effingadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈef.ɪŋ/us/ˈef.ɪŋ/UK slangused to add force to an expression. Some people might consider this offensive:
He's such an effing nuisance!
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Linguistics: intensifying expressions
- a heck of a sth/sb idiom
- a load of crap, nonsense, rubbish, etc. idiom
- all the way idiom
- annoy, frighten, scare, etc. the hell out of sb idiom
- anything
- as... as anything idiom
- clear
- core
- do you hear? idiom
- extreme
- hell of a idiom
- I'll be hanged if... idiom
- leastways
- like a ton of bricks idiom
- long
- more than idiom
- mortally
- out-and-out
- to hell idiom
- to the core idiom
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