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emeff

emeff noun: synonym of motherfucker.

Noun

emeff (plural emeffs)

  1. (minced oath) Synonym of motherfucker.

Adjective

emeff (not comparable)

  1. (minced oath) Synonym of motherfucking.
    • I got to contend with the students, the school board, the parents, the teacher’s union, the Board of Ed., the PTA, the principal, winos on the block, the pushers, the hall monitors, and in particular, this one Black teacher who is the local Gestapo, with Black Power, like crazy, all over the...1973, Alice Childress, “Bernard Cohen”, in A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich, New York, N.Y.: Coward-McCann, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, page 34
    Synonyms:
    MF, emeffing, mothereffing, motherfucking

Synonyms of emeff

Forms of emeff

pluralemeffs
alternative formem eff
alternative formem-eff

Origin of emeff

Minced oath of motherfucker based on the names of the initial letters of its elements, equivalent to the phonetic respelling of the initialism MF. First attested in the 1960s.

Questions about emeff

What does emeff mean?
Emeff means synonym of motherfucker.
What part of speech is emeff?
Emeff can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of emeff?
The plural of emeff is emeffs.

Words near emeff in the dictionary

  1. emedastine
  2. emeer
  3. emeerate
  4. emeerates
  5. emeers
  6. emeff
  7. emeffer
  8. Emegir
  9. Emei
  10. EMEIA
  11. emeiocytosis

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