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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“Fuckin’ A”, or sometimes “fuckin’ A right” is a slang way of expressing strong agreement. I learned it in Army basic training in 1969. I don’t know the derivation. Some people euphemize it as “Effin’ A”, which has given rise to the occasional substitution “F&A”.
F&A dude, that shit is beautiful. Big ups to you bro.
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D-A-W-G….Now that’s what I’m talkin’ ‘bout! Awesome, Cool, F&A dude….
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F&A right buddy?
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The pronunciation similarity is obvious, but any eggcornish meaning connection is perhaps not so strong. I’m thinking the perps may just think that “F&A” is an abbreviation for some unknown phrase that denotes agreement.
Last edited by Dixon Wragg (2016-11-21 01:06:27)
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Or maybe they even have a phrase that has initials F and A that they are abbreviating. Something might have developed that we aren’t even aware of as a back-formation to make F&A make sense. If it hasn’t yet, and if F&A becomes widespread, something might happen.
“I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
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Dixon, I think you’ll be charmed by an earlier post from your alter eagle. F&A would fit nicely in our treasure grove of letterate eggcorns.
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David Bird wrote:
Dixon, I think you’ll be charmed by an earlier post from your alter eagle.
I thought I vaguely remembered such a conversation, but that thread didn’t show up when I searched under “F&A”.
F&A would fit nicely in our treasure grove of letterate eggcorns.
Agreed!
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IM(not so)HO, “Fuckin’ A” goes along with “un-fuckin’(g)-believable” and the lovely joke I’m about to tell:
Lady goes into grocery store and asks for onions.
Clerk says onions are out of stock at this time.
Lady persists and reiterates request.
Clerk tells her to spell “onions.”
She does so.
Clerk then says he will spell it and says: “onfuckingions.”
Lady says “There no ‘fuck’ in “onions”.
Clerk says “That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you!”
All this by way of saying the “F” word is being injected verbally into the middle of many other words to indicate extreme feeling rather than letting the original word convey its normal meaning, per the above examples. It’s a continuing trend that allows people to “get it out of their system” via acceptable (i.e, conversational) vulgarity.
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When I first learned the term in 1969, the guy who told me what it meant said that it was spelled “fuckin’ aye” (with the “aye” pronounced like “a” rather than the usual “i” pronunciation). I doubt that’s the real derivation, though, because how many people pronounce “aye” like “a” rather than “i”? Alternatively, maybe it’s “A”, short for “agreed” or something like that.
I do agree with you that “fuckin’” here is an intensifier modifying the affirmative “A” or “aye”.
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It’s also good to remember the difference between “fuckin’ A, man” and “fuckin’ a man.”
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