The F-Word (18 page)

four Fs
noun
[partially punning on
4F
, draft status for a person physically unfit to serve]

a motto for sexual behavior: “find ’em, fool ’em, fuck ’em, and forget ’em.” Also variants. Also as
fuck ’em and forget ’em
(with variants) without
four Fs
.

[
1934
L. Berg
Prison Nurse
29: No one ever got rich letting suckers keep their dough. My motto is “find them, fool them, and forget them!”] [
1941
Macaulay & Wald
Manpower
(film): You’re talkin’ to the guy who finds ’em, feeds ’em and forgets ’em.]
a
1942
in A. B. Hollingshead
Elmtown’s Youth
422: The five F’s —“find ’em, feed ’em, feel ’em, f—’em, forget ’em.”
1953
L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark
American Thesaurus of Slang
(ed. 2) 325:
The four F’s,
high-pressure romancing—find ’em, fool ’em, frig ’em, and forget ’em.
a
1961
E. Partridge
Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English
(ed. 5) 1096:
Four F method, the
. This is the lower-deck’s allusive synonym (C.20) of its sexual motto,
find, feel, f **k and forget,
itself current since
ca
1890.
1965
Playboy
(Nov.) 67: The Four F’s.
1966
S. Harris & L. Freeman
Lords of Hell
30: What a sportsman mean when he say weaving the four F’s is—you got to find you chick and you got to fool her and you got to frig her and forget her!
1974
J. Lahr
Hot to Trot
7: Melish, baby,
the Four F’s are forever.… find ’em. Feel ’em. Fuck ’em. Forget ’em.
1978
S. Kopp
End to Innocence
58: I aspired to the macho four Fs of my generation: find ’em, feel ’em, fuck ’em and forget ’em.
1978
W. Brown
Tragic Magic
23: He could find them, fool them, feel them, fuck them, and forget them with exceptional agility.
1986
J. Ciardi
Good Words
118:
Find ’em, fool ’em, fuck ’em, and forget ’em.…
I was first drilled to these orders in WWII and received them as essential GI pitch.
2006
L. Pitts
Becoming Dad
196: Don’t let any one of them tie you down. Follow the “four F’s”: find ’em, feel ’em, fuck ’em, forget ’em.

fox
noun

In phrase:

hotter than a fresh-fucked fox in a forest fire
, extremely hot (in any sense).
Jocular
.

ca
1950
in T. Atkinson
Dirty Comics
197: Betty! This guy’s got me hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire.
1973
TULIPQ
(coll. B.K. Dumas): Horny…Hotter than a fresh-fucked fox in a forest fire.
1974
E. Thompson
Tattoo
264 [refers to 1940s]: It’s a bitch down there. Hotter than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire.
1974
R. Blount
3 Bricks Shy
307: I’m hotter than a freshly fucked fox in a forest fire.
1977
S. Gaines
Discotheque
268: It’s hotter in here than a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire.
1980
J. Ciardi
Browser’s Dictionary
41: Hot as a fresh fucked fox in a forest fire.
1988
D. Dye
Outrage
125: Locker room wisdom held churchmen’s daughters were “hotter’n a freshly fucked fox in a forest fire.”
1997
E. Little
Another Day in Paradise
14: The cops are looking all over for ya, you’re hotter than a freshly fucked fox in a forest fire.
2006
C. Grabenstein
Slay Ride
313: These bastards are going to swing around and start shooting at you the second you pull in. It’ll be hotter than a fresh-fucked fox in a forest fire. Copy?

fox around
verb

(used as a euphemism for
FUCK AROUND
,
verb
, sense 2).

1938
R. Chandler
Big Sleep
108: So all you did was not report a murder that happened last night and then spend today foxing around so that this kid of Geiger’s could commit a second murder this evening.
1998
B. R. Johnson
Woman Who Knew too Much
44: I saw him foxing around out there, messing with some kind of gizmo he had by the river behind his house.

frak

(a partial euphemism for)
FUCK
, in various senses and parts of speech. [Coined on, and chiefly associated with, the television show
Battlestar Galactica
. In the Original Series (1978), used exclusively as an interjection; in the Reimagined Series (2003–2009), used more broadly as a euphemism for many forms of
FUCK
, both figurative and literal. Spelled
frack
in Original Series scripts,
frak
in the Reimagined Series, apparently because the producers wanted it to literally be a four-letter word.]

1978
Ultimate Weapon
(Battlestar Galactica shooting script) (Sept. 14 reshoot) 13: STARBUCK’S COCKPIT…
He is furious. STARBUCK
Frack!
1978
Galactica Terminology Sheet
(Battlestar Galactica Writers Guide, Universal City Studios) (Oct. 2): Frack!—an expletive.
1978
Hand of God
(Battlestar Galactica shooting script) (undated) 38:
Starbuck turns to his right and we see a Cylon fighter fly past extremely close. STARBUCK
Oh…frack!
2005
Hand of God
in
Battlestar Galactica
(Sci Fi Channel) (Mar. 11): We are well and truly frakked.
2006
Scar
in
Battlestar Galactica
(Sci Fi Channel) (Feb. 3): I guaran-frakkin-tee you, I will put you down this time for good.
2006
Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II
in
Battlestar Galactica
(Sci Fi Channel) (Mar. 10): You’re not still frakkin’ Dualla are ya?
2006
Entertainment Weekly
(Sept. 29) 32: And it will be used to express rage after a high-ranking officer (nope, we ain’t tellin’) drives a pen into the neck of tortured traitor Gaius Baltar (James Callis) and screams “MOTHERFRAKKER!”
2007
Crossroads, Part I
in
Battlestar Galactica
(Sci Fi Channel) (Mar. 18): You know this game’s got frak-all to do with the real thing, right?
2009
Calgary Herald
(Jan. 16) (Swerve section) 16: Be sure to take in the one-hour clip show that precedes the premiere for a refresher on what the frak is going on. Well, on most of what’s going on; after all, this is
Lost
and what fun would it be to have all the answers?

frap
[formed from
FRAPPING
]

(used as a euphemism for
FUCK
in various senses and parts of speech).

1980
G. Benford
Timescape
100: And frap, you should see the antiburglar network.
1992
C. Eble
Campus Slang
(Fall) 3: What the frap is going
on?
1998
Washington Post
(Apr. 29) D4: “Frap,” a way to curse without cursing (“Boy, I really frapped that up.”).
Ibid. Off-brand frap
…“a lame girl.”
2007
W. B. Scott et al.
Space Wars
38: She and her boss didn’t give a flyin’ frap about space.

frapping
adjective

Military.
(a partial euphemism for)
FUCKING
,
adjective
.

1968
W.C. Anderson
Gooney Bird
76: We’ll let a whole frapping regiment get away before we’ll risk hitting one old lady in sneakers.
1970
N.Y. Times
(Apr. 19) 1: And finally in desperation: “What’s the frappin’ altitude?”
1972
W.C. Anderson
Hurricane
196: And the poor frapping navy!
1973
M. Collins
Carrying the Fire
334: Yeah, but the frapping thing bombed out again.
1989
M. Berent
Rolling Thunder
133: That frapping Dash-K is shooting out our cover by the frapping roots.
1991
Soldier of Fortune
(Dec.) 48/1: I need a frapping medic like I need a hole in the head.
1994
J. Lovell & J. Kluger
Apollo 13
vi. 167: “What’s the frappin’ attitude?” Lovell asked.
2007
K. W. Fields
Rescue of Streetcar 304
148: “I’m still alive, you frapping mothers,” I mumbled out loud. I felt macho, but thought,
this is not real. It’s too much like a frapping movie.

freaking
adjective & adverb

(a partial euphemism for)
FUCKING
,
adjective & adverb
.

1928
M. Bodenheim
Georgie May
9: Oh yuh cain’t catch o-on to thuh freakin’ Mistah Stave an’ Chain.
Ibid
. 70: Ah hate the hull, freaking pack uh you.
1955
Harper’s
(Mar.) 35: Open the Freaking Door, Joe.
1961
G. Garrett
Which Ones Are the Enemy
16: Not freaking likely.
1965
R. Hardman
Chaplains Raid
1: A great big freaking disaster!
1972
C. Gaines
Stay Hungry
152: He’s freaking Superman is who he is.
1972–76
C. Durden
No Bugles, No Drums
9: It’s too freakin’ late now.
1978
W. Wharton
Birdy
276: It’s like my freaking body has some kind of controls all its own.
1972–79
T. Wolfe
Right Stuff
6: It was a struggle to move twenty feet in this freaking muck.
1982
Flash
(Dec.) 10: Have you gone freakin’ bananas?
1989
U.S. Navy officers, on
Prime News
(CNN-TV) (Jan. 5): “He’s got a missile off!” “Freakin’ right!”
1998
Esquire
(Mar.) 148: Enough already with all the theory and dice games and analysts. Let’s
buy some freakin’ stocks.
2005
GQ
(Sept.) 196/3: You will be a guinea pig, but you will freaking love it.

frell

(a partial euphemism for)
FUCK
, in various senses and parts of speech. [Coined on, and chiefly associated with, the television show
Farscape
.]

1999
Farscape
(Sci Fi Channel) (June 18):
John
: Well, gotta give me a clue here, Aeryn. Is this something new, or is this just your usual PMS, Peacekeeper military sh—
Aeryn
: Frell you.
2000
Farscape
(Sci Fi Channel) (Aug. 4):
Dregon
: Because of all the days before it hurts. The good days when you’re in love. It’s too bad you can’t get back to at least tell Crichton how you feel.
Aeryn
: What difference would it make? He’s a frelling statue.
Dregon
: But he can hear, he can see, he’ll know Aeryn, at least he’ll know.
2001
Farscape
(Sci Fi Channel) (Mar. 23): Work, frell you, work!
Ibid.
Frell me dead.
2002
TV Zone
(No. 157) 82/1: If networks want to frell with the fans, then so be it. Let them continue to make mind-numbing drivel of TV shows like daily Soap Operas where the dumb and dumber will continue to tune in to watch absolutely no character development or true emotions.
2003
Farscape
(Sci Fi Channel) (Feb. 28): Taken her back to my ship, frelled her, and made babies.
2003
Horn Book Mag.
(July/Aug.) 503: We worked our frelling tails off for a whole year.
2003
Farscape
(Sci Fi Channel) (Mar. 14): “You are so self-righteous! I have used all my skills, all my resources, for one perfect chance at peace. And because of you, it is gone! And I am…” “Frelled. Screwed. Raped.”

French fuck
noun

an act of rubbing the penis between a woman’s breasts. Also as
verb
. Compare
TIT-FUCK
.

1938
“Justinian”
Americana Sexualis
22:
French Fuck
. n. A form of sexual activity in which the male sits astride the recumbent female and achieves sexual orgasm by rubbing his penis between her breasts, while concomitantly effecting her orgasm by digital stimulation of her vaginal area. Br. & U.S., C. 19-20.
1974
U.S. graduate student: A…French fuck is when you rub your dick between her breasts. It’s also called a
muscle fuck
. [Heard in Arkansas,
ca
1970.]
1997
Jacob’s Paradise (FFF, FFFM, teen)
on Usenet
newsgroup alt.sex.stories (May 3): Jake decided he wanted to suck Amy’s huge tits. He did this for about 5 minutes, until they were both aroused again, then he started to French fuck her while he fingerfucked her cunt.