The F-Word (32 page)

fuck around
or (
Brit
.)
fuck about
verb

1
. to engage in promiscuous sexual intercourse.

ca
1890
My Secret Life
VIIII. ix.: Liz had learned to like the red knobbed flesh stick far better than another woman’s cunt, and I dare say is merrily fucking about somewhere now, and I hope is happy.
1931
H. Miller
Letter
(Feb. 16) in
Letters to Emil
(1989) 76: I fucked around with this one and that.
1942
H. Miller
Roofs of Paris
201: Does she know that you’ve been fucking around with her father?
1951
American Journal of Sociology
XXXVII 138: Eddie f—s around too much; he’s gonna kill himself or else get killed by some broad. And he’s got a nice wife too.
1969
J. Crumley
One to Count Cadence
100: Yes, I know my wife is fucking around.
1978
P. Schrader
Hardcore
39: Your daughter was an absolutely clean girl, she never had rebellious or impure thoughts, she didn’t fuck around.
1987
C. Fischer
Postcards from the Edge
127: Sometimes I think I should marry one of them and just fuck around.
1989
A. Sorkin
A Few Good Men
36: Don’t fuck around with this one, Danny.
1991
N. Friday
Women on Top
343: I’d do anything to have a chance to fuck around with a girl.
1997
C. Rock
Rock This!
137: Some guys don’t fuck around because they just don’t. Other guys know they won’t be able to see their kids.… For most of us it’s much simpler: who’s got the time to fuck around?
2007
J. Díaz
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
168: At college you’re not supposed to care about anything—you’re just supposed to fuck around—but believe it or not, I cared about Lola.
2008
“J. Jameson”
Something Blue
37: You fucked around with a woman? When?

2
. to play or fool around; trifle; mess. Compare
FRIG
,
verb
, definition 3.

1922
T. E. Lawrence
The Mint
(1955) 49: I wasn’t going to fuck about for those toffee-nosed buggers.
1929
F. Manning
Middle Parts of Fortune
17 [refers to WWI]: They kept ’em fuckin’ about the camp, while they sent us over the bloody top.
ca
1933
in E. Sevareid
Wild Dream
39: What’s the difference between a mountain goat and a soda jerk?…The soda jerk mucks around the fountain.
1935
T. Wolfe
Death to Morning
73 [refers to
1917]: What are ya doin’ here ya f— little bastards!—who told ya t’come f— round duh hangah?
Ibid.
74: Don’t f— aroun’ wit’ me, ya little p—.
1936
J. Dos Passos
Big Money
313: If you f—k around it’ll cost you more.
1942
H. Miller
Roofs of Paris
260: And here I am fucking around trying to get her to buy a camera.
ca
1944
in A. Hopkins
Front & Rear
55: They fuck around but they never work.
1948
N. Mailer
Naked & Dead
539: We’re gonna move out in half an hour, so don’t be fuggin’ around.
1950
G. Legman in
Neurotica
(Autumn) 13: I could stop fugging around writing pulp.
1952
J. Kerouac
Visions of Cody
220: I stayed out all night and fucked around.
1954
J. A. Weingarten
American Dictionary of Slang
141:
Stop f—g around
. Common in the street language.
1955
L. Yablonsky
Violent Gang
48: We don’t fuck around—man, when you want to whip one on, just call.… Our boys are always ready.
1971
J. Torres
Sting like a Bee
34: He’s just fucking around.… He’ll be O.K.
1978
N.Y. Post
(Dec. 9) 13: I won’t shoot to kill, but I’ll shoot them so they know not to fuck around with me no more.
1981
T.C. Boyle
Water Music
67: A sandstorm is nothin’ to fuck around with.
1984
J. Kelman
Busconductor Hines
(1992) iv. 167: What’s the point of fucking about. You leave half of the second pint and get off your mark.
1994
I. Welsh
Shooter
in
Acid House
4: That’s my man, Gary slapped my back.—Always knew you had the bottle, Jock. All you fucking Jocks, all fucking crazy! We’ll show that cunt Whitworth just who he’s fucking abaht wiff here.
1995
W. Monahan in
N.Y. Press
(Apr. 26) 18: Brompton Cocktail[:] Heroin, Morphine, Cocaine, Gin.… There’s definitely no fucking around with a Brompton Cocktail.
1999
T. Parker et al.
South Park
(film script) 53:
Canadian Prime Minister
We’re not fucking around. This is not aboot deals. This aboot [
sic
] dignity. This is aboot freedom.
2005
K. Alley
How to Lose Your Ass
167: That’s the best fudge recipe in the world. Why candy companies fuck around and try to improve it, I’ll never know.

3
. to cheat or treat with contempt; make trouble for.

[
a
1900
in
English Dialect Dictionary
under
frig:
They are not going to frig me about.]
1944
L. Glassop
We Were the Rats
69: “It’s the way they — you around .… They — you around.”…“You’re in the army, aren’t you? You’re being — around by experts.”
1960
F. Pollini
Night
29: Why you fucking me around?
1970
A. Young
Snakes
144: Big a juicehead as he is, he gon fuck me round over some gauge.
1970
E. Thompson
Garden of Sand
328: Don’t try to fuck me around,
old man.
1970
T. Wolfe
Radical Chic
125: They ripped off the white man and blew his mind and fucked him around like nobody has
ever
done it.
1973
W. Crawford
Stryker
68: Don’t try fucking me around.
1975
T. Cook
Vagrant Alcoholics
vii. 128: Some of the geezers fucked her about and then she began to change.
1977
E. Bunker
Animal Factory
105: “Would he kill somebody over that?” “Oh yeah…quick if he thought the guy was deliberately fuckin’ him around.”
1991
M. S. Power
Come the Executioner
xiv. 143: “Your contact in Dublin—who is he?” Parr hesitated. “Don’t fuck me about,” Harwood told him. “A Mr Clancy.”
1992
A. McGahan
Praise
72: I don’t think you’d fuck me around or anything, or have other women.
2002
T. Geoghegan
In America’s Court
i. xxix. 131: These types of guys in the 1960s would get “fucked around” by us. By us, who went to the real college.

4
. to astonish; bring up short.

1978
W. Brown
Tragic Magic
139:
Sands of Iwo Jima
. That’s the one that really fucked me around.

fuckass
noun

a despicable or contemptible person.

a
1960
E. Partridge
Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English
(ed. 5) 1099:
F*ck-arse
. A low term of contempt: C.20.
1968
G. Cuomo
Among Thieves
219: LaSala was really a slob, old fuck-ass everybody called him.
1969
R. Hugo
Good Luck
40 [refers to WWII]: Fuckass…shithead…cunteyed bastard.
1978
E. Morris
Straightjacket
108: “Fuck-ass,” I told her behind my face. “Shit-fart.”
1989
V. Eaton
Self-Portrait of Someone Else
234: You’re going to need it, fuckass.
2002
G. Easterbrook
Here & Now
133: Don’t touch me, you fuckass, I’ll kill you with my bare hands.
2008
D. Glib
Flowers
221: Don’t yell at my mom, fuckass!

fuckass
adjective

contemptible.—used before a noun.

1961
J. Jones
Thin Red Line
30 [refers to WWII]: Any man’d leave it layin around’s a fuckass soldier anyway.
1968
R. Sukenick
Up
106: It strikes me…that you have a very fuck-ass attitude toward witch burning.
1975
D. Curzon
Misadventures of Tim McPicks
(1980) 230: Get the fuck-ass
white folk!
1986
N. Freeling
Cold Iron
194: Tying us up or something tricky out of some fuckass movie even if he doesn’t think it funnier still to blow our heads off and bury us in the sand.
1993
J. Womack
Random Acts of Senseless Violence
141: We gonna halfway house fuckass white girls now?
2000
P. Cadigan
Dervish is Digital
208: They’re sure not ready for what happens to them, and the fuck-ass company that supplies them don’t care.
2006
J. Solow
Booster
285: I ain’t talking to none of you people. Fuckass shitwads.

fuckathon
noun
[
FUCK
+ mar
athon
]

a prolonged period of orgiastic sexual activity.
Jocular
.

1968
M. Bloomfield in
Rolling Stone
(Apr. 6) 13/4: If you were at a fuck-a-thon, you’d have to know when a good fuck went down to know what’s happening.
1970
D. Wakefield
Going All the Way
97: Gunnar had gone over the apartment…to remove any traces of evidence of what he called the “fuckathon” of Saturday night.
1972
Anthropological Linguistics
(Mar.) 102:
Fuckathon
(
n
.): Refers to an extended period of sexual activity in which a large number of persons participate.
1973
Ribald
(Sydney, Australia) (May 18) 7: We are giving our services free for the night.… She’s calling it a fuckathon.
1982
J. M. Del Vecchio
13th Valley
336: How could he confess to him that he’d been on a fuckathon?
1988
R. M. Brown
Bingo
272: It sounded as though the guy went on one big fuckathon.
1991
D. Jenkins
Gotta Play Hurt
295: We’ll have an old fashioned fuck-a-thon.
1998
J. Collins
Thrill!
173: His supply of females had accelerated, a new one arriving every other day. Roxy commented he was having a fuckathon.
2003
“J. Le Carré”
Absolute Friends
139: You remember how you called it our fuckathon? Well, let’s have another, and take life from there.

fuck away
verb

to squander or idle away; “piss away.”

[
1948
in G. Legman
Limerick
(1954) 308: On his honeymoon sailing the ocean/A tightwad displayed much emotion/When he learned, one fine day,/He’d been fucking away/What could have been bottled as lotion.]
1965
J. Cremer
I, Jan Cremer
209: To keep him from fucking away the entire family fortune.
1971
M. Schulman
Potatoes are
Cheaper
64: I ain’t gonna provide the vehicle for you to fuck away the Zimmerman millions.
1975
S.P. Smith
American Boys
171: The others…fucked their bread away on booze.
1979
C. Keller
Subway Orgy
158: The money he would receive from the kidnapping would be gone soon. He would spend it on broads, booze, and just fuck it away in general.
1989
E. L. Doctorow
Billy Bathgate
208: While the Feds have been fucking away the summer on the beach we been up here sowing our oats.
1999
P. Caputo
Voyage
258: Hey, mon, you got to
work
to drink up and fuck away four t’ousand dollars.
2004
S. Bishop-Stall
Down to This
374: I mean, they’re really fucking away any burgeoning sense of community down here. The dealers are going to grab it all.

fuckbag
noun

a disgusting person; “asshole”; etc.

1969
J. Nuttall
Pig
50: Silly old fuckbag.… Completely off her head.
1970
W. J. Craddock
Be Not Content
75: What sort of a ruined mind would want to be a fuckbag cop?
1984
M. Amis
Money
76: Apparently I called her a whore, cursed her for a gold-digging fuckbag, and kicked her out.
1989
R. McL. Wilson
Ripley Bogle
(1998) 8: They were, undoubtedly, rancid Welsh fuckbags like himself.
1993
I. Welsh
Trainspotting
(2002) 255: She discovered that the rapist fuckbag was HIV. Then she discovered that she was.
1998
Re: Wrestling,
on Usenet newsgroup rec.sport. pro-wrestling (Nov. 3): What a fuckbag. If this guy was my dad, I’d open my wrists with a rusty can opener.
2007
D. Matthews
Ace of Spades
174: I have never been able to process…humans and their true meanings. If someone were to walk by me and say
top of the morning, fuck-bag!
I would be halfway through my
why…hello
before the insult registered.