Usually means: Vulgar slang substituting for "fucking."
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word effing:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. effing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. effing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Effing, effing: Wordnik
  4. effing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. effing: Wiktionary
  6. effing: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. effing: Dictionary.com
  8. effing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. effing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  10. effing: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. effing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. effing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. effing: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. effing, effing: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. effing: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See eff as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (euphemistic, slang) Bowdlerization of fucking.
adverb:  (euphemistic, slang) bowdlerization of fucking

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