fuck-you money noun
Especially Business. sufficient money to give one personal freedom, esp. the freedom to quit one’s job; (broadly) an (unexpected) financial windfall.
1969 C. Blair Board Room 294: I don’t care. I’ve got my fuck-you money. 1975 L. Rust Hills in Esquire (Dec.) 180: “But all that money.… ”…“Well, it’s ‘fuck-you’ money.… It gives me freedom and independence so I won’t have to write something that doesn’t appeal to me.” 1986 New Republic (Dec. 8) 11: [Donald] Regan huddled in the Oval Office with the president.… “I’ve got something that none of those other guys have.”…“What is it?” To which Regan, wealthy from his days as boss of Merrill Lynch, replied, “Fuck you money.” 1988 Granta 23 (Spring) 246: Earning more doesn’t make the problem go away unless you’re saving for “fuck you” money. A month ago Brian told me about “fuck you” money. “It’s the amount of money you need to be able to say ‘Fuck you’ to anyone.” Brian reckoned the current amount to be three million pounds. 1994 N.Y.C. man, age 30: When you win the lottery, you get fuck-you money. Anyone you don’t want to bother with, you can afford to say “Fuck you!” 1994 Times Literary Supplement (Nov. 18) 9: “Fuck-you-money,” for having enough money set aside to tell one’s boss to screw off, should the impulse to do so arise. 1995 New York Times Magazine (Nov. 19) 46: The Number is often used interchangeably with another term, an unprintable one that describes the sum you need to be able to tell your boss you’ve had enough. Its family-newspaper approximation would be Forget You Money. 1999 Vanity Fair (Dec.) 216/2: I came up with a figure of something like $7 million. But “fuck-you money,” as the retirement number is commonly referred to out here, can be a lot less. 2004 T. L. Lee & C. M. Anthony Gotham Diaries 7: He had yet to make the transaction that would put him over the top, give him some fuck-you money and social respect.
fuck-your-buddy week noun
Especially Military. a hypothetical period during which betrayal and exploitation of one’s friends is supposedly encouraged. Jocular. Also variants. Compare BUDDY-FUCK.
[1952 Haines & Krims One Minute to Zero (film): John, this isn’t help-your-buddy week. We might need those guys again.] 1958 T. Berger Crazy in Berlin 302: What is this, fuck-your-buddy week? 1960 D. MacCuish Do Not Go Gentle 342 [refers to WWII]: National American custom of Screw Your Buddy Week. 1962 P. Crump Burn, Killer, Burn 279: Don’t worry about it, weed.… This is Frig Your Buddy Week. ca1963 in H. Schwendinger & H. Schwendinger Adolescent Subculture 296: It’s fuck your buddy week, fifty-two weeks of the year.… If you have a buddy kind and true, you fuck him before he fucks you. a1967 in M.W. Klein Juvenile Gangs 98: It’s fuck your buddy week, fifty-two weeks of the year. 1971 Playboy (Apr.) 182: That old Army expression, “Every week is fuck-your-buddy week!” 1973 W. Crawford Gunship Commander 148: The whole army overreacted, filed charges against everybody in sight, good old fuck-your-brother week. 1980 W. Manchester Goodbye Darkness 156 [refers to WWII]: The school’s shabbiest custom [was] known as “fuck-your-buddy night.” Every candidate was required to fill out a form rating his fellows. 1984 E. Partridge Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English (ed. 8) 1323: What is this?—International Fuck-Your-Buddy Week?…Prob. adopted from the US forces in Korea, 1950–53. 1997 D. DeLillo Underworld 690: Somebody says, “What’s this, fuck-your-buddy week?” 2004 R. Arellano Don Dimaio of La Plata 180: You backstabbing spic! What is this, Fuck Your Buddy Week?
fuddle-duddle
Canadian. a euphemism for FUCK in various senses and parts of speech. [After an incident in the House of Commons, when Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, being criticized by the opposition, mouthed something claimed to have been “fuck off.” In an interview with CBC Television, he denied having mouthed “fuck off “ but acknowledged having moved his lips; when asked what he had been thinking when he did so, he responded “What is the nature of your thoughts, gentlemen, when you say ‘fuddle duddle’ or something like that?” Though the exact nature of his original words remains unclear, popular perception quickly arose that he did say “fuck” and then later claimed that he had only said “fuddle-duddle.”]
1971 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Feb. 17) 1: Mr. Trudeau, however, said he had not mouthed any vulgar words. “I would never say anything like that.” Pressed by reporters to reveal the words he had mouthed, the Prime Minister said they were “Fuddle-duddle.” 1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nov. 22) 8/5: Pierre Trudeau is stepping down. His place in history will depend on where Quebec goes in future. I’m confident he will be ranked among the three greatest prime ministers, along with John A. Macdonald and Wilfrid Laurier. And fuddle-duddle to anyone who thinks otherwise. 1984 L. Rooke Sing Me No Love Songs 289: “Oh fuddle-duddle,” exclaims Anne. 1986 R. Graham One-Eyed Kings: Promise & Illusion in Canadian Politics 112: It outraged the premiers, angered Washington, sent London into a tizzy, and fuddle-duddled the opposition. 1991 Ottawa Citizen (Dec. 25): When Brian Mulroney said—or did not say—fuddle-duddle in the Commons last week, he was—or was not—merely reflecting the mood of the times. There was very little Christmas cheer on Parliament Hill. 2001 Maclean’s (June 18) 56/2: George was the first person to put the dreaded F-word into Canadian newspapers after P. Trudeau “claimed” he had just aimed “fuddle-duddle” at an opposition MP.
fug
(a written euphemism for FUCK in various senses and parts of speech; see FUCK for examples). [Associated chiefly with Norman Mailer, who was required by his publishers to use the euphemism in The Naked and the Dead (1948).]
fugly noun [blend of FUCKING + ugly]
Originally Australian Military. an extremely ugly person.
a1970 in R. J. Rayward More than Mere Bravo (1989) 122: Fugly—an extremely ugly woman. A blending of “fucking” and “ugly” to describe the woman. 1993 B. Moore Lexicon of Cadet Language 157/2: Seeing your fugly tonight, Bill? 2005 Cosmopolitan (U.K. edition) (Aug.) 21/1: 33% of women have dated someone “as ugly as sin” because he made them laugh. Here’s to all the fuglies!
fugly adjective
Originally Students. especially of a person: very ugly.
[1962 in H.S. Thompson Proud Highway 316: Get these dogs off me! These fucking ugly dogs!] 1980 E. Segal Man, Woman, & Child 60: “In other words she’s fugly, right?” Bob smiled. “Don’t you think I could pick a winner, Bern?” 1984 Mason & Rheingold Slanguage: Fugly, adj.… fucking ugly. 1988 C. Eble Campus Slang (Fall) 4: Fugly—extremely ugly. 1989 P. Munro U.C.L.A. Slang 41: She’s so fugly she makes my mother-in-law look cute. 1993 N.Y. man, age 23: This girl asked me out yesterday, but man, she was fugly. 1998 Personal letter to editor (Aug. 25): Fugly—I picked up the term from my college roomie, 1974–75. 2004 J. Weiner Little Earthquakes 357: Do you realize I’m going to have to wear those fugly maternity clothes again? 2006 New York Magazine (Sept. 4) 86/1: Well, what if the show was called Ugly Betty—and you were playing Betty? What if the other characters routinely deride you as “fugly”?
FUJIGMO interjection Military.
“ fuck you, Jack, I got my orders.” Jocular. Compare FUIGMO under FIGMO.
1950 Saturday Evening Post (Aug. 5) 89: With him flew Lt. Col. “Pappy” Hatfield, in his famous bomber the “Fujigmo”—translation unprintable. 1953 in G. M. Valant Vintage Aircraft Nose Art 295: FUJIGMO. 1980 D. J. Cragg Lexicon Militaris 158: FUJIGMO. Fuck You, Jack, I Got My Orders.
futhermucker noun [intentional spoonerism]
= MOTHERFUCKER. Jocular.
1961 T. Joans All of Ted Joans & No More. 1965 Walnut Ridge, Ark., high school student: Every one of your Hoxie friends turns out to be a futhermucker, if you ask me. 1972 R. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 171: Mammy-jammer,… futher-mucker. 1972–76 C. Durden No Bugles, No Drums 41: Thanks, futhermucker. 1982 in G. Tate Flyboy in the Buttermilk 21: Well, goddamn, these furthermuckers [sic] must not be bullshitting. 1998 G. Tate in Village Voice (N.Y.C.) (Mar. 10) 124: His peers are those lofty, low-rent, high-concept, swing-baiting furthermuckers [sic].
futz noun
1
. a foolish or unpleasant fellow.
1935 Bedroom Companion 79: Some crusty old futz who has had too much drink starts off on this tangent. 1940 W. R. Burnett High Sierra 35: He was an old phutz and a has-been. 1959–60 R. Bloch Dead Beat 84: The old futz inside the loan office gave him a cold eye. 1984 B. Haskin Byron Haskin 80: The screenplay was written by Sir Reginald Barclay, a puffy old futz who knew nothing about anything dramatic. 1996 M. Daheim Auntie Mayhem 128: “Old futz,” muttered Renie. “How could you encourage him to launch his war stories?”
2. (used as a euphemism for the fuck, under FUCK, noun).
1947 B. Schulberg Harder They Fall 104: Nobody knows what the futz you’re talkin’ about. 1961 A. Maund International 4: He promised me three years ago he would run Nick Sarpedon the futz out of the International. 1996 L. Niven Ringworld Throne 318: What the futz was Bram expecting?
futz verb
1. [probably an alteration of Yiddish arumfartsn] to fool or play.—used with around or with. [Often regarded as a euphemism for FUCK, verb, definition 5, or FUCK AROUND.]
1929–30 J.T. Farrell Young Lonigan 63: Studs kept futzing around until Helen Shires came out with her soccer ball. 1932 American Speech VII (June) 335: Phutz around—to trifle; to interfere; “to horse around.” 1936 M. Levin Old Bunch 64: There was a fellow that never wasted time. No fuzzy futzing around. Ibid. 249: No more futzing around being a schoolboy. 1941 C. Brackett & “B. Wilder” Ball of Fire (film): Why do you think we’re futzin’ around with these? 1941 in A. Boucher Werewolf 129: Futzing around with the occult. 1944 A. J. Liebling Back to Paris 113: Have we really started, or are we still futzing around? 1948 I. Wolfert Act of Love 158: What’s he futzing around for? 1949 H. Robbins Dream Merchants 14: At least he didn’t say a word about my futsing around all those years. 1959–60 R. Bloch Dead Beat 3: “Good crowd,” said Eddie, futzing around with his mustache. 1964–66 R. Stone Hall of Mirrors 78: To…watch a room full of stooges futz with soap. 1968 P. Roth Portnoy’s Complaint 263: I am nobody to futz around with. 1970 C. Harrison No Score 55: You futz around in the darkroom all the time. 1973 A. Schiano & A. Burton Solo 106: All that futzing around with bits of paper. 1984 USA Today (Nov. 7) 3A: President Reagan…[suggested] it is time to “stop this futzing around.” 1998 New Yorker (Oct. 5) [inside back cover] [advertisement]: Da Vinci didn’t mess with the Mona Lisa. Beethoven didn’t futz with his 5th Symphony. 1998 T. C. Wilson Systems Librarian 88: In its most basic definition, “futzing” is playing around with a technology to get it to work as needed or to improve its operation—tweaking so to speak. 2000 Wired (Jan.) 216/2: The Air Force report acknowledges the controversy inherent in futzing with Mother Nature. 2003 D. Gaines Misfit’s Manifesto xv. 331: But I got hold of myself and started futzing with the tape recorder.
2. to treat with contempt.—used with around; = FUCK AROUND, verb, sense 3.
1966 B. Brunner Face of Night 165: Futz me around a little more and find out. 1989 E. Segal Doctors 138: “I bet you’ll be back with us by spring.” “Don’t futz me around. I’m gonna be here forever.”
futzer noun
= FUTZ, noun, definition 1.
1938 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 30: You poor old futzer, you, just wait. 2002 D. Reuter Gaydar 119/1: This obsessive-compulsive futzer can be one mean “queen” bee, as he endlessly buzzes around his hive, picking up pollen and depositing it in its proper place.
futz off verb
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.
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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 resembl
ing 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. a1968 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.
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