"mindfuck" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /maɪnd.fʌk/ [UK, US] Audio: En-au-mindfuck.ogg [Australia] Forms: mindfucks [plural]
Etymology: Compound of mind + fuck. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|mind|fuck}} mind + fuck Head templates: {{en-noun}} mindfuck (plural mindfucks)
  1. (slang, vulgar) Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person. Tags: slang, vulgar Synonyms: brainfuck [vulgar], headfuck [vulgar], mindscrew Derived forms: mindfucker, mindfuckery Translations (something that intentionally manipulates the mind of another person): ajunuss (Estonian), maindfakk (Estonian), confusion [feminine] (French), déroute [feminine] (French), embrouille [feminine] (French), agyzsibbasztó (Hungarian), protpisis (Lithuanian), мозгоёбство (mozgojóbstvo) [neuter] (Russian), мозгоебательство (mozgojebatelʹstvo) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-mindfuck-en-noun-KzBWT~63 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mind-fuck, mind fuck

Verb [English]

IPA: /maɪnd.fʌk/ [UK, US] Audio: En-au-mindfuck.ogg [Australia] Forms: mindfucks [present, singular, third-person], mindfucking [participle, present], mindfucked [participle, past], mindfucked [past]
Etymology: Compound of mind + fuck. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|mind|fuck}} mind + fuck Head templates: {{en-verb}} mindfuck (third-person singular simple present mindfucks, present participle mindfucking, simple past and past participle mindfucked)
  1. (slang, vulgar) To intentionally destabilize, confuse or manipulate the mind of another person. Tags: slang, vulgar Translations (to intentionally destabilize, confuse or manipulate the mind of another person): confusionner (French), dérouter (French), embrouiller (French), ебать мозг (jebatʹ mozg) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-mindfuck-en-verb-pr~OaYgM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mind-fuck, mind fuck

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.