The word fuck

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-09-21 01:19am

I wonder how it came to be?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-09-21 01:20am

As I recall the word was originally Dutch and meant to dig

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-09-21 01:21am

From German, 'fokken'

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2003-09-21 01:54am

LT.Hit-Man wrote:I wonder how it came to be?

I'm not sure, but is sure is fucking fun to fucking say.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-09-21 02:07am

I use fuck alot. I say it so much that I don't even realize I'm saying it. As for where it comes from, it is germanic. Merriam-Webster says this on its origin:

Etymology: akin to Dutch fokken to breed (cattle), Swedish dialect fokka to copulate

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-09-21 02:55am

George Carlin did a great comedy piece on "The Word Fuck"- it's on .mp3 all over the place.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2003-09-21 05:29am

I heard/read something YEARS ago that in times of yore, (Yeah, Ala Friends) (Also, this was in the U.S. don't know about other countries, your Fokken thing is probably rig---ANYway....) When a man was convicted of rape, or if a slave was caught having sex with a white woman he was branded with the letters F.U.C.K. standing for "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge)
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Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-09-21 10:44am

Sea Skimmer wrote:As I recall the word was originally Dutch and meant to dig

Well then when a guy say i dig that chick what he really mean is.........

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-09-21 10:55am

might come from the german word "ficken" which means as much as "to fuck". the word ficken in middle german (a old version of german) means simply "to move"

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-09-21 05:38pm

My Social teacher says that it mean to sow (broadcasting) and was spelled fayke or so. Since only farmers and lower class people used it, it became a sterotype that uncouth people use it. Then it somehow became a swear.

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2003-09-21 05:42pm

The word fuck is used so much that it has lost all meaning to me.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-09-21 05:46pm

The root "fuc" means "to make" I believe.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-09-22 02:08pm

It's something along with other swear words i try to use as little as possible. My english teacher taught me that cursing is the human equivilant of an animal call. I am not an animal. However i am only human.

*Edited because while Lord Pounder may not be an animal he can't spell for shit*

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-09-22 02:35pm

Was one of the words in a pejorative term exercise I did in English Language. The exact etymology of all these swear words used today was coursework for me, if only I could find it again.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-09-22 02:41pm

Its origin is whatever Cecil Adams says it is.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-09-22 02:48pm

Bartleby's The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition wrote:fuck

PRONUNCIATION: fk
VERB: Inflected forms: fucked, fuck·ing, fucks

TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with. 2. To take advantage of, betray, or cheat; victimize. 3. Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To engage in sexual intercourse. 2. To act wastefully or foolishly. 3. To interfere; meddle. Often used with with.
NOUN: 1. An act of sexual intercourse. 2. A partner in sexual intercourse. 3. A despised person. 4. Used as an intensive: What the fuck did you do that for?
INTERJECTION: Used to express extreme displeasure.
PHRASAL VERBS: fuck off 1. Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal. 2. To spend time idly. 3. To masturbate. fuck over To treat unfairly; take advantage of. fuck up 1. To make a mistake; bungle something. 2. To act carelessly, foolishly, or incorrectly. 3. To cause to be intoxicated.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, attested in pseudo-Latin fuccant, (they) fuck, deciphered from gxddbov.
WORD HISTORY: The obscenity fuck is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, “Flen flyys,” from the first words of its opening line, “Flen, flyys, and freris,” that is, “fleas, flies, and friars.” The line that contains fuck reads “Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk.” The Latin words “Non sunt in coeli, quia,” mean “they [the friars] are not in heaven, since.” The code “gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk” is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields “fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli.” The whole thus reads in translation: “They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge].”

That sound rather bizzarre...

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