Ksyrup
06-24-2003, 01:10 PM
I ran across this as part of discussion of the word 'fuck' on another board, and thought it was funny and/or helpful, seeing as though we like to discuss grammatical issues and such around here. Although I'm not sure, I have little doubt that this was borrowed from somewhere else.
Clearly, I'm not going for a QOTM with this thread...
Fuck
is a fabulous word, that brings energy to any statement and gravitas to any moment. And it's exclamatory additive to any syntax has a whole host of derivations and uses. While 'fuck' may literally refer to sexual intercourse, its myriad forms and usages cover a far broader range of meanings:
* to fuck - verb, to partake of (rough, disrespectful, unloving) sexual intercourse
* a fuck - pronoun, a sexual partner
* fuck! - expletive, for moments of stress and / or astonishment
* fucker - pronoun, a foolish or careless person
* fuckwit - an idiot or buffoon of the highest order. In Helen Fielding's Brigit Jones' Diary a 'fuckwit' is specifically a man who messes a woman around, engaging in 'fuckwittage'.
* fuck off - imperative, requesting the subject to leave with all due haste
* fuck yourself - imperative, but more complex in its instruction. This locates the subject as a masturbator and that they might as well leave with all due haste as their opinion and regard is worthless to the speaker. Curiously, the word 'wanker' does not have an equivalent, such as 'wank off'.
* to be fucked (1) - to be in a dire and no-win situation
* to be fucked (2) - to be have reached a state of copious inebriation (also fuck-faced, fuck-headed, head-fucked)
* fuck up - an error
* fuck about - partaking of foolish or silly activity
* do-I-fuck? (pronounced as one word) - a rhetorical device, used in the North of England in response to any given suggestion to answer 'no (I don't).'
* fucking - equivalent to 'very'. E.g.: 'fucking great!'
* fuckhead - insult used in American films in the 80s by people who thought they were hip
* fuck, yeah (pronounced fak! yehhh) - an emphatic agreement to any given suggestion when in Australia
* fucking aye, mate (pronounced fak' n'ey, mey(t)) - an emphatic agreement to any given suggestion when in New Zealand
* fuck that - similar in many ways to fuck yourself (q.v.), the emphasis being on deny any worth in the given subject
Usually used when abandonning an effort or stating that something isn't worth the effort.
* 'fuck you' - an emphasised imperative to 'go away' practically calling on disaster to immediately beset the subject
* 'fuck me' - not an imperative but an expletive, meaning 'Ooh, I am surprised.'
* fuckable - someone who the speaker would consider having sexual intercourse with
* to fuck someone - to do someone wrong in a major way, also directed as 'Are you fucking with me?'
* absofuckinglutely - adding emphasis to the certainty
* to give a fuck - to care in the slightest
* fuckety fuck, fucka-doodle-doo etc. - endearing, as we hear it, expletives used by Hugh Grant's character in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
* fucker - an insult
* thank fuck - well, this is an interesting one. In 'thank fuck', the word 'fuck' replaces the blasphemous intent; for example, 'God' or 'Christ'.
* fuckery - brothel, literally a 'sex shop'.
* cluster fuck - a bottle-necking of errors, a critical mass of fuck-ups. Apparently it's a military term used with regard to bad organisation.
Clearly, I'm not going for a QOTM with this thread...
Fuck
is a fabulous word, that brings energy to any statement and gravitas to any moment. And it's exclamatory additive to any syntax has a whole host of derivations and uses. While 'fuck' may literally refer to sexual intercourse, its myriad forms and usages cover a far broader range of meanings:
* to fuck - verb, to partake of (rough, disrespectful, unloving) sexual intercourse
* a fuck - pronoun, a sexual partner
* fuck! - expletive, for moments of stress and / or astonishment
* fucker - pronoun, a foolish or careless person
* fuckwit - an idiot or buffoon of the highest order. In Helen Fielding's Brigit Jones' Diary a 'fuckwit' is specifically a man who messes a woman around, engaging in 'fuckwittage'.
* fuck off - imperative, requesting the subject to leave with all due haste
* fuck yourself - imperative, but more complex in its instruction. This locates the subject as a masturbator and that they might as well leave with all due haste as their opinion and regard is worthless to the speaker. Curiously, the word 'wanker' does not have an equivalent, such as 'wank off'.
* to be fucked (1) - to be in a dire and no-win situation
* to be fucked (2) - to be have reached a state of copious inebriation (also fuck-faced, fuck-headed, head-fucked)
* fuck up - an error
* fuck about - partaking of foolish or silly activity
* do-I-fuck? (pronounced as one word) - a rhetorical device, used in the North of England in response to any given suggestion to answer 'no (I don't).'
* fucking - equivalent to 'very'. E.g.: 'fucking great!'
* fuckhead - insult used in American films in the 80s by people who thought they were hip
* fuck, yeah (pronounced fak! yehhh) - an emphatic agreement to any given suggestion when in Australia
* fucking aye, mate (pronounced fak' n'ey, mey(t)) - an emphatic agreement to any given suggestion when in New Zealand
* fuck that - similar in many ways to fuck yourself (q.v.), the emphasis being on deny any worth in the given subject
Usually used when abandonning an effort or stating that something isn't worth the effort.
* 'fuck you' - an emphasised imperative to 'go away' practically calling on disaster to immediately beset the subject
* 'fuck me' - not an imperative but an expletive, meaning 'Ooh, I am surprised.'
* fuckable - someone who the speaker would consider having sexual intercourse with
* to fuck someone - to do someone wrong in a major way, also directed as 'Are you fucking with me?'
* absofuckinglutely - adding emphasis to the certainty
* to give a fuck - to care in the slightest
* fuckety fuck, fucka-doodle-doo etc. - endearing, as we hear it, expletives used by Hugh Grant's character in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
* fucker - an insult
* thank fuck - well, this is an interesting one. In 'thank fuck', the word 'fuck' replaces the blasphemous intent; for example, 'God' or 'Christ'.
* fuckery - brothel, literally a 'sex shop'.
* cluster fuck - a bottle-necking of errors, a critical mass of fuck-ups. Apparently it's a military term used with regard to bad organisation.