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1616 words beginning with f

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f street - A state of completely being screwed on all levels.

e.g., Did you hear that Chris's girlfriend left him, and stiffed him on her half of the rent? She's also pregnant and is suing him for child support - but he's sterile, and can't be the father. He's on F Street these days.

submitted by Jason Brandenburg

führer - German for tremendous fuss. Furor.

e.g., The High Command was in a führer when they heard that Hitler had committed suicide.

submitted by S. Berliner, III - (www)

f'nuts - "Fucking" + "nuts," much more polite and lighthearted in nature. Typically used in response to an idea or suggestion that is found to be absurd or ridiculous, it is meant to comment on the state of mind the idea's originator is in.

e.g., You want to ask a nun out on a date? Are you f'nuts?

submitted by Todd Davis

f-bomb - Euphemism for «fuck». Often preceded by a form of "to drop."

e.g., The car wouldn't start, so I dropped the f-bomb in front of my grandmother.

submitted by Webb King

f-commerce - An alphabetic leap forward in e-commerce. Once internet companies e-enabled everything, now they are f-ing them.

e.g., F-commerce is the next logical step for our struggling dot com. I mean, we've f-d up everything else.

submitted by Rob

f-mo - F-word. From French: F meaning "F" and mo meaning "mot" or word.

e.g., She dropped the f-mo mid-sentence.

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f-worm - Fishing worm. It's the big juicy worm you go fishing with, the earthworm or dew worm, nightcrawler.

e.g., If you use the f-worm to catch fish with, the fish will love it and take the bait. You can sometimes find these f-worms free, in the wet grass at night.

submitted by Paul Edic - (www)

f.d.g.b. - Abbreviation actually used by doctors to describe injured patients. Stands for Fall Down Go Boom.

e.g., Sorry to call you so late, doctor. We've got an F.D.G.B. here. We're gonna need you to come in.

submitted by Heraldmonkey

f.i.n.e. - F-ed up, insecure, neurotic, and emotional.use it when ur fealing that way.

e.g., "my day has been F.I.N.E. everything has gone wrong"

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f.r - A shorten word of For Real.

e.g., Nah, F.R dawg, she told u that?

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fab - Adjective, derived from the rather popular Thunderbirds puppetmation of the early 80s, Fab has been in use for quite some time and in its current context is an equivlent of "great!" Originally presumed to be an acroymn for Fire All Boosters.

e.g., Lady Penelope: Parker, get the car. Parker: Yes, m'lady. Lady Penelope: (On telephone) Yes, this is Lady Penelope, we are going to intercept the car now, Fab.

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fab-flippin-tastic - Something that is incredibly good, so saying it's "fantastic" isn't enough; you have to combine three words to express your joy.

e.g., That gig was fab-flippin-tastic.

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fabbomateo - To indicate to someone that what you think she are saying is not just fantastic but she is also your friend. A combination of fabulous and mate.

e.g., Bill: "I think tonight is going to be a great night." Joel: "Yeah, it's going to be fabbomateo."

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fabeltastic - Existing only in the imagination, with the proviso that one imagines a fable.

e.g., Lassie says there are aliens in the back yard? That’s fabeltastic.

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fabio - A man who is surprisingly never turned down by women. Almost always clad in outdated styles and fads.

e.g., Joe's 1983 mullet and elephant flares don't stop him from being a fabio with the ladies.

submitted by Briana Drake

faboo - Anything that's absolutely wonderful and fabulous, especially in a Southern California/West Hollywood fabulous kind of way.

e.g., Darling, you look so faboo stepping out of your new BMW Mini drinking that Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf blended iced mocha.

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fabsolute, fabsolutely - Combination of absolute(ly) and fabulous(ly): superlative, wonderful.

e.g., Dina has a fabsolute smile, fabsolutely stunning.

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fabtacular - Fantastic or great.

e.g., That watch is fabtacular.

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fabtastic - Fabulous plus fantastic.

e.g., That shirt is fabtastic.

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fabulicious - Fabulous-delicious. Great, fantastic, wonderful, yummy.

e.g., This word is simply fabulicious, Debbie.

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fabulous thunderbirds - Derogatory reference to the 80s blues-rock group: to lower in quality or be of exceedingly low stature.

e.g., Sheryl Crow used to be cool. It's sad to see her go all Fabulous Thunderbirds these days.

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fabuse - False accusation of abuse, either sexual or physical. Usually employed to destroy another.

e.g., Her fabuse followed him all the days of his life, yet her numerous bed partners were accepted because they provided fun and money.

submitted by Adrian R. Lawler

face card - Term used to describe a one hundred dollar bill.

e.g., Sam passed Will a face card.

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face like a smacked bum - An ugly person or someone with a sour, miserable expression.

e.g., That woman had a face like a smacked bum.

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face on - Foreshortening of the expression "Get you game face on." Used as a response to something that is said.

e.g., Mel: Let's play really well tonight. If we beat the Weasels, we'll go to the 'tourney for sure. Team: ( in unison ) Face on!

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face space - Your personal breathing space.

e.g., This is my face space. Over here is your face space. Stay out of mine and I'll stay out of yours, skanampoitch.

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face-mail - Term used to describe the daring act of talking to someone in person instead of either leaving a voice-mail or sending an e-mail.

e.g., Bill scares me -- he knows how to use the phone and his computer, yet just marched right into my office and left me a face-mail regarding the Simmons account.

submitted by Apremma

face-time - Washington DC expression used to indicate the amount of time a person merits in face-to-face conversation with a person in a position of authority.

e.g., As an Assistant-Deputy Undersecretary she's not going to merit more than two minutes face-time a month with the Sec-Def.

submitted by Stephen Mize

facebook - 1. Any of the various college-targeted websites that provide a virtual (and current) "yearbook," so that students can look up contact information, etc., about each other. 2. To use a facebook's interface to indicate that someone is your friend. This is sometimes done to relative strangers as a way of indicating that you've heard about them. Most facebooks provide an interface allowing you to browse your "friend network," so facebooking someone can be used as a way to meet new people.

e.g., "Hey, you know Bob, right? So you must know his best friend Jeff." "Actually, we haven't met. I only facebooked him."

submitted by E.O.

faceces - A combination of the words "facetious" and "feces," used to point out the difference between being cute or irreverent and just being difficult.

e.g., He stopped asking the young nun out when she told him that he was just being faceces.

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faceheadnecklips - Used as a term of surprise, frustration, or insult--especially when one doesn't have time to find the perfect word for the situation.

e.g., Faceheadnecklips! That car almost ran into me.

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facelicker - A man or woman who kisses are so wet you have to use a towel afterwards.

e.g., Be sure to have a towel with you if you kiss her, she's a real facelicker.

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faceotics - Facial calisthenics performed by someone with a very elastic face.

e.g., Jim Carrey does the best faceotics of anyone I've ever seen.

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facepalm - To bring one's hand to one's forehead in an exasperated or irritated fashion. Often accompanied by shaking one's head.

Noun or verb. The canonical facepalm: Press your nose into your palm with your fingers and thumb spread over your face. You do this in response to something stupid you did or said, as opposed to something stupid someone else did. You may look as if you're trying to hide. Variation on a theme: If you facepalm in response to something someone else did, you may cover only your forehead or part of it and shake your head, giving no impression of trying to hide. Shaking your head without covering your face is an alternative to any sort of facepalm.

e.g., Glenn facepalmed at Corey's comment, "But that's exactly what I just said five minutes ago."

Grammar Whores I got in the mail today a very positive annual faculty performance review from the Associate Dean -- or at least, over the signature of the Associate Dean -- of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the state university where I teach English. Paragraph 3 begins: The recommendations that I have for the future is.... What is the correct response to this? That is, do I headdesk, or do I facepalm?

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faceplant - The result when you fall flat on your face.

e.g., Did you just see that faceplant?

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facetiate - Euphemism for "troll," as in trolling online chat rooms to provoke arguments with inane and useless commentary.

e.g., AOL users spend all their time facetiating in ChristianDebate.

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facetnated - (v) To be mesmerised by staring at glass crystals. Anton Mesmer?

e.g., When Rhonda saw the chandelier she was facetnated.

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faciaglob - Foods that stick to your cheeks or chin while eating.

e.g., Eric ate everything voraciously, especially corn on the cob. This often led to oodles of faciaglob.

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facilitage - Assisting, in order to deliberately encourage dependence.

e.g., She was going to move out, but he facilitaged her plans by offering to pay all the rent until she finished school.

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facilitize - Variant of facilitate, heard during a meeting by someone who wanted to sound important.

e.g., We need to facilitize the completion of this important project.

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facismashing - Fascinating and smashing at the same time.

e.g., What a facismashing zucchini you have.

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facmd - Funky, Awesome, Cool, Man, Dude. Fack-muhd. An ajdective describing something unexpected and astounding.

e.g., That's facmd! You really told her that?!

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facon - Artificial bacon.

e.g., Ugh, my free continental breakfast is just facon and toast.

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fact off - To "fact someone off" is to dispute their beloved arguments and cherished beliefs through recourse to measly facts.

e.g., "Don't fact ME off." | "You can't fact me off with that."

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fact simile - It sounds like a fact, it looks like a fact, it's accepted as fact, but it really isn't a fact: it's misunderstanding, it's ignorance, it's fantasy, it's deception, or the like.

e.g., A lot of the stuff we hear on the daily news consists of fact similes, not necessarily facts. (ED. Is it a fact that the previous sentence is a fact simile? Which would that be, a conundrum or a paradox -- or a sort of paradox simile?)

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factette - Essentially the same as a common meaning given to "factoid": a trivial fact, a "small" fact. A factlet?

"Factette" might be a better choice than "factoid" for "little facts." Most linguists, in fact, insist that "factoid" be used only in the way Norman Mailer coined it in Marilyn -- for something that is incorrect, invented, or unverified; for something that looks like a fact and could be a fact, but isn't. (The first part of the previous sentence is a factoid of the Mailer sort, not a factette -- how could I possibly know what most linguists insist on?)

As a suffix, "-oid" is often used for similarities: "-oid" = "-like"; while "-ette" is used for smallness. "Humanoid" means "humanlike" and "spheroid" means sort of round. Not the real thing, but almost -- or the sharing of some features. In astronomy, the "-oid" ending is used for objects that are smaller as well as similar: asteroid, planetoid.

Word Navigator: . . . words starting with oid, containing oid, ending with oid.

e.g., Lillith: "Dammit. I wish HD would quit adding factettes to the descriptions and definitions." Betsy: "Why? I kind of like it. Besides, the old fart has a lot of fun doing it."

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faction - Fact-based fiction or fiction based on real events where poetic license, exaggeration, and hyperbole are applied to the factual events.

e.g., _The Hunt for Red October_ is an example of a factional novel.

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factoid - Factoids are a series of facts or truths on a related subject. Basically, small bits of information.

e.g., She was pumping me for factoids about her ex-roomie, but I clammed up.

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factoid - 1. An authoritative-sounding but untrue pseudo-fact created for publicity purposes, fed to the press, and printed as true; a bogus "sound bite." Coined by Norman Mailer in his book Marilyn, a biography of Marilyn Monroe. (ED. The Word Detective, Evan Morris: "Mailer defined "'factoids' as pseudo-facts, ' . . . facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion. . . .' Unfortunately, USA Today and other news outlets have since used 'factoid' to mean 'interesting little fact,' a perversion that must please the famously irascible Mr. Mailer no end.") 2. A statement that looks like a fact but is untrue or meaningless, particularly one that "everybody knows." 3. Incorrectly used to mean a (true) fact by people who don't know what "-oid" means.

e.g., 1. It is not true that Marilyn Monroe was an orphan. That was a factoid planted by her publicist. 2. Fun, but not true, factoid: Scientists say you only use 5 to 10 per cent of your brain.

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factualist - Someone who continually corrects others' statements and loves to tell people facts at random.

e.g., I was stuck on the train with two factualists who told each other statistics about statistics for hours.

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