motherfucker

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Scrabble points
26
Words With Friends
28
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/mʌðəˌfʌkə/
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/mʌðəˌfʌkə/ · /mʌðɚˌfʌkɚ/

Definition of motherfucker

8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

intj

  1. (vulgar)Expressing dismay, discontent, or surprise.
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intj

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

noun

  1. (offensive, vulgar)An extremely contemptible, vicious or mean person.
    “Up against the wall, motherfucker.”
    “There's an aggressive motherfucker!”
    “They're rapid motherfuckers!”
    “Motherfuckers don't take by chances.”
    “Roland Weary and the scouts were safe in a ditch, and Weary growled at Billy, ‘Get out of the road, you dumb motherfucker.’ The last word was still a novelty in the speech of white people in 1944. Itwas^([sic]) fresh and astonishing to Billy, who had never fucked anybody — and it did its job. It woke him up and got him off the road.”
  2. (vulgar)Any person, often but not always with the connotation that the person is disliked or is threatening.
    “Check out this motherfucker.”
    “Look at that motherfucker.”
    “Which of those motherfuckers?”
    “What is it to these motherfuckers?”
  3. (vulgar)An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative.
    “War is a motherfucker.”
    “Traffic congestion was a motherfucker.”
    “Possession of a firearm can be a motherfucker.”
    “Arsons are a total motherfucker.”
  4. (vulgar)An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative.
    “I jammed my finger in the door yesterday. It hurt like a motherfucker.”
    “You mess with me, and I will come at you like a motherfucker.”
    “It's hot as a motherfucker out here.”
    “They goin' hard as a motherfucker out here.”
  5. (vulgar)A good very close friend or relative.
    “How’ve you been, you crazy motherfucker?”
    “Who's hanging on, motherfucker?”
    “The best one ever, motherfuckers!”
    “Time for an invitation, motherfuckers!”
  6. (literally, vulgar)One who engages in incest with their mother.
    “For quotations using this term, see Citations:motherfucker.”
  7. (literally, vulgar)One who engages in sex with a mother, not necessarily one's own.

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *mōdēr Proto-West Germanic *mōder Old English mōdor Middle English moder English mother Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck Proto-Indo-European…

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *mōdēr Proto-West Germanic *mōder Old English mōdor Middle English moder English mother Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English fucker English motherfucker Compound of mother + fucker; attested since 1918. The injury comes from the implication of somebody sleeping with their own mother, but was probably not used literally until later. Also analyzed as a calque of Hindustani مَادَر چود (mādar cod) / मादरचोद (mādarcod).

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