英和和英

動詞

flipping

1. present participle and gerund of flip

形容詞

flipping (not comparable)

1. A mild intensifier; a minced oath of "fucking".

   Synonyms: flogging, freaking, fricking, frigging

   Where's my flipping watch?

   Darn it! That flipping racoon got into the trash again!

   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 19:

     "Sister?" I inquired. "She ain't 'ere," a man's voice said. "What's more," it went on, "she ain't been 'ere for ruddy hours, neither. Can't you pull them ruddy curtains, mate, and let's 'ave some flippin' light? Don't know what's come over the bloody place this morning."

派生語

• flipping Nora

副詞

flipping (not comparable)

1. (euphemistic, British) fucking; used as an intensifier to modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs

   Do you flipping think I'm stupid?

   Can't you see I'm trying to flipping fix something?

使用する際の注意点

• This is also used in American English, but it's not as common as other intensifiers like freaking or frigging.

名詞

flipping (countable and uncountable, plural flippings)

1. The process of something being flipped or turned over.

   coin flippings

2. The practice of buying something, making improvements to it, and reselling it for a higher price.
3. (slang) Tripping on psychedelics while rolling on empathogens or entactogens.

派生語

接中辞

-flipping-

1. (slang) A mild intensifier.

   Abso-flipping-lutely awesome!

   Well this is just fan-flipping-tastic.

   Yeah, maybe if you were Freddie flipping Mercury!

関連する語

• -fucking-
• -freaking-

使用する際の注意点

• See -fucking- for prosody and spelling information.