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In a crowded theater?" I have. And if your reaction was like mine, the urge to shout the word-of-the-day came at the very end of the movie. Posted by: Quaker in a Basement on July 29, 2003 at 11:57 PM | PERMALINK He's a good lawyer, but he's not academe so good academe at grammar. In the sentence, "I'm really fucking broke," "fucking" is an adverb, not an adjective. academe An example of "fucking" being used as an adjective would be, "He is such a fucking loser." That said, that list of Google results was really fucking funny. Posted by: Katie on July 30, 2003 at 2:42 AM | PERMALINK Followup: Listings for the word "fuck" in The Cassell Dictionary of American Slang cover more than three pages. There are 15 separate entries for the word "fuck" by itself, and more than a hundred where the word is used as the first part of a phrase. Many of them are fairly common ("fuck-me shoes," "fucking A," "fuckwad") but there are a few that were new even to me, a long-time user of the word.
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