The F-Word (48 page)

to loaf;
FUCK OFF
,
verb
, definition 2.a.

1968
C. Baker et al.
College Undergraduate Slang Study
123:
Futz off
. Waste time, not study.

futz out
verb

=
FUTZ UP
; fizzle out.

1963
G. L. Coon
Short End
254: What happens to you, if you are Halstead…and the whole shooting match futzes out right in your face and lies there?
1992
F. Kellerman
False Prophet
187: Peter Jedidiah Decker, don’t you
dare
futz out on me!
2005
J. J. Ordover
Star Trek S.C.E.: Identity
Crisis
14: I think they might be futzing out on us and causing feedback through the system.

futz up
verb

to spoil, confound; mess up;
FUCK UP
.

1947
C. Willingham
End as a Man
296: I’ve got her all futzed up. She does everything I tell her.
1948
I. Wolfert
Act of Love
293: If you’re futzing it up I want to know.
1965
R. Hardman
Chaplains Raid
64: Not while you’re futzing up the clergy I won’t!
1966
A. Drury
Capable of Honor
300: The President wants me to run…to balance the ticket, to futz up the image, and to blur the issues so that he can be elected.
1987
B. Sills
Beverly: An Autobiography
290: Rosalinda was a pretentious lady who made Adele wear a uniform, but because Rosalinda didn’t know what she was doing, Adele’s uniform was all futzed up.
1992
R. W. White
Heat Islands
125: He knew Sutter had futzed up the bilge pump of his skiff, then snuck back later and cut the boat free.
2003
G. Spence
Smoking Gun
184: There is an ethical obligation for them not to futz up the evidence.

F-word
noun

(used as a euphemism to refer to the word
FUCK
or one of its derivatives or compounds).

1956
W. E. Collinson in
Moderna Språk
(Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Sweden) L. 13: Even today the British printer would draw the line at the f-word used in
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
.
1964
Labor Arbitration Reports
(Bureau of National Affairs) XLII. 494/2: Two witness stated X— used the “F-word” epithet to MM, the female jobber clerk. The gravamen of House Rule 2 lies in the use of profanity
maliciously
against others.
1970
Evergreen Review
XIV. 72/3: Another undercover police lady said that in one defendant’s speech “every other word was the ‘F’ word.”
1973
New York Times Book Review
(May 6) II. 10/3: I ain’t got time to be outraged about these books. I dismiss them. The kids use the expression “f-word,” the “f-word,” when they want to talk about it without saying it. Well, I say, “f-word” them books, and “f-word” the pretentious writers who write them.
1987
F. Flagg
Fried Green Tomatoes
41: Here she was, at her age, and she’d never said the F word.
1995
N. Hornby
High Fidelity
xvi. 194: “And don’t fucking say ‘Oh’ like that.” A couple of people look round
when I use the “f”-word, and Jo puts her hand on my arm. I shake it off.
2001
D. Lehane
Mystic River
232: “You said the f-word, Dad.”… “Sorry, Mike. Won’t happen again.”
2007
L. McMurtry
When the Light Goes
36: These are modern times, you know.… Old ladies can say the F-word if they want to.

F-word
verb & interjection

(used as a euphemism for
FUCK
verb
and
interjection
). Compare
EFF
.

1973
New York Times Book Review
(May 6) II. 10/3: I ain’t got time to be outraged about these books. I dismiss them. The kids use the expression “f-word,” the “f-word,” when they want to talk about it without saying it. Well, I say, “f-word” them books, and “f-word” the pretentious writers who write them.
1989
J. Kirkwood
Diary of a Mad Playwright
39: I thought: Oh, F-word, I can’t go around beggin on my knees anymore, it’s just too F-wording boring and demeaning.
1995
Re: Help Me!
on Usenet newsgroup rec.bicycles.off-road (Feb. 18): I personally have witnessed “newbie” mtb kids with the F-word off attitude. Scaring horses, walkers, and even Me!
2003
Detroit Free Press
9 Oct. (Electronic ed.): That hulking groper is not the (F-word)ing governor!

FYFI
[initialism punning on standard
FYI
]

Especially
Business
. “for your fucking information.”
Jocular
.

1995
N.Y.C. publisher, age 52:
FYFI
means “for your fucking information.” I’ve seen it used on memos for at least ten years—everyone knows what it means.
1996
Re: 2 10,000 Maniacs Questions,
on Usenet newsgroup alt.music.alternative.female (Feb. 23): This “some guy or something” is called Salman Rushdie, FYFI.
1998
Re: Truth,
on Usenet newsgroup rec.audio.tubes (July 20): FYFI, it is easy to spot an unsuccessful author. He publishes two books and is gone.

gaggle-fuck
noun

=
CLUSTERFUCK
, sense 2.

1996
A Whole “Wack
”? on Usenet newsgroup alt.tv.x-files (Nov. 15): I wouldn’t place any bets on that being an actual term. The Canadian military make up our own all the time. My personal favourite is “gaggle-fuck”: a formation resembling a bunch of guys standing together.
2001
O. West
Sharkman Six
30: He’s smart enough to stay hidden; the last thing he wants is to be associated with the gaggle fuck on the beach.
2007
D. Bellavia & J. R. Bruning
House to House
118: We’ve got one big gaggle fuck right in the front yard, and we’re vulnerable as hell.

gang-fuck
noun

1
. a gangbang: an occasion on which a number of people copulate successively with one person; (
also
) gang rape; (
also
) a sexual orgy. Also
gang-screw
.

1941
G. Legman in G.V. Henry
Sex Variants
II 1166:
Gang-fuck
. An instance of pedication or irrumation of a single boy or homosexual by two or more men consecutively, and with or without his consent. Also used as a verb, and in both senses heterosexually.
1946–51
W. Motley
We Fished All Night
350: The fellows had the girl back behind a stairway. She was willing. It was another gang-screw.
a
1968
in Haines & Taggart
Fort Lauderdale
60: Gang fucks.
1972
D. Jenkins
Semi-Tough
58: Less fun than being next-to-last on a high school gang-fuck.
1979
C. McCarthy
Sut-tree
(1992) 416: A female simpleton is waking naked from a gang-fuck in the backseat of an abandoned car.
2003
N. Hynd
Enemy Within
118: The
same trio wanted to share a girl for the night. The three of them with one female. They were celebrating some deal they had struck, Anna said, and their way of closing out the transaction was a gang fuck.

2
. chiefly
British
. =
CLUSTERFUCK
noun
sense 2.

1995
A. McNab
Immediate Action
230: If we started losing contact, it would all go to a gang fuck.
2000
T. Carew
Jihad!
v. 121: I’d thought that Salim knew his stuff, but the move was a complete gang-fuck. We made the first ten kilometres in good time, but then they stopped to pray. We set off again half an hour later, but now we were going much slower and I could see that we certainly weren’t going to get there before 10 p.m.
2006
M. J. Pass & D. Pass
Waiting for Red
18: It’s a gang-fuck. The house is far from town so the chances of shots being heard are next to nothing.

gang-fuck
verb

to copulate with (someone) in a
GANG-FUCK
.

1916
H. N. Cary
Slang of Venery
I 103:
Gang Fucked
—Said of a woman who, willingly or unwillingly, submits to the embraces of the individuals in a crowd of men in succession.
1938
“Justinian”
Americana Sexualis
24: A
gang
of boys or young men escorts a girl or young woman to its rendezvous and proceeds to
gang-fuck
her. U.S. vulgarism, C. 20.
1940
Tale of a Twist
77: I guess I’ve been gang-fucked a few times.
1959
W. Burroughs
Naked Lunch
125: I been gang fucked.
1971
H. S. Thompson
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
114: These cops will go fifty bucks a head to beat her into submission and then gang fuck her.
1975
C.W. Smith
Country Music
84: They’d just as soon gang-fuck you as look at you!
1984
W. D. Ehrhart
Marking Time
66: What kind of person could gang-fuck some poor starving refugee in the middle of a war?
2007
A. H. Vachss
Terminal
33: They were gonna throw gasoline in my cell and fire me up, put glass in my food, gang-fuck me until I was dead.

genderfuck
noun

(an instance of) reversal of normal gender roles; (
specifically
) transvestism.

1972
L. Humphreys
Out of the Closets: Sociology of Homosexual Liberation
164: This technique (also known as “gender fuck”) is a form of extended
guerilla theater.
1973
Rolling Stone
(Aug. 30): The new “macho” transvestitism, called vulgarly “gender-fuck,” a curious satire of female impersonation—dresses, pumps, full make-up and beards—is represented by, among others, three men in WAC uniforms and big moustaches.
1979
Robert Christgau in Greil Marcus
Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island
133: Ordinarily, their [
sc
. the New York Dolls’] gender-fuck was a lot subtler.
1985
Village Voice
(N.Y.C.) (Sept. 10) 74: Part of Phranc’s appeal is the genderfuck of her sweet feminine voice coming from such a masculine frame.
a
1988
Maledicta
IX (1987–88) 173: Real transvestites and transsexuals are…embarrassed…[by] the gender-fuck Cockettes and such (in dresses and beards).
1995
E. Weisbard
Spin Alternative Record Guide
135: Gender-fuck goddess Annie Lennox and wacky rock professor Dave Stewart were a match made in video-pop heaven.
1995
in
Village Voice
(N.Y.C.) (Jan. 2, 1996) 6: The hot-off-the-press Gender Fuck issue of Porn Free—“the Porn ‘Zine Dedicated to Getting You Off for Nothin’.”
1996
N.Y. Press
(Nov. 6) 36: “The boys wanna be girls and the girls wanna be boys.” He was right—the crowd was pure third-sexer genderfuck.
2003
Bitch
(Fall) 63/2: Representations of queer parents show them to be extremely gender-determinate gay men or lesbian women, without a hint of genderfuck anywhere in the picture…as with the super-femmy lesbian moms in
Friends
.
2005
J. Gamson
Fabulous Sylvester
139: Sexy genderfuck was one of her signatures: she…wore her hair short and sharp; often dressed in…men’s tailored suits with breasts revealed.

GFO
noun
[
g
eneral
f
uck-
o
ff]

Military.
a lazy individual.
Jocular
.

1948
N.Y. Folklore Quarterly
20 [refers to WWII].
1957
A. Myrer
Big War
213 [refers to WWII]: Snap-to, you pitiful gutless GFO!

GFU
noun
[
g
eneral
f
uck-
u
p]

Military
. an incompetent individual.
Jocular
.

1942
Yank
(Nov. 25) 21: G.I. Jones…was the GFU of Bat. B 66th CA (AA).
1944
in
American Speech
XX 148:
G.F.U.
General foul up; a soldier who does not do the work he is supposed to do.
1945
Saturday Review of Literature
(Nov. 3) 7: He had better learn. Otherwise he will be known as a GFU… and that would be just TS.
1945
American Speech
(Dec.) 262:
G.F.U.,
“a soldier who never does anything correctly.”
1962
J. O. Killens
Then We Heard the Thunder
208 [refers to WWII]: Sad sacks and GFUs and…goldbricks.
1991
L. Reinberg
In the Field
93 [refers to Vietnam War]:
G F U
abbr. for General Fuck-Up, usually referring to specific persons.
2001
J. Iannuzzi
Mafia Cookbook
(ed. 2) 9: I was a GFU (General Flake-Up), so I was constantly on KP.