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▪ I. F-word, n.
Brit. |ˈɛfwəːd|, U.S. |ˈɛfˌwərd|
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
[‹ the initial letter of fuck n. (compare eff v.) + word n. Compare F-word v., and also effing n., effing adj.]
1.
a. Chiefly with the. (A periphrasis for) the word ‘fuck’ (see fuck v.) or one of its derivatives, esp. euphem. on account of their taboo status.
b. Used euphem. in place of ‘fuck’ or one of its derivatives.
1973N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 6 May ii. 10/3, I ain't got time to be outraged about these books. I dismiss them. The kids use the expression ‘f-word’, the ‘f-word’, when they want to talk about it without saying it. Well, I say, ‘f-word’ them books, and ‘f-word’ the pretentious writers who write them. 1979Daily Mirror 10 Jan. 3 She said: ‘I never used the ‘f’ word. I only say things like ‘damn’ and ‘bloody’. 1987F. Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes 41 Here she was, at her age, and she'd never said the F word. 1991Amer. Speech 66 325 Unlike..purely typographical euphemisms, F-word can actually be spoken. 1996Independent 21 Feb. ii. 4/2 These days, f-words and s-words no longer horrify so many people. 1996Guardian 6 Apr. (Weekend section) t3 Oh F-wording F-word. Someone get me a cloth, for F-word's sake. 2000J. Pemberton Forever & Ever Amen iv. 36 Mum would've gone mad if she'd heard him say the F-word. 2005Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 5 Jan. a6/1 (headline) NBC hasn't received any calls about the F-word that Motley Crue rocker Vince Neil dropped during the live New Year's Eve broadcast of ‘The Tonight Show With Jay Leno’.
2. Any of various other words having f as their initial letter, which are regarded in a particular context as contentious or taboo.
Freq. humorously as an extended use of sense 1.
1986G. Will in Newsweek 26 May 80/1 The word that parents often refer to delicately as ‘the F Word’. It is a four-letter word... The word is ‘fair’. 1988Sydney Morning Herald 27 Aug. 70/1 Now, suddenly, the f-word has been splattered all over the place... The word in question..is of course, feminism. 1991N.Y. Times 10 Dec. a1/1 Other governments..were ready to drop a planned reference to the community's ‘federal’ character. Mr Major had warned that he would sign no union treaty that mentioned what has become known in Britain as the F-word. 1995Daily Tel. 31 July 19/1 Others describing such an incident might have used an f-word—‘feckless’ or, in extremes, ‘a foozler’. Benaud opted for: ‘What a shemozzle!’ 2000N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Aug. 31/3 Physicians use what they call the f-word to describe these situations—futility. 2005Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 26 Nov. (QWeekend Suppl.) 15/2 The f-word—feminism—is tossed around like a worn old sock as the audience tried to fathom how the movement's desire for women to be sexually fulfilled has morphed into a push to simply be sexy.
▪ II. F-word, v. euphem.
Brit. |ˈɛfwəːd|, U.S. |ˈɛfˌwərd|
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
[‹ the initial letter of fuck v. (compare eff v.) + word n. Compare F-word n., and also effing n., effing adj.]
trans. and intr. Used as a (written) alternative for ‘fuck’. Cf. earlier eff v.
1973N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 6 May ii. 10/3 Well, I say, ‘f-word’ them books, and ‘f-word’ the pretentious writers who write them. 1995Re: Help Me! in rec.bicycles.off-road (Usenet newsgroup) 18 Feb. I personally have witnessed ‘newbie’ mtb kids with the F-word off attitude. Scaring horses, walkers, and even Me! 2003Detroit Free Press (Electronic ed.) 9 Oct. Monica Lewinsky complained that Bill Clinton ‘helped (F-word) up my life’.
Derivatives. F-wording adj.
[1990USA Today 9 Apr. 1 d, Leaving the stage, Hoosier Axl Rose blurted, ‘Good (the f-word)-ing night!’] 1996Guardian 6 Apr. (Weekend section) 3 Oh *F-wording F-word... I've boiled my F-wording bollocks. 2003Detroit Free Press 9 Oct. (Electronic ed.) That hulking groper is not the (F-word)ing governor! |