The F-Word (12 page)

double-fucking
adjective

=
FUCKING
,
adjective
.—used for emphasis.

1929
R. Graves
Good-Bye to All That
79 [refers to 1917]: The Bandmaster, who was squeamish, reported it as: “Sir, he called me a double-effing c—.”
1945
in
Verbatim
(Autumn, 1989) 6:
Double [fucking]
…Embellished or emphatic [form] of
fxxxing
.
1991
M. Tolkin
Rapture
(film): No double-fuckin’
way
would I stop.
2007
C. Adair
White Heat
137: Damn, and double-fucking damn. That trail was now cold. No fingerprints on file, no form of ID.

drug-fucked
adjective

Originally
Australian
. intoxicated by drugs. Compare
FUCKED
,
adjective
, definition 1.

1991
Arena
(Sydney) (No. 8) 13: When you’re that drug-fucked, a piece of navel lint can have occult significance.
1996
Catalog
(Summer Extra) 9: Drew Barrymore…the world’s wildest drug-fucked child starlet.
1996
Capital Q Weekly
(Sydney) (Mar. 29) 11: Three hundred drug-fucked and horny gay men.
1997
Rants
(Sydney) (Oct. 23): Fuck you, yer dumb drug-fucked bitch!
2001
AXM
(Aug.) 126/2: Closer to Heaven, although popular by word of mouth—especially with the brilliant Frances Barber as the drug-fucked club diva “Billie”—had not done too well with the critics.
2007
New Yorker
(Dec. 17) 40/3: 1974. Bowie was absolutely drug-fucked. That’s when he was living on peppers and milk.

dry fuck
noun

1
. a simulated act of copulation, usually while fully clothed.

1938
H. Miller
Tropic of Capricorn
104: Maybe you’ll…get a dry fuck.
1965
J. Trimble
5000 Adult Sex Words & Phrases
68:
Dry Fuck
…The act of two lovers rubbing up against each other while clothed and in public, as while dancing, etc., which results in great excitation and, in some cases, orgasm.
1970
E. E. Landy
Underground Dictionary
71:
Dry Fuck…n
. The simulated act of sexual intercourse with clothes on.
1971
B. B. Johnson
Blues for Sister
101: A professional virgin…The kind that always denied you penetration. A dry fuck.
1975
T. Williams
Memoirs
27: They would give her what was then called “a dry fuck.”
1981
S. Hochman
Playing Tahoe
124: Rev was the kind of guy you fell for in high school on a dry fuck in the back of a Chevrolet.
2003
L. Begley
Shipwreck
58: Let’s take our clothes off. She shook her head vehemently. I got the point. She wanted a dry fuck.

2
. something that is exceedingly tedious or disappointing.

1945
in T. Williams
Letters
177: If only Margo could get something of this quality into “The Project.”…It is a dry fuck, really!
1972
Gram Parsons in B. Fong-Torres
Hickory Wind
5: I’ve some sort of “rep” for starting what (I think) has turned out t’be pretty much of a “country-rock” (ugh!) plastic dry-fuck.
1998
S. Firestone
Airless Spaces
58: It was a dry fuck, every word painful and laborious.
2005
D. DeFrain
Salt Palace
82: “Was a bit of a dry fuck really, all that.” “What? The Church?” I say.

dry-fuck
verb
[compare earlier synonym
dry-bob
]

to simulate sexual intercourse without penetration; to engage in a
DRY FUCK
with. Also used figuratively.

[
1935
J. O’Hara in
Selected Letters
106: Write something…that will help you get rid of the bitterness you must have stored up against all those patronizing cheap bastards in that dry-fucked excrescence on Sharp Mountain.]
ca
1937
in T. Atkinson
Dirty Comics
106: Try to dry-fuck the hostess who is the big shot’s sweetie.
1938
“Justinian”
Americana Sexualis
20:
Dry-Fuck
.v. To rub stomach, thighs, and genitals together in an erotic manner while dancing. Popular in collegiate circles…U.S., 1925—.
1954
C. Himes
Third Generation
243: Now seeing him in the arms of a sweet young girl she was scalded with jealousy. “What kind of dryfucking shit is this?” she screamed.
1958–59
L. Lipton
Holy Barbarians
156: As long ago as the twenties dancing was considered “dry fucking” by the
cognoscenti
who regarded it as something for sub-teenagers only.
1965
D. A. Ward & G. G. Kassebaum
Women’s Prison
99: That’s more or less a
bulldagger’s
…kick, this dry fucking.
1969
J. Briley
Traitors
133: They had had a spell of intense sessions holding hands in the library and dry-fucking against the back wall of her sorority.
1970
E. E. Landy
Underground Dictionary
71:
Dry fuck
…Go through the motions of sexual intercourse without entering the vagina, usually with clothes on.
1982
C. Bukowski
Ham on Rye
(2001) xxv. 111: You ought to try dry-fucking, Morrie, it’s great!
1983
E. Dodge
Dau
110: They dry-fucked in the pre-dawn darkness.
1991
D. Jenkins
Gotta Play Hurt
37: Heike…dry-fucked the rear fender.
2000
Seattle Weekly
(Jan. 20) (Nexis): A dreadlocked couple is dry-fucking.
2000
A. L. Kennedy
Everything You Need
361: The mutter and jump of manuscripts as they jerked off their watery efforts inside his mind, as they wasted his intelligence, as they dry-fucked his privacy.

duck
noun

In phrase:

fuck the duck
, to loaf;
fuck the dog
under
DOG
. See also
fuck a duck
under
FUCK
verb
.

1968–77
M. Herr
Dispatches
57: I met a man in the Cav who’d been “fucking the duck” one afternoon, sound asleep in a huge tent.
1978
H. Selby
Requiem for a Dream
31: Well let’s stop fucking the duck and figure out how we can pick up the bread.
1979
L. Heinmann, in
TriQuarterly
(Spring) 180 [refers to Vietnam War]: He was taking one of his famous naps—fucking the duck, we called it.

dumbfuck
noun

a contemptibly stupid person. Also as
adjective
.

1946–50
J. Jones
From Here to Eternity
531 [refers to 1941]: Shut up you dumb fuck Turniphead you.
1966
Folk Speech
(Indiana University Folklore Archives): Denoting someone’s stupidity.
Dumb fuck
.
1970–71
J. Rubenstein
City Police
427: You know why that dumb-fuck sergeant has Smith drive him?
1973
TULIPQ
(coll. B.K. Dumas): Dingbat; super dumb fuck.
1980
P. Conroy
Lords of Discipline
150: I want you to rack that chin into your beady, ugly neck, dumbfuck.
a
1987
C. Bunch & A. Cole
Reckoning for Kings
151: Of all the dumb-fuck things to do.
1991
G. Dyer
But Beautiful
46: The English bitch yelling, the cops yelling too.—Lemme get at this dumbfuck.
1998
Sick Puppy Comix
(Sydney, Australia) (No. 8) 18: It’s not a demon it’s nicotine you dumb fuck!
2000
R. Barger et al.
Hell’s Angel
iv. 61: The dumb-fuck politicians didn’t even consider that’s how the everyday person controls their car.
2007
A. Bay
Embrace the Suck
38: Puzzle Palace, a high-security or intelligence site, or a headquarters located in a high-security area… Usually a derogatory term. (“What do those dumbfucks at
the Puzzle Palace say now?”).
2007
J. Hayes
Precious Blood
122: In the future, try and watch just who the fuck you’re pointing your dumb-fuck cadet fingers at!

Dutch fuck
noun

an act of lighting one cigarette from another.

1948
E. Partridge
Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English
(ed. 3) 1039:
Dutch f**k
. Lighting one cigarette from another. Forces’: 1940 +.
1974
New York City man, age 23: A Dutch fuck is when you light someone’s cigarette with your own.
1993
J. Meades
Pompey
457: She flinched ever after at the light of lighters, matches, the intimacy of shared flame; even a Dutch fuck frightened her.
1997
A. MacAndrew
Bits of String
151: “Give us a light, Harry please.”…“It’ll have to be a Dutch fuck,” Harry answered, handing over his cigarette.

eff
or
F

1
. (a partial euphemism for)
FUCK
in various senses and parts of speech.

1929
R. Graves
Good-Bye to All That
79 [refers to 1917]: The Bandmaster, who was squeamish, reported it as: “Sir, he called me a double-effing c—.”
1931
E. E. Cummings
I Sing of Olaf Glad and Big
: I will not kiss your f.ing flag.
1931
J. Hanley
Boy
252: Tell the effin bosun there’s only the crew’s stuff here now.
1945
E. Hemingway
Letter
(Apr. 2) in
Selected Letters
(1981) 579: You’ll hear I’m a phony, a liar, a coward, maybe even a Man of Honor. Just tell them to Eff off.
1950
E. Hemingway
Across the River and into the Trees
78: “Eff Florence,” the Colonel said.
Ibid
. 173: You would eff-off, discreetly.
1959
B. Cochrell
Barren Beaches of Hell
130: They’ve come closer to solving the recreation problem than anyone else in this effing division.
1961
J.A. Williams
Night Song
152: “Effyou, man,” Yards said.
1961
H. Ellison
Memos from Purgatory
43: Turn that effin’ thing off before I put a fist through it.
1965
R. Hardman
Chaplains Raid
34: An effing chaplain’s assistant!
1965
N. Simon
Odd Couple
III: “We’re all out of Corn Flakes. F.U.” It took me three hours to figure out that F.U. was Felix Ungar. It’s not your fault, Felix. It’s a rotten combination.
1967
D. Taggart
Reunion
189: You effin well know it.
1970
E. E. Landy
Underground Dictionary
76:
F. you
—Fuck you.
Ibid
. 77:
F—ing v.
Fucking; having sexual intercourse.
Ibid
. 78:
F—ing around
… Goofing off.
1973
W. Overgard
Pieces of a Hero
61: Where in the effin hell have you been?
1977
N.Y. Post
(Mar. 18) 37: With the language sensitivity of one who knows what will and will not get on TV he later asked:
“Am I being effed around, or not?” He actually said “effed.”
a
1984
in W. Terry
Bloods
127: What the F was I there for?
1987
Newsweek
(Mar. 23) 58: Don’t F with him.
Ibid
. 63: He says he F’d you up.
Ibid.
65: Stay the F out of the way.
Ibid.
73: He said
F
the doctors.
1991
L. Bing
Do or Die
iv. 81: I looked crazy back at him, and I said, “Eff, yo’ set and eff yo’ dead homeboys.”
1993
Washington Post
(Sept. 3) A8: What the f are you doing here?
1998
N. Hornby
About a Boy
viii. 52: “You should’ve told her to…”—she looked around to see whether Marcus, the strange kid they were apparently stuck with for the day, was still listening—“…to eff off.”
2008
Entertainment Weekly
(Dec. 19) 31: Charlie “Slim” Hendrick, a don’t-eff-with-me ex-con, returns home to find that his sweetie has moved on and his bitter brother has gambling debts.