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  1. Sep 26, 2018 · The F-word was recorded in a dictionary in 1598 (John Florio’s A Worlde of Wordes, London: Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount). It is remotely derived from the Latin futuere and Old German ficken/fucken meaning ‘to strike or penetrate’, which had the slang meaning to copulate. Eric Partridge, a famous etymologist, said that the German word ...

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    Fuck is an English-language profanity that often refers to the act of sexual intercourse, but is also commonly used as an intensifier or to convey disdain. While its origin is obscure, it is usually considered to be first attested to around 1475. [1] In modern usage, the term fuck and its derivatives (such as fucker and fucking) are used as a ...

  3. Feb 23, 2020 · Those advocating for this hypothesis point to the Norwegian “fukka”, meaning to “copulate”, or the Swedish “focka” to “copulate, strike, push”, which in turn may have derived from an Old Norse version of the words, which may have birthed the English “fuck”. Whatever the case, the word would soon find its way into John Florio ...

  4. Oct 7, 2021 · The F word is thought to come from the German word fricken which means “to strike” or “to hit”. It may also come from the Swedish dialectal word focka (“to strike” or “to copulate”) and/or the Dutch word fokken (“to breed”). At some point, rumor had it that the word “fuck” was a backronym of “For Unlawful Carnal ...

  5. Dec 6, 2023 · The oldest unambiguous use of the F-word comes from De Officiis, a treatise on moral conduct by Cicero. No, the Roman philosopher didn’t gift English its soon-to-be favorite obscenity. Rather ...

  6. Mar 11, 2021 · The etymology of the word itself is murky, but the epithet appears to have hit its stride in the 16th century after famed English lexicographer John Florio published “A Worlde of Wordes,” an Italian-English dictionary intended to teach people these languages as they were really “f*cking” spoken. F*ck, however, remained in the shadows of ...

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  8. Nov 5, 2024 · The word fuck definitely did not originate as an acronym, as many people think. (The publi­cation of a play in 1965 titled “For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge” led to a controversy when the University of California, Berkeley, tried to ban its sale; but the play seems not to have suggested that the phrase was the true origin of fuck.)