How to pronounce effing
Listen to effing in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“effing” in real sentences
110 clips in the index · 1 American · 10 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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What are you effing doing?
Channel 4 News · hear it here
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Uh, like >> you effing insane?
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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went it's my effing Universe I can do what I effing want and was he wrong
British Library · hear it here
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don't get in my effing way Stalin said don't get in my effing way Caesar said
DigitalVoidRecords · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of effing. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.