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Definition fuck

Etymology

From an unattested Middle English *fukken, probably of North Germanic origin. Related to dialectal Norwegian fukka (“to copulate; fuck”), Bohuslän Swedish fokka (“to fuck; thrust; push”) (a sense possibly preserved in English windfucker), modern Swedish focka (“to fire from work”), Swedish fock (“penis”), German ficken, and Dutch fokken (“to breed”). Possibly from Old Norse *fukka, from Proto-Germanic *fukk?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *pew?- ("to strike, punch, stab"; source of Latin pugnus (“fist”) among many others). The word may be attested in a 772 AD charter that mentions a place called Fuccerham, which possibly means "ham (“home”) of the fucker" or "hamm (“pasture”) of the fucker". The earliest verifiable use of the word, in an unambiguously sexual context in any stage of English, appears in court documents from Cheshire, England, which first mention a man called "Roger Fuckebythenavele" (possibly a tongue-in-cheek entry or directly suggestive of a depraved sexual act) on December 8, 1310. It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598.

Compare Scots fuk, fuck, attested slightly earlier.

A range of folk-etymological backronyms, such as "fornication under consent of the king" and "for unlawful carnal knowledge", are all demonstrably false (among other things, words like fornication are Anglo-Norman in origin, while "fuck" is of Germanic origin long predating the Norman Conquest).

Verb

fuck (third-person singular simple present fucks, present participle fucking, simple past and past participle fucked)

1. (vulgar, colloquial) To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.
2. (vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
3. (vulgar, colloquial) To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft.
4. (vulgar, colloquial) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
5. (vulgar, colloquial) To defraud or otherwise treat badly.
6. (vulgar, colloquial, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with someone or something.
7. (vulgar, colloquial, usually followed by up) to break, to destroy.
8. (vulgar, colloquial) Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
9. (vulgar, transitive, comedy) To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.

Noun

fuck (plural fucks)

1. (vulgar, colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
2. (vulgar, colloquial) A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
3. (vulgar, colloquial) A highly contemptible person.
4. (vulgar, colloquial) A thing of no value, a small amount.

Interjection

fuck

1. (vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.

Adverb

fuck (not comparable)

1. (vulgar, colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no".

Particle

fuck

1. (vulgar, slang, especially African American Vernacular) Used as a shortened form of various common interrogative phrases.