motherfucker:

Term of abuse for a despised or despicable person.
QUOTE-1: Charles Panati. Sexy Origins and Intimate Things (1998): "Motherfucker" has been unprintable until recent times. In 1947, Norman Mailer, in The Naked and The Dead, could only write: "You know what the mother-fugger'll be like...We'll be lucky to get out of there with our goddamn heads ons." Two decades later, in 1967, in Why We Are in Vietnam, Mailer could use the word in print: "How'd you get this motherfuck?" In 1973, female writer Erica Jong dared to use the word in her bestseller Fear of Flying: "So I kept concentrating very hard, helping the pilot...fly the 250-passenger motherfucker. The word is thought to have originated among Southern blacks sometime before the turn of the century. As early as the 1920s it began appearing in thinly disguised forms: mother-fugge', mother-frigger, mother-plugger.
QUOTE-2: Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) in all three Die Hard (1988) movies: 'Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!'
QUOTE-3: Virgil Cane (F. Murray Abraham) in An Innocent Man (1989): 'Ain't life a motherfucker.' QUOTE-4: Joe Hallenbeck (Bruce Willis) in The Last Boy Scout (1991): 'She said her husband was a big pimp-looking motherfucker with a hat.' QUOTE-5: Don King (Ving Rhames) in Only in America (1997): 'Black people don't get no credit for nothing. All we've got is one word. That word is motherfucker.' QUOTE-6: Anonymous: 'Profanity is the inevitable linguistic crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker.' QUOTE-7: Sam/Charlene (Geena Davis) in The Long Kiss Goodnight (1997): 'Die screaming motherfucker.' EUPHEMISMS: - mothereffer - mammy-humper - mammy-jammer - mammy-jumper - mammy-dodger. ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS: - mofo - mofuck - muh fuh - mah fah - m.f. - M.F. - Mf - em eff - mutha fucker - mutha fucka. SPOONERISM: - futhermucker. VARIANTS: - BMD (Bad MotherFucker) - badassmofo (bad-ass motherfucker) - bad-ass-mf (bad-ass motherfucker) - BAMF (Bad Ass MotherFucker) - REMF (Rear Echelon MotherFucker)
See Also: AMF, bad-ass mf, badassmofo, BAMF, BMD, em-eff / m. f., father-fucker / fatherfucker, futhermucker, George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words, Infamous Seven Words, m.f. / M.F. / Mf / em eff, mah fah / mofo / mofuck / muh fuh, mofo / mofuck, mothereffer, motherfrigger, motherfucker, motherplugger, muh fuh / mah fah, mutha fucker / mutha fucka, REMF, Seven Deadly Words, Seven Dirty Words, The, Seven No-No's

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