F-word acronyms

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Apr 28 02:15:30 UTC 2008


The list leaves out WGAF "We give a fuck," used with negative polarity.

I didn't see any exx. of "fop." Am I now blind in both eyes?

Heard a minute ago on the TV re-run, Dexter: overshare = "TMI."

-Wilson

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>  Wackypedia's done it again with this extensive list of F-word-inclusive acronyms.  Note recent and inconsistent use of the novel-to-me euphemism "fop" and derivatives:
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