f-word

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f-word¹

noun f-words · f word · F word · F-word

  1. euphemistic The word fuck (or inflected forms like fucking) or fucker. Oh, f-word, I've lost the keys.

    Similar: f-bomb

  2. euphemistic The word fag or faggot. For quotations using this term, see Citations:f-word.

    Similar: f-bomb, f-slur

  3. The word friends (as opposed to lovers, where a romantic relationship is sought but refused). "Oh God." Dave sighed. "The 'F' word is low. Low down." "Yep," I said. "Friends. He said, 'We're just Friends.'"
  4. 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").

verb f-words · f-wording · f-worded · f word · F word

  1. euphemistic To use vulgarities, especially the word fuck. 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, […]

F-word²

noun F-words

  1. Alternative letter-case form of f-word Until recently, I resisted using the F-word [fascism] to describe President Trump.

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noun euphemism for the equivalent of the word "fuck"

Portuguêsc-palavra
DeutschF-Wort
Русскийсло́во из трёх букв slóvo iz trjox bukv

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@misc{f_word_2026,
  title = {f-word},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/f-word},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}