The F-Word (59 page)

1945
in
Verbatim
(Autumn, 1989) 6:
NFG
…Abbrev. for
no fxxxn’ good
.… An individual, situation or state without any redeeming features; hopeless, incompetent, utterly worthless:
I’m NFG before my coffee in the morning
.
1977
E. Torres
Q&A
162: He’s…N.F.G., with the oak leaf cluster.
1988
T. Logan
Harder They Fall
106: N.F.G.! Start grouping your shots.… Like this.
1990
G.R. Clark
Words of Vietnam War
356: NFG…no-fuckin’-good.
1991
S. Fry
Liar
xii. 332: The other half, which the Hungoes got ahold of this afternoon, is n.f.g. without the book of words that you have so cunningly kept clasped to your sagging bosom.
2000
A. H. Vachss
Dead & Gone
33: No matter how I played it out, it came up NFG all the way.

2
.
Army
. = FNG.

1992
D. R. Rodrique
Heading Home
152 [refers to Vietnam War]: “You’re just one more N.F.G.” “An N.F.G.” “New Fucking Guy; a cherry.”

NFW
interjection

“
n
o
f
ucking
w
ay.”

1974
J. Mills
One Just Man
125: Just NFW. No fuckin’
way
.
1987
Wall St. Journal
(Oct. 26): “N.F.W.” Loosely translated: “No Feasible Way.”
1993
S. Manes & P. Andrews
Gates
238: On the way up to Seattle, Hanson had been thinking “NFW. No way am I going to take this job.”
2006
B. A. Masters
Spoiling for a Fight
83: “imho” = “in my humble opinion” and “nfw” for an unprintable expletive.

OMFG
interjection

“
O
h
M
y
F
ucking
G
od.”

1997
Re: Favorite Anime Character
on Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.anime. misc (Apr. 7): If you don’t get impressed by the harem and the OMFG plotlines, this is a snoozer.
2002
Thrasher
(Nov. 1) 172: The Ice Age hit and survival of the fittest let the young ’uns pass on through. Can’t fight evolution. New Found Glory! OMFG!
2005
New York Magazine
(July 4) 79/1: But then, as the kids themselves might say: OMFG.
2008
(caption of advertising poster for
Gossip Girls
(CW TV), featuring teenagers in sexually provocative poses): OMFG.

Philadelphia rat fuck
noun

see under
RAT-FUCK
,
noun
, definition 4.

pigfuck
noun

1
. =
PIG-FUCKER
noun
, definition 1.

1970
in
Fire! Reports from the Underground Press
14: You too, you racist pig-fuck with your star badge and your crippled trigger mind.
1990
P. Monette in G. Stambolian
Men on Men 3: Best New Gay Fiction
25: Nevertheless, the last thing I will do is acknowledge Jerry Curran, the pigfuck who rode shotgun through my brother’s arrogant youth.
2003
A. Swofford
Jarhead
200: I turn against my brother, and I insult the U.S. Army and any pigfuck who would join such a shitpoor organization.
2003
T. Carson
Gilligan’s Wake
219: No I did not you pigfuck bastard shitass fucker.

2
. a genre of music, associated with the late 1980s and typically regarded as an outgrowth of punk and a precursor to grunge, characterized by a gritty, noisy sound.

1989
Sound Choice
(Autumn) 87/1: This LP packs a wallop…and keeps the noise/pigfuck crown firmly entrenched on Trench ‘N’ Go’s mantle.
2001
Terrorizer
(Sept.) 68/4: Good ol’ American pigfuck—politely known as noise rock—nearly fell of the map in the late 90’s, as the once-mighty Amphetamine Reptile label fizzled out and took its influence with it.
2001
M. Azerrad
Our Band could be your Life
xi. 402: They didn’t socialize with the SST bands or the so-called “pigfuck” bands on Homestead and
Touch & Go.
2005
New Yorker
(Apr. 11) 80/1: Slint and Slaughterhouse had roots in a subgenre of nineteen-eighties independent rock which was sometimes called “pig-fuck” by the music press.

3
. a confused or disappointing situation or state of affairs.

1998
B. J. Nelson
Keepers
200: The car ahead finally careened from the road… Acne and Toothy were looking back, throwing the finger. What a pigfuck.
2001
M. Wynne
No Other Option
247: It’s a pigfuck. FUBAR from start to finish.
2007
R. Leleux
Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy
5: “Pig Fuck” was Mother’s phrase for the absolute nadir of something.… So when Daddy left, taking Nana and Papa’s money with him, Mother and I quickly realized we were nouveau poor. Which was the pig fuck of all time.
2009
J. Stewart on
Daily Show
(Comedy Central TV) (Jan. 13): Abu Ghraib and the weapons of mass destruction are international pig-fucks.

pig-fucker
noun

a worthless, disgusting, or despicable person.

1938
“Justinian”
Americana Sexualis
31:
Pig-Fucker,
n. A concupiscent man whose sensibilities are so atrophied that he would even “fuck a pig.”… Obsolete Br., U.S., C. 19–20. Obsolescent.
1965
H.S. Thompson
Letter
(Apr. 18) in
Proud Highway
(1997) 509: Ah, this fucking rotten machine. One more strike against those pigfuckers.
1970
in H.S. Thompson
Shark Hunt
40: Bug off, you worthless faggot! You twisted pigfucker!
1972–76
C. Durden
No Bugles, No Drums
263: Five fuckin’ people against five thousand pissed-off pig fuckers.
1976
C. Rosen
Mile Above the Rim
82: Wayne Smalley was a racist white pigfucker and Jeremy hated him.
1982
D.A. Harper
Good Company
70: Why I’d be a lyin’ pigfucker if I told you that!
1983
R. Thomas
Missionary
145: Just call him a pig fucker and let him deny it.
1987
Robbins
Ravens
69: “Pig Fucker.”… The name hails from the early days of Vietnam when fighter pilots called each other by it as a form of affectionate…abuse.
a
1989
R. Herman, Jr.
Warbirds
97: All
right,
you pig-fuckers. I do
not
like surprises.
1990
“My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult”
Days of Swine & Roses
(pop. song): Fuck you, pig fucker!
1992
D. Allison
Bastard out of Carolina
vii. 100: “Your daddy’s a son of a bitch himself, a purely crazy pigfucker,” Grey was always telling me with a little awe in his voice, a hunger to be half again as dangerous.
2007
Believer
(Nov.–Dec.) 56/2: He refers to John Wayne as an “evil white racist honky pigfucker.”

pig-fucking
adjective

worthless; disgusting; despicable.

1948
I. Wolfert
Act of Love
503: Frig you, you pig-frigging turd.
1968
H. S. Thompson
Letter
(Jan. 3) in
Fear & Loathing in America
(2000) 14: That evil pigfucking skunk. For the past year he’s been hounding me like some sort of cop out of Dostoyevsky.
1972
B. Bertolucci
Last Tango in Paris
(film): You goddam pig-fucking liar!
1972–76
C. Durden
No Bugles, No Drums
175: I knew the pig-fuckin’ cocksucker was settin’ me up.
1977
T. Jones
Incredible Voyage
371: The fair-haired bastard of a pig-fucking detective… kicked out the boy’s eye!
1978
E. Thompson
Devil to Pay
103: They’ll hang your ass in this pigfucking country and look for justification later.
1999
T. Parker et al.
South Park
(film script) 138: Dripping vagina eating son of a pigfucking crack whore!!! Hairy cock slurping maggot fuuuuuck!!!!
2005
L. Purdue
Perfect Killer
xxxvi. 146: You pig-fucking shit-bird.

pity-fuck
noun

=
MERCY FUCK
.

1969
J. Nuttall
Pig
33: He’d reached two hands to her, face to her belly, willing tears to his eyes to lure her to a pity-fuck.
1993
O. Goldsmith
Flavor of the Month
27: It might have started as a pity fuck, but she blew him away.
1994
B. Maher
True Story
107: “Need some loving,” she had said—what was this, a pity fuck?
1996
Frontiers
(Sept. 1): We have a horror of the pity fuck. We cannot face the charity of the mercy orgasm.
1997
Re: Daniel Mocsny’s writing style,
on Usenet newsgroup soc.singles: Why are you banging a woman so repulsive she wouldn’t rate a pity-fuck from me on my worst day?
2006
“L. Burana”
Try
xii. 137: A stark contrast to Alex who, despite his best efforts, made going down on me feel like a pity fuck delivered by mouth.

rat-fuck
noun

1
. (used as a term of abuse), “asshole,” etc.

1922
in E. Wilson
Twenties
(1975) 116 [undefined list of terms]: Dumbbell upstage lousy highhat rat-fuck to crab someone or someone’s act.
1955
in D. Wepman et al.
The Life
(1976) 171: That dirty rat fuck—/He thought he was slick.
1970
T. Southern
Blue Movie
173:
Yes,
you rat fuck! What heinous deception!
1970
G. Sorrentino
Steelwork
16: He stood in front of them and kicked their balls off! The rat fucks.
1973
J. Breslin
World Without End, Amen
109: Is that where the rat-fuck… is going?
1976
L. Bangs in
Psychotic Reactions
(1987) 199: Those rat-fucks in Chicago can suck my asshole.
1990
E. W. Rukuza
West Coast Turnaround
230: He was watching…, the ratfuck!
1991
Southern Atlantic Quarterly
XC 836: The ratfuck FCC.… The…fuckwad station manager.
1996
D. McCumber
Playing off the Rail
95: That’s right, you ratfuck bastard.
1999
T. Parker et al.
South Park
(film script) 138: Fuck a hunk a shit, you rat fuck!!!
2006
G. Lawson & W. Oldham
Brotherhoods
132: There were no references to “motherfuckers” or “cocksuckers” or “rat fucks”—the streams of expletives that were standard on the street.

2
.
a
. Originally
Army
. a confused or bungled situation, especially an assault. [The 1930 examples are euphemistic.]

1930
L. H. Nason
Corporal Once
139 [refers to WWI]: This here gigantic rat-copulation they call a war.
Ibid.
171: This isn’t going to be the same kind of a damned disgusting…rat-copulation such as we’ve been going through on the Border.
Ibid.
260: This will be just the same old rat dinging all over again.
a
1964
A. J. Liebling in
Mollie & Other War
Pieces
151: “Whoever checked them out in a bomber ought to have his head examined! What a ratfuck!” He explained that a ratfuck was “a rat race, but all bollixed up.”
1968
H. S. Thompson
Letter
(May 31) in
Fear & Loathing in America
(2000) 85: You are one of the few people who read my book on the Hell’s Angels closely enough to realize that the whole thing was a wonderful rat-fuck and—as you put it—“a perpetual ball.”
1971
R. Vaughan & M. Lynch
Brandywine’s War
57: A GRF…means Giant Rat Fuck.… It’s a nickname the men have for an aerial assault mission.
1983
J. Groen & D. Groen
Huey
217: Every insertion was a Romeo Foxtrot (RF), translated rat fuck, the name given by flyers to doomed missions.
Ibid.
272: He was mad as hell about that rat fuck already.
1984
G. Holland
Let a Soldier Die
184 [refers to 1967]: I was on this rat fuck down south…and on short final the whole world went up.
1987
P. D. Chinnery
Life on the Line
35 [refers to 1965]: The next day was my first combat assault or GRF (Grand Rat F***) as they were called.
1991
Vanity Fair
(Sept.) 244/1: It’s been a real rat fuck at Columbia and I’ll bet the Japanese don’t have the vaguest idea what’s happening in their own company.
2004
J. F. Mullins
Into the Treeline
237: Damn good thing I was there.… What a ratfuck operation that was!