fuck knows
1
9.9
- idiom
- Offensive
:
ni puta idea
- Go take him out to dinner, who the fuck knows and you know and it cost you thousands.
So again, my big theme, they don't fucking know that much.
- So again, my big theme, they don't fucking know that much.
- Go take him out to dinner, who the fuck knows and you know and it cost you thousands.
- I'm going to shower, do some laundry, you know, I don't fucking know, man.
- I was doing something with counterfeit notes, fuck knows why.
- And the answer is I don't fucking know who it is, because that's the way the world works now.
- Like, but what I can tell you is more Internet, less real world, Who the fuck knows?
- So that being said, had my dad not been medicated, who fucking knows what would have happened.
- Because truthfully, until you're in the world in the shitstorm, you'll never fucking know.
- But now they've got this scar on their face and their zebra click goes, I don't fucking know you.
Examples
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So that being said, had my dad not been medicated, who fucking knows what would have happened.
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Who the fuck knows when she’ll be back?
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Maybe I can do like, I don't fucking know, maybe in the middle of a video.
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I don't fucking know how my brain operates.
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Don't lie, I don't fucking know her, I just saw her here.
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And the answer is I don't fucking know who it is, because that's the way the world works now.
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I have no idea; fuck knows where it comes from.
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So, fuck knows what he's really thinking.
Synonyms
80
6.4
To not know anything about a subject or situation
7
8.6
I do not know
5
7.5
To not know anything at all about something
4
9.0
I do not know
Antonyms
How Certain
- Informal
31
9.3
- Informal
7
8.6
- Informal
1
7.4
- Offensive
1
9.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
fuck + know
The phrase uses the expletive 'fuck' as an emphatic/placeholder with 'knows' to convey 'nobody/I have no idea', which is not a literal composition of the two words. A B1 learner who knows 'know' and recognises 'fuck' as a vulgar intensifier might infer it functions like 'who the hell knows' and guess the general sense, but the usage is idiomatic and register-specific, so it is only partially predictable.
Etymology
Fuck knows is a very rude, informal way to say you do not know something. It likely comes from older sayings like 'God knows' or 'who knows', but with the strong word fuck added to knows to make it more shocking and forceful, so it now means 'I really have no idea'.