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English
Adjective
fuggheaded (comparative more fuggheaded, superlative most fuggheaded)
- (dated, fandom slang, minced oath) Euphemistic form of fuckheaded.
1950 March, Francis Towner Towner Laney, “Fanzine Scope”, in Spacewarp, number 36, pages 10–17:COVENTRY, "publication of the Society for the Investigation of Unusual Phenomena", is fuggheadedly Fortean or Forteanly fuggheaded -- take your choice. The Fortean reader will take it all in stride. Others will alternately shake their heads and guffaw.
1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Carl Joshua Brandon:Carl even established a false identity for himself (!!) as "Norman Sanfield Harris" a sercon-fuggheaded type.
References
- Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “fuggheaded”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 69–70.
- Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “fuggheaded adj.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.