‘Get the fuck away from my wife, you fucking motherfucker,’ says one man to another in Any Minute I Can Split, by Judith Rossner. The term is used in low colloquial American speech to a man who is detested. The speaker is probably not...

Motherfucker (also existing in countless contracted forms e.g. mofo, muthafucka, ma fucker, or shortened to just "mother") is a common insult and profanity in American English and in other varieties of the English language. The term, widely viewed as...