Pronunciations (2)
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/ɛf/
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ɛf
Verb
Synonym of fuck.
Usage- euphemistic
- Slang
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Eff off!
And he kept saying, "Effing this, effing that."
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Sheikh Ali beamed benignly at Delgado. "Shall we resume discussion of your workshops manager?" Blackmail, thought Delgado. The squeeze, no less. What could the fat hypocrite know? Nothing, he decided. And even if he did, Delgado would need his head looked at if he was going to discuss the matter with Sheikh Ali. Sheikh Ali, he made up his mind, could go and eff himself.
“Holy moly. What the heck is happening here? Hey, hey! Let me out of here. Hey, you. Give me back control of my body.” “[scoffs] Nah, dude, this is my body. You already effed it up.” “No, it's not.” “Whatever, man. I don't take orders from a reflection. [chuckles]” “I'm not a reflection. Help! I think an anaphasic alien took over my body.”
“So what do you think?” “Am I supposed to eff him or, you know, what's the plan here?” “I mean, you can if you want, but, no, that's not why I brought him here.” “Well, why did you bring him here? PS: I probably will eff him. But more out of boredom than anything else. [sighs] Such is the plight of The Guide.”
Verb
To put into words; to express.
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[…] and perhaps also because what we know partakes in no small measure of the nature of what has so happily been called the unutterable or ineffable, so that any attempt to utter or eff it is doomed to fail, doomed, doomed to fail.
They, no more than we, found it hard to eff the ineffable, but they, you see, needed to console themselves more.
It is another way of effing the ineffable, one with potentially serious practical effects.
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Douglas Adams (1952–2001), author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, puts it memorably: “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
Verb
have sexual intercourse with
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Adam knew Eve
Were you ever intimate with this man?