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

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Many thanks for these. In brief:

(1) I did add this as a new sense; my earliest example is 1968. This is a good cite, and I don't have anything else from the show, so I've added this.

(2) I didn't specifically have "fuck outta here", although I did have others in this family (e.g. _fuck_ as elliptical for "what the fuck"); I've added this.

(3) I've added several new senses for _fuck with_ (we've discussed some of them on ADS-L before); the earliest for the specific one you're talking about here, 'to appreciate; to enjoy; to respect' etc., I have from 1994.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 03:44:25PM -0400, Steven Losie wrote:
> 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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