mercy fuck
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- noun
- /ˈmɜrsi fʌk/
- Offensive
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polvo por lástima
- Sarah realized that what she thought was love was really just a mercy fuck to make him feel better.
Examples
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He felt it was a mercy fuck when he slept with her out of pity rather than desire.
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One possible explanation for the discrepancy between male and female experience of orgasm in partnered encounters is that men want sex more often than women, with the result that in established couples, some of the sexual interactions are what women popularly call "mercy fucks" or "freebies."
Academic text (2006) -
A mercy fuck, Alice Ann?
Fiction book (2001) -
After that amazing six-second mercy fuck, I feel I owe the boy something.
Fiction book (2001) -
Then he thrust harder, and this time she was wetter as her body responded to the sex—any sex—because it had been so long. But she knew, as she began to relax into the physical feelings, that this moment she had hoped for was nothing more than what she'd heard people call a mercy fuck.
Fiction book (1991) -
During their conversation, she mentioned that sometimes relationships lead to mercy fucks when compassion replaces attraction.
Synonyms
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A sexual encounter in which one person has sex with someone out of pity rather than because they want to
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sexual act performed out of pity or compassion' is directly and compositionally derived from 'mercy' (compassion/pity) combined with 'fuck' (sexual act). Although coarse and colloquial, the semantics follow straightforward composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Mercy fuck comes from putting mercy (pity) before fuck (a blunt word for sex). The image is of someone offering sex to comfort or help another person rather than from desire, so the phrase means 'a sexual act done out of pity'.