fucking

See also: Fucking and -fucking-

English

Alternative forms

• fuckin, fuckin' (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-

Proto-Germanic *fukkōną

Old English *fuccian

Middle English *fukken

English fuck

English -ing

English fucking

From fuck + -ing.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfʌkɪŋ/, [ˈfɐkɪŋ]
• (Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Canada, pre-/ŋ/ tensing) IPA^(key): /ˈfʌkiŋ/, [ˈfɐkiŋ]

  • Audio (California):

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• (General American, g-dropping) IPA^(key): /ˈfʌkɪn/, [ˈfɐkɪn]
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈfʊkɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
• Hyphenation: fuck‧ing

Noun

fucking (countable and uncountable, plural fuckings) (vulgar)

1. An act of sexual intercourse, especially one lacking passion or a feeling of sincere love.

   Synonyms: coitus, frig, screw; see also Thesaurus:copulation

   I got a good fucking out of her, but I doubt we'll have another date.

   • c 1674, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II

     Like the French fool, that wanders up and down

     Starving his people, hazarding his crown.

     Peace is his aim, his gentleness is such,

     And love he loves, for he loves fucking much.

2. (figuratively) An act of mistreatment.

   I took a real fucking on the interest rate for that loan.

Derived terms

• brotherfucking
• butt-fucking
• cousinfucking
• face fucking
• fist-fucking
• for fucking out loud
• fucking A
• fucking hell
• fuckingly
• fucking machine
• fucking Nora
• fucking oath
• fucking shit
• fucktard
• little brown fucking machine
• pigfucking
• sisterfucking
• skull fucking
• sofa king
• sport-fucking
• starfucking
• the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get
• the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get
• the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take
• throat fucking
• whore-fucking

Translations

an act of sexual intercourse

• Dutch: neuken (nl)
• Esperanto: fiko
• Finnish: pano (fi)
• French: baise (fr) f
• German: Fick (de) m
• Hebrew: זִיּוּן m (ziyun)
• Hindi: चुदाई (hi) f (cudāī), चोदमपट्टी f (codampaṭṭī)
• Italian: scopata (it) f, trombata (it) f, fottuta (it) f, chiavata (it) f
• Korean: 빠구리 (ko) (ppaguri)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gan (ku)

• Latin: futūtiō (la)
• Navajo: jikʼeedgo
• Norwegian: knull n
• Pashto: غو m pl (γo), غوول (γowǝl)
• Polish: pierdolenie (pl) n, jebanie (pl) n, pieprzenie (pl) n, bzykanie (pl) n, posuwanie (pl) n, ruchanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: transa (pt) f
• Romanian: futai n, futere f
• Russian: е́бля (ru) f (jéblja), еба́ние (ru) n (jebánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: dàireadh m, muineadaireachd f
• Sicilian: futtuta f, tignata f, trummata f, ficcata f, ncugnata f
• Spanish: palo (es) m, follada (es) f, (Latin America) cogida (es) f, revolcón (es) m, jodienda
• Swedish: ligg (sv) n

Adjective

fucking (not comparable) (vulgar, attributive)

2. An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically modifies.

   Synonyms: fecking, freaking, fricking, frigging, flipping, fuckening, goddamn; see also Thesaurus:damned

   No fucking way.

   This is a fucking nightmare!

   Give me the fucking key!

   Open the fucking locker!

   • 2005, James Blunt, “You're Beautiful”, in Back to Bedlam:

     Yeah, she caught my eye, as I walked on by / She could see from my face that I was fucking high

   • 2006 March 6, Lauren Collins, quoting Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, “Last Bohemians”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 August 2019:

     “Every time it’s shown, I get e-mail from young guys who want to get it on with me,” she said. “Which is wonderful. I’m seventy-seven fucking years old.”

   • 2011 July 5, Charles Stross, “Toymaker: The Leith Police Dismisseth Us”, in Rule 34, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 33:

     Shite. It’s three o’fucking clock in the afternoon!

   • 2017, Norm Macdonald Live, season 3, episode 12, spoken by Norm Macdonald:

     You know what's not as easy as pie? Baking an actual fucking pie!

3. Offensive, annoying or worthless.

   Synonyms: cocking, no good, pesky; see also Thesaurus:annoying, Thesaurus:worthless

   Get your fucking car out of the way.

   Get me off your fucking mailing list.

   • 2022 November 10, Adam Gabbatt, quoting Rupert Murdoch, “Has ‘Trumpty Dumpty’ taken a great fall from Rupert Murdoch’s grace?”, in The Guardian‎^[2], archived from the original on 29 March 2023:

     Even when Trump won, Murdoch was unconvinced, reportedly privately calling him a “fucking idiot” following one conversation about immigration.

   • 2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue‎^[3], archived from the original on 1 September 2024:

     Liam has more beefs than an episode of The Bear—with Damon “that dick out of blur” Albarn, the Spice Girls’ (Mel C (who offered to fight Liam at the Brits), and, in a seemingly neverending feud, with Robbie “fat fucking idiot” Williams. Liam once said, “Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher,” called footballer Wayne Rooney “a fucking balloon with a fucking Weetabix crushed on top,” and said, “Everyone [in Mumford & Sons] looks like they’ve got fucking nits and eat lentil soup with their sleeves rolled up.”

Verb

fucking

1. present participle and gerund of fuck

Derived terms

• fugly
• motherfucking
• oh my fucking God

Descendants

• → Danish: fucking
• → Dutch: fucking
• → German: fucking
• → Japanese: ファッキン
• → Norwegian Bokmål: føkkings
• → Romanian: fucking
• → Spanish: fucking
• → Swedish: fucking

Translations

as an intensifier

• Afrikaans: fokken
• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: ميّتين (mayyitīn)

• Assamese: কেলা (kela), বালৰ (balor)
• Belarusian: яба́ны (jabány)
• Czech: kurva (cs) f, zasraný (cs), zkurvený (cs)
• Danish: satans (da), helvedes
• Dutch: fucking (nl), focking, fakking, kanker (nl), kut (nl)
• Esperanto: fek-, damna
• Estonian: kuradima
• Finnish: vitun (fi), perkeleen (fi), saatanan (fi), helvetin (fi)
• French: (Europe) putain de (fr), (Canada) ostie de, (Canada) câlisse de
• German: (noun prefix) Scheiß- (de), fucking (de), verfickt (de)
• Greek: γαμημένος (el) (gamiménos)
• Greenlandic: -palaarsuaq
• Hebrew: מזדין (mizdayen)
• Hungarian: baszott, kibaszott (hu)
• Icelandic: helvítis
• Italian: fottuto (it) m, cazzo di
• Japanese: no equivalent term in Japanese, but see
• Luxembourgish: houer
• Macedonian: е́бан (éban), е́бен m (ében)
• Norwegian: jævla
• Polish: jebany (pl) m, kurewski (pl) m, pierdolony (pl) m, zasrany (pl) m, cholerny (pl) m
• Portuguese: (slang, Brazil) puta (pt)
• Romanian: în pula mea, în pizda mă-sii, în sloboz, în morții mă-sii, (blasphemous) în dumnezeii mă-sii, în gâtu’ mă-sii, în neamu’ mă-sii, în futere
• Russian: ёбаный (ru) (jóbanyj), сра́ный (ru) (srányj)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: biru, helveha

• Sicilian: minchia (scn) di (scn) + (name of object) m or f, (name of object) m or f + di (scn) minchia (scn), (name of object) m or f + dâ (scn) minchia (scn); spacchiu di (scn) + (name of object) m or f, spacchimi di (scn) + (name of object) m or f
• Spanish: (Latin America) maldito (es), (Mexico) pinche (es), (Spain) puto (es), jodido (es)
• Swedish: jävla (sv)
• Thai: โคตร (th) (kôot), แม่โคตร
• Turkish: boktan (tr), lanet (tr), kahrolasıca, siktiğim, siktiğimin

  Ottoman Turkish: لعنت (laʼnet)

• Ukrainian: ї́баний (jíbanyj)
• Welsh: ffycin
• Yiddish: מסוכּן (mesukn)

offensive or worthless

• Bulgarian: шибан (bg) (šiban)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死 (zh) (sǐ), 破 (zh) (pò), 臭 (zh)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: -aĉ- (eo), aĉa (eo)
• Estonian: kuradima
• Finnish: vitun (fi), perkeleen (fi), saatanan (fi), helvetin (fi)
• French: putain de (fr) + (name of object) m or f, de mes couilles (fr), à la con (fr) maudit (fr) m, maudite (fr) f + (name of object) (Québec), foutu (fr) m, foutue (fr) f + (name of object), sale (fr) m or f
• German: (noun prefix) Scheiß- (de)
• Greek: γαμημένος (el) (gamiménos)
• Hungarian: baszott, kibaszott (hu)
• Indonesian: sialan (id), keparat (id), brengsek (id), bedebah (id)
• Italian: cazzo di, dei miei coglioni
• Japanese: 糞 (ja) (くそ, kuso)
• Macedonian: е́бан (éban), ти́бам (tíbam)
• Norwegian: forpult
• Polish: jebany (pl) m, kurewski (pl) m, pierdolony (pl) m
• Portuguese: merda de + (name of object) m or f, porra de (pt) + (name of object) m or f, puta de + (name of object) m or f, maldito (pt) m + (name of object) m, maldita (pt) f + (name of object) f
• Romanian: pulii (ro), pulii mele, futut de m + (name of object), futută de f + (name of object), căcat de m + (name of object), morților mă-sii
• Russian: хуёвый (ru) (xujóvyj), ёбаный (ru) (jóbanyj), сра́ный (ru) (srányj)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: biru, helveha

• Sicilian: minchia (scn) di (scn) + (name of object) m or f, (name of object) m or f + di (scn) minchia (scn), (name of object) m or f + dâ (scn) minchia (scn); spacchiu di (scn) + (name of object) m or f, spacchimi di (scn) + (name of object) m or f
• Spanish: (Latin America) maldito (es), (Mexico) pinche (es), (Spain) puto (es), jodido (es)
• Swedish: jävla (sv), satans (sv)
• Thai: โคตร (th) (kôot)
• Turkish: pis (tr), kahrolası (tr), lanet olası, boktan (tr), sikindirik (tr)

Adverb

fucking (not comparable)

2. (vulgar) Really, very; having intensive force, often applying to the whole sentence or clause.

   Synonyms: damn, flipping, freaking; see also Thesaurus:very

   This is fucking ridiculous!

   I'm not fucking well paying this time.

   • 2004, Tommy Lee with Anthony Bozza, Tommy Land, page 79:

     You've never seen a bunch of guys more fucking shocked to lose

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 81:

     A bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My reply is that you should fucking well have been there, and felt it for yourself.

Descendants

• → Danish: fucking
• → Dutch: fucking
• → German: fucking
• → Norwegian Bokmål: føkkings
• → Romanian: fucking
• → Swedish: fucking
• → Icelandic: fokking

Translations

an intensifier

• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: فشخ (fašḫ)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死 (zh) (sǐ), 他媽 / 他妈 (zh) (tāmā)

• Esperanto: damne (eo), fek-
• Finnish: vittu (fi), vitun (fi)
• French: putain de (fr)
• Hebrew: אחושרמוטה (he) (akhusharmúta)
• Hungarian: kurvára (hu), kibaszottul (hu), rohadtul
• Icelandic: fokking, andskotans
• Italian: del cazzo, cazzo di
• Polish: kurwa (pl)
• Portuguese: puta (pt), fodendo (pt)
• Romanian: ca pula de, futere de
• Russian: хуй (ru) (xuj)
• Sicilian: minchia (scn) di (scn) + (name of object) m or f, (name of object) m or f + di (scn) minchia (scn), (name of object) m or f + dâ (scn) minchia (scn); spacchiu di (scn) + (name of object) m or f, spacchimi di (scn) + (name of object) m or f
• Spanish: jodidamente (es), (Mexico, is used as adverb by some people even if identical to the adjective) pinche (es)
• Swedish: jävla (sv)
• Welsh: ffycin
• Yiddish: מסוכּן (mesukn)

Infix

fucking

1. (vulgar) Alternative form of -fucking-, used when the infix is put between two words.

   Synonym: fkn

   New Fucking York.

   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 27:

     She had been, as I say, drinking all afternoon and she suddenly howled, “Ten o’clock! It’s ten o’fucking clock! Why doesn’t he come? Why in God’s name doesn’t he come?” Something along those lines.

   • 1992, Roger Waters, Q Magazine:

     […] I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber.

   • 1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy (motion picture), spoken by Alyssa Jones (Joey Lauren Adams):

     If you wanted some background information on me, Holden, all you had to do was ask. I would have gladly volunteered it. You didn't have to go playing Hercule fucking Poirot!

   • 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by The Dude (Jeff Bridges):

     Far out, man. Far fucking out!

   • 2021, Mind & Body: Mental Exercises for Physical Wellbeing; Physical Exercises for Mental Wellbeing, The School of Life, →ISBN, page 75:

     Fuck the Big Fucking Bang.

References

• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2009), The F Word, 3rd edition

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fucking.

Adjective

fucking (neuter fucking)

1. (slang, vulgar) fucking, intensifier, especially to indicate annoyance.

   Synonyms: fandens, sørens, helvedes

   • 2013, Lars AP, Fucking flink, Art People, →ISBN:

     For det er helt okay at udøve den danske nationalsport nr. 1: at brokke sig. Bare man gør det på en fucking flink måde. Guerillagartnere og guerilla-strikkere.

     For it is totally okay to practice the #1 Danish national sport: complaining. As long as one does it in a fucking friendly manner. Guerrilla gardeners and guerrilla knitters.

   • 2014, Christian Frost, Gud er bare hund stavet bagfra, Art People, →ISBN:

     Det kom fra hans far, som var en fucking bøsse.

     It came from his father, who was a fucking homo.

   • 2014, Caroline Kepnes, DU, Politikens Forlag, →ISBN:

     "For helvede da, Karen! Fatter du ikke et vink med en fucking vognstang?"

     "Dammit, Karen! Can't you comprehend a clear fucking red flag?"

Adverb

fucking

1. (slang, vulgar, intensifier) fucking

   Synonym: fandens

Dutch

Alternative forms

• fokking (homophonic modification)
• fakking (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from English fucking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʏ.kɪŋ/, /ˈfɑ.kɪŋ/, /ˈfɔ.kɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: fuc‧king

Adjective

fucking (not comparable)

1. (slang, vulgar) fucking, intensifier, especially to indicate annoyance

   Die fucking klojo laat me niet met rust. ― That fucking asshole won't leave me alone.

Adverb

fucking

1. (slang, vulgar, intensifier) fucking

   Ik ga hier zo fucking hard op. ― I enjoy this so fucking much.

   Die nieuwe pooierbak ziet er fucking bruut uit. ― That new pimpmobile looks fucking bad-ass.

   De bedrijfsleider op haar werk is fucking lelijk. ― The company chief at her work is fucking ugly.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English fucking.

Adjective

fucking (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (slang, vulgar, intensifier) fucking

   Synonym: verfickt

   • 2020 July 28, Uli Hannemann, “Die Wahrheit: Unser Dorf soll hässlicher werden”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎^[4], →ISSN:

     Dabei fragt man sich hier jetzt schon, wie man den Wohnkomfort überhaupt noch mindern kann: Jede fucking Nacht, die ein hirnverbrannter Herrgott über diesen Amüsiertodesstreifen senkt, schreien Dealer und Obdachlose, Touristen und Jungberliner unten vor dem Fenster mit den Koksern oben auf der Dachterrasse wie am Spieß um die Wette.

     But you already wonder how living conditions could possibly get any worse here: Every fucking night, as a brainless Lord God descends over this amusement death strip, dealers and homeless people, tourists and young Berliners scream like mad outside the window, while the cokeheads on the rooftop terrace join in the chorus.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• føkking (Norwegianized spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹ˈfœkː.ɪŋ/, [ˈfœ̀kː.ɪŋ] (Norwegianized pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -œkːɪŋ
• Homophone: føkking (with the Norwegianized pronunciation)
• Hyphenation: fuck‧ing

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English fucking (“fucking; very”), the present participle of fuck (“to fuck”), used as a swearword and intensifier. The English verb is from Middle English *fukken (“to fuck, copulate”); its further origin is uncertain.

Compare føkke (“to fuck; to mess with, fuck with”) and fuckings (“fucking, damned; very”).

Adverb

fucking

1. (colloquial, vulgar, intensifier) alternative form of føkking (“fucking, really, very; used as a disparaging intensifier”)
   • 1995, Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Storbyens stemme, page 169:

     jeg følte meg fucking sikker på at de ryktene som hadde gått, stemte

     I felt fucking sure that the rumors that had been going around were true

Adjective

fucking (indeclinable)

1. (colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) alternative form of føkking (“fucking, damned, lousy”)
   • 1997, Torgrim Eggen, Den nye Dylan, page 149:

     heller det enn fucking Pink Floyd

     rather that than fucking Pink Floyd

   • 2008, Jo Nesbø, Hodejegerne, page 125:

     føkking ødemarka

     the fucking wilderness

   • 2021, Linn Ullmann, Jente, 1983, page 134:

     langt ute i fucking ødemarken

     way out in the fucking wilderness

2. (colloquial, vulgar, intensifier) alternative form of føkking (“fucking; used with weakened negative force for strong, often positive emphasis”)
   • 2017, Jan Kjærstad, Berge, page 58:

     det var … som om kronprins Haakon Magnus skulle ha blitt sammen med kronprinsesse Victoria av fucking Sverige! Det er en kjempestory!

     it was … as if Crown Prince Haakon Magnus had gotten together with Crown Princess Victoria of fucking Sweden! It's a huge story!

Etymology 2

From fucke (“to fuck; to mess with, fuck with”) +‎ -ing (“action/result-forming noun suffix”).

Noun

fucking f or m (definite singular fuckinga or fuckingen, indefinite plural fuckinger, definite plural fuckingene)

1. fucking; the act of having sexual intercourse

References

• “føkking” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-

Proto-Germanic *fukkōną

Old English *fuccian

Middle English *fukken

English fuck

English -ing

English fuckingbor.

Romanian fucking

Borrowed from English fucking.

Adjective

fucking m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. (slang, vulgar) fucking

   Îs prea frustrat cu acest fucking puzzle pe care încerc să-l rezolv că lucrez la el de ore întregi și nu mai reușesc!

   I'm too frustrated with this fucking puzzle I'm trying to solve, I've been working on it for hours and I just can't seem to figure it out!

Usage notes

Commonly used among younger generations.

Declension

Declension of fucking (invariable)

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	fucking		fucking	fucking	fucking
	definite	—		—	—	—
genitive- dative	indefinite	fucking		fucking	fucking	fucking
	definite	—		—	—	—

Adverb

fucking

1. (slang, vulgar) fucking

   îi fucking obosit după o săptămână de muncă.

   He's fucking tired after a week of work.

   A vrut să se fucking drogheze dar a fost prins și după pedepsit.

   He wanted to take fucking drugs but he got caught and later punished.

Usage notes

Commonly used among younger generations.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• fokin, fakin, foking, faking

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-

Proto-Germanic *fukkōną

Old English *fuccian

Middle English *fukken

English fuck

English -ing

English fuckingbor.

Spanish fucking

Borrowed from English fucking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈfokin/ [ˈfo.kĩn]
  • Rhymes: -okin
• IPA^(key): /ˈfakin/ [ˈfa.kĩn]
  • Rhymes: -akin
• Syllabification: fuc‧king

Adjective

fucking (invariable)

1. (slang, possibly vulgar, invariable, only attributive and before a word) fucking

   Synonyms: puto, pinche

Adverb

fucking

1. (slang, possibly vulgar, only before a word) fucking

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English fucking.

Adjective

fucking (not comparable)

1. (slang, vulgar) fucking, intensifier, especially to indicate annoyance

   Synonyms: jävla, helvetes, förbannad

   Asså de där fucking råttorna ska dö! ― Ah, those fucking rats will die!

Usage notes

Chiefly used by younger speakers.

Declension

No inflected forms.

Adverb

fucking (comparative mer fucking, superlative mest fucking)

1. (slang, vulgar) fucking, intensifier

   Synonym: jävla

   Han är så fucking jobbig, mammas död jag vill slakta han! ― He's so fucking annoying, I swear on my mother I want to kill him!

Usage notes

Chiefly used by younger speakers.

References

• Fula Ordboken