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Alternative forms
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f word, F word, F-word
Noun
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f-word (plural f-words)
(euphemistic) The word fuck (or inflected forms like fucking) or fucker. Synonym:f-bombOh, f-word, I've lost the keys.The dialogue was littered with f-words.
(euphemistic) The word fag or faggot. Synonyms:f-bomb, f-slur
For quotations using this term, see Citations:f-word.
Any word beginning with f that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context. She has no luck with diets. Don't mention the f-word (by which I mean "fat").
2018, Cynthia Dane, Just Friends: A Summer Fling With A Billionaire Heir:Zack wouldn't say the F word. Not... forever. It was too soon to say that. He may be open to a serious relationship again, but he still needed to protect his heart in other ways.
2023 December 10, Andrea Kane, “5 tips to help you flex your forgiveness muscle”, in CNN[1]:If the incident in question causes you continued distress and negatively impacts your life, that’s where the f-word — forgiveness — may have a role to play, said psychologist Robert Enright, a pioneer in the field of forgiveness science and professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2024, Anna Mulrine Grobe and Alfredo Sosa, No pushups? No problem. The Army builds a steppingstone to boot camp., in: The Christian Science Monitor, September 10 2024 Throughout the program, the “f-word” is not allowed – as in, calling anyone “fat.”
Translations
[edit] euphemism for the equivalent of the word "fuck"
Finnish: v-sana
German: F-Wortn
Polish: słowo na Kn
Portuguese: c-palavra
Russian: сло́во из трёх буквn(slóvo iz trjox bukv)(three-letter word ("хуй"))
euphemism for the equivalent of the word "faggot"
Polish: słowo na Pn
Ukrainian: п-слю́рm(p-sljúr)(p-slur ("підара́с"))
Verb
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f-word (third-person singular simple present f-words, present participle f-wording, simple past and past participle f-worded)
(euphemistic) To use vulgarities, especially the word fuck.
2010, Alan L. Greenberg, Confessions of a Government Man: How to Succeed in Any Bureaucracy, →ISBN, page 142:Her plain-Jane appearance lulled the Secret Service representatives for a while but it wasn't long before she out f-worded them and became the assertive one in this space chase, […]
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