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Discover LudwigThe word "effing" is a slang term that is often used in spoken language, but it is not considered to be a proper word in written English
It is derived from the word "f**king" and is typically used as an intensifier to express frustration, anger, or emphasis. Example: "I can't believe they effing canceled our plans at the last minute!"
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effing
verb
Present participle of eff
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Effing Gordon effing blocked it for effing years when it meant effing up Tony's premiership.
This is how Lily talks, mirthlessly sarcastic ("har-de-bloody-har") and slurring ("jewseewhatImean?"), effing and blinding her way through the English class system, racism, fashion, Anglican Jewry, architecture, Bill Clinton, the Dome, Milosevic, the "bulbous" 70s, the sharp 80s, fertility clinics, drugs you name it.Four hundred pages is too long.
"No I'm effing not," he assured them emphatically – and might have added that neither will he be giving a passable impersonation of the discredited A-Farce when he makes his own challenge for a version of the world heavyweight title in Germany on Saturday night.
At this, the abusive fan wheeled round, and loudly pointed out, effing every second word, that he worked all week in a factory, taking home very little pay, most of which went to his ungrateful wife and ungracious children, and that his 90 minutes every Saturday watching the Albion was the only chance he got all week to let off steam, so he would continue to do so, thanks very much.
I see Cupcake Man, by night, working away on his treatise, his hands covered in icing burns, while on the TV in the corner of his garret (which is above the cupcake works), Oliver, Ramsay, Stein, Fearnley-Whittingstall, Blumenthal and all the rest of the celebrity egg-flippers are effing and blinding about a soufflé made from Eritrean goat's cheese.
Blagojevich has been in and out of Manhattan since his pre-dawn arrest, last winter, peddling the line that he comes from a mythological realm in which Lake Michigan, like Avernus, is an infernal and troubled water, and a god named Barack has, like Zeus, ascended Olympus, while he, like Icarus, "flew too effing close to the sun".
SHOSHANNA: O.M. effing G., is that a mole, or a tattoo of a mole?
Screaming, shouting, effing and blinding, yes.
"He's effing useless," the man said (among other things).
The team's principal, Douglas Ryder, said: "One of the riders from another team said to Natnael Berhane: 'Get out of the way you effing n*****'.
He ran down the hill shouting that I had no right to take pictures and I'd better effing delete them.
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