fuck all

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌfʌk ˈɔːl/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

fuck all (uncountable)

1. (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland, vulgar) Nothing at all or very little.

   I've learned fuck all.

Synonyms

• bugger all
• Fanny Adams
• jack all
• piss all
• screw all
• sod all

 

• see also Thesaurus:nothing

Derived terms

• sweet fuck all

Translations

nothing at all or very little

• Afrikaans: fokkol (vulgar)
• Bulgarian: курец (kurec)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 條毛／条毛 (tiu⁴ mou⁴), 條撚／条撚 (vulgar)

  Mandarin: 個屁／个屁, 個雞巴／个鸡巴 (vulgar), 個屌／个屌 (vulgar)

• Dutch: geen zak m, geen flikker m
• Finnish: paskaakaan (with "ei")
• French: que dalle (fr)
• German: einen Scheißdreck (vulgar)
• Hungarian: lófasz (hu) (vulgar)
• Italian: un cazzo (it) m (literally “a dick”) (vulgar), un cazzo di niente m (literally “a dick of nothing”) (vulgar)
• Kurdish:
  • Northern Kurdish: quzilqurt (ku), qurreder (ku), kîrquz (ku)
• Polish: gówno (pl) n (lit. “shit”; usually used at the beginning of a phrase), chuj (pl) m
• Portuguese: porra nenhuma (pt) (vulgar)
• Romanian: o pulă
• Russian: (vulgar) ни хуя́ (ru) (ni xujá), (vulgar) ни хера́ (ru) (ni xerá)
• Spanish: una mierda (vulgar), una puta mierda (vulgar)
• Turkish: bir sikim, bir bok

Determiner

fuck all

1. (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland, vulgar) Nothing at all or very little.

   If you can't do this then there's fuck all hope for you.

   There was fuck all else he could have done.

   There are fuck all decent pubs around here.