what the fuck

English

Pronunciation

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Phrase

what the fuck

1. (interrogative, vulgar, slang) An intensive form of what.

   Synonyms: what in God's name, what in tarnation, what in the world, what on Earth, what the dickens, what the Devil, what the deuce, what the heck, what the hell, what the hey, what the flying fuck

   What the fuck were you thinking? What the fuck was I thinking? What the fuck are you doing?

   What the fuck is going on? What the fuck just happened? What the fuck is wrong with you?

Derived terms

• what the fuck ever

Related terms

Related terms

• the fuck
• how the fuck
• where the fuck
• dafuq
• who the fuck
• why the fuck

Translations

intensive form of what

• Ancient Greek: τί που (tí pou)
• Arabic: ما نكح
• Bulgarian: какво да еба (kakvo da eba)
• Catalan: què putes, què collons
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 什麼鳥？／什么鸟？ (shénme niǎo?), 什麼鬼／什么鬼 (shénme guǐ)

• Czech: co to kurva? (vulgar)
• Danish: hvad helvede, hvad fanden, hvad fuck
• Dutch: wat de fok
• Estonian: mida vittu?
• Finnish: mitä vittua
• French: c’est quoi ce bordel ?, qu’est-ce que c’est que cette merde ?, qu’est-ce que putain de quoi
• Galician: que carallo
• German: was zum Teufel?, was zum Scheiß?, was zum Fick?
• Greek: τι στο διάολο (el) (ti sto diáolo), τι στον πούτσο (ti ston poútso) (vulgar)

  What the fuck are you doing? — Τι στο διάολο κάνεις;,

  or "Τι μαλακία κάνεις;" (stronger than the previous)

• Hebrew: מה לעזאזל (ma la`azazél)
• Hindi: क्या छुतिय्यापा है? (kyā chutiyyāpā hai?)
• Hungarian: mi a fasz (hu), mi a geci, mi a szar, mi a lószar
• Icelandic: hvað í fjandanum?, hver fjandinn?
• Indonesian: apa-apaan (id)
• Isan: อิหยังวะ (ì-yǎng-wa)
• Italian: che cazzo
• Japanese: 一体なんだ？ (いったいなんだ？, ittai nan da?), 一体全体なんだ？ (いったいぜんたいなんだ？, ittai-zentai nan da?)
• Korean: 니미럴 (nimireol)
• Malay: apa jadah
• Norwegian: hva faen, hva i helvete
• Polish: co do kurwy?, co jest kurwa?, ki chuj? (pl), co do chuja?
• Portuguese: que caralho/porra/diabos/merda
• Romanian: ce pula mea, ce sloboz, ce pizda mă-sii, ce morții mă-sii, ce căcat, ce dracu', ce naiba, ce futere, ce mama dracului, ce mama naibii
• Russian: како́го ху́я (ru) (kakóvo xúja), ху́ли (ru) (xúli), что за хуйня́ (što za xujnjá), что за на́хуй (što za náxuj)
• Serbo-Croatian: који курац? (koji kurac?)
• Slovak: čo to kurva
• Spanish: qué putas, qué diablos, qué carajo, qué mierda, qué coño, qué cojones, qué leches
• Swedish: vad fittan, vad i hela kuken, vad fan, vad i helvete
• Thai: อะไรวะ (arai wa)
• Turkish: ne sikim, ne bok
• Ukrainian: що за хуй (ščo za xuj)
• Uyghur: نېمە دىگەن گەپ (nëme digen gep)
• Vietnamese: quái gì vậy, cái lồn gì thế
• Welsh: beth gythraul

Interjection

what the fuck

1. (vulgar) Used to express astonishment, shock, incredulity, or disbelief (as an ellipsis of longer expressions).
   • 2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker‎^[1]:

     The proof is on my computer. It’s on all these people’s computers, and everyone around here is just going along with that. What the fuck? [quoting Emilia Jones as Reality Winner in the film Winner]

3. (vulgar) Used to express nonchalance or the dismissal of any consequences of something one is about to do.

   I finally said “eh, what the fuck” and quit my job.

   • 1983, Risky Business, spoken by Miles (Curtis Armstrong):

     Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

Synonyms

• wtf, WTF, tf, wdf
• what the eff (euphemistic)

Synonyms

• (expresses astonishment, incredulity): what the actual fuck, what on Earth, what in the world, what the heck, what the hell, what the...
• (expresses nonchalance): fuck it, what the heck, what the hell, what the hey, whatever, why not, who cares, so what

Descendants

• → Chinese: 花惹發／花惹发 (huārěfā)
• → Dutch: wat de fok
• → French: ouate de phoque

Translations

expressing astonishment

• Arabic: ما نكح
• Bulgarian: какво да еба (kakvo da eba)
• Catalan: què collons
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 什麼鳥？／什么鸟？ (shénme niǎo?), 什麼鬼／什么鬼 (shénme guǐ)

• Czech: Co to kurva? (vulgar)
• Danish: hvad helvede, hvad fanden, hvad fuck
• Dutch: wat de fok
• Estonian: mida vittu?
• Finnish: mitä vittua
• French: c’est quoi ce bordel ?, qu’est-ce que c’est que cette merde ?, qu’est-ce que putain de quoi
• Galician: que carallo
• German: was zum Teufel?, was zum Scheiß?, was verfickt nochmal?
• Greek: στο διάολο (el) (sto diáolo)

  What the fuck are you doing? — Τι στο διάολο κάνεις;,

  or "Τι μαλακία κάνεις;" (stronger than the previous)

• Hebrew: מה לעזאזל (ma la`azazél)
• Hindi: क्या छुतिय्यापा है? (kyā chutiyyāpā hai?)
• Hungarian: mi a fasz (hu), mi a geci, mi a szar, mi a lószar
• Icelandic: hvað í fjandanum?, hver fjandinn?
• Indonesian: apa-apaan (id)
• Isan: อิหยังวะ (ì-yǎng-wa)
• Italian: che cazzo
• Japanese: 一体なんだ？ (いったいなんだ？, ittai nan da?), 一体全体なんだ？ (いったいぜんたいなんだ？, ittai-zentai nan da?)
• Korean: 니미럴 (nimireol)
• Malay: apa jadah
• Norwegian: hva faen, hva i helvete
• Polish: co do kurwy?, co jest kurwa?, ki chuj? (pl), co do chuja?
• Portuguese: que porra/diabos/merda
• Romanian: ce pula mea, ce sloboz, ce pizda mă-sii, ce morții mă-sii, ce căcat, ce dracu', ce naiba, ce futere, ce mama dracului, ce mama naibii
• Russian: како́го ху́я (ru) (kakóvo xúja), ху́ли (ru) (xúli), что за хуйня́ (što za xujnjá), что за на́хуй (što za náxuj)
• Serbo-Croatian: који курац? (koji kurac?)
• Slovak: čo to kurva
• Spanish: qué diablos, qué carajo, qué mierda, qué coño, qué cojones, qué leches
• Swedish: vad fittan, vad fan, vad i helvete
• Thai: อะไรวะ (arai wa)
• Uyghur: نېمە دىگەن گەپ (nëme digen gep)
• Vietnamese: quái gì vậy, cái lồn gì thế
• Welsh: beth gythraul

expressing nonchalance

• Catalan: tant se val! (ca), què collons
• Galician: ao carallo
• German: was auch immer
• Hebrew: למה לא (lama ló)
• Hungarian: mi a fasz (hu)
• Icelandic: skítt með það, fjandinn hafi það
• Italian: che cazzo
• Portuguese: que se foda
• Russian: (extremely vulgar:) (ну и) хуй с ним ((nu i) xuj s nim), (colloquial:) (ну и) чёрт с ним ((nu i) čort s nim), ну, нахуй (nu, naxuj)
• Spanish: ¡qué más da!, qué coño, qué carajo
• Swedish: vad fittan, vad fan
• Vietnamese: thôi kệ, thôi (vi)