fugging

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/ˈfʊɡɪŋ/

proper noun

A village in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria, part of the municipality of Tarsdorf, formerly called Fucking.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

fugging1

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of fug
  2. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of fugg
adjectivefugging (not comparable)
  1. euphemisticnot comparableEuphemistic form of fucking.

    I'm going to cut your fugging ears off.”

    2013, George Dawes Green, The Caveman's Valentine, →ISBN
    3 more examples

    We didn't have all these fugging nets and seashells around.

    2009, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle: A Novel, →ISBN, page 26

    I'm so fugging soh ... rry. Jesus. God. I'm so sorry. I'm so fugging sorry.

    2012, Drew Campbell, Dead Letter House, →ISBN

    'You know, you look fugging fabulous still. Fugging fabulous.

    2015, Rosa Fedele, The Red Door

    Synonyms: flipping, flogging, freaking, fricking, frigging

adverbfugging (not comparable)
  1. euphemisticnot comparableEuphemistic form of fucking.

Fugging2

proper noun
  1. A village in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria, part of the municipality of Tarsdorf, formerly called Fucking.

    Minutes from a municipal council meeting published on Thursday showed that the village of about 100 people, 350km (215 miles) west of Vienna, will be named Fugging from 1 January 2021.

    2020 November 26, Philip Oltermann in Berlin, “Fugging hell: tired of mockery, Austrian village changes name”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2020
  2. A village in the Sankt Pölten-Land district of Lower Austria, part of the municipality of Obritzberg-Rust.

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. Austrian GermanFugging
  2. EnglishFugging

Borrowed from Austrian German Fugging, of the same origin as Fucking, the name of the village in Upper Austria until 2021.

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Cite this entry
APA

fugging. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fugging

MLA

“fugging.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fugging. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fugging,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fugging.

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