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F-word

or f-word

[ ef-wurd ]

noun

  1. a euphemism for the word fuck : C-word, N-word, word ( def 2 ).

    The f-word came into English in the 15th century.



f-word

noun

  1. the f-word taboo.
    sometimes capital a euphemistic way of referring to the word fuck
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of F-word1

First recorded in 1955–60
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Noting that Sean Baker’s “Anora” “uses the f-word 479 times. That’s four more than the record set by Karla Sofía Gascón’s publicist.”

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She became the first person ever to utter the F-word in a mainstream film, I'll Never Forget What'sisname, in 1967.

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Both men clearly perceive the possibility of a rising far-right tide — call it “national conservatism,” call it the F-word, call it whatever you like — that will sweep away the decaying ramparts of the liberal-democratic world order.

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The Instagram and Etsy ads I bought for to market my irreverent F-word holiday cards cost $50 and $70, but I didn’t make a single sale that way; I did, however, sell three batches of 10 cards to friends who saw them on Facebook for a total of $180, no paid ads required.

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It was like a PowerPoint presentation arguing, over the course of seven or eight slides, that we’re the rational, trustworthy folks who will try to build consensus with minor technocratic fixes to the country’s massive and intractable problems, whereas that other guy is a dangerous aspiring F-word dictator who just wants to smash things.

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