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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Cherlie on March 26, 2003, 04:57:05 PM
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F**K word, where did it come from?
I am not being a smarty pants, it just came to me. Plus what makes a swear word?
When someone says a cuss, is it the tone of voice that makes it a swear word? The unnatural meaning?
CB
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Main Entry: 1****
Pronunciation: 'f&k
Function: verb
Etymology: akin to Dutch fokken to breed (cattle), Swedish dialect fokka to copulate
Date: 1503
intransitive senses
1 usually obscene : COPULATE -- sometimes used in the present participle as a meaningless intensive
2 usually vulgar : MESS 3 -- used with with
transitive senses
1 usually obscene : to engage in coitus with -- sometimes used interjectionally with an object (as a personal or reflexive pronoun) to express anger, contempt, or disgust
2 usually vulgar : to deal with unfairly or harshly : CHEAT, SCREW
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Main Entry: 1****
Pronunciation: 'f&k
Function: verb
Etymology: akin to Dutch fokken to breed (cattle), Swedish dialect fokka to copulate
Date: 1503
intransitive senses
1 usually obscene : COPULATE -- sometimes used in the present participle as a meaningless intensive
2 usually vulgar : MESS 3 -- used with with
transitive senses
1 usually obscene : to engage in coitus with -- sometimes used interjectionally with an object (as a personal or reflexive pronoun) to express anger, contempt, or disgust
2 usually vulgar : to deal with unfairly or harshly : CHEAT, SCREW
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damn you are fast Sand.
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If you can overlook this blatant violation of copyright law, here's the entire entry from the Oxford English Dictionary, including quotations, for your edification:
[Early mod.E ****, fuk, answering to a ME. type *fuken (wk. vb.) not found; ulterior etym. unknown. Synonymous G. ficken cannot be shown to be related.]
For centuries, and still by the great majority, regarded as a taboo-word; until recent times not often recorded in print but frequent in coarse speech.
1. intr. To copulate. trans. (Rarely used with female subject.) To copulate with; to have sexual connection with.
a1503 DUNBAR Poems lxxv. 13 Be his feiris he wald haue plowit. 1535 LYNDESAY Satyre 1363 Bischops..may **** thair fill and be vnmaryit. 1535-36 Answer to Kingis Flyting 49 Ay plowand lyke ane furious Fornicatour. 1598 FLORIO Worlde of Wordes 137/1 Fottere, to iape, to sard, to ****e, to swive, to occupy. c1650 in Hales & Furnivall Percy's Folio MS. (1867) 90 Which made him to haue a mighty mind To clipp, kisse, & to f****. 1680 ROCHESTER Poems on Several Occasions (1950) 14 Much Wine had past with grave discourse, Of who ****s who, and who does worse. c1684 Sodom II. 30 Hee ****s to please his will, but I for need. 1707 ‘MADAM B[RAN]LE’ Fifteen Plagues of Maidenhead 4 But I poor Virgin never shall be F. a1750 A. ROBERTSON Poems (1750) 256 But she gave proof that she could fk. c1800 BURNS Merry Muses (1911) 71 You can fk where'er you please. c1863 PHILO CUNNUS Festival of Passions II. 54 That female nation who being encamped near their enemies were ****ed, during a truce, by the hostile party. 1869 ROSSETTI Let. 15 Sept. (1965) II. 743 If Byron fd his sister he fd her and there an end. c1888-94 My Secret Life IV. 64 Then a dread came over me. I had ****ed a common street nymph. 1922 JOYCE Ulysses 765 His wife is ****ed yes and damn well ****ed too. 1928 D. H. LAWRENCE Lady Chatterley iv. 44 Fellows with swaying waists ****ing little jazz girls. 1967 D. WRIGHT tr. R. Queneau's Between Blue & Blue v. 48 ‘Well, Lamélie,’ says Cidrolin, ‘while you're waiting to get married, do you want to be entertained or educated?’ ‘No, Dad, what I want to do is to ****.’ 1971 Ink 19 Oct. 15/3, I don't want to **** anyone, and I don't want to be ****ed either.
2. Used profanely in imprecations and exclamations as the coarsest equivalent of DAMN v. 5.
1922 JOYCE Ulysses 587 God **** old Bennett! 1929 F. MANNING Middle Parts of Fortune II. xv. 379 ‘**** the bloody thing!’ he said fiercely under his breath. 1955 S. BECKETT Molloy 69 **** the son of a squeak. 1959 F. KING So Hurt & Humiliated 151 ‘Suppose any of the neighbours were to look out and see them.’ ‘Oh, f the neighbours!’ ‘Really, Henry!’ 1969 ‘J. MORRIS’ Fever Grass ii. 24 Why don't you..tell whoever it is to go **** themselves?
3. Const. with various adverbs: **** about, to fool about, mess about; **** off, to go away, make off; **** up: (a) trans., to ruin, spoil, mess up; (b) intr., to blunder, to make a (serious) error; to fail; cf. SCREW v. 12c.
1929 F. MANNING Middle Parts of Fortune I. ii. 31 They kept 'em ****in' about the camp, while they sent us over the bloody top. Ibid. iii. 37 As soon as a bit o' shrapnel comes their way, [they] **** off 'ome jildy, toot sweet. 1944 Amer. Speech XIX. 108 Go on, now, **** off! 1958 S. BECKETT Malone Dies 116 She wants to know if you're the one in charge. **** off, said Lemuel. 1967 R. SHAW Man in Glass Booth (1969) xvii. 114 ‘Can't be too specific,’ answered the old man. ‘Don't want to **** up my case.’ 1968 J. UPDIKE Couples iv. 294 This ****s up our party, doesn't it? 1969 It 11-24 Apr. 12/3 The..neatly planned plot to **** up their transport scene. 1971 E. E. LANDY Underground Dict. 84 **** up, v. 1. Make a gross error... 2. Fall completely under the influence of a drug or alcohol. 1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 13/2 We ****ed up in New York. 1980 Maledicta Summer 85 The RSV translates ‘They were well-fed lusty stallions’ but the King James [Bible] totally ****ed up here and confused Hebrew makm ‘well-balled’ (where the -m is the marker of the plural) with Hebrew makm ‘rising early in the morning’ (where the -m is part of the root).
Hence ****ing vbl. n. Also as ppl. a. and adv., used esp. as a mere intensive.
a1568 A. SCOTT Poems iv. 55 Thir foure, the suth to sane, Enforsis thame to ****ing. 1680 ROCHESTER Poems on Several Occasions (1950) 30 Through all the Town, the common ****ing Post, On whom each potato, relieves her tingling ****. 1707 [see FRIGGING vbl. n.]. c1888-94 My Secret Life III. 228 This house had but eight rooms, and two mere closets to let out for ****ing. Ibid. VIII. 307 She was..a magnificent bit of ****ing flesh, but nothing more. 1893 FARMER & HENLEY Slang III. 80/2 ****ing..Adj., A qualification of extreme contumely. Adv. Intensitive and expletive; a more violent form of bloody. 1922 JOYCE Ulysses 580 I'll wring the neck of any bugger says a word against my ****ing king. 1929 F. MANNING Middle Parts of Fortune I. ii. 23 Blown to ****in' bits as soon as we got out of the trench, poor bugger. 1930 J. DOS PASSOS 42nd Parallel 94 It was a ****ing shame it was Freddy hit you. 1938 DYLAN THOMAS Let. 31 Aug. (1966) 208 None using obscene words, none..to do with ****ing. 1939 Let. 29 Sept. (1966) 240 I'll give Dent the whole ****ing works. 1960 D. LESSING In Pursuit of English 12 ‘What the f--ing hell's that for?’ my father said. 1969 AUDEN City without Walls 49 I'm so bored with the whole ****ing crowd of you I could scream! 1971 It 2-16 June 18/3 The Youngbloods..are so ****ing good they can do spontaneous albums.
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For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge of the king? :D
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-f-word.htm
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Or at http://dictionary.reference.com/
2 entries found for f**k.
F**k (f k) Vulgar Slang
v. f**ked, f**k•ing, f**ks
v. tr. To have sexual intercourse with.
To take advantage of, betray, or cheat; victimize.
Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal.
v. intr.
To engage in sexual intercourse.
To act wastefully or foolishly.
To interfere; meddle. Often used with with.
n. An act of sexual intercourse.
A partner in sexual intercourse.
A despised person.
Used as an intensive: What the f**k did you do that for?
interj.
Used to express extreme displeasure.
Phrasal Verbs:
f**k off
1. Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal.
2. To spend time idly.
3. To masturbate.
F**k over
To treat unfairly; take advantage of.
F**k up
1. To make a mistake; bungle something.
2. To act carelessly, foolishly, or incorrectly.
3. To cause to be intoxicated.
[Middle English, attested in pseudo-Latin fuccant, (they) f**k, deciphered from gxddbov.]
Word History: The obscenity f**k 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 f**k 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 f**k wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge].”
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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n : slang terms for sexual intercourse [syn: f**king, screw, screwing, ass, piece of ass, roll in the hay, shag] v : have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve" (know is archaic); "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk]
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The raw intellectual capacity exihibited in these forums is simply astonishing, no?
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I guess then that we have a lot of f**king experts !!! ;)