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motherfricker

motherfricker is the euphemistic form of motherfucker.

Meaning of motherfucker

Noun

motherfucker (plural motherfuckers)

  1. (offensive, vulgar) An extremely contemptible, vicious or mean person.
    • Up against the wall, motherfucker.
  2. (vulgar) Any person, often but not always with the connotation that the person is disliked or is threatening.
    • Check out this motherfucker.
  3. (vulgar) An extremely intense experience, often but not always negative.
    • War is a motherfucker.
    1. (vulgar, forming a compound unit adverbial intensifier) To an extreme degree.
      • I jammed my finger in the door yesterday. It hurt like a motherfucker.
  4. (vulgar) A good very close friend or relative.
    • How’ve you been, you crazy motherfucker?
  5. (literally, vulgar) One who engages in incest with their mother.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:motherfucker.

See all 8 meanings of motherfucker

Forms of motherfricker

pluralmotherfrickers

Origin of motherfricker

Blend of motherfucker + frick, effectively from mother + fricker.

Questions about motherfricker

What is motherfricker the euphemistic form of?
Motherfricker is the euphemistic form of motherfucker.

Words near motherfricker in the dictionary

  1. motherfluffer
  2. motherfluffers
  3. motherfouler
  4. motherfoulers
  5. motherfreaking
  6. motherfricker
  7. motherfrickers
  8. motherfuck
  9. motherfucka
  10. motherfuckah
  11. motherfuckahs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: motherfricker (page history and authors); motherfucker (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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