Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zarking

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: zark-ing
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Fucking (as an intensifier).

Slang

Example Sentences

"Nonsense. Why should those of us outside the U.S. give a zarking photon what the U.S. State Department thinks?"
"The only time I was "approached" by a so called mugger was on the Gravigny Balizy stop THEN I had to spend 4 zarking hours in a zarking police station. I am glad they have cleaned it up since I was there in the late 80's and you had a good time there."
"2008, Andria Markut, The Chronicles of the Knights of the Code: Volume 1 the Search "You zarking, smeging , harebrained fools!" Keindorm cursed the pair, picking his hat up off the ground […]"

Etymology

Coined by Douglas Adams as a derivative of zark in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978). See -ing.

Usage

Slang

Questions

What does zarking mean?: Fucking (as an intensifier).
Where does zarking come from?: Coined by Douglas Adams as a derivative of zark in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978). See -ing.

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