fuck
/ˈfɐk/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.39 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
Derogatory; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "It's just common courtesy to help clean up after fucking."
- "I really enjoyed fucking my girlfriend last night."
- "Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard. I'd fuck me so hard."
- "She wanted to fuck him more than she had ever wanted to fuck any man in her life."
- "They're both New Yorkers coasting on their reputations, they've both had three marriages, neither of them can shut up when in front of a camera, and perhaps most importantly, they both want to fuck Ivanka, which-which is weird for Trump because Ivanka is in his family, and it's weird for Giuliani because she isn't."
- "We've done oral, but never fucked."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck From Middle English *fukken, probably of Germanic origin: either from Old English *fuccian or Old Norse *fukka, both from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to strike, punch, stab”). Compare windfucker and its debated etymology. Possibly attested in a 772 CE charter that mentions a place called Fuccerham, which may mean "hām (“home”) of the fucker" or "hamm (“pasture”) of the fucker"; a John le Fucker in a record from 1278 may just be a variant of Fulcher; compare Fucher, Foker, etc. The earliest unambiguous use of the word in a clearly sexual context, in any stage of English, appears to be in court documents from Cheshire, England, which mention a man called Roger Fuckebythenavele (possibly tongue-in-cheek or directly suggestive of a depraved sexual act) on 8 December 1310. It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598. Scots fuk or fuck is attested slightly earlier, probably reinforcing the Northern Germanic/Scandinavian origin theory. From 1500 onward, the word has been in continual use, superseding jape and sard and largely displacing swive. See windfucker and fuckwind for more information. A range of folk-etymological backronyms, such as fornication under consent of the king and for unlawful carnal knowledge, are all demonstrably false. Verb sense 7 from related sense feck.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *fukken, *fuccian, *fukka, *fukkōną, *pewǵ-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɐk/
- British English: /ˈfʌʔ(k)/
Usage
Inflected Forms
fucks (present, singular)
fucking (participle, present)
fucked (participle, past)
fucked (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
fucked (first person, past)
fuckest (archaic, present)
fucked (past, second person)
fuckedst (archaic, past)
fucketh (archaic, present)
fucked (past, singular)