motherfucker

Meaning

Noun

  • An extremely contemptible or mean person.
  • Any person, often but not always with the connotation that the person is disliked or is threatening.
  • An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative.
  • A good very close friend or relative.
  • One who engages in incest with their mother.
  • One who engages in sex with a mother, not necessarily one's own.

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Origin

  • From mother + fucker, attested since 1956, but implied in mother in 1928. The injury comes from the implication of somebody sleeping with his own mother, but was probably not used literally until later.

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