f-word

• f word, F word, F-word

f-word (plural f-words)

1. (euphemistic) The word fuck (or inflected forms like fucking) or fucker.

   Oh, f-word, I've lost the keys.

   The dialogue was littered with f-words.

2. (euphemistic) The word fag or faggot.

   Synonym: f-slur

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:f-word.
3. 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.

f-word (third-person singular simple present f-words, present participle f-wording, simple past and past participle f-worded)

1. (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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• eff
• effing
• (‘x’-word euphemisms) a-word, b-word, c-word, d-word, e-word, f-word, g-word / G-word, h-word, i-word, j-word, k-word, l-word, m-word, n-word, o-word, p-word, q-word / Q-word, r-word, s-word, t-word, u-word, v-word, w-word, x-word; see also C-bomb, f-bomb, f-slur, L-bomb, n-bomb, r-slur