fuckery en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
- /ˈfʌkəɹi/
Etymology
From fuck + -ery.
Meanings
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(slang, uncountable, vulgar) Nonsense, bullshit, or underhanded trickery.
Just the same, I knew that Mr Pease was gonna tell me my husband had been up to fuckery, and once I got into his office, that was just what he did tell me.
1992, Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne, page 97:What kind of fuckery is this? / You made me miss the Slick Rick gig
2006, Amy Winehouse, “Me & Mr Jones”, in Back to Black, Island Records:“I think what happened in June happened because too many people were playing it a little too close. That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
1978, Stephen King, The Stand, page 785:an endless stream of fuckery
Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, has said the Holocaust was "just another fuckery in human history".
2019 November 20, Roger Hallam, quotee, “Roger Hallam calls Holocaust "just another fuckery in human history"”, in Die Zeit, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2020:I need a job to prove that I need day care in order to get a job? What kind of fuckery is that?
2021 October 1, Molly Smith Metzler, directed by John Wells, Maid, episode 1, spoken by Alex Russell (Margaret Qualley):
- (countable, rare, slang, vulgar) A brothel.
- (rare, slang, uncountable, vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
- (Jamaica, slang, uncountable, vulgar) An unfair or morally wrong action.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fuckeries | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
upfuckery · mind-fuckery · motherfuckery · headfuckery
Descendants
Relateds
fuckdom · fuckedness · fuckedupedness · fuckedupness · fucking · fuckship · fuckhood
Translations (3)
el μαλακία (nonsense, bullshit) · hi चूतियापा (nonsense, bullshit) · nl tyfuszooi (nonsense, bullshit)