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mother-raper
noun

(a partial euphemism for)
MOTHERFUCKER
.

1959
C. Himes
Crazy Kill
v. 27: Turn me loose, you mother-rapers! He’s my brother and some mother-raper’s going to pay—.
1965
C. Himes
Imabelle
92: Mother-raper, step on it!
Ibid.
127: I bled that mother-raper like a boar hog.
1989
R. Miller
Profane Men
62: I didn’t even read that mother raper.
1991
M. Jacobson
Gojiro
186: Gojiro turned on the Dish and saw that grinning moron of a presidential candidate stealing his best line.… How the monster longed to make that mother-raper’s day—it figured that the thick electorate fell for his act.
2000
R. Skinner
Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting
278: Now, you pissant mother-raper.… You and me goin’ for a li’l ride and you’re gonna show me where the money is.

mother-raping
adjective

(a partial euphemism for)
MOTHERFUCKING
.

1932
E. Halyburton & R. Goll
Shoot & Be Damned
306 [refers to 1918]: When I talked to you mother-raping sewer rats at roll call I thought you were Americans.
1959
C. Himes
Crazy Kill
57: I ain’t given Dulcy any mother-raping knife.
1960
D. MacCuish
Do Not Go Gentle
191 [refers to WWII]: An’ that queer’s
really
a first-class A-1 mother-rapin’ gutless wonder of a horse’s ass!
1962
S. Brent
Seven Stairs
(1989) 11: You mother-raping bastard, I’ll cut your throat!
1965
C. Himes
Imabelle
67: Leave me see that mother-rapin’ roll.
Ibid.
122: Let’s take the mother-raping hearse, too.
1972
C. Gaines
Stay Hungry
213: The last motharapin straw, Newton called it.
2002
R. Marcinko
Violence of Action
16: You’d best expect the mother-raping bastards to die and die damned hard where I find them.

motorcycle
noun

(a jocular euphemism for)
MOTHERFUCKER
.—usually used with
bad
.

1938
in P. Oliver
Blues Tradition
235: Ridin’ Dirty Motorsickle…He’s a dirty motor-cycle.
1967
H. Lit
Dictionary
2:
Bad motorcycle
—One who is very sharp, cool, hip, and gets what he wants but, this type of cat is also a little sneaky tricky.
1973
Oui
(Feb.) 38: She’s a bad motorcycle.
1985
J. T. Heywood
Taxi Dancer
92: We got us a bad
motor-cycle
this mornin’, gents.

motor flicker
noun

(a partial euphemism for)
MOTHERFUCKER
.

1967
in
Trans-action
VI (Feb. 1969) 33: This black slick head motor flicker.
1974
S. Stevens
Rat Pack
39: Lookit what says black, you funky motorflikker nigger.
1975
B. Silverstein & R. Krate
Dark Ghetto
107 [refers to
ca
1965]: This black slick head motor flicker got nerve ’nough to call somebody “fat head.”

motor scooter
noun

(a partial euphemism for)
MOTHERFUCKER
.—usually used with
bad
. Cf. earlier
MOTORCYCLE
.

1960
D. Frazier
Alley-Oop
(pop. song): A mean motor scooter and a bad go-getter.
1974
R. Carter
16th Round
168: Some real bad motor-scooters!… Some bad motherfuckers!
1986
D. Tate
Bravo Burning
44: Called “a darn great soldier” by Captain Billy Wilson, “a bad motor scooter” by others—in admiration.
2004
Fantasy & Science Fiction
(Dec.) 123/2: Riddick is the last surviving Furyan, a race of bad motor scooters who were thoroughly Necromongered some time back, but put up one hell of a fight.

mouth fuck
noun

an act of
MOUTH-FUCKING
.

ca
1866
Romance of Lust
447: Finishing off with a mouth fuck from one or the other, and a double gamahuche.
1975
S. West
Blow Boy
146: Seven mouth-fucks on a slow week wasn’t my idea of salvation.
2000
R. Gordon
Sexual Service
40: Blond eyed her pink tongue peeping between her succulent lips. “How about a mouth fuck?”
2007
“Noire”
Thong on Fire
155: Free was really moaning now, going from some short tight humps to a straight-out mouth fuck.

mouth-fuck
verb

to thrust the penis into (a person’s) mouth; (
also
) to vigorously perform fellatio on.

1966
A. Wainhouse & R. Seaver trans. Marquis de Sade
120 Days of Sodom
in
120 Days of Sodom & Other Writings
673: The man who mouth-fucks the little girl prostituted by her father is the same man…who fucks with a dirty prick.
1972
B. Rodgers
Queens’ Vernacular
89: [
Fuck
]
in the face
…mouth fucking…as opposed to cocksucking.
1975
M. Amis
Dead
Babies
(1991) 113: “Have Lucy last night?” “Nah—Just let her mouth-fuck me.”
1976
“Studs”
Creative Head
39: He mouthfucked her in earnest, slapping his hairy crotch against her face.
1978
L. Kramer
Faggots
72: Holding…his hand while mouth-fucking the impaled acolyte.
1979
C. Keller
Subway Orgy
78: She concentrated on the stiff rod in her mouth and kept on sucking and mouth-fucking the kidnapper.
1981
Penthouse
(Apr.) 196: She popped my purple glans into her mouth.… Then she began mouth-fucking me rapidly.
1998
Taxi!,
pornographic story on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories (Oct. 26): I take his glans in my mouth.… Covering my teeth with my lips, I mouth-fuck him vindictively. Tender isn’t what’s required.
2005
M. Christakos
Sooner
120: She mouthfucked and assfucked and swam in the nude.
2007
“Noire”
Hood
234: He slid his hands up and held her head like it was an ass, then mouth-fucked her standing up.

muck
verb

(used as a euphemism for
FUCK
in various figurative senses). See also
MUCK UP
. [Perhaps originally suggested by
mess
(
around
), but the rhyme with
FUCK
has ultimately given the word the euphemistic quality with which it is now used.]

a
1890–96
J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley
Slang & Its Analogues
VI 372:
To muck about
.… To fondle; to mess about.
1896
R. Kipling in
Oxford English Dictionary
: Our Colonel…mucks about in ’orspital.
1928
in
Oxford English Dictionary Supplement
: His art…[is] the one thing a genuine artist won’t muck about with.
1929
R. Aldington
Death of a Hero
III. x. 376: Spree be mucked—one of you ** fired his rifle and muckin’ near copped me.
1936
E. Partridge
Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English: Muck!, mucker, mucking,
have from ca. 1915 represented
f**k!,
etc.
1940
E. Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls
369: You’re just mucked.… Muck this whole treacherous muck-faced mucking country.
1950
E. Hemingway
Across River
58: Now muck off.
1950
in H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner
Dictionary of American Slang
: Too many bones mucking about.
1958
T. Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
8: You got to be rich to go mucking around in Africa.
1961
Time
(Jan. 27) 57: There is one in every outfit—the sniveling, creepy little muckup who not only fails to pull his weight but manages to add it to the load carried by others.
1982
N.Y. Times
IV E19: Muck around with us and you’ll reap the typhoon—unless you have H-bombs, rockets [etc.].
1990
Future Watch
(CNN-TV) (Aug. 18): I want to muck with real astrophysics.

muck up
verb

to botch; spoil; ruin;
FUCK UP
. [Perhaps originally suggested by
mess up,
but now always regarded as a euphemism for
FUCK UP
.]

1886
(cited in E. Partridge
Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English
).
1922
in
Oxford English Dictionary Supplement
: You seem to have pretty well mucked it up.
1949
Saturday Evening Post
(Oct. 8) 125: That does make it bad, doesn’t it? Makes a pair of us mucking things up.
1951
N.Y. Times
(July 22) I 11: The Iranians had always done something to “muck things up.”
1954–60
H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner
Dictionary of American Slang
:
Muck up
…= fuck up, a euphem.
1967–68
N. von Hoffman
We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against
91: We need the tourists even if they may have mucked up the Haight.
1968
C. Victor
Sky Burned
44: The squad would probably muck up the mission on top of it.
1982
N.Y. Times
(Mar. 25) D2: You mucked it all up, gang.
1987
D. Mamet
House of Games
(film): You’re mucking up my timing.
1988
Newsday
(N.Y.) (June 20) II 6: By the mid-70’s, Thompson…had already mucked up nicely.
1994
New Republic
(Nov. 28) 56: Francis Ford Coppola… has been mucking up his own career lately.
1996
Dr. Katz
(Comedy Central TV): Dad, please. Don’t muck it up with conversation!

muh fuh
noun

(a partial euphemism for)
MOTHERFUCKER
.

1969
B. Beckham
Main Mother
148: Where you muh fuhs from?
1972
B. Beckham
Runner Mack
186: We’re taking over, muhfuh.
1974
Black World
(June) 72/2: “Okay, muhfuh, gimme whatchu got.” The voice was low and even.
1975
Black World
(Jan.) 57: Get
out
of here, you muh-fuh!
1980
H. Gould
Fort Apache
81: Hey, muh fuh, I ain’t no junkie.
1994
Vibe
(Aug.) 108/2: If you want to hear jazz the way they probably swing to it on the rings of Saturn, you need to check in with brother Taylor. Loop this, muhfuhs!!!
2003
Village Voice
(Oct. 1) 84/1: Verbal panache and… funk we once snootily considered the sole province of us uppity uncouth cosmopolite muhfuhs.

muscle-fuck
noun

1
. an act of rubbing the penis between a woman’s breasts.

1974
(quotation at F
RENCH FUCK
).
1992
Playboy
(July) 37: Sex quiz… Been involved in breast fucking (a.k.a. the Hawaiian muscle fuck)?

2
. sexual intercourse in which the woman aggressively contracts her vaginal muscles as a means of stimulation. Also as
verb
.

1977
Vermont student: A muscle-fuck is one where the Jane can contract the muscles in her vagina. It can drive you up the wall. I heard about muscle-fucks in the marines.
1991
N. Friday
Women on Top
168: In the early 1980s a man wrote to me asking if I’d ever heard of a “muscle fuck.” He knew of a young woman on his college campus who had developed the talent of painfully fucking a man dry by using her vaginal muscles and thighs; the word on campus was that she was tired of macho studs and had developed her muscle fuck as revenge.
2001
in C. Taylor
Brown Sugar
116: Just stopped, altogether, and muscle fucked me, contracting and relaxing while I grew inside her, harder, longer.
2005
W. Christie
Threat Level
145: First time I got muscle-fucked, I almost married the girl right then and there.… She had an act. Slipped a banana right into her pussy and it came out sliced.

N

NFG
adjective

1
. [elaboration of earlier
N.G.
‘no good’; compare earlier (1903 in
OED
3)
N.B.G.
‘no bloody good’] “
n
o
f
ucking
g
ood.” Also as
interjection
.

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