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by Crumb Eye on January 22nd, 2005

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What is the origin of the word "fuck"?

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  • by mister_c on February 8th, 2005

    mister_c

    The idea that fuck is an acronym, let alone a Victorian acronym, is an urban myth. Fuck has been around a lot longer.

    The first recorded usage of the word was in 1503, in a poem by Scottish poet William Dunbar. The origins of the word, however, are somewhat murky.

    Amongst the Germanic languages (which include English) there are many similar words which mean the same thing. There is the Middle Dutch fokken, meaning "to thrust, copulate with"; Norwegian dialect fukka: "to copulate"; and Swedish dialect focka, meaning "to strike, push, copulate", not to mention the German "ficken". Some scholars derive the word from the latin futuo, others from the Indo-European root peuk, meaning "to prick".

    Whatever its origin, it is clear that it's been enlivening the English language for quite some time.

    Edit: Ok, people aren't reading my answer before posting. Let me repeat:

    FUCK IS NOT AN ACRONYM. This is an urban-myth.

    It doesn't stand for "for unlawful carnal knowledge". It doesn't stand for "forniction under king's consent" (whatever "forniction" is, that would make the acronym "FUKC" for fuck's sake!) and it doesn't stand for "Fornicating Under Consent of the King"

    I'm accurate with my information, the word fuck has been around since before the 16th century. And in case you didn't get the message:

    FUCK IS NOT -REPEAT- IS NOT AN ACRONYM.

    Jeez!

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  • by MyKinKStar on June 29th, 2006

    MyKinKStar

    Just like "mister_c" states:

    Claim: The word 'fuck' derives from an acronymic phrase, either 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' or 'Fornication Under Consent of the King.'

    Status: False.

    [Fuck] is a very old word, recorded in English since the 15th century (few acronyms predate the 20th century), with cognates in other Germanic languages. The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (Random House, 1994, ISBN 0-394-54427-7) cites Middle Dutch fokken = "to thrust, copulate with"; Norwegian dialect fukka = "to copulate"; and Swedish dialect focka = "to strike, push, copulate" and fock = "penis". Although German ficken may enter the picture somehow, it is problematic in having e-grade, or umlaut, where all the others have o-grade or zero-grade of the vowel.

    In plain English, this means the term's origin is likely Germanic, even though no one can as yet point to the precise word it came down to us from out of all the possible candidates.
    Further, a few scholars hold differing pet theories outside of the Germanic origin one, theories which appear to have some holes in them.

    'Fuck' is an old word, even if it's been an almost taboo term for most of its existence. It was around; it just wasn't used in common speech all that much, let alone written down and saved for posterity. Likely its meaning contributed to its precise origin becoming lost in the mists of time â?? scholars of old would have been in no hurry to catalogue the growth of this word, and by the time it forced its way into even the most respectable of dictionaries, its parentage was long forgotten.

    The earliest cite in The Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1503. John Ayto, in his Dictionary of Word Origins cites a proper name (probably a joke or parody name) of 'John le Fucker' from 1250, quite possibly proof the word we casually toss about today was being similarly tossed about 750 years ago.

    Spurious etymologies such as this one satisfy our urge for completion â?? we want to believe such a naughty word has a salacious back story, something replete with stocks and adulterers, or fornication permits handed out by a king. How utterly prosaic to find out 'fuck' came to us the way most words sneak into the language â?? it jumped the fence from another tongue, was spelled and pronounced a bit differently in its new home, and over time drifted into being a distinct word recognized by everyone. Takes all the fun out of it, it does.

    Acronymic explanations catch our fancy due to the "hidden knowledge" factor. Most of us feel a bit of a glow when we think we're in possession of information others aren't privy to, and when a titillating or apt story is thrown in behind the trivia, these things just take off. "Tips" does not come from "To insure prompt service," yet that canard is widely believed. Likewise, "golf" didn't spring to life out of "Gentlemen only; ladies forbidden," and "posh" did not take its place in our vocabulary from a shortening of "Port out; starboard home."

    From Snopes.com, their link: http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/fuck.htm

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  • by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 5th, 2007

    singwell-is off researching a lot

    Fuck is an English word which, when used literally as a verb, means "to engage in sexual intercourse". It is generally considered to be an offensive profanity.

    It is unclear whether the word has always been considered vulgar, and if not, when it first started to be considered vulgar. Some evidence indicates that in some English-speaking locales it was considered acceptable as late as the 17th century meaning "to strike" or "to penetrate."[1] Other evidence indicates that it may have become vulgar as early as the 16th century in England, although neither set of evidence is inherently contradictory to the other, since many words have multiple connotations. The word became increasingly offensive over time because of its usage to describe (often in an extremely angry, hostile or belligerent manner) negative or unpleasant circumstances or people in an intentionally offensive way, such as in the term "motherfucker," one of its more common usages.

    Fuck is used not only as a verb (transitive and intransitive), but also as a noun, interjection, and, occasionally, as an expletive infix. The etymology of the word is uncertain (see below).
    Sources such as the Oxford English Dictionary contend the true etymology of fuck is still uncertain but appears to point to an Anglo-Saxon origin.

    The first known occurrence, in code, 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". Removing the substitution cipher on the phrase "gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk" yields "non sunt in coeli, quia fvccant vvivys of heli", which translated means "they are not in heaven because they fuck the wives of Ely" (fvccant is a fake Latin form).[2] The phrase was coded because of its meaning; it is uncertain to what extent the word itself was considered acceptable.

    Other possible connections are to Latin futuere (almost exactly the same meaning as the English verb "to fuck"), (hence the French foutre, the Catalan fotre, the Italian fottere, the Romanian fute, the vulgar peninsular Spanish follar and joder, and the Portuguese foder). However, there is considerable doubt and no clear lineage for these derivations. These roots, even if cognate, are not the original Indo-European word for to copulate; that root is likely *h3yebh-, ("h3" is the H3 laryngeal) which is attested in Sanskrit (yabhati) and the Slavic languages (Russian ебать (yebat'), Polish jebać, Serbian јебати (jebati)), among others: compare Greek "oiphô", and Greek "zephyros" (noun, ref. a Greek belief that the west wind caused pregnancy). However, Wayland Young (who agrees that these words are related) argues that they derive from the Indo-European *bhu- or *bhug-, believed to be the root of "to be", "to grow", and "to build". [Young, 1964]

    Spanish follar has a different root; according to Spanish etymologists, the Spanish verb follar"(attested in the 19th century) derives from fuelle ("bellows") from Latin folle(m) < Indo-European *bhel-; ancient Spanish verb folgar (attested in the 15th century) derived from Latin follicare, also ultimately from follem/follis.

    A possible etymology is suggested by the fact that the Common Germanic fuk-, by an application of Grimm's law, would have as its most likely Indo-European ancestor *pug-, which appears in Latin and Greek words meaning "fight" and "fist". In early Common Germanic the word was likely used at first as a slang or euphemistic replacement for an older word for intercourse, and then became the usual word for intercourse. Then, fuck has cognates in other Germanic languages, such as Middle Dutch fokken (to thrust, copulate, or to breed), dialectical Norwegian fukka (to copulate), and dialectical Swedish focka (to strike, copulate) and fock (penis).

    There is perhaps even an original Celtic derivation; futuere being related to battuere (to strike, to copulate); which may be related to Irish bot and Manx bwoid (penis). The argument is that battuere and futuere (like the Irish and Manx words) comes from the Celtic *bactuere (to pierce), from the root buc- (a point). Or perhaps Latin futuere came from the root fu, Common Indo-European bhu, meaning "be, become" and originally referred to procreation.

    Wikipedia

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  • by Universe Of Life on January 24th, 2007

    Universe Of Life

    When Adam bit the apple

    there was half a worm in it.




    lol

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  • by White Mage Cid on April 11th, 2005

    White Mage Cid

    I shouldn't be giving any false leads, but this may be a possibillity anyway. There was a flash movie i have seen from www.newgrounds.com or somewhere else, where this movie's topic was just about the word "fuck". It claimed that the word originated from the german word "fruchen" (or similar to that word) which means "to strike".

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  • by Spunts.answered 67 questions in 1 hour. on March 5th, 2007

    Spunts.answered 67 questions in 1 hour.

    from england.
    many hundred years ago in england you had to have consent from the king to have sex.
    he would issue you a sign to hang on your door stating 'fornication under consent by the king'.

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  • by Anonymous on January 24th, 2007

    Anonymous

    The dictionary says it's derivative of the middle english word fokken which means "to thrust, copulate with".

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  • by janacide on January 24th, 2007

    janacide

    Here,this is interesting...Origins of the "f" word. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_268b.html

    Or if you would like to watch a movie about the history of the word....
    http://www.amishdonkey.com/history-of-the-f-word.php

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  • by ladyrocke on June 24th, 2005

    ladyrocke

    I hope this is not an offensive answer. It states the versitility of this word and is quite accurate in its meaning.

    Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language today is the word fuck'. Out of all of the English words that begin with the letter F, fuck' is the only word that is referred to as the "F Word." It is the one magical word that just by its sound can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love. Fuck', as most words in the English language is derived from the German word friquen', which means 'to strike'. In English "fuck" falls into many grammatical categories. As a transitive verb for instance, "John fucked Shirley", as an intransitive verb, "Shirley fucks". Its meanings not always sexual It can be used as an adjective, such as "John's doing all the fucking work", as part of an adverb, "Shirley talks to fucking much", as an adverb enhancing an adjective, "Shirley is fucking beautiful", as a noun, "I don't give a fuck", as part of a word "absOfuckingloutly" or "infuckingcredible" and as almost every word in a sentence, "Fuck the fucking fuckers". As you must realize there aren't to many words with the versatility of the word "fuck" as in these examples describing situations such as fraud: "I got fucked at the used car lot", dismay: "ah fuck it", trouble: "I guess I'm really fucked now!", aggression: "Don't fuck with me buddy", difficulty: "I don't understand this fucking question", inquiry: "Who the fuck was that?", dissatisfaction: "I don't like what the fucks is going on here", incompetence: "He's a fuck off", dismissal: "Why don't you go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself?". I'm sure you can think of many more examples. With all of these multipurpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word. We say use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech. It will identify the quality of your character immediately. Say it loudly, and proudly, "FUCK YOU!"

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  • by Cipher on August 31st, 2008

    Cipher

    (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fuck)

    [Origin: 1495–1505; akin to MD fokken to thrust, copulate with, Sw dial. focka to copulate with, strike, push, fock penis]

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  • by Redhawk on January 24th, 2007

    Redhawk

    It originally meant: Fornication Under Crowned King.....I MADE A MISTAKE! The correct quote...from my History/Lit class was: FORNICATION UNDER CONSENT OF KING** IT IS however under the Crown's initiating Prema Nupta.

    The King of England would be attempting to conquer a small but beautiful bit of real estate, such as Ireland or Scotland. In addition to murdering the respective citizens, he might also decide to open the door to what was known as Prema Nupta or First Night. A loyal or both loyal and local Nobleman would be granted (by the King) to have the first (wedding) night with any of the local girls BEFORE the bride and her new husband consummated their marriage.

    Thus, the hope being that the English would Breed OUT the original bloodlines of the people in the conquered land.

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  • by anonymous on January 24th, 2007

    anonymous

    For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge = F.U.C.K.
    it was something about sailor having sex i think and the would say F.U.C.K., but the whole thing, and eventually just started saying it the way we do today. i dont think any one person came up with it. this is just something i heard and i am not sure if anything i said was accurate

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  • by Inspector Javert on January 24th, 2007

    Inspector Javert

    From what I heard, it's actually an acronym for brothle's in old England, something about being recognized by the crown, or something like that... but I could be mistaken.

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  • by Positively Negative on January 24th, 2007

    Positively Negative

    Apparently it is a misunderstaning, or evolution of the ancient phrase "Pluck Yew". The yew is the string part of a bow, and the middle finger was used to pluck it. When enemies would raid camps they would cut off the middle finger and scream "Pluck Yew" which obvioulsy evolved into the "f" word...Or so I hear tell.

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  • by Anonymous on August 1st, 2006

    Anonymous

    For you CK

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  • by Vixxen Foxx on May 3rd, 2006

    Vixxen Foxx

    It is not an acronym for "fornication under consent of king" either. It comes from the german word frichen..similar to friction or rubbing against. Sexual intercourse is a form of friction. It later got translated to fuck, but people started using it in different contexts.

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  • by Crumb Eye on May 20th, 2005

    Crumb Eye

    Back in the old days (don't ask me when) a married couple would need to seek the king's permission to have children. If they were successful the couple would be given a plaque to be hung over the front door. The plaque displayed the word "fuck" which was an acronymn for "Fornicating Under Consent of the King". This isn't fact, just what I heard.

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  • by therealmrknowitall on March 24th, 2005

    therealmrknowitall

    Contrary to popular belief, the word "fuck" did not originate as " for unlawful carnal consent". Rather, it is an acroymn for " forniction under king's consent"

    Way back before my time even, men would go off to war, et al for years at a time. Sine communication over distences at the time was even less reliable than AT&T ~wry grin~ often times the lil lady back home would not know if her huby were alive or dead, it was accepted that some "hanky panky" may well happen, new relationships start, etc.. Since being unfaithfull ad some rather nasty consequences like banishment and stoning.. a woman could , literally, pertion the king of his represtative for permission to "dally"..

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  • by TheStuff on January 28th, 2005

    TheStuff

    I believe it originates from a term police in Victorian London used to write on prostitutes' charge sheets. The term was "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" and became abbreviated.

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  • by righty1 on August 3rd, 2011

    righty1

    Fornicate Under the Comand of the King

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  • by Symbeline on May 21st, 2008

    Symbeline

    You might find some answers here.

    http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/14318/?page=1&

    It's hard to pinpoint the origin, because the original word has traveled through so many translated deviations. Originally, I believe the word itself isn't even legitimate English, but honestly don't quote me on that.

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  • by VSPrasad on September 26th, 2007

    VSPrasad

    noun & verb Brit. used as a euphemism for ‘fuck’.

    — PHRASES eff and blind informal swear. blind from its use in expletives such as blind me (or blimey).

    http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/eff?view=uk

    eff and blind to swear, using words that are considered offensive by some people

    used to add force to an expression. Some people might consider this offensive

    Eff off! phrasal verb OFFENSIVE
    something that is said in order to tell someone rudely to go away

    http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=24846&dict=CALD

    have sexual intercourse with

    http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=eff

    sleep together, roll in the hay, 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, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk -- (have sexual intercourse with; ``This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?")

    http://poets.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/wn?cmd=wn&word=eff

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=eff

    Eff is the intesive saying for the short cut letter
    "F" in the word "fuck". The year of its origin is
    not known.

    http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/127800.html

    You should have posted this question in phrases and
    word origins section of AB.

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  • by Meow Meow 1BadMutha TBMF on September 26th, 2007

    Meow Meow 1BadMutha TBMF

    Its an acronym for: For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.

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  • by NotAnotherAliGFan on June 28th, 2005

    NotAnotherAliGFan

    Hey, ladyrocke... you sound a bit familiar... is your real name, by any chance, George Carlin? Guess not... so at least give credit to whoever deserves it; don't plagiarize!

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  • by bagkhan on March 11th, 2009

    bagkhan

    tell me too.

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  • by donno7 on January 25th, 2009

    donno7

    Fuck = As showed to me from a latin dictionary by my teacher in 1979 when I was caught swearing in class; -it means "to sow seed into soil" and this is how it is associated with intercourse.

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  • by Anonymous on March 20th, 2009

    Anonymous

    The word fuck did not originate as an acronym. It crept, fully formed, into the English language from Dutch or Low German around the 15th century (it's impossible to say precisely when because so little documentary evidence exists, probably due to the fact that the word was so taboo throughout its early history that people were afraid to write it down). The American Heritage Dictionary says its first known occurrence in English literature was in the satirical poem "Flen, Flyss" (c.1500), where it was not only disguised as a Latin word but encrypted - gxddbov - which has been deciphered as fuccant, pseudo-Latin for "they fuck."

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  • by Anonymous on May 30th, 2009

    Anonymous

    fuck is most believe to come from the ancient celitic "foc"..meaning "to poke a hole in the gound with a stick and drop a seed in"

    it is how you plant a garden..and totally plausible and accepted at the highest university levels as the most likely but not 100 established origin.

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  • by TayTay on December 1st, 2008

    TayTay

    The word FUCK derives from the German word Flucken. I don't know the correct spelling. But i am almost certain it is derived from the German Language.

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  • by stanleighco on April 13th, 2009

    stanleighco

    FUCK is an acronym Fornifiation Under Carnal Knowledge which has become also to be know as a sexual act.

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  • by Hooogs on September 3rd, 2008

    Hooogs

    From dictionary.com... a reputable website...

    "what is the origin of the word fuck? Originally, this was a quite acceptable word! It 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 was related to the Latin words for "pugilist," "puncture," and "prick." The word, which entered English in the late 15th century, became rarer in print in the 18th century when it came to be regarded as vulgar. It was even banned from the Oxford English Dictionary. In 1960, Grove Press (in the US) won a court case permitting it to print the word legally for the first time in centuries -- in D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (written in 1928). One folk etymology, which is incorrect, is that it derives from "[booked] for unlawful carnal knowledge.""

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  • by Shady Guy on March 26th, 2007

    Shady Guy

    Don't be silly - it came from the game of golf. If you don't belive me just go to a golf course and I guarantee you'll hear it several times.

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  • by jangobean on March 26th, 2007

    jangobean

    Although this sounds like the most Anglo-Saxon of all Anglo-Saxon words, the origin of the f-word meaning 'sexual intercourse' is actually rather obscure.
    There is a legend that the old name for the crime of rape was 'Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge', and part of the punishment was that an abbreviation of the crime would be branded on the perpetrators head. Hence, people with 'F. U. C. K.' on their head were known to be rapists. A similar story is that during the time of the plague when it was necessary to increase the population a royal injunction was issued telling the common folk to 'Fornicate Under Command of the King.'
    These, however, would appear to be acronyms intentionally spelling out an existing word rather than new creations themselves.

    Eric Partridge, a famous etymologist, has suggested that the Old German 'ficken' or 'fucken', meaning 'to strike or penetrate', was related to the Latin words for pugilist, puncture, and prick4 , or to the Latin 'futuere' which had the slang meaning 'to copulate'. There are also clearer links to Dutch where 'fokken' means breed and is applied to cattle, and to a Swedish dialect word 'fokken' which has the English meaning. Certainly, all the earliest uses of the word in English came via Scotland, suggesting a Scandinavian origin5.

    Records from as early as 1278 identify a man called John Le-Fucker (which, considering people often had names to do with their occupations, makes the mind boggle), and it was certainly in common usage by the 16th Century, appearing in a dictionary, John Florio's A World of Words, in 1598. By the 18th century, it had became a vulgar term; It was even banned from the Oxford English Dictionary.

    Taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A753527

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  • by markrb on March 27th, 2007

    markrb

    how about "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"? At least that's what the court system used to use it for.

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on September 26th, 2007

    Im Alec has abandoned this account

    The first written use of it has been traced to lewd drinking songs sung by the monks of Ely Cathedral (a fairly dissolute lot, it appears) in about the 15th century. See this link for more. http://www.macalester.edu/weekly/100804/features03.html

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  • by buttcake on January 5th, 2008

    buttcake

    The last person is off by a mile.
    I am a international linguisis of the British High Acadamy of Writing and literature. I have studied the origin of many words but the word "fuck" is by far the clearest word of its history.

    The word began its journey from the latin root "Fuike" meaning "to annoy greatley or to mess with" The word became more well known to history in 1457 when Cornilias D. Reborto of the Spain wrote the "Amos de Ferit Ser" a highly controversal paper about the problems with France at the time.

    The French took the word very offensive and turned it into a forbidden curse word. Like the bloody by the British. The new French word spread alot through the centuries and seemed to begin its original form in America. However the word "fuck" is called a cookie in
    Africa in the country of Duginia. The Polish travled there in the early 1600 and took the word for food.

    for more see the hypothisis of the origin
    By Gale D. Renovatti

    for personal information call
    7-4701-4878 at branch 47
    http//www.HAWL.org
    the High acadamy in Britian of Writing and literature

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  • by WKATKW on March 26th, 2007

    WKATKW

    for unlawful carnal knowledge
    f.u.c.k. was carved above the cells of imprisoned persons centuries ago who were convicted of sex crimes such as adultery, incest, and prostitution to add to their shame.

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  • by barney on February 1st, 2008

    barney

    Your ugly face.

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  • by robertini on February 10th, 2010

    robertini

    Very fucking interesting question! Oi!

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  • by MadMike on January 22nd, 2010

    MadMike

    to beat about the head with a piece of wood until unconscious ... IE. once you have been fucked , you are liable to get fucked.

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  • by Shurie.Smile on February 26th, 2010

    Shurie.Smile

    I disagree with all that said it didn't stand for fornication under consent of the kind. My humanities teacher said that it did.... And quit frankly, I trust the teacher that had to teach updated history as oposed to those who learned what it meant a few years ago.

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  • by BattleGraceAngel on April 23rd, 2011

    BattleGraceAngel

    fuck originated in england but not as an acronym. in a large scale battle with the french they would capture artures and chop off there middle fingers wich they used to pul the string back on there bow. then they would give them back to the enemy. then during battle they would hold up there middle fingers as to say fuck you.


    obviously this is the origin of fuck you but thats what i think.

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  • by dude_wheres_my_car on April 2nd, 2012

    dude_wheres_my_car

    @mister_c I will just have you and everyone else know that the first recorded use of "fuck" was in a Middle English poem in 1457 satirizing monks. It said: "Non sunt in celi, quia fuccant uuiuys of heli,” which translates into: “They [the monks] are not in heaven because they [fuck] the wives of Ely."

    Thanks!

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  • by Anonymous on February 4th, 2008

    Anonymous

    It orginated in the middle ages and it means "to engage in sexual intercourse".

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  • by Secretive woman on March 11th, 2008

    Secretive woman

    In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from.

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  • by Anonymous on August 31st, 2008

    Anonymous

    I don't know where it came from but this is how we use it up here in Canada. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JIFDPw4utE

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  • by sharon on August 31st, 2008

    sharon

    f.u.c.k. was an acronym for (for unlawful carnal knowledge)when women warw considered second class people

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  • by quarkum on September 1st, 2008

    quarkum

    Cipher's answer is correct - the word has German, Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian roots from words meaning copulate, penis etc.

    But the incorrect urban legends about its origin are way more interesting.

    The story goes that the word comes from an acronym of either For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge or Fornication Under Consent of the King. In both versions, there were apparently laws governing when and with whom you could have sex...

    Urban legend 1 - In ancient England a person could not have sex unless they had consent of the King. When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, who gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F*** (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.

    Urban legend 2 - The word was an acronym for the words 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge'. F*** was written on the stocks that held prostitutes because For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge was too long to go on the stocks.

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  • by Anonymous on September 1st, 2008

    Anonymous

    It comes from back when everyone was a farmer. When their animals mated, they called it fucking.

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  • by cornholeeo on January 11th, 2010

    cornholeeo

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