b. to make intoxicated.
1971 in H.S. Thompson Shark Hunt 147: Five reds, enough to fuck anybody up. 1980 J. DiFusco et al. Tracers 46 [refers to Vietnam War]: There’s enough shit here to fuck up the entire squad for at least a week. 2001 Maximum Rocknroll (Apr.), Man, I wanna get high!… Something to fuck us up. Drugs.
4. Especially Black English. to injure, especially severely; mangle; wound; (especially Military) to kill.
1962 in D. Wepman et al. The Life (1976) 23: He romped and stomped, and he fucked up his face. 1965 C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land 144: Man, those bullets can really fuck you up. 1966–67 P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets [refers to ca1950]: I felt his fist fuck up my shoulder. Ibid. 209: Louie, if the motherfucker makes a move, fuck him up good. 1967 in B. Edelman Dear America87: The company lost 5 KIA and about 40 wounded. We fucked up at least two times as many Charlies as far as KIA, but we have more wounded. 1970 L. Cole Street Kids 88: The guy who was on our kid fucked the other guy up. The guy was bleeding from his eye. 1970–71 J. Rubinstein City Police 358: You think it was a gun?… O.K., pal, just relax, at least he didn’t fuck you up. 1972 T. O’Brien Combat Zone 76: You don’t get mangled by a mine, you get fucked up. 1972–74 H. Hawes & D. Asher Raise Up off Me 84: My man from Harlem had overheard the…hassle…and asked if I wanted him to get some cats to fuck up the bass player. 1975 S.P. Smith American Boys 162: A few losers who’d been fucked up not quite bad enough to be sent home. 1978 W. Brown Tragic Magic 152: “Fuck him up!” “Waste his ass!” 1982 J. M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley 22: Some innocent dudes always get fucked up and blown away. 1987 L. S. Whiteley Deadly Green 201 [refers to Vietnam War]: Fuck them up! Fuck them fuckers up!…Get some! 1996 P. Godwin Mukiwa xii. 221: Don’t wade in. Let them fuck each other up first, then arrest anything that doesn’t move. 1997 New Yorker (July 21) 38: Or I can wait for you after work and fuck you up. 2000 G. Marinovich & J. Silva Bang-Bang Club xv. 221: Joao responded by telling Dave, a good friend, that if he did not leave him alone he’d fuck him up.
5. Black English. to fool around.
1969 U. Hannerz Soulside 62: I earn good money, you know, with those two jobs, and my old lady earns a lot on her job, so actually I don’t have to leave too much money at home ’cause she takes care of much of that. So this means I got a lot to spend just fucking up. 1970 A. Young Snakes 125: We both need to get away from this old school grind for awhile. Why don’t we go out and fuck up tonight? It’s Friday, man.… Let’s go out and party!
In Phrase:
could fuck up a wet dream, Originally Military. is or are exceedingly clumsy, stupid, or despicable.
1967 A. Dubus Lieutenant 52 [refers to 1956]: Freeman, you are nothing but a skinny turd and would fuck up a wet dream. 1971 R. Flanagan Maggot 242 [refers to ca1956]: They fuck-up everything. Some of them would fuck-up a wet dream. 1975 J. Wambaugh Choirboys 185: Roscoe Rules could fuck up a wet dream. 1966–80 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 391 [refers to ca1951]: Billy, I swear you’d fuck up a wet dream. 1984 W. J. Caunitz One Police Plaza 193: That guy could fuck up a wet dream. 1987 D. Sherman Main Force 191 [refers to 1966]: Lewis, you’d fuck up a wet dream. Go back to sleep. 1988 J. L. Burke Heaven’s Prisoners 221: Then they see a guy that’s got all the things they want and can’t have because most of them are so dumb they’d fuck up a wet dream. 1990 C. Lucas Prelude to a Kiss 48: It’s a real busman’s holiday with you around, you know? You could fuck up a wet dream! 2002 M. A. Kahn Trophy Widow 37: Those five-hundred-dollar-an-hour yahoos could fuck up a wet dream. 2003 C. Weber Baby Momma Drama 76: Damn, Jasmine, you could fuck up a wet dream, you know that? Why don’t you lighten the fuck up for once?
fuckwad noun
a stupid or contemptible person; an asshole.
1974 U.S. student slang survey: Motherfucker, fuckwad, sonofabitch, [etc.]. 1986 J. Cain Suicide Squad 97: I wanna see ID cards on all these fuckwads. 1987 “J. Hawkins” Tunnel Warriors 144: That goofy fuckwad. 1990 E. W. Rukuza West Coast Turnaround 8: Some fuckwad was shootin’ up da scenery wit’ a machine gun. 1997 S. Lopez Sunday Macaroni Club 209: These fuckwads decide to go swimming and now they complain about getting wet. Joey hated working with amateurs. 2002 A. Davies Frog King 284: Think about someone else for a change, fuckwad. 2006 J. McManus Physical 87: As I performed my husbandly duty sans condom, however, I was hoping, like a bona fide fuckwad, that somehow it wouldn’t quite take.
fuckwind noun
the kestrel. Cf. WINDFUCKER noun.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dictionary of the French & English Tongues s.v. Crecerelle, A Rattle, or Clacke for children to play wtih; also, a Kestrell, Fleingall, or Fuck-winde. [1847 J. O. Halliwell Dictionary of Archaic & Provincial Words I., Fuckwind, a species of hawk. North.]
fuckwit noun
Chiefly Australian & British a stupid person. Hence fuckwittage, noun, stupidity.
1968 A. Buzo in Plays 89: Well, ta-ta for now, fuckwit. 1970 S. Jarratt Permissive Australia 142: Of course they do, you fuckwit. 1979 in Australian National Dictionary: It sounded like a load of fuck-wit shit to me. 1986 M. Johnson Lear 7: It is not your turn, fuckwits! 1992 I. Banks Crow Road vi. 144: How can he be such a great guy, and clever and just…just a good friend, and some fuckwit forgetting to look both ways cancels out all that…probably not even a fuckwit; probably some ordinary guy thinking about something else. 1995 Will Self in Esquire (Feb.) 108: Dear Fuckwit. 1997 N.Y. Press (Aug. 27) 30: Fuckwit on a wet-bike. 1998 H. Fielding Bridget Jones’s Diary 18: Sharon started on a long illustrative list of emotional fuckwittage in progress in our friends: one whose boyfriend of thirteen years refuses to even discuss living together [etc.]. Ibid. 66: I am not interested in fuckwittage. 2000 Z. Smith White Teeth viii. 185: I’m the sympathetic side of the service industry, I’m service with a fucking smile, I’d wear a little red tie and a little red hat like them fuckwits in Mr Burger if my fuckin’ head weren’t so big. 2004 Vanity Fair (Apr.) 222/1: I just can’t believe I got mixed up with such a strange group of fuckwits. 2007 B. Eisler Requiem for an Assassin 98: The first time it had been in the gut, but Dox had seen it coming and even though the fuckwit knew how to punch, the damage hadn’t been too bad.
fuckwitted adjective
Chiefly Australian & British stupid.
1971 in J. Hibberd Stretch of Imagination 40: You two-timing, fuckwitted mongrel of a slut! 1973 in Australian National Dictionary: That fuckwitted agent of yours is really driving me right off my brain. 1982 E. Haley & L. Rosser Memories of an Australian Girlhood 25: Pancho’s the only guy fuck-witted enough to put up with her. 1996 ikon (Jan.–Feb.) 35/2: She understands business enough to know that mindlessly “political” songs about Ireland will go down a storm 7,000 miles away with fuckwitted Americans who have just decided that they are, like, rilly down with the situation in Northern Ireland. 1998 E. Brimson Hooligan xxxv. 98: He knew the city lads well and now had a pub full of serious drinkers rather than soppy, fuck-witted tourists. 2008 G. Canardeaux Cuisine du Moi iii. 66: Like, it’s cost me zero to make, a few quid to serve, but—on the other side of the ledger—it’s made these fuckwitted customers think their own shit doesn’t stink.
fuck with verb
to trifle, toy, meddle, or interfere; fool; play; (hence) to harass, tease, or provoke; mess. [Both Chandler quotations are euphemistic; compare FUCK AROUND, definition 2 and FRIG, verb, definition 3.]
1938 R. Chandler Big Sleep ch. 26: Don’t fuss with me, little man. 1940 R. Chandler Farewell, My Lovely 5: I’m feelin’ good…I wouldn’t want anybody to fuss with me. 1946 in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K 391: The Boochies won’t fuck with him because they don’t want to catch shit. 1948 E. Hemingway in Selected Letters (1981) 644 [refers to ca1915]: I learned early to walk very dangerous so people would leave you alone; think the phrase in our part of the country was not fuck with you. Don’t fuck with me, Jack, you say in a toneless voice. 1953 M. Harris Southpaw 239: Do Not F— With Me. 1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 221 [refers to WWII]: Why do you fuck
with me so much, man? There are millions of other people in the Army. 1965 C. Brown Manchild in the Promised Land 189: It was practically a twenty-four-hour-a-day job trying to get some money to get some stuff to keep the [heroin] habit from fucking with you. Ibid.: If you fuck wit that rent money, I’m gon kill you. 1968 P. Tauber Sunshine Soldiers 169: No one fucks with chow. You eat when you’re supposed to. 1968 R. Gover JC 100: Can’t rezist fuckin with him jes one more time. 1970 T. Thackrey Thief 209: Took the carburetor off and soaked it in solvent and put it back on. Fiddled and fucked with it. And finally it seemed to be okay again running good. 1968–71 M. Cole & S. Black Checking it Out 113: I…turn around and scream, “Don’t fuck with my mind!” Ibid. 198: Stay the fuck away.… And if you think I’m fucking with you, try me. 1971 Playboy (June) 216: I don’t like anyone fucking with my head while I’m doing [a movie]. 1977 E. Bunker Animal Factory 46: “Tony tells me you’re good at law.” “I used to fuck with it. No more.” 1977 L. Jordan Hype 230: Them people are fuckin’ with us, man! 1981 C. Crowe Fast Times at Ridgemont High 92: They’re just fuckin’ with us! 1990 L. Bing Do or Die 122: ’Cause he fucked with my food…took one of my French fries. 1997 TV Guide (May 18) 48: “Don’t f—with the Babe!” is her boldface battle cry throughout her book. 1998 New Yorker (Mar. 16) 34: You don’t say no to the Mafia, you don’t challenge the Mafia, you generally don’t fuck with the Mafia. 2000 Z. Smith White Teeth ix. 232: But mainly their mission was to put the Invincible back in Indian, the Bad-aaaass back in Bengali, the P-Funk back in Pakistani. People had fucked with Rajik back in the days when he was into chess and wore V-necks. 2005 M. M. Frisby Wifebeater iii. 16: Do I know? You’re fucking with me right? He’s all you talk about. 2007 D. Johnson Tree of Smoke 287: Hanson’s…finger’s on the trigger. If it comes, the enemy will feel sincerely fucked with.
fucky noun
see under FUCKEE.
fucky adjective
sexually attractive or stimulating.
1958 J. Kerouac Letter (Sept. 8) in Selected Letters 1957–69 (1999) 150: There’s a girl here, J. L., rich, sexy, thin fucky who went with me to visit Lafcadio last Sat nite. 1969 A. Ginsberg Interview in Spontaneous Mind: Interviews (2001) 170: I get into a deeper emotional intimacy if the chick is lissome and springy, skinny and pretty. I like little blonde furry fucky dolls. 1973 N. Mailer Marilyn: A Biography 102: Never again in her career will she look so sexually perfect as in 1953 making Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, no, never—if we are to examine a verb through its adverb [sic]—will she appear so fucky again. 1976 in G. Legman New Limerick 461: I feel fucky. 1991 “Red Hot Chili Peppers” If You Have to Ask (pop. song): A little lust/To the fucky-ass Flea [sc., the band’s bass player]. 1994 Guardian (London) (June 29) T8: T-shirts with slogans like Have You Wanked Over Me Yet? and I’m So Fucky. 1998 Playboy (Dec.) 86: What was a sweet fucky marriage but the sublimation of orgies never taken? 2007 J. Sandford Invisible Prey 105: I know you’re attracted to fucky blondes, especially the kind with small but firm breasts.
fuck-you noun
a statement or expression of contempt, hostility, or the like. [In 1943 and 1951 quotations, referring literally to statements of the phrase fuck you.]
1943 G. Biddle Journal (July 31) in Artist at War (1944) 77: Teddy’s run of literary allusions is a pleasant relief after the too concentrated diet of “fuck me’s” and “fuck you’s” of the G.I.’s. 1951 J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye 202: I went down by a different staircase, and I saw another “Fuck you” on the wall. 1965 H.S. Thompson Letter (Aug. 10) in Proud Highway (1997) 537: I had a bad wrangle with them on a Tom Wolfe review, and we said a mutual fuck you, with me about $500 ahead. 1976 L. Bangs in L. Bangs & J. Morthland Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste (2003) 165: His entire performance, from music to personal bearing, was a giant fuck-you to everybody present. 1992 Rolling Stone (Dec. 10) 45: The disc was a relentlessly catchy and fuzz-filled “fuck you.” 1993 Rolling Stone (Oct. 14) 68: Who else could insult Budweiser, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Calvin Klein, the entire recording industry and MTV all in one video? “This Note’s for You” is Neil Young’s finest “fuck you.” 1994 Granta 47 (Spring) 129: She never learned English, even though she had come here at sixteen: a fuck-you to the New World. 1995 New York Magazine (Mar. 13) 33: When it’s as bad as it can be, and people still act like there’s nothing wrong, then it’s sort of like a fuck-you to the audience—“we don’t have to be good, because we’re Saturday Night Live!” 1996 N.Y. Observer (Apr. 1) 3: The line was a veiled fuck-you to David Letterman,…the symbolic whipping boy for how the East Coast element screwed up the Oscars. 2000 N.Y. Press (Mar. 29) ii. 14/1: Searching for friendly faces, I get only fuck-yous. 2007 J. Picoult Nineteen Minutes 114: She had pictured suicide as a final statement, a fuck you to the people who hadn’t understood how hard it was for her to be the Josie they wanted her to be.
fuck-you adjective
that expresses or is characterized by a desire to insult or to demonstrate defiant indifference; provocative; contemptuous; hostile; confrontational.
[1954 “Lars Lawrence” Morning, Noon & Night 148: The critic’s immaculate mind had attracted him powerfully, though he rejected the utility of such refinement in a fuck-you-Jack, my-belly-first period of history.] 1962 J. Kerouac Letter (Apr. 4) in Selected Letters 1957–69 (1999) 334: Funny how they look so old-fashioned now, they were written in ’54 but not everyone writes like that (with that fuckyou freedom). 1972 Rolling Stone (July 20) 8: For clenched fists and gritted teeth and fuck-you rock and roll. 1973 Rolling Stone (Mar. 1) 42: See if you can keep your integrity without a flat out fuck-you challenge. 1981 Times Literary Supplement (May 15) 548: The Beatles.… A pretentious gobbledygook introduction by Leonard Bernstein: “…the Fuck-You coolness of these Four Horsemen of Our Apocalypse.” 1993 N. Maclean in Harper’s (Feb.) 35: Under the influence of those dreams, some of the finest fuck-you prose in the English language has been composed but, alas, never published. 1994 Rolling Stone (Feb. 10) 53: We’ve endured so much phony Hollywood nobility about disease that Jean’s fuck-you rampage against death comes off as horrifically honest. 1996 Newsweek (Feb. 19) 39: The bombing…is “the politics of fuck-you rage and resentment rather than political calculation.” 1997 New Yorker (Oct. 6) 48: Youthful hubris or fuck-you candor. 1998 New Yorker (Dec. 1) 64: He has the real fuck-you blood. 2002 Ministry Jan. 91/1: I’ve just got to give them respect for doing something that’s completely balls-to-the-wall and fuck-you. 2005 T. Brookes Guitar 260: He gave me his usual fuck-you stare and set his guitar…on the stage. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 232: Pushing out of a sleeve is a chronograph the size of a biscuit. It looks like it could tell you the time, the moon phase, the weather in Tokyo, and precisely how much money you don’t have in your checking account. It’s a fuck-you watch, attached to the fat wrist that’s attached to the kill-you hand. So this is the magus who sends agents into my life to ruin me.
fuck-you lizard noun [suggested by a fancied resemblance between the English phrase and the gecko’s call]
Military in Southeast Asia. a tokay gecko.
[1934 C. L. Clifford Too Many Boats 309: A gecko lizard in a nearby papaya tree croaked throatily. “Obscene devils, those,” he went on dryly. The colonel laughed.] [1970 Pacific Stars & Stripes (May 15): A 2nd Brigade chaplains’s assistant is trying to put his outdoorsman’s skills to work on a somewhat embarrassing problem at the 4th Inf. Div.’s Highlander Chapel. The nemesis in this case was the infamous Vietnamese “insulting lizard.”] 1971 Playboy (Aug.) 199: From the underground comes the chant of “Fuck you, fuck you” from small lizards, not unexpectedly called fuck-you lizards. 1978 G. Hasford Short-Timers 151 [refers to Vietnam War]: The fuck-you lizards greet us. 1984 J. Fuller Fragments 78: Did you know that if you grab one of those Fuck You lizards by the tail, he just lets go and walks away? 1986 J. Thacker Finally the Pawn 133: That’s because of the fuck-you lizard. 1987 M. L. Lanning Only War We Had 253: FNGs were told that the “fuck-you” lizards were NVA taunting us. 1988 M. Clo
dfelter Mad Minutes 33 [refers to 1965]: Naturally we labeled these leftovers from the prehistoric past “Fuck You Lizards.” 1996 S. O’Nan Names of the Dead 124: They’d told him about this; it was a gecko—a fuck-you lizard. 2002 R. Hoyt Old Soldiers Sometimes Lie 245: American sailors at Subic Bay and airmen at Clark Air Force Base had famously called it the Fuck You lizard.
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