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fucking

adj · adv · infix · name · noun · verb · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈfʌkɪŋ/
  • General-American: [ˈfɐkɪŋ]
  • /ˈfʌkiŋ/ Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Canada, pre-/ŋ/ tensing
  • [ˈfɐkiŋ] Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Canada, pre-/ŋ/ tensing
  • California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • /ˈfʌkɪn/ General American, g-dropping
  • [ˈfɐkɪn] General American, g-dropping
  • Northern-England: /ˈfʊkɪŋ/
  • rhymes with -ʌkɪŋ
  • /ˈfʌkɪŋ/
  • /ˈfʌkɪn/
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfʊkɪŋ/
  • rhymes with -ʊkɪŋ
  • CMU ARPABET: F AH1 K IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically modifies.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: attributive, not-comparable, vulgar

Examples

  • No fucking way.
  • This is a fucking nightmare!
  • Give me the fucking key!
  • Open the fucking locker!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fecking, freaking, fricking, frigging, flipping, fuckening, goddamn, 4ucking, accursed, bally, blasted, bleeding, bleeping, blessed, blimming, blinking, bloody, blooming, confounded, consarned, cotton-picking, cowson, cursed, dadburn, dadgum, dagnabbed, damblasted, damn, damnable, damned, dang, danged, darn, darned, dashed, deuced, doggone, dratted, effing, ever-loving, flaming, fucking, fudging, fugging, furshlugginer, jiggered, goddam, goddamned, goddarned, godforsaken, goldurn, gormed, goshdarn, goshdarned, hecking, holy, infernal, living, mollyfogging, motherfucking, pissing, plain, precious, raasclaat, ruddy, sniggered, sodding, stinking

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Offensive, annoying or worthless.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: attributive, not-comparable, vulgar

Examples

  • Get your fucking car out of the way.
  • Get me off your fucking mailing list.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cocking, no good, pesky, aggravating, aggy, annoying, wretched, displeasing, bothersome, chagrining, cruddy, douchetastic, douchey, drippy, gittish, honery, irksome, irritating, obnoxious, plaguy, troublesome, twattish, vexatious, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, crapalicious, cullionly, draffish, draffy, dreckish, drecky, duffing, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, for the birds, fucking, garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable, jabberwocky, junky, mouldy, mucid, naughty, no-account, no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room, not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought, of no value, pissass, punk, putid, rubbishly, rubbishy, sixpenny, scabbed, screwy, scummy, shand, shit, shitey, shitstained, shitty-ass, sorry-ass, strawlike, suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy, trinkety, triobolar, tripy, two-bit, unappreciated, unvaluable, vain, valueless, worthless, worth nothing, wutless

Antonyms: none provided

3

adv

Meaning 3

Really, very; having intensive force, often applying to the whole sentence or clause.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable, vulgar

Examples

  • This is fucking ridiculous!
  • I'm not fucking well paying this time.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: damn, flipping, freaking, above a bit, absolutely, sorely, bone, abundantly, all too, but good, completely, eminently, ever so, exceedingly, excessively, extremely, fucking, greatly, highly, in spades, jolly, main, mightily, murrain, passing, positively, pretty, quite, really, right, simply, somewhat, sore, specially, strongly, swith, truly, vastly, very, very much, way, way too, wicked, wickedly

Antonyms: none provided

4

infix

Meaning 4

Alternative form of -fucking-, used when the infix is put between two words.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative, morpheme, vulgar

Examples

  • New Fucking York.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fkn

Antonyms: none provided

5

name

Meaning 5

A village in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria, part of the municipality of Tarsdorf, now called Fugging.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

An act of sexual intercourse, especially one lacking passion or a feeling of sincere love.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable, vulgar

Examples

  • I got a good fucking out of her, but I doubt we'll have another date.
  • c 1674, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II Like the French fool, that wanders up and down Starving his people, hazarding his crown. Peace is his aim, his gentleness is such, And love he loves, for he loves fucking much.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: coitus, frig, screw, aphrodisia, carnal knowledge, coition, commerce, commixtion, congress, conjunction, connection, consummation, conversation, copulation, coupling, intercourse, intimacy, intimate relations, intromission, joining, lovemaking, lustmaking, mating, mounting, pareunia, penetration, relations, sex, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, sexual union, swiving, union, the beast with two backs, the birds and the bees, boom-boom, chesterfield rugby, horizontal dancing, horizontal hula, horizontal jogging, horizontal mambo, horizontal refreshments, horizontal slam dance, how's your father, love, Netflix and chill, physical love, roll in the hay, Ugandan affairs, Ugandan discussions, action, ass, bang, barney-mugging, beef injection, bonking, cuntfuck, fucking, fucky-fucky, hot beef injection, hump, humpa humpa, jig-jig, jiggy-jiggy, lay, legover, meat injection, nookie, old hat, pipe, plow, plough, poon, poontang, punani, pussy, ride, root, rumpo, rumpy-pumpy, seeing-to, sexy time, sexy times, screwing, shag, skin, snu snu, tang, trim, hanky-panky, funny business, making whoopee, jiggery-pokery, monkey business, fooling about, fooling around, playing around

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

An act of mistreatment.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable, vulgar

Examples

  • I took a real fucking on the interest rate for that loan.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

present participle and gerund of fuck

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

adverb

Meaning 9

intensifier, very colloquial

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • what took you so fucking long?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

slang for sexual intercourse

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fuck, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck English -ing English fucking From fuck + -ing.

Borrowed from Austrian German Fucking. The association with the unrelated vulgar term fucking led to a name change in 2020.

Across languages

Translations

194 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: فشخ (fašḫ) — an intensifier
  • Chinese Mandarin: 死 (sǐ) — an intensifier
  • Chinese Mandarin: 他媽 /他妈 (tāmā) — an intensifier
  • Esperanto: damne — an intensifier
  • Esperanto: fek- — an intensifier
  • Finnish: vittu — an intensifier
  • Finnish: vitun — an intensifier
  • French: putain de — an intensifier
  • Hebrew: אחושרמוטה (akhusharmúta) — an intensifier
  • Hungarian: kurvára — an intensifier
  • Hungarian: kibaszottul — an intensifier
  • Hungarian: rohadtul — an intensifier
  • Icelandic: fokking — an intensifier
  • Icelandic: andskotans — an intensifier
  • Italian: del cazzo — an intensifier
  • Italian: cazzo di — an intensifier
  • Polish: kurwa — an intensifier
  • Portuguese: puta — an intensifier
  • Portuguese: fodendo — an intensifier
  • Romanian: ca pula de — an intensifier
  • Romanian: futere de — an intensifier
  • Russian: хуй (xuj) — an intensifier
  • Spanish: jodidamente — an intensifier
  • Swedish: jävla — an intensifier
  • Welsh: ffycin — an intensifier
  • Yiddish: מסוכּן (mesukn) — an intensifier
  • Dutch: neuken — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Esperanto: fiko — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Finnish: pano — an act of sexual intercourse
  • French: baise — an act of sexual intercourse
  • German: Fick — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Hebrew: זִיּוּן (ziyun) — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Hindi: चुदाई (cudāī) — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Hindi: चोदमपट्टी (codampaṭṭī) — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Italian: scopata — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Italian: trombata — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Italian: fottuta — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Italian: chiavata — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Korean: 빠구리 (ppaguri) — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Northern Kurdish: gan — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Latin: futūtiō — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Navajo: jikʼeedgo — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Norwegian: knull — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Pashto: غو — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Pashto: غوول (γowǝl) — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Polish: pierdolenie — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Polish: jebanie — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Polish: pieprzenie — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Polish: bzykanie — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Polish: posuwanie — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Polish: ruchanie — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Portuguese: transa — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Romanian: futai — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Romanian: futere — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Russian: е́бля (jéblja) — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Russian: еба́ние (jebánije) — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Scottish Gaelic: dàireadh — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Scottish Gaelic: muineadaireachd — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Sicilian: futtuta — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Sicilian: tignata — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Sicilian: trummata — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Sicilian: ficcata — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Sicilian: ncugnata — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Spanish: palo — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Spanish: follada — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Spanish: cogida — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Spanish: revolcón — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Spanish: jodienda — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Swedish: ligg — an act of sexual intercourse
  • Afrikaans: fokken — as an intensifier
  • Arabic: ميّتين (mayyitīn) — as an intensifier
  • Assamese: কেলা (kela) — as an intensifier
  • Assamese: বালৰ (balor) — as an intensifier
  • Belarusian: яба́ны (jabány) — as an intensifier
  • Czech: kurva — as an intensifier
  • Czech: zasraný — as an intensifier
  • Czech: zkurvený — as an intensifier
  • Danish: satans — as an intensifier
  • Danish: helvedes — as an intensifier
  • Dutch: fucking — as an intensifier
  • Dutch: focking — as an intensifier
  • Dutch: fakking — as an intensifier
  • Dutch: kanker — as an intensifier
  • Dutch: kut — as an intensifier
  • Esperanto: fek- — as an intensifier
  • Esperanto: damna — as an intensifier
  • Estonian: kuradima — as an intensifier
  • Finnish: vitun — as an intensifier
  • Finnish: perkeleen — as an intensifier
  • Finnish: saatanan — as an intensifier
  • Finnish: helvetin — as an intensifier
  • French: putain de — as an intensifier
  • French: ostie de — as an intensifier
  • French: câlisse de — as an intensifier
  • German: Scheiß- — as an intensifier
  • German: fucking — as an intensifier
  • German: verfickt — as an intensifier
  • Greek: γαμημένος (gamiménos) — as an intensifier
  • Greenlandic: -palaarsuaq — as an intensifier
  • Hebrew: מזדין (mizdayen) — as an intensifier
  • Hungarian: baszott — as an intensifier
  • Hungarian: kibaszott — as an intensifier
  • Icelandic: helvítis — as an intensifier
  • Italian: fottuto — as an intensifier
  • Italian: cazzo di — as an intensifier
  • Japanese: but see — as an intensifier
  • Luxembourgish: houer — as an intensifier
  • Macedonian: е́бан (éban) — as an intensifier
  • Macedonian: е́бен (ében) — as an intensifier
  • Norwegian: jævla — as an intensifier
  • Polish: jebany — as an intensifier
  • Polish: kurewski — as an intensifier
  • Polish: pierdolony — as an intensifier
  • Polish: zasrany — as an intensifier
  • Polish: cholerny — as an intensifier
  • Portuguese: puta — as an intensifier
  • Romanian: în pula mea — as an intensifier
  • Romanian: în pizda mă-sii — as an intensifier
  • Romanian: în sloboz — as an intensifier
  • Romanian: în morții mă-sii — as an intensifier
  • Romanian: în dumnezeii mă-sii — as an intensifier
  • Romanian: în gâtu' mă-sii — as an intensifier
  • Romanian: în neamu' mă-sii — as an intensifier
  • Romanian: în futere — as an intensifier
  • Russian: ёбаный (jóbanyj) — as an intensifier
  • Russian: сра́ный (srányj) — as an intensifier
  • Northern Sami: biru — as an intensifier
  • Northern Sami: helveha — as an intensifier
  • Spanish: maldito — as an intensifier
  • Spanish: pinche — as an intensifier
  • Spanish: puto — as an intensifier
  • Spanish: jodido — as an intensifier
  • Swedish: jävla — as an intensifier
  • Thai: โคตร (kôot) — as an intensifier
  • Thai: แม่โคตร — as an intensifier
  • Turkish: boktan — as an intensifier
  • Turkish: lanet — as an intensifier
  • Turkish: kahrolasıca — as an intensifier
  • Turkish: siktiğim — as an intensifier
  • Turkish: siktiğimin — as an intensifier
  • Ukrainian: ї́баний (jíbanyj) — as an intensifier
  • Welsh: ffycin — as an intensifier
  • Yiddish: מסוכּן (mesukn) — as an intensifier
  • Bulgarian: шибан (šiban) — offensive or worthless
  • Chinese Mandarin: 死 (sǐ) — offensive or worthless
  • Chinese Mandarin: 破 (pò) — offensive or worthless
  • Esperanto: -aĉ- — offensive or worthless
  • Esperanto: aĉa — offensive or worthless
  • Estonian: kuradima — offensive or worthless
  • Finnish: vitun — offensive or worthless
  • Finnish: perkeleen — offensive or worthless
  • Finnish: saatanan — offensive or worthless
  • Finnish: helvetin — offensive or worthless
  • French: de mes couilles — offensive or worthless
  • French: à la con maudit — offensive or worthless
  • French: foutu — offensive or worthless
  • French: sale — offensive or worthless
  • German: Scheiß- — offensive or worthless
  • Greek: γαμημένος (gamiménos) — offensive or worthless
  • Hungarian: baszott — offensive or worthless
  • Hungarian: kibaszott — offensive or worthless
  • Indonesian: sialan — offensive or worthless
  • Indonesian: keparat — offensive or worthless
  • Indonesian: brengsek — offensive or worthless
  • Indonesian: bedebah — offensive or worthless
  • Italian: cazzo di — offensive or worthless
  • Italian: dei miei coglioni — offensive or worthless
  • Japanese: 糞 (kuso) — offensive or worthless
  • Macedonian: е́бан (éban) — offensive or worthless
  • Macedonian: ти́бам (tíbam) — offensive or worthless
  • Norwegian: forpult — offensive or worthless
  • Polish: jebany — offensive or worthless
  • Polish: kurewski — offensive or worthless
  • Polish: pierdolony — offensive or worthless
  • Romanian: pulii — offensive or worthless
  • Romanian: pulii mele — offensive or worthless
  • Romanian: morților mă-sii — offensive or worthless
  • Russian: хуёвый (xujóvyj) — offensive or worthless
  • Russian: ёбаный (jóbanyj) — offensive or worthless
  • Russian: сра́ный (srányj) — offensive or worthless
  • Northern Sami: biru — offensive or worthless
  • Northern Sami: helveha — offensive or worthless
  • Spanish: maldito — offensive or worthless
  • Spanish: pinche — offensive or worthless
  • Spanish: puto — offensive or worthless
  • Spanish: jodido — offensive or worthless
  • Swedish: jävla — offensive or worthless
  • Swedish: satans — offensive or worthless
  • Thai: โคตร (kôot) — offensive or worthless
  • Turkish: pis — offensive or worthless
  • Turkish: kahrolası — offensive or worthless
  • Turkish: lanet olası — offensive or worthless
  • Turkish: boktan — offensive or worthless
  • Turkish: sikindirik — offensive or worthless
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