HMFIC noun [probably modeled on HNIC ‘Head Nigger In Charge’]
“ Head Mother Fucker In Charge.”
1994 T. Reed & J. Cummings Compromised 187: Max boasted to Terry that he had been “hand-selected by the White House” to set up and oversee this operation. He made it very clear that he would be what Terry later termed the HMFIC, “the head mother-fucker in charge.” 1997 J. Crotty How to Talk American 200: HMFIC: Head “Military Figure” in Charge. 2001 R. Martini Hot Straight and Normal 114: When going below decks looking for a decision maker whether a chief or an officer a sailor would say who’s the HMFIC? 2004 B. Williams Spare Parts 219: This is all mine, brother. I might be a private, but I’m the HMFIC of this prison camp.
honeyfuck noun
a sexy young woman. Also: an unusually gratifying act of copulation.
1967 F. Pollini Crown 259: “You’re some honey,” he said. “ Some honeyfuck.” 1970 E. Thompson Garden of Sand 295: Come on,… honey-fuck. 1979 L. Heinemann in Tri-Quarterly (Spring) 184: The snazziest hot-to-trot honey fuck to hit the mainland since the first French settlers. 1993 R. O’Connor Buffalo Soldiers 130: This is the honeyfuck of honeyfucks. She has you in her power. 2002 D. Ayres Other Girls 162: I got you that.… A real honey-fuck.… Instead, you fall in love with her.
honeyfuck verb [probably an alteration of earlier honeyfuggle in its sense ‘to engage in kissing and hugging’]
to engage in unusually gratifying copulation.
1954–60 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang: Honey-fuck…v.i., v.t. To have sexual intercourse in a romantic, idyllic way; to have intercourse with a very young girl…honey-fucking…extremely gratifying and slow intercourse. 1980 L. Heinemann in Harper’s (June) 64: She’s honey-fucking the everlasting daylights out of some guy. 1986 R. B. Merkin Zombie Jamboree 121: We were honey-fuckin’, real slow and low, takin’ our time. 1990 J. Fitzgerald Belle Haven 176: Did you know that your former husband’s son has been honey-fucking your young niece, probably daily, am I right, Dabney? 2007 Black Lace Quickies I. 9: She remembered teenage boyfriends honey fucking her on parents’ sofas in front of the television, for hours sometimes.
horsefuck verb
to copulate with (someone) from behind; DOGFUCK.
1971 R. J. Minton Inside: Prison American Style 60: I think you could take one of them, sit him down, and run a three-hour movie of his mother getting horse-fucked by an ape. 1972 J. Wambaugh Blue Knight 114: Sexy little twist.… I’d like to break her open like a shotgun and horsefuck her. 1977 College student: Horsefuckin’ is the best position. 2006 T. Phillips Blacktop Cowboys 69: You stick it in her ass or anything exciting?… Well, did she lick your balls or anything?… Did you horsefuck her?
horse-fucking adjective
huge.
a1968 in G. Legman Rationale of Dirty Joke 549: Two great horse-fucking volumes.
hot adjective
In phrase:
hot enough to fuck, furiously angry.
1966 M. Braly On the Yard 201: The doc was hot enough to fuck. 1971 R. J. Minton Inside: Prison American Style 56: He’s all red in the face now! He’s hot enough to fuck! 1966–80 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 358: Miller’s gonna be hot enough to fuck before this mess is over. 2003 N. McMahon To the Bone 38: I walk into my office, and first thing, I get a call from Welles D’Anton.… Hot enough to fuck twice. Yelling that we killed a patient of his.
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IHTFP interjection
“ I hate this fucking place.” [Associated with both the U.S. military (esp. the Navy) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]
1962 P. Trese Penguins Have Square Eyes 132 [refers to 1956]: The community bulletin board, which contained…one piece of cardboard with the inscription “IHTFP!” “What’s that mean?” I asked the Seabee. “Oh,” he said, filling in the blank, “I hate this place.” 1962 Voo Doo Magazine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Jan.) 10: IHTFP—An expression of loyalty towards the Institute, meaning “Institute Has The Finest Professors.” 1969 J. Crumley One to Count Cadence 27: All the way back to the barracks he explained why I too would soon adhere to the motto IHTFP or I Hate This Fucking Place. 1981 J. H. Webb Sense of Honor IV. i. 194: For those assigned to the [Naval] Academy, “IHTFP” became a slogan even before the institution formally existed. 1983 Elting, Cragg, & Deal Dictionary of Soldier Talk 161: IHTFP…gained wide currency during the Vietnam War, when it was…seen…on helmet camouflage covers or cardboard placards. 1990 J. Pournelle Falkenberg’s Legion 124: I found a trooper painting I.H.T.F.P. on the orderly room wall. 2002 S. Williams Free as in Freedom 208: The cruiser’s vanity license plate read IHTFP, a popular MIT acronym with many meanings.
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JAFO noun
“Just Another Fucking Observer.”
1983 D. O’Bannon & D. Jakoby Blue Thunder (film): “I found out what JAFO is.” “Just Another Fucking Observer.” 1991 Sydney Morning Herald (Oct. 3) (Northern Herald section) 13: Among other things, he explains how he came to be a “jafo” (Antarctic slang for “just another effing observer”). 1998 Guardian (Aug. 20) 15: The Paras are fond of JAFO (Just Another F***ing Observer). 2002 U.S. News & World Report (Sept. 16) 42: From the first chaotic hours after the crash, Miller has firmly kept the media and meddling officials he calls “JAFOs” (“Just Another F - - - ing Observer”) from “tromping around” in the woods and among the handful of small cabins and houses at the scene.
JANFU noun [joint army-navy fuck-up; suggested by SNAFU]
Military. a bungled military operation involving the Army and Navy. Jocular. [The 1943 and 1944 quotations are euphemistic.]
1943 Time (Aug. 30) 36: Victory it was, but seldom has a victory been acknowledged with such wry humor. Among the echoing cliffs of Kiska a new word was born: JANFU (“Joint Army-Navy foul-up”). 1944 Newsweek (Feb. 7) 61: Janfu: Joint Army-Navy foul-up… Jaafu: Joint Anglo-American foul-up. 1944 in American Speech XX 148: JANFU. Joint army-navy foulup. 1945 in Verbatim XVI (Autumn 1989) 6: Janfu… “joint army-navy fxxx up.” A failed amphibious military operation considered badly planned and/or executed. 1946 American Speech (Feb.) 72: JANFU (Joint Army-Navy FU)…became fairly common in [the Pacific] theater, especially around the time of the Saipan operation. 1993 H. J. Riker Seals: The Warrior Breed: Silver Star 161: “I knew the whole Navy couldn’t be snafued!” “Looks to me more like a janfu.”
Jesus fuck interjection
(used to express astonishment, fear, anger, etc.); “Jesus Christ!”
1967 M. Baldwin Great Cham 147: When he’d opened his mouth to say Cor Jesus Fuck, his mouth had instead said Ooomooolooo. 1974 R. Price Wanderers 146: She was laying in a pool of diarrhea.… “Jesus fuck! You got it onna mattress! Goddamnit! That’s it! You did it an’ you’re gonna lay in it!” 1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 186: “We’re gonna get wasted by our own people,” I thought. “Jesus fuck!” 1988 W. Boyd New Confessions 425: Oh no, Jesus fuck no! 1993 “J. Le Carré” Night Manager xii. 188: “I’m going on down, Mike! I’ll go start the boat, hear me? Jesus fuck,” he complained. 1999 C. Brookmyre One Fine Day in Middle of Night 325: Matt heard Vale fire two rounds from his handgun. It was met by a yelp of “Jesus fuck!”, then followed immediately after that by the sight of an Uzi flying through the air and skidding along the hall amidst the squillion pieces of glass. 2006 I. Welsh Bedroom Secrets of Master Chefs 289: Jesus fuck almighty…I get a big shock as a stunningly beautiful girl of about nineteen, twenty, appears before me.
jug-fuck noun Military.
1. a drinking bout.
1980 Retired U.S. Army sergeant: I first ran across this in a list of Pro Signs given to me after April, 1977. “Let’s go have us a jug fuck!”
2. a confused or frustrating situation; mess; CLUSTERFUCK, noun, definition 2.
a1987 H. Coyle Team Yankee 116: Not until, and only if, we get this jug fuck unscrewed. 1988 D. Dye Outrage 10: Until we get out of this Ethiopian jug-fuck, I don’t want to see you any more than six feet
away from…your squad. 1992 E. Ruggero Common Defense 189: The FBI and the CIA, not to mention the German police, are all in on this investigation—what a jug fuck that must be.
jumble-fuck noun
= CLUSTERFUCK, noun, definition 1.
1938 “Justinian” Americana Sexualis 27: Jumble-Fuck, n. U.S., low coll., ca20 for Daisy-Chain.
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LBFM noun [little brown fucking machine]
Military. a Southeast Asian woman who is sexually promiscuous, especially a bar girl or a prostitute. [Quotations refer to the Vietnam War.]
1971 Playboy (Aug.) 203: LBFM’s never come. What’s an LBFM? A little brown fucking machine. 1974 J. Platt Laotian Fragments 12: Remember: The Golden Palace LBFMs in their spangled padded bras saying “Melly Clistmas, GI.” 1985 J. T. Heywood Taxi Dancer 61: The… Thais—what the airmen called Little Brown Fucking Machines, LBFMs for short. Ibid. 225: Where’s my LBFM?…Colonel loves LBFMs. 1991 R. Marcinko & J. Weisman Rogue Warrior 165: No LBFM’s today. a1992 T. Wilson Termite Hill 377: Swede probably thought she was just another LBFM. 1993 C. W. Henderson Marshalling the Faithful iii. 58: They seemed to spend every free hour searching for that fresh, young LBFM that had not yet been spoiled by too many hard nights. 2001 S. Bird Yokota Officers Club 124: Bring back the LBFM with the melons!
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mammy-dodger noun
Black English. (a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER. Hence mammy-dodging adjective.
1939 in A. Banks First-Person America 256: Hell yes, mammydodger. 1970 in Dictionary of American Regional English (1996) III. 493/2: Why that mammy-dodging potlicker didn’t even know what shoes was till he was twenty-nine.
mammy-jammer noun
Especially Black English. (a partial euphemism for) MOTHER-FUCKER, in any sense. Also variants.
1948 J. E. Webb Four Steps to the Wall 100: I sure nuff show ol’ white boy mammy-dugger how’s feel. 1956 J. Resko Reprieve 48: The mammy-jammer…puts the rope aroun mah neck. 1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 31 [refers to WWII]: I just don’t like the goddamn mama-jabbing Army, that’s all. Ibid. 32: Now ain’t that a mama-jabber? Ibid. 195: You fat-ass mother-huncher. Ibid. 266: We gonna step higher than a mama-jabber. 1963 M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles 97: You know what that dirty mammy-jammer did to me? 1963 L. Cameron Black Camp 12: Grab your socks, mammyjammers. 1967 A. Baraka Tales 18: You talking about a lightweight mammy-tapper. Ibid. 20: Yeh, mammy-rammer. 1969 H. R. Brown Die, Nigger, Die 109: I’d bought a rifle, which…was a sweet mama-jammer, too. 1969 C. Gordone No Place to be Somebody 413: I rassle with light’nin’, put a cap on thunder. Set every mammy-jammer in the graveyard on a wonder. 1971 K. W. Keith Long Line Rider 75: Hey, Max, this mammyjammer don’t like my cookin’. Y’all oughta have his butt busted. 1972 R. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 165: Mammy-Sucker In black slang, an insult that is felt to be even more offensive than motherfucker. 1974 U.S. college student: You mama-sticker. 1980 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 31: You…dirty Yankee mammie-jammer. 1982 B. Downey Uncle Sam Must be Losing the War 59 [refers to WWII]: What the fuck do we do with three of these mammy-jabbers? 1985 D. Dye Run Between the Raindrops 279: I’d been outa this mammy-jammer like a fuckin’ shot. Ibid. 291: We…a lucky bunch of mammy-jammers. 1987 J. Waters Hairspray (film) [refers to 1962]: Just to see me, the big mammy-jammer. 1991 In Living Color (Fox-TV): This is one bad mammy-jammer. 1992 Jerry Springer Show (syndicated TV series): I’m a bad mammy-jammer…I’m Wonder Woman!
mammy-jamming adjective
(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKING. Also variants.
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really the Blues 105: Those Jim Crow mammyjamming whites. 1958 W. Talsman Gaudy Image 30: Yeah, some real mammy-lovin’ goddamn cheap tinhorn place. 1969 R. Jessup Sailor 268: Who! The mammy-rammy law! That’s who! 1974 R. Carter 16th Round 55: You must be out of your mammy-jammy mind! 1974 A. Murray Train Whistle Guitar 117: That ain’t no goddamn mammy-hunching patent leather walk. 1977 E. Bunker Animal Factory 59: I ain’ no mammy-fuckin’ dawg! 1977 J. Langone Life at the Bottom 76: Pour the stuff in the trench and it packs hard as a mammy-jammin’ cement load.
maw-dicker noun
Southwest. = MOTHERFUCKER. Hence maw-dicking, adjective.
1984 A. R. Sample Racehoss 145 [refers to 1950s]: Why you Gotdam impudent shit-colored mawdicker. Ibid. 202 [refers to ca1960]: I oughta throw yore mawdickin ass in the pisser.
mercy fuck noun
an act of intercourse engaged in out of pity. Cf. PITY FUCK.
1975 I. Macnab 42nd Year of Mrs. Charles Prescott 111: Having a high old time throwing mercy fucks into every cunt who thinks she needs it. 1978 T. Alibrandi Killshot 174: Consider your work here a mercy fuck. 1981 in National Lampoon (Jan. 1982) 22: But let’s not consider this a mercy fuck. There’s no joy in that. 1988 J. Krantz Till We Meet Again 506: “Please, mister, throw me a mercy fuck”—that was what a man must see when he looked at her. 1996 “Soul Coughing” 4 out of 5 (pop. song): Quantify my luck I need a mercy fuck. 2004 J. Picoult My Sister’s Keeper 219: Who called Janet for a mercy fuck the night after she dumped you? 2005 Vanity Fair (Mar.) 222/3: Emily is an angel of death, falling for men.… and sending them off to war with the fondest of farewells, a mercy fuck.
mercy fuck verb
to engage in a MERCY FUCK (with).
1968 Paul Newman in Playboy (July) 69: Mercy fucking…would be reserved for spinsters and librarians. 1980 M. Gordon Company of Women 141: “Who’s this one?”…“One of Robert’s rescuees. He believes in mercy fucking.” 1992 M. Blonsky American Mythologies xv. 344: She’s the beautiful American sans superego.… If she has a beer too many, she’ll even mercy fuck you. 2003 Village Voice (Feb. 9) 135/1: It seems to me that an ex who’s willing to bang you on a business trip might be willing to make a special trip and mercy-fuck you right away.
m.f. or em-eff noun
(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKER.
1953 R. Ellison Letter (Apr. 9) in A. Murray & J. F. Callahan Trading Twelves (2000) 42: Doc looked at me as though to say “come on, m.f., this ain’t the time to start no shit.” 1959 in R.S. Gold Jazz Lexicon 209: You go and buy me a tenor saxophone and I’ll play the m-f. 1964 C. Howe Valley of Fire 190: Being able to call a gook an emm-eff in pig Latin and get away with it. 1965 E. Cleaver Soul on Ice 58: Why’n’t they kill some of the Uncle-Tomming m.f.s? 1965 in S. Sanchez We be Word Sorcerers 193: I’m a lucky M.F. to have found you. 1965 in W. King Black Anthology 304: So I stole the m—f [sic]. 1966–67 P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets 236: You poor m.f. 1968 B. Caldwell in G.M. Simmons et al. Black Culture 213: Let’s get these m.f.’s now! 1970 S. Terkel Hard Times 407: Today you get a guy in court, [he] don’t like what the judge says, he calls him a m f, you know what I mean? 1970 G. Cain Blueschild Baby 77: A bunch of dirty white M.F.’s. 1971 in V. Matthews & N. Amdur My Race be Won (1974) 246: There’d be a lot of dead “M.F.’s” around. 1971–73 G. Sheehy Hustling 89: Then in comes this m.f. from Midtown North, our precinct. 1974 R. Blount 3 Bricks Shy 159: They say “m-f” worse than a colored person. 1976 G. Kirkham Signal Zero 63: Adios, MF! 1986 B. Clayton & N. M. Elliott Jazz World 101: I did provoke the fight by calling him an MF. Ibid. [refers to 1930s]: Billie [Holiday] called all of her close friends MF. 1987 Newsweek (Mar. 23) 61: He could stand out on the corner looking sharp as a MF in his Stacy-Adams wingtips and a $100 hat. 1992 Donahue (NBC-TV): I’m gonna take all you m.f.s with me. 1992 “Prince” Sexy M.F. (pop. song title). 1997 Y. Jah & Sister Shah’Keyah Uprising: The other day your baby was a “punk, mf, stupid, ignorant so-and-so.” You’ve been telling him that all of his life. 2004 K. Adams Ex-Girlfriends 42: Life was hard core. No coddling necessary. Her mantra: bring it on, m.f.
In phrase:
MFWIC, mother fucker what’s in charge.
1980 D. J. Cragg Lexicon Militaris 285: MFWIC. Mother fucker What’s In Charge. 2002 C. Bartolomeo Side of the Angels 52: “Can you have Nicky up there pronto?” “By this weekend. Who’s the MFWIC again?” Ron
asked. (MFWIC, pronounced “miffwick,” was an old campaign acronym which meant “mother-fucker-what’s-in-charge.”) 2007 K. S. Bodman Checkmate 156: Anyway, after that debacle, we had a meeting, and Austin demanded to know who the MFWIC was on that project.
m.f. or em-eff adjective
(a partial euphemism for) MOTHERFUCKING. Also emeffing.
1958 W. Motley Epitaph 120: Them emeffing guards is bringing it in fountain pens. Ibid. 149: You emeffing right. a1972 in G.M. Simmons et al. Black Culture 219: That M-F-in’ jive. 1973 A. Childress Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich 34: All over the emm-eff community. 1975 J. McCourt Mawrdew Czgowchwz (2002) iv. 83: Wait a minute, hon, I’ll write it down—where’s my m. f. lipstick. 1990 New Yorker (Apr. 2) 46: Graffiti…on the… training ship of the Maine Maritime Academy…“Only 13 more MFD’s, Only 12 more MFD’s, Only 11 more MFD’s,” and so on down a toilet stall. The “D” stood for “day.”
MILF noun [mother (or mom) I’d like to fuck]
a sexually attractive woman who is a mother or (generally) in early middle age.
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