Today’s new entry:
¶ fuck this shit (used to dismiss a situation); “to hell with this.”
Dating back to the late 1960s, I did have an example of this in the previous editions, but realized that it was common enough at a set phrase that it should be included in its own right. Some of the notables quoted are J. P. Donleavy and David Mamet, both of whom are repeated quotees in the pages of this book.
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 up to publication, I will be featuring one such entry a day. In the book itself, these definitions will be supplemented with a number of quotations showing the use of the word or phrase (which is the whole point of a historical dictionary of this sort). In other words, this is only a teaser!