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fucking

[ fuhk-ing, -in ]

adjective

, Slang: Vulgar.
  1. damned; confounded; awful; detestable; (used to express displeasure, anger, or contempt):

    We’d been waiting an hour, and then this fucking guy just cut straight to the front of the line.

  2. (used as an intensifier):

    This is fucking awesome!



fucking

/ ˈfʌkɪŋ /

adjective

  1. (intensifier)

    turn off that fucking phone; a fucking good time



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Grammar Note

Fucking and its euphemisms freaking, frigging, and fricking are used in adjectival or adverbial positions in a sentence as intensifiers. Something that is “fucking amazing” is really amazing. Someone who was there “the whole frigging time” was there for the absolute entirety of the time. These words are also among a very small number of words that work as infixes in English. That is, they can also be placed inside of a word to act as an intensifier for that word, as in “absofuckinglutely” or “a-freakin-mazing.” When infixed, the informal variants (those with the final -g dropped from their spellings) are the more common forms. Infix-intensified words can be spelled with or without hyphens to set off the inserted word. While fucking and its euphemisms are the most common words used in this construction, “damned” is also sometimes infixed in American English, and in British English “bloody” and “blooming” can also be inserted in this manner.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fucking1

First recorded in 1520–30 for adjective sense, and 1860–65 as an intensifier; fuck + -ing 2

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Example Sentences

I physically felt like I was in a fishbowl, and I was sitting on the couch with one of my best friends and Julie Fucking Andrews.

For my thesis show at RISD, I did this piece based on this book called Fucking James Franco.

After knocking, I heard Mrs. Goode say, ‘Holy Fucking Christ.’

"Fucking town," Harold grumbles as he reconnoiters the tourist-dense casino.

Rather the Technology Itself is, so Please Don't Be Taking No Selfies With a Fucking Windows Phone.

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