motherfucker
interjectionnouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//mʌðəˌfʌkə//
- United States//mʌðɚˌfʌkɚ//
Expressing dismay, discontent, or surprise.
interjection
- 1
Expressing dismay, discontent, or surprise.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *mōdēr Proto-West Germanic *mōder Old English mōdor Middle English moder English mother Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- Proto-Germanic *fukkōną Old English *fuccian Middle English *fukken English fuck Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English fucker English motherfucker Compound of mother + fucker; attested since 1918. The injury comes from the implication of somebody sleeping with their own mother, but was probably not used literally until later. Also analyzed as a calque of Hindustani مَادَر چود (mādar cod) / मादरचोद (mādarcod).
noun
- 1
An extremely contemptible, vicious or mean person.
Up against the wall, motherfucker.
There's an aggressive motherfucker!
They're rapid motherfuckers!
Motherfuckers don't take by chances.
- 2
Any person, often but not always with the connotation that the person is disliked or is threatening.
Check out this motherfucker.
Look at that motherfucker.
Which of those motherfuckers?
What is it to these motherfuckers?
- 3
An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative.
War is a motherfucker.
Traffic congestion was a motherfucker.
Possession of a firearm can be a motherfucker.
Arsons are a total motherfucker.
- 4
An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative. To an extreme degree.
I jammed my finger in the door yesterday. It hurt like a motherfucker.
You mess with me, and I will come at you like a motherfucker.
It's hot as a motherfucker out here.
They goin' hard as a motherfucker out here.
- 5
A good very close friend or relative.
How’ve you been, you crazy motherfucker?
Who's hanging on, motherfucker?
The best one ever, motherfuckers!
Time for an invitation, motherfuckers!
- 6
One who engages in incest with their mother.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:motherfucker.
- 7
One who engages in sex with a mother, not necessarily one's own.
Forms
- plural
- motherfuckers
motherfucker · Expressing dismay, discontent, or surprise.
motherfucking · An intensifier, used in the same contexts as fucking, but…motherhood · The state of being a mother.motherland · The country of one's ancestors.