[Ads-l] Final F-Word appeal: recent evidence?

[Steven Losie]

Not sure if any of this is useful, or new to you, but three recent-ish
usages come to mind:

(1)
The Canadian TV show "Trailer Park Boys" liked to use the word "fucky" in
the sense of fucked up, suspicious, unusual, fishy, questionable, dubious,
out of order, etc.

For instance, season 7 episode 3 "Three Good Men Are Dead" (original air
date: 22 Apr 2007) includes the line:

[begin quote]
Yeah, I mean, I'm not in college, but you guys got books and stuff to see
that this is obviously a little fucky.
[end quote]
https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?t=17269

Shorter, but earlier, the word was used in "Trailer Park Boys: The Movie"
(premiere date: 6 Oct 2006) when the character Bubbles says: "Something's
fucky."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHQh-xtWcAw

The TV show may have used the word earlier than that, but I'm not sure.

(2)
Another recent usage is "Fuck outta here", a clipped version of the phrase
"Get the fuck out of here", usually used to express disbelief. It has an
Urban Dictionary entry, with the earliest cite from 2003:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fuck%20outta%20here

Cam'ron released a song in 2017 with the title "Fuck Outta Here" where the
phrase is used in this sense in the chorus of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uFsNyQq_-A

There are some claims that "fuck outta here" is sometimes abbreviated as
"FOH" online, though I cannot say that I have ever run into this myself:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FOH
https://slang.net/meaning/foh

(3)
Another sense that I have heard in recent years with more and more
frequency is to use the verb form "to fuck[s] with" to mean that you like
something, or enjoy it, or welcome it. For example, to say, "I'll fuck with
spaghetti" or "I fucks with spaghetti" means something like "I enjoy eating
spaghetti sometimes". Urban Dictionary has this sense at least as far back
as 2007 and 2008:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%27ll%20fuck%20with%20that
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fucks%20with

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