motherchucker
English edit
Etymology edit
mother + chucker, as a rhyming bowdlerization of motherfucker. Popularized by the American television series Gossip Girl in the late 2000s,[1] but reportedly used by Britney Spears in a 2005 Details article.[2]
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
motherchucker (plural motherchuckers)
- (euphemistic, slang, usually derogatory) Motherfucker.
- 2008 February 9, Jessica Pressler, Chris Rovzar, “Gossip Girl Says ‘Chuck You’ to True Love”, in Daily Intelligencer:
- Ordinarily we would say that no one would actually say, as Blair does, "Damn that motherchucker!" […]
- 2009 July 1, Jada Yuan, “Glory Be! Patrick McMullan Redesigned His Website!”, in New York Magazine:
- We’ve spent the last four years of our lives cursing the Patrick McMullan Company Website. We love Patrick and the boys dearly, but entire mountain ranges could have formed in the time it took that motherchucker to load.
- 2009 August 21, Stephen King, “Stephen King's Reliable Rentals”, in Entertainment Weekly:
- Die Hard has been often imitated but never duplicated. Willis good, Rickman better. Yippee-ki-yay, motherchucker.
- 2012 April 20, Sarah Lawson, “Gossip Girl Recap Recap: Salon of the Dead”, in Vulture:
- Nate being a motherchucker +20 –THEYCALLMESTACEY
References edit
- ^ Ralph Keyes, Euphemania: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms, Little, Brown and Company (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page
- ^ "For The Record: Quick News On Britney And Kevin, D'Angelo, Distillers, Slim Thug, Joe Strummer, Pete Rock & More", MTV.com, 14 February 2005