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{{also|EFF}}
==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|ĕf}}, {{IPA|en|/ɛf/}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɛf|s=1}}
* {{homophones|en|f}}

===Etymology 1===
A spelling of the letter ''[[f]]'' (also spelled ''[[ef]]''), the initial letter of the vulgar term '''[[fuck]]'''. Compare '''[[pee]]'''.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|euphemistic|slang}} [[fuck|Fuck]] {{qual|the taboo [[swear word]], but not in the sense "to copulate"}}
#: {{ux|en|'''Eff''' off!}}
#: {{ux|en|And he kept saying, "'''Effing''' this, '''effing''' that."}}

=====Synonyms=====
* {{l|en|feck}}, {{l|en|frak}}, {{l|en|frig}}, {{l|en|funk}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{der2|en|eff all|eff and blind<!--derived from "eff and blind": *[[effing and blinding]]-->|effing|eff off|eff and jeff|eff up|what the eff}}

===Etymology 2===
{{backformation|en|ineffable}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# To [[put into words]]; to [[express]].
#* {{RQ:Beckett Watt|text={{...}} 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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2001| title=Master Class: Scenes from a Fiction Workshop |author=Paul West | page=57| passage=They, no more than we, found it hard to '''eff''' the ineffable, but they, you see, needed to console themselves more.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2018| title=Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language|author=Wesley J. Wildman | page=83| passage=It is another way of '''effing''' the ineffable, one with potentially serious practical effects.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2020| title=Other Voices, Other Rooms: Poems |author=Tim Vivian | page=100| passage=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.” }}

=====Usage notes=====
This verb is unlikely to be understood without priming the listener by using the word {{m|en|ineffable}} in the same paragraph.

===Etymology 3===

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{altsp|en|ef}}; {{Latn-def|en|name|F|f|nocap=1}}
#* {{RQ:Swift Works|volume=VIII|poem=On the Irish Club|page=78|passage=Why against printers all this noise? This summoning of blackguard boys? Why so sagacious in your guesses? Your '''''effs''''', and ''tees'', and ''arrs'', and ''eſſes?'' Take my advice; to make you safe, I know a shorter way be half.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Michael Feld|title=The Sabbatical Year|location=London|publisher={{w|Alan Ross}} Ltd|year=1969|page=301|passage=‘'''Eff'''. You. En,’ said Mr Banstead. ‘Fun!{{nb...}}’}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Amy Einsohn; Marilyn Schwartz|chapter=[Abbreviations and Symbols] Abbreviations|title=The Copyeditor’s Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications|edition=4th|publisher=w:University of California Press|year=2019|section=part 2 (Editorial Style)|page=242|isbn=978-0-520-28672-6|passage=''A or an?'' When an indefinite article precedes an acronym or initialism, the choice between ''a'' and ''an'' follows from the pronunciation: / a FAQ file (“fack”; but “an FAQ file” with the alternate pronunciation “'''eff'''-ay-cue”) / an FTC commissioner (“'''eff'''-tee-cee”)}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Anand Ranganathan; w:Chitra Subramaniam|title=The Rat Eater|publisher=[[w:Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]] India|year=2019|isbn=978-9-3890-0016-0|passage=‘S-S-C…sitting on a tree…'''eff'''-you-cee-kay-i-en-ji.’}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|effell}}
* {{l|en|eff why eye}}

{{cln|en|spelled-out initialisms}}

==Estonian==

===Noun===
{{et-noun}}

# {{Latn-def|et|name|F|f}}

==Faroese==

===Noun===
{{fo-noun|n|efs|eff}}

# {{Latn-def|fo|name|F|f}}

====Declension====
{{fo-decl-noun-n9|e|f}}

====See also====
* {{list:Latin script letter names/fo}}

==Hungarian==

===Pronunciation===
* {{hu-IPA}}
* {{audio|hu|Hu-ef.ogg}}
* {{rhymes|hu|ɛfː|s=1}}

===Noun===
{{hu-noun}}

# {{Latn-def|hu|name|F|f}}

====Declension====
{{hu-infl-nom|effe|e}}{{hu-pos-etek|eff|j|jei}}

===See also===
* {{list:Latin script letter names/hu}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:ErtSz| redirecting to {{R:ErtSz|f|1| and {{R:ErtSz|f|2}}<!--
* {{R:Nagyszotar| redirecting to {{R:Nagyszotar|f}}-->

{{cln|hu|three-letter words}}

==Icelandic==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|is|/ɛfː/}}
* {{rhymes|is|ɛfː|s=1}}

===Noun===
{{is-noun|@@}}

# {{Latn-def|is|name|F|f}}

====Declension====
{{is-ndecl|n}}

==Võro==

===Noun===
{{vro-noun}}

# {{Latn-def|vro|name|F|f}}

====Inflection====
{{rfinfl|vro|noun}}

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