The Complete History of the Word. Yes, That One.
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2009
Today’s new entry:
FTN interjection Navy. “fuck the Navy.”
Earlier editions had FTA, for “fuck the Army”, which I found in the 1950s. Why it took until the early 1980s for FTN to show up—whether it’s because there are more memoirs about the Army, thus letting us discover this earlier, or because sailors don’t dislike their branch [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 22nd, 2009
Today’s new entry:
fuckfriend noun = fuck-buddy.
OK, OK, we gotta do this again:
fuck-buddy noun Especially Homosexuals. a sexual partner; (specifically) a friend with whom one engages in casual sex.
Though fuck-buddy has been well established since the 1980s (though is a decade older even than that), fuckfriend is newer, dating from the early 1990s. Compare friend with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 21st, 2009
Today’s new entry:
fuckbreak noun an interruption in an activity taken in order to engage in sexual intercourse.
The first time I heard this term was in 1994, when I was working on the first edition of The F-Word. My publicist mentioned this as a term she was familiar with, and described it as a leave from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 20th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
REMF noun [from rear echelon motherfucker] a soldier in a support or administrative role; any non-combatant soldier.
A word of the Vietnam era, this is first recorded in 1971 (though no doubt was in use earlier), and was apparently quite frequent. It is still in current use in the U.S. military; that is, it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
fuckbar noun Homosexuals. a bar in which one can engage in sexual activity, esp. one having a back room for such a purpose.
Quotations are first found in the mid-1970s.
This is a sample definition of one of the many (over 120) new entries from the third edition of The F-Word. In the time leading [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
fuck-a-doodle-doo interjection (used to express ironic delight); “oh, wonderful”; “big deal.”
Dating back to the mid-1970s, this entry includes quotations from a Neil Simon play as well as the films Four Weddings and a Funeral and Shaun of the Dead.
This is a sample definition of one of the many (over 120) new entries from [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 17th, 2009
Though finished copies have been available within Oxford UP for a week or two, I’ve just learned that Amazon is now shipping The F-Word! Yay!
http://www.amazon.com/F-Word-Jesse-Sheidlower/dp/0195393112
Order away….
Note: I’ll continue the FWOTD feature until the official publication date.
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 17th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
skull fuck verb…2. to thrust the penis into the eye socket of (a person).—chiefly as an exaggeratedly violent threat.
The canonical example of this is from the great drill-sergeant sequence in Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket:
1987 Full Metal Jacket (film): I’m going to give you three seconds, exactly three fucking seconds, to wipe that stupid-looking [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
fuddle-duddle Canadian. a euphemism for fuck in various senses and parts of speech.
Big shout out to our Canadian friend on this one. There’s a lot of misinformation about this word, so I’ll just continue by quoting the etymological note:
[After an incident in the House of Commons, when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, being criticized [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
fucking noun 1. sexual intercourse.
and
fucking adjective 1. that engages or is engaged in sexual intercourse. Also: used during sexual activity or for sexual gratification; relating to or describing sexual activity.
In earlier editions, I didn’t pay much attention to literal uses, especially when they were in grammatically predictable constructions. So, I certainly covered the [...]