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Bookmark or Share- What's The Origin Of The F-word? - Dictionary.comThe 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.
- A very short history of the F-word - Big ThinkThe first use of the F-word comes from a monk in 1528. It's just one part of the weird, mysterious history of this infamous four-letter word.
- Etymology of the F-Word? | Snopes.com[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 F-word's origins may always remain elusive - VoxNow there’s a new contender for oldest known use: Historian Paul Booth of Keele University claims that a court case in 1310 may have featured the earliest recorded use of the word “fuck,”...
- The f-word Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterThe meaning of THE F-WORD is —used as a way to refer to the offensive word 'fuck' without saying it or writing it. How to use the f-word in a sentence.
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