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"Fucked-upness" feels awkard to me. As though there's ambiguity over where to attach the "-ed". 'Cause it's not "upness", it's "fuckedness", but "fuck-upedness" sounds even more clumsy than "fucked-upness" ... so "upfuckedness" always seemed like a way to get each part attached to the correct other part, since "up-" as a prefix works, and reversing the order of modifiers is allowed so much of the time.

Maybe it really is just a familiarity thing then. Though I'm still interested in the infix hypothesis.

Could be, regionalism has played tricks on me in the past. (Various areas of the states, and five of my formative years in Australia.) I recall a friend performing much the same blink when I expressed exasperation with a mutual friends "fuckwittedness," which seems to me an aspect of being a fuckwit... a term my friend was unfamiliar with.

Curious: do you pronounce it - ah, wait - I see the question has been answered already :)

~j