fuck

Meaning

Verb

1. (colloquial) To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
2. (colloquial) To have sexual intercourse with.
3. (colloquial) To insert one's penis, a dildo, or other object, into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.
4. (colloquial) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
5. (colloquial) To defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
6. (colloquial) Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
7. (colloquial) To break, to destroy.
8. (colloquial) Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
9. (colloquial) To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
10. (slang) To scold.
11. (colloquial) To be very good, to rule, go hard.

Noun

1. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
2. (colloquial) A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
3. (colloquial) A highly contemptible person.
4. (colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
5. (colloquial) Semen.

Intj

1. A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
2. (colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent.
3. (colloquial) Expressing surprise or enjoyment.

Adv

1. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the words "yes" and "no".
2. (colloquial) Used after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically negate the verb.

Particle

Used as a shortened form of various common interrogative phrases.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fʌk/

Etymology

From Middle English *fukken, probably of Germanic origin: either from Old English *fuccian or Old Norse *fukka, both from Proto-Germanic *fukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to strike, punch, stab”). Compare windfucker and its debated etymology.
Possibly attested in a 772 AD charter that mentions a place called Fuccerham, which may mean "ham (“home”) of the fucker" or "hamm (“pasture”) of the fucker"; a John le Fucker in a record from 1278 may just be a variant of Fulcher, like Fucher, Foker, etc. The earliest unambiguous use of the word in a clearly sexual context, in any stage of English, appears to be in court documents from Cheshire, England, which mention a man called "Roger Fuckebythenavele" (possibly tongue-in-cheek, or directly suggestive of a depraved sexual act) on December 8, 1310. It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598. Scots fuk/fuck is attested slightly earlier, probably reinforcing the Northern Germanic/Scandinavian origin theory. From 1500 onward, the word has been in continual use, superseding jape and sard and largely displacing swive.
A range of folk-etymological backronyms, such as "fornication under consent of the king" and "for unlawful carnal knowledge", are all demonstrably false.
Sense 10, from related sense feck.
See windfucker (regional synonym: fuckwind) for more.