effing
adjective
[ ˈɛfɪŋ ]
• used to emphasize or express annoyance with someone or something.
• "give me an effing break!"
effing
adverb
• used for emphasis or to express annoyance.
• "some movies are so effing awful, they're hilarious"
Origin:
1920s: euphemistic alteration of fucking, with the substitition of eff for fuck ; see also eff.
eff
verb
• used as a euphemism for fuck (verb) in various expressions.
• "if I'd told him to eff off that would have been me out of the team"
Origin:
1940s (in the phrase eff and blind ): the letter F represented as a word.
