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m-word

m-word noun: the word motherfucker, regarded as a vulgar word.

Noun (1)

m-word (plural m-words)

  1. (euphemistic) The word motherfucker, regarded as a vulgar word.
  2. Any word beginning with m that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context, like midget or murder.

Noun (2) capitalized: M-word

M-word (plural M-words)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of m-word.
    • Given all this, you may be puzzled to hear me call myself a Marxist. […] This is not something that I often volunteer to talk about in “polite society” because the very mention of the M-word switches audiences off.2015 February 18, Yanis Varoufakis, “Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of m-word

pluralm-words
alternative formM-word
pluralM-words

Questions about m-word

What does m-word mean?
M-word means the word motherfucker, regarded as a vulgar word.
What part of speech is m-word?
M-word is a noun.
What is the plural of m-word?
The plural of m-word is m-words.

Words near m-word in the dictionary

  1. M-theory
  2. M-W
  3. M-way
  4. M-ways
  5. m-wide
  6. m-word
  7. m-words
  8. m-xylene
  9. m.
  10. M. A. S.
  11. M. A. Sc.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: m-word (page history and authors); M-word (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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