Orgin of fuck

Fuck is a profane English-language word [1] which often refers to the act of sexual intercourse but is also commonly used as an intensifier or to denote disdain. While its origin is obscure, it is usually considered to be first attested to around In modern usage, the term "fuck" and its derivatives such as "fucker" and "fucking" can be used as a noun , a verb , an adjective , an interjection or an adverb. There are many common phrases that employ the word as well as compounds that incorporate it, such as " motherfucker ," " fuckwit ", " fuckup " and " fucknut ". It is unclear whether the word has always been considered vulgar or, if not, when it first came to be used to describe often in an extremely angry, hostile or belligerent manner unpleasant circumstances or people in an intentionally offensive way, such as in the term motherfucker , one of its more common usages in some parts of the English-speaking world.

With precious few exceptions, words of acronymic origin date from the 20th century and no earlier. Though many reasonably conclude fornication is the old-time word for having sex, the term specifically excludes the physical union of man and wife. One can fornicate premaritally or extramaritally, but not intramaritally. In light of this, any claim wedded couples trying to entice the stork down their chimney were granted fornication permits crashes against the rock of the wrong word being used. According to the alt. 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. Problems with such theories include a distribution that suggests a North-Sea Germanic areal form rather than an inherited one; the murkiness of the phonetic relations; and the fact that no alleged cognate outside Germanic has sexual connotations.

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Johnson also had excluded the word, and fuck wasn't in a single English language dictionary from to Houghton Mifflin followed, in , with "The American Heritage Dictionary," but it also published a "Clean Green" edition without the word, to assure itself access to the public high school market. Written form attested from at least early 16c. Presumably it is a more ancient word, but one not written in the kind of texts that have survived from Old English and Middle English [September the verb appears to have been found recently in an English court manuscript from ].