fuckery
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fuckery (countable and uncountable, plural fuckeries)
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Nonsense, bullshit. Or, messing around.
- endless stream of fuckery
- 1992, Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne, page 97:
- Just the same, I knew that Mr Pease was gonna tell me my husband had been up to fuckery, and once I got into his office, that was just what he did tell me.
- 2006, Amy Winehouse (lyrics and music), “Me & Mr Jones”, in Back to Black, Island Records:
- What kind of fuckery is this? / You made me miss the Slick Rick gig
- 2019 November 20, Roger Hallam, quotee, “Roger Hallam calls Holocaust "just another fuckery in human history"”, in Die Zeit[1]:
- Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, has said the Holocaust was "just another fuckery in human history".
- (vulgar, slang, countable) A brothel.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- (Jamaica, vulgar, slang, uncountable) An unfair or morally wrong action.
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