The F-Word (52 page)

In phrase:

MFWIC
,
m
other
f
ucker
w
hat’s
i
n
c
harge.

1980
D. J. Cragg
Lexicon Militaris
285:
MFWIC
.
M
other
f
ucker
W
hat’s
I
n
C
harge.
2002
C. Bartolomeo
Side of the Angels
52: “Can you have Nicky up there pronto?” “By this weekend. Who’s the MFWIC again?” Ron asked. (MFWIC, pronounced “miffwick,” was an old campaign acronym which meant “mother-fucker-what’s-in-charge.”)
2007
K. S. Bodman
Checkmate
156: Anyway, after that debacle, we had a meeting, and Austin demanded to know who the MFWIC was on that project.

m.f.
or
em-eff
adjective

(a partial euphemism for)
MOTHERFUCKING
. Also
emeffing
.

1958
W. Motley
Epitaph
120: Them emeffing guards is bringing it in fountain pens.
Ibid.
149: You emeffing right.
a
1972
in G.M. Simmons et al.
Black Culture
219: That M-F-in’ jive.
1973
A. Childress
Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich
34: All over the emm-eff community.
1975
J. McCourt
Mawrdew Czgowchwz
(2002) iv. 83: Wait a minute, hon, I’ll write it down—where’s my m. f. lipstick.
1990
New Yorker
(Apr. 2) 46: Graffiti…on the… training ship of the Maine Maritime Academy…“Only 13 more MFD’s, Only 12 more MFD’s, Only 11 more MFD’s,” and so on down a toilet stall. The “D” stood for “day.”

MILF
noun
[
m
other (or
m
om)
I
’d
l
ike to
f
uck]

a sexually attractive woman who is a mother or (generally) in early middle age.

1991
(name of rock band): milf.
1995
Re: Fabulous after Forty
in Usenet newsgroup alt.mag.playboy (Jan. 12): Those moms are babes!!… We have a term for it around here, its [
sic
] called “MILF”.… “Mothers I’d Like to Fuck.”
1998
A. Herz
American Pie
(film script):
Freshman guy
. Dude! That chick—is a MILF!
Freshman guy #2
What the hell is that?
Freshman guy
M-I-L-F! Mom I’d Like to Fuck!
2005
“Belle De Jour”
Intimate Adventures of London Call Girl
45: There seems to be a leggy blonde or brunette sex goddess for every potential horny businessman on earth, with maybe a MILF or two to spare.

mindfuck
noun

1
. imaginary sexual activity. Cf.
HEADFUCK
noun
sense 4.
Jocular
.

1964
I. Faust
Steagle
265: We could lie down side by side and think. Oh, a mind fuck? That’s nowhere.
1968
Zap Comix
(No. 3) (unpaged): A mind-fuck.
a
1977
M. French
Women’s Room
574: They masturbate to it.… It’s a mind-fuck.
a
1991
J. Phillips
You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
163: He rarely gets a hard-on, but the mind-fuck is really irresistible.
2008
B. Kahr
Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head?
39: The patient from Berlin explained that he derived more pleasure from the
fantasy
than he did from the
reality
… As one of my patients admitted, “Sometimes a mind-fuck is better than the other kind.”

2
.
a
. a disturbing or overwhelming experience, esp. one caused by deliberate psychological manipulation.

1971
It
(June 2) 19/3 The title track “The Man Who Sold the World” is possibl[y] the most spaced out cut, but each one has its own individual mind fuck inside.
1972
R. Barrett
Lovomaniacs
385: Dolly’s eyes said she was
stoned
…I…know when someone’s full of the…original superfreak mindfuck.
1977
National Lampoon
(Aug.) 33: His Pressed Wang on Stained Glass is a religious mind-fuck.
1980
M. Baker
Nam
40: When you weren’t going through that, you had your recruit regs held up in front of your face memorizing your eleven general orders. It was a real mind fuck.
1986
J. Cain
Suicide Squad
85: Mindfuck would be terminal this time.
1988–90
M. Hunter
Abused Boys
279: The mind-fuck you did on me.
1993
K. Scott
Monster
164: You simply prepared ahead of time for the mind-fuck of being a prisoner.
2001
M. Azerrad
Our Band could be your Life
viii. 289: It was…a mind-fuck of a show.
2006
Giant Robot
No. 43 56/2: I was a film geek who was heavily mining through Euro and Asian cinema in college, and it was a total mind fuck to see all-Asian casts speaking American English when
Yellow
and
Shopping for Fangs
came out.

b
. something that causes confusion or bafflement; a confusing or mentally challenging thing.

1971
L. Bangs in
Creem
(June 17) 7 : That electro-distort stuff that rocked you guys to sleep when you were first tokin’ in your cradles was really unheard-of then, a real earthquake mindfuck.
1987
“J. Hawkins”
Tunnel Warriors
37: Despite the obvious game of mindfuck.
1997
Village Voice
(N.Y.C.) (Sept. 30) 88: Fincher’s new movie…is a cynical mindfuck thriller that builds, with increasing pointlessness, to a deflating punchline.
2001
Premiere
(Apr.) 42/2: We had a great screening early one morning.… It was packed—for a mind-fuck at 9 o’clock.… a mesmerizing meditation on memory, identity, and loss.
2007
P. Spiegelman
Wall Street Noir
351: Time is an invidious mind fuck. You look around one day and everything’s unfamiliar.

3
. a counterintelligence deception; an act of psychological manipulation.

1974
C. Bernstein & B. Woodward
All the President’s Men
119: Somewhere, Bernstein had been told that the CIA did that kind of thing abroad. He had heard it called Mindfuck but the agency called it Black Operation.
2005
N. Fick
One Bullet Away
153: A voice began to fire questions at me—name, rank, service.… I struggled to use the resistance techniques I had been taught.… I smiled in the tight confines of the cell and waited for my next mind-fuck.
2006
E. M. Katz & L. Holmes
Why You’re Still Single
57: He might be starting a bizarre mind-fuck in which he’s going to cancel every fourth date in order to keep you from ever getting comfortable.

4
. a crazy person; a psychotic. Also: a person who manipulates others;
MIND-FUCKER
, definition 2.

1977
J. Sayles
Union Dues
312: Comes back such a mindfuck he can’t remember. Fuckin space cowboy.
Ibid.
176: He was a certifiable mindfuck
and you had to keep him on a tight leash.
1992
H. Childress
Reality Bites
(film script) 25:
Lelaina stops at the door confused, kind of bummed out. Then she looks at Vickie, who has on a Cheshire cat grin. Lelaina smiles as she realizes Vickie was stringing her along
. LELAINA. You little mind-fuck.
2005
J. Trunk
Dirty Fan Male
3: So there I was, with a job, a tiny salary, working for a shit company, working with a total mindfuck, hating it all and still seeing no way out.

mindfuck
verb

1
. to psychologically manipulate; to disturb psychologically.

1966
(quotation at
fuck (someone’s) mind
under fuck,
verb
).
1967
L. Wolf
Voices from the Love Generation
17: Their consciousness has been permanently altered. Forever altered. They’ve been mind-fucked.
Ibid.
281: Mind-fucked. Profoundly influenced by something.
1970
J. Howard
Please Touch
235: Some [encounter] groups dismiss all abstractions as “headshit” and “mindfucking.”
1971
S. Miller
Hot Springs
66: They have nothing to teach you—they mind-fucked you.
1972
R. Gover
Mr. Big
11: She mindfucks me again.
1976
J. W. Thomas
Heavy Number
105: He’s really mind-fucked you.
1987
R. Miller
Slob
156: They both felt giddy, hysterical, a little confused, mindfucked, spent.
1989
E. Gilchrist
Light can be both Wave & Particle
164: Rhoda, stop mindfucking. Love people that love you.
1991
R. Marcinko & J. Weisman
Rogue Warrior
165: I was a veteran of mind-fucking the Vietnamese.
1997
A. Beattie
My Life, Starring Dara Falcon
136: Suddenly she’s selling his mother’s ring. His mother’s ring! Tell me that isn’t mind-fucking him.
2006
R. Barger & K. Zimmerman
6 Chambers, 1 Bullet
309: Was it fruitless trying to get into Vladimir’s head in a last-ditch attempt to mind-fuck him?

2
. to engage in imaginary intercourse (with).

1970
J. S. Grendahl
Mad Dog Press Archives
144: And a bad stripper, really she’s ashamed to be up there, isn’t really into mind-fucking with everyone in the crowd.
1996
E. G. Colter et al.
Policing Public Sex
161: Mindfucking is no longer better than the real thing if safer sex education is about sex.
2004
“Annalise”
Venus Rising
126: You used to mind fuck me all the time. I used to come in my uniform just by listening to you whisper in my ear.
2008
K. Jaye
Good Girls Pole Riders Club
146: I let my middle finger fall away from my clit.… It had been four days since visiting him,
and my vagina was almost raw. I had mind-fucked Darius so many times, it was starting to wear on my body.

mindfucker
noun

1
. something that is extremely disturbing, amazing, or astounding.

1969
J. Sebastian in
Woodstock
(film): This thing is a real mindfucker!
1970
E. E. Landy
Underground Dictionary
133:
Mind fucker…
Thing or situation that upsets or disturbs one.
1972
W. Pelfrey
Big V
24: Wow man, that’s a mind-fucker.
1980
A. Maupin
More Tales of City
lvii. 188: Michael rattled on about…Mrs. Madrigal’s recent revelation to her “family.” Jon shook his head incredulously. “That is…a mindfucker.”
1985
J. P. Kelly
Solstice
in B. Sterling
Mirrorshades
(1986) 93: They would have called the Stonehenge free festival a mind-fucker.
2007
E. Schweikher & P. Diamond
Cycling’s Greatest Misadventures
30: The thought of getting lost was a complete mindfucker.

2
. a person who psychologically manipulates another person; one who
MIND-FUCKS
.

1970
E. E. Landy
Underground Dictionary
133:
Mind fucker n
. Individual who asserts personal pressure to persuade people to believe his way without regard for the feelings of the people he influences; person who attempts to manipulate another’s thinking without regard for the other.
1980
National Lampoon
(Aug.) 67: You’re some kind of mindfucker. You’re a witch.
1982
H. Gold
True Love
140: You, mindfucker.… You’ve done nothing but lie to us. You think this is a liar’s game?
1996
N. T. Rosenberg
Trial by Fire
70: The woman is a mind-fucker, Stella. She’ll use anything and anyone to get what she wants.
2004
K. Schwartz
Clearing the Aisle
297: He was a mindfucker. Very charming, but a real snake.