Motherfucker

Conversely, when paired with an adjective, it can become a term denoting such things as originality and masculinity, as in the related phrase "badass motherfucker."

In an 1889 Texas murder case, a witness testified that the victim had called the defendant a "God damned mother-f—king, bastardly son-of-a-bitch" shortly before his death.

[6] In literature, Norman Mailer uses it occasionally, disguised as motherfugger, in his 1948 novel The Naked and the Dead,[7] and used it in full in his 1967 novel Why Are We in Vietnam?.

[8] In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five the word is used by one of the soldiers in the story – leading to the novel being often challenged in libraries and schools.

[10][11] In popular music, the first mainstream rock release to include the word was the 1969 album Kick Out the Jams by MC5.

The word was strongly implied, but not said explicitly, in Isaac Hayes' huge 1971 hit song "Theme from Shaft".

Arlo Guthrie's 1967 piece "Alice's Restaurant" used a minced version, "mother rapers.

In one HBO special, he comments that at one point, someone asked him to remove it, since, as a derivative of the word "fuck", it constituted a duplication.