Today’s new entry:
fuckability noun ability to be copulated with; (specifically) sexual attractiveness.
While fuckable has been around—in two senses!—since the 1880s, its partner fuckability, while predictable, seems to be a relatively new term. My first example is from the late 1960s, but in reference to a sex toy; the usual meaning, referring to a person’s sexual attractiveness, doesn’t show up until the early 1990s.
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!