The F-Word (41 page)

fuck muscle
noun

Esp.
Homosexuals
. the penis.

1977
F. Danton
Fist Club
6: It was a big, thick, long thing that never quit, thirteen heavy inches of fuck muscle that any stud would be lucky to suck or take manfully up the ass.
1994
L. Eighner
American Prelude
39: His muscles bulged—especially the fuck muscle in the middle of his slender belly.
2002
B. Vickery
Cocksure
106: I’d love to fuck your ass right now. That is, if you think you can handle my throbbing gargantuan fuck muscle.

fucknob
noun
[probably from
nob
‘head’; compare
FUCKHEAD
]

a stupid or contemptible person.

1995
New Yorker
(May 8) 76: Look who’s talking, fucknob.… Your whole life is fucked up.
1998
Re: Crows & Umpiring
, message on Usenet newsgroup aus.sport.aussie-rules (Aug. 9): It’s not considered polite to call someone a “fucknob.”

fucknut
noun

a stupid or contemptible person. Also
fucknuts
.

1986
S. King
It
199: “Why did you do that?” “Because I
felt
like it, fucknuts!” Henry roared back.
1992
Language in Society
XXI. 283: Ugly male…dick, dof, drip, dwax, dweep, dweet, dwors, fucknut, fuckup, [etc.].
1997
M. T. Sullivan
Purification Ceremony
267: You fucknut, I should bust your ass right here, right now.
2002
A. Davies
Frog King
188: I think you’re acting like a fucknut.… Say, “Evie, I’m sorry. Evie, I love you.” OK?
2004
Esquire
(Sept.) 126/1: I don’t know anyone like the people on [TV family shows.].… I can’t relate to any of them. These people are all fucknuts.

fuck-nutty
adjective

obsessed with thoughts of copulation.

1942
H. Miller
Roofs of Paris
32: Those fuck-nutty kids.

fucko
noun
[probably influenced by
bucko
]

=
FUCKER
, definition 2.

1969
R. Thorp
Dionysus
93: Well, fucko, I see you’ve made yourself right to home.
1973
A. Schiano & A. Burton
Solo
76: Hey, fucko, what’re you following me for?
1974
S. Terkel
Working
582: Hey, fucko, come over here.… You fucker.
1976
R. Price
Bloodbrothers
247: No sweat, fucko.
1988
G. Gallo
Midnight Run
(film): My name’s
Carmine,
fucko!
1996
J. Díaz
Edison, New Jersey
in
Drown
129: The boss wasn’t having it. You fuckos, he said. You butthogs. He tore us for a good two minutes and then
dismissed
us.
2003
A. Swofford
Jarhead
50: I entered the room.… Someone said, “Fucko is here.”

fuck-off
noun

Originally
Military
. a person who shirks duties or responsibilities; loafer or shirker; an incompetent.

1948
N. Mailer
Naked & Dead
229 [refers to WWII]: You think I’m just a fug-off, don’t you?
1953
W. Eyster
Far from Customary Skies
141 [refers to WWII]: How come you fuckoffs waited to now to start this fussing? How come you didn’t pray none in calm water?
1961
E. Hemingway
Islands in the Stream
356: Where you two fuck-offs been?
1964
H.S. Thompson
Letter
(Jan. 29) in
Proud Highway
(1997) 436: I have turned into a fuck-off as far as this journalism is concerned—one of those woodsy types who talks a good article but never writes it.
1968
“J. Hudson”
Case of Need
271: The radiologist for the night is Harrison. He’s a fuck-off.
1969
P. Spector in
Rolling Stone
(Nov. 1) 29/3: It’s a lot different today. I tell you the whole world is a drop-out. I mean, everybody’s a fuck-off.
1978
W. Wharton
Birdy
176: I hate to think of going into combat with fuck-offs like these.
1984
J.R. Reeves
Mekong
76: You fuck-off!
1996
M. Arax
In My Father’s Name
142: You know your Dad was a fuck-off. Then he got married and almost overnight he got serious.
2003
Prospect
(Sept.) 45/3: Around me, sipping coffees, seven or eight faces were familiar, even though the eagerness in some eyes had dimmed. “The fuck-offs are worse,” said one teacher I remembered. “The lippiness. The low-level misbehaviour is worse,” said another.

fuck-off
adjective

1
. Chiefly
British
. dismissive; hostile; threatening; (
hence
) impressive; huge.

1962
T. J. Scheff in
Administrative Science Quarterly
(vol. 7) 216: If there was shared role imagery on these wards, it was that of the cunning “gold-brick” who built what were called “fuck-off” kingdoms in the hospital. Within such kingdoms, treatment goals usually received lip service at the very most.
1993
R. Lowe & W. Shaw
Travellers
12: Farmers’ll come up and say, “Why haven’t you introduced yourself round the village?”… That freaks us. We’re more used to fuck-off looks from people.
1996
Loaded
(Sept.) 158/2: We had some fancy idea about making a few records, receiving a big cheque and all going off to live in a fuck-off mansion.
1997
“Q”
Deadmeat
205: Goldie, a young man who had definitely put some of his money where his mouth was by coating his teeth in gold, pulled up in a devious black Mercedes with fuck off fat chrome wheels.
1999
J. Poller
Reach
iii. 8: Fuck fairies… Kids want sex, drugs, violence. Big fuck-off guns.
2001
K. Sampson
Outlaws
7: He looked like one of them stereotype American tourists—big mad camera and that, all sorts of fuck-off lenses and fucking secret tricky bits built in.
2004
L. Sutherland
Venus as Boy
36: I liked art. Double period last thing on a Friday. Mostly, it was still-life and handicrafts, but every once in a while they’d give you free rein to draw big fuck-off pictures of the sea and stars.

2
. lazy; shiftless; idle.

1970
L. Bangs in
Psychotic Reactions
(1987) 47: Eventually I apprehended that the music on
Fun House
is neither sloppy (in the sense that a fuckoff group like Deep Purple is sloppy…) nor inept.
1975
W. Harrington
Scorpio 5
38: Whoever managed to steal fifty feet of mag tape off a reel and carry it out through Alpha Gemini plant security was somebody too smart for any fuckoff small-town cop to ever catch.
a
1996
R. Aman in
Maledicta
(vol. XII) 47: The University of Wisconsin…shamelessly protected an incompetent fuckoff professor who was more interested in peddling real estate than in teaching and thus cheated hard-working undergraduate and graduate students out of a decent education.

fuck off
verb

1.a
. to run away; get away; make off. [Comparatively rare in North American English.]

1929
F. Manning
Middle Parts of Fortune
I. iii. 37 [refers to WWI]: As soon as a bit o’ shrapnel comes their way, [they] fuck off ’ome jildy, toot
sweet.
1939
A. C. Bessie
Men in Battle
89: No one ever saw him again. He “fucked off” over the border, as the men expressed it.
1943
in
American Speech
(Apr. 1944) 108: You would say of a man who has absented himself at the approach of some unpleasant job of work, “Oh, he
fucked off
.”
1948
E. Hemingway in
Selected Letters
640: The opposing characters will fuck off once the column shows.
1953
K. Amis
Letter
in Z. Leader
Letters of Kingsley Amis
(2000) 302: They all thought it must be appendicitis…, but the medico was summoned, but he said it wasn’t. He gave me some filthy medicine…and fucked off.
1961
L. McMurtry
Horseman, Pass By
58: “Fuck off,” he said. “You ain’t got no private milkin’ rights.”
1967
C. Aaron
About Us
183: That wasn’t brave. I knew they’d fuck off.
1985
A. Sillitoe
Life Goes On
171: I told him to…fuck off to Scotland, but he wouldn’t budge.
1999
The Score
in M. Hunt
Junk Yard
103: Me chips are done, so he sticks them in the bag and pours on plenty of salt and vinegar, just the way I like them. I give him eighty pence and fuck off.
2003
“DBC Pierre”
Vernon God Little
xvi. 170: Me, I snatch up my pack and fuck off.

b
.
imperative
. “go away”; “go to hell.” Also (emphatically)
fuck off and die
.

1939
A. C. Bessie
Men in Battle
91: “You’re talking through your hat.” “Fuck off.”
1944
in B. C. Bowker
Out of Uniform
119: Another…use, exclusively intransitive, exists in combination with the preposition “off.” In this case, the meaning is “to leave hurriedly.” The most frequent usage occurs in connection with a request to stop annoying the speaker. Often it is followed by the words, “—will ya!” added for emphasis.
1948
E. Hemingway in
Selected Letters
(1981) 647: There is no substitute in English for the phrase “Fuck off, Jack,” if you mean it and will make it good.
1966
W. Manus
Mott the Hoople
23: Fuck off, and quick.
1971
M. J. Harrison
Committed Men
24: Oh, fuck off.
1981
“Dead Kennedys”
Nazi Punks Fuck Off
(rock song title).
1984
Maximum Rocknroll
(Dec.), My reply is “fuck off and die!” Why don’t you do something original for a change?
1987
B. E. Ellis
Rules of Attraction
224: Rip the pen that’s hanging off her door from the string it’s connected to and also a piece of paper and write “Fuck Off and Die” in big black letters.
1988
J. Cleese
A Fish Called Wanda
(film): Tell those pigs to fuck off.
1986–91
B. Hamper
Rivethead
21: I…told everyone to fuck off.
1995
P. Roth in
New Yorker
(June 26) 117: He could have told her to fuck off, of course.
1999
S. Rushdie
Ground Beneath Her Feet
463: You’re nothing in my life, Rai, you mean even less than this punk, so do me a favor, fuck off and die.
2006
K. Slaughter
Triptych
81: “Fuck off, asshole!” the hooker screamed, slamming her hands into Ray-Ray’s chest.

2.a
. to loaf; to evade work, shirk.

1945
in T. Shibutani
Derelicts of Company K
275: What’s the use of being on the ball.… May as well fuck off.
1945
in D. Levin
From Battlefield
55: They…fuckoff [
sic
],…quarrel, bellyache, beat their gums.
1946
American Journal of Sociology
LI 42 [refers to WWII]: There is little stigma to the expression “f—off” applied to…acts, such as when a man gets away with something against the Army by evading a detail…or in some other way avoids an Army requirement.
1947
N. Cassady
Letter
(Apr. 15) in
Collected Letters
(2005) 39: I presume you’ll work up there in his hotel.… It is really unimportant what you do, for, really, all anyone does there is drink, bang & fuck off in general.
1955
J. Klaas
Maybe I’m Dead
327 [refers to WWII]: Vat are you furkin’ off for?
1964
H. Rhodes
Chosen Few
65: You missed formation. You fucked off and we don’t tolerate fuckoffs.
1968
H. Maule
Rub-a-Dub-Dub
127: And I personal am gonna see you get logged if you fuck off.
1970
S. Terkel
Hard Times
136: If he didn’t fuck off those four years in the steel mills, he could’ve gotten ahead.
1977
J. Sayles
Union Dues
57: You let me know he stots fuckin off, right?
1980
U.S. college professor, age
ca
58: I first heard
fuck off
in 1939 when I was working in the railroad yards [in N.Y. state]. “Quit fuckin’ off,” they’d say.
1985
B.E. Ellis
Less Than Zero
33: Don’t fuck off. Don’t be a bum.
1987
H. Zeybel
Gunship
10: I fucked off in Bangkok a few days.
1989
D. F. Wallace
Girl with Curious Hair
246: To accept prime wages for doing the bare minimal and spending the rest of his time fucking off.
1997
M. Huxley
Nine Inch Nails
100: Hey, I’m not fucking off in there. It just takes a long time.
2005
J. C. Hartley
Just Another Soldier
104: I wouldn’t get anything done. I would totally squander my time fucking off all day at my ridiculous palace.