The Complete History of the Word. Yes, That One.
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 4th, 2009
Today’s new entry:
¶ to fuck, very much, a great deal; “to hell.”
This is, in effect, an intensified version of “to hell”; in the book’s examples, things are “blown to fuck,” someone “wishes to fuck,” someone gets “annoyed to fuck,” and so forth.
The earliest example is from a 1919 book about Australian soldier slang of World [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 3rd, 2009
Today’s new entry:
ass-fuck verb…2. to victimize cruelly.
The intensified equivalent of the main figurative senses of fuck v., this sense was somewhat less common, at least in print, than I had originally expected. The earliest example I have is from 1980, and I quote Howard Stern amongst others.
The noun equivalent, which was in earlier editions, was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 2nd, 2009
Today’s new entry:
charity fuck noun = mercy fuck.
and the obligatory definition, from a previously included entry:
mercy fuck noun an act of intercourse engaged in out of pity. Cf. pity fuck.
One of a number of synonyms for this meaning; the other common one, not mentioned in the welter of cross-references above, is sympathy fuck. Most of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 1st, 2009
Today’s new entry:
frak (a partial euphemism for) fuck, in various senses and parts of speech. [Coined on, and chiefly associated with, the television show Battlestar Galactica. In the Original Series (1978), used exclusively as an interjection; in the Reimagined Series (2003–2009), used more broadly as a euphemism for many forms of fuck, both figurative and [...]
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 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 [...]