motherfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭth'er-fŭk'er
enpr: mŭth'ŭ-fŭk'er
ipa: /ˈmʌðəˌfʌkə/
ipa: /ˈmʌðɚˌfʌkɚ/
Forms: form: motherfuckers
form: MF
form: mf
form: mofo
form: mothafucka
form: mothafucker
form: mothafugga
form: mothafuggah
form: mothafukka
form: mothahfuckah
form: mothahfucker
form: mothahfuggah
form: motherfucka
form: motherfuckah
form: mother-fucker
form: mother fucker
form: motherfugga
form: motherfukka
form: motherfukkah
form: motherfukker
form: muthafucka
form: mutha fucka
form: mutha phucka
form: m*therfucker
form: motherf**ker
form: motherf****r
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
Latin -ariusbor.
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.
Senses: examples: text: Up against the wall, motherfucker.
text: There's an aggressive motherfucker!
text: They're rapid motherfuckers!
text: Motherfuckers don't take by chances.
text: 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.
ref: 1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., chapter 2 (pages 19–42), in Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Vintage edition (1991 paperback), London: Vintage Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 27:
text: English, motherfucker, do you speak it?
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson):
glosses: An extremely contemptible, vicious or mean person.
examples: text: Check out this motherfucker.
text: Look at that motherfucker.
text: Which of those motherfuckers?
text: What is it to these motherfuckers?
glosses: Any person, often but not always with the connotation that the person is disliked or is threatening.
examples: text: War is a motherfucker.
text: Traffic congestion was a motherfucker.
text: Possession of a firearm can be a motherfucker.
text: Arsons are a total motherfucker.
glosses: An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative.
examples: text: I jammed my finger in the door yesterday. It hurt like a motherfucker.
text: You mess with me, and I will come at you like a motherfucker.
text: It's hot as a motherfucker out here.
text: They goin' hard as a motherfucker out here.
glosses: An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative.
To an extreme degree.
coordinate_terms: as fuck
as hell
as shit
qualifier: forming a compound unit adverbial intensifier
raw_tags: with as or like
examples: text: How’ve you been, you crazy motherfucker?
text: Who's hanging on motherfucker?
text: The best one ever motherfuckers!
text: Time for an invitation motherfuckers!
glosses: A good very close friend or relative.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:motherfucker.
glosses: One who engages in incest with their mother.
glosses: One who engages in sex with a mother, not necessarily one's own.
Synonyms: alt: spoonerism
word: futhermucker
word: motherchucker
word: motherfouler
word: motherlicker
alt: bowdlerization
word: mothersucker
word: mothereffer
word: motherfunker
word: motherhumper
word: motherfricker
word: motherlover
word: motherflipper
word: mothertrucker
word: muhfugga
english: African American Vernacular
translation: African American Vernacular
word: muthafucka
word: mofo
word: mf
english: shortenings
translation: shortenings
word: MFer
word: madarchod
word: motha fucka
word: mothafucka
word: mother fucker
word: mudda fucka
word: muddafucka
word: mutha fucka
word: aunt fucker
word: auntfucker
word: brother fucker
word: brotherfucker
word: father fucker
word: fatherfucker
word: grandmother fucker
word: grandmotherfucker
word: melon farmer
word: mother
word: monkey father
word: mother frigger
word: motherfrigger
word: mother fricker
word: sister fucker
word: sisterfucker
word: uncle fucker
word: unclefucker
Hypernyms: inbreeder
Coordinate terms: aunt fucker
brotherfucker
cousinfucker
daughterfucker
fatherfucker
grandmotherfucker
nephew fucker
niece fucker
sibling fucker
sisterfucker
sonfucker
unclefucker
Derived terms: word: motherfricker
word: motherfuck
word: motherfuckerdom
word: motherfuckerhood
word: motherfuckery
word: motherfucking
word: muthafucka
sense: Shortenings
word: mofo
sense: Shortenings
word: mug
Related terms: word: bastard
word: inbred
word: Synonyms:fucker