eff
See also: EFF
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ĕf, IPA(key): /ˈɛf/
- Rhymes: -ɛf
- Homophone: f
Etymology 1
A spelling of the letter f (also spelled ef), the initial letter of the vulgar term fuck. Compare pee.
Verb
eff (third-person singular simple present effs, present participle effing, simple past and past participle effed)
- (euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word, but not in the sense "to copulate")
- Eff off!
- And he kept saying, "Effing this, effing that."
Synonyms
- feck, frak, frig; see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with
Derived terms
- eff all
- eff and blind
- eff and jeff
- effing
- eff off
- eff up
- eff why eye
- what the eff
Etymology 2
Back-formation from ineffable
Verb
eff (third-person singular simple present effs, present participle effing, simple past and past participle effed)
- To put into words; to express.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:
- […] and perhaps also because what we know partakes in no small measure of the nature of what has so happily been called the unutterable or ineffable, so that any attempt to utter or eff it is doomed to fail, doomed, doomed to fail.
- 2001, Paul West, Master Class: Scenes from a Fiction Workshop, page 57:
- They, no more than we, found it hard to eff the ineffable, but they, you see, needed to console themselves more.
- 2018, Wesley J. Wildman, Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language, page 83:
- It is another way of effing the ineffable, one with potentially serious practical effects.
- 2020, Tim Vivian, Other Voices, Other Rooms: Poems, page 100:
- Douglas Adams (1952–2001), author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, puts it memorably: “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
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Estonian
Noun
eff (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter F.
Faroese
Noun
eff n (genitive singular efs, plural eff)
- The name of the Latin-script letter F.
Declension
| n9 | Singular | Plural | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | eff | effið | eff | effini |
| Accusative | eff | effið | eff | effini |
| Dative | effi | effinum | effum | effunum |
| Genitive | efs | efsins | effa | effanna |
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɛfː]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛfː
Noun
eff
- The name of the Latin-script letter F.
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | eff | effek |
| accusative | effet | effeket |
| dative | effnek | effeknek |
| instrumental | effel | effekkel |
| causal-final | effért | effekért |
| translative | effé | effekké |
| terminative | effig | effekig |
| essive-formal | effként | effekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | effben | effekben |
| superessive | effen | effeken |
| adessive | effnél | effeknél |
| illative | effbe | effekbe |
| sublative | effre | effekre |
| allative | effhez | effekhez |
| elative | effből | effekből |
| delative | effről | effekről |
| ablative | efftől | effektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular | effé | effeké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural | efféi | effekéi |
| Possessive forms of eff | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | effem | effjeim |
| 2nd person sing. | effed | effjeid |
| 3rd person sing. | effje | effjei |
| 1st person plural | effünk | effjeink |
| 2nd person plural | effetek | effjeitek |
| 3rd person plural | effjük | effjeik |
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)
Further reading
- eff , redirecting to (1): f and (2): f in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛfː/
- Rhymes: -ɛfː
Noun
eff n (genitive singular effs, nominative plural eff)
- The name of the Latin-script letter F.
Declension
declension of eff
| n-s | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | eff | effið | eff | effin |
| accusative | eff | effið | eff | effin |
| dative | effi | effinu | effum | effunum |
| genitive | effs | effsins | effa | effanna |
Võro
Noun
eff (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter F.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.