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語源

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.

名詞

emeff (plural emeffs)

1. (minced oath) Synonym of motherfucker.

   Synonyms: MF, emeffer, emmereffer, mothereffer

形容詞

emeff (not comparable)

1. (minced oath) Synonym of motherfucking.

   Synonyms: MF, emeffing, mothereffing

   • 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:

     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 emm-eff community.

Further reading

• “emeff n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.
• “emeff adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.