For some reason, in earlier editions I decided not to include an entry for the expression f-word itself, even though I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
fug (a written euphemism for fuck in various senses and parts of speech; see fuck for examples). [Associated chiefly with Norman Mailer, who was required by his publishers to use the euphemism in The Naked and the Dead (1948).]
Solely a cross-reference entry, I put this in because of constant questions about its absence. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 28th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
fuck pad noun a dwelling or room used for esp. casual sexual encounters.
The term crash pad was found by the late 1960s. It took a few more years for someone to come up with fuck pad—or for it to get written down in some place where I could find it; the earliest example [...]
Posted in Media Coverage on Aug 27th, 2009
I’m not going to mention every last bit of publicity The F-Word gets, but it does give me great pleasure to note that The New Yorker has just blogged the book! Thanks very much, guys!
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
IHTFP interjection “I hate this fucking place.” [Associated with both the U.S. military (esp. the Navy) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]
Inadvertently left out of earlier editions, despite the fact that I had the evidence for it—indeed, this dates back to the early 1960s (and even then, in reference to still earlier times). [...]
Posted in Publicity Events, Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2009
I’ve now got a confirmed reading in the Bay Area, at San Francisco’s esteemed City Lights bookstore. I’m honored to be at such a wonderful place, and note in passing that the bookstore’s co-founder, the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, contributed one of the quotations added to this new edition (a 1965 example for fuck v. sense [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
rat fuck interjection (used as an interjection); = fuck verb definition 1.d.
One of several new entries in the ratfuck family (we’ve already seen ratfuck n. 4), this one seems to be a particular favorite of Stephen King. My earliest evidence is from the mid-1990s.
This is a sample definition of one of the many [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
fuck machine noun an extremely vigorous sexual partner. Compare fucking machine at fucking adjective sense 1.
A particularly nice entry, if I say so myself. The quotations include such notables as Charles Bukowski, Harold Robbins, the poet C. D. Wright, and Quentin Tarantino (from Reservoir Dogs). The comparison at fucking machine is for a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
fark verb Chiefly Australian. (a partial euphemism, in various senses, parts of speech, and derived forms, for) fuck.
The euphemisms never end, do they? This one is usually Australian, and is found since the early 1970s. Perhaps greater access to Australian texts from an earlier period could push this back, but for now this [...]