Fuck is an English word that, as a verb, means "to have sexual intercourse". English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States A word is a unit of Language that carries meaning and consists of one or more Morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together and has a Phonetic For English usage of verbs see the wiki article English verbs. Sexual intercourse, in its biological sense is the act in which the male reproductive organ (in humans and other higher animals enters the female reproductive tract It can also be used as several other grammatical forms describing an unpleasant person; its participle "fucking" is sometimes used merely as a strong emphatic. Its use is considered profane and offensive in some formal, polite, or politically-correct circles. On the other hand, it may be common or even expected in informal and domestic situations, or among culturally liberal social groups and types.

It is unclear whether the word has always been considered vulgar, and if not, when it first came to be used 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 in some parts of the English-speaking world. " Vulgarism " (also called scurrility) derives from Latin vulgun, the "mean folk" and has carried into English its original Motherfucker (also existing in countless contracted forms eg mofo muthafucka, or shortened to just "mother" is a common Insult and Profanity The following is a list of Sovereign states and territories where English is an Official language, in order of Population.

The root fuck is used not only for the verb (both transitive and intransitive), but may also be used to form an emphatic adverb or adjective, a noun, and interjections of various kinds. The root is the primary lexical unit of a Word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents For English usage of verbs see the wiki article English verbs. In Syntax, a transitive verb is a Verb that requires both a subject and one or more objects Some examples of sentences with transitive verbs In Grammar, an intransitive Verb does not take an object. In more technical terms an intransitive verb has only one argument (its subject In Grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a Noun or Pronoun, giving more information about the An interjection is a Part of speech that usually has no connection with the rest of the sentence and simply expresses Emotion on the part of the speaker

Etymology

Sources such as the Oxford English Dictionary contend that the true etymology of fuck is still uncertain but appears to point to an Anglo-Saxon origin. The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) published by the Oxford University Press (OUP is a comprehensive Dictionary of the English Etymology is the study of the History of Words &mdash when they entered a language from what source and how their form and meaning have changed over time

Flen flyys and freris

The usually accepted first known occurrence is in code in a poem in a mixture of Latin and English composed some time before 1500. In Cryptography, a code is a method used to transform a Message into an obscured form preventing those who do not possess special information or key Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. 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" (= "Fleas, flies, and friars"). The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Carmelites (sometimes simply Carmel by Synecdoche; Latin: Ordo fratrum Beatæ A Friar is a member of one of the Mendicant orders. Friars and monks Friars differ from Monks in that they are called to a life of poverty in service The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England Flen flyys is a poem written in about 1475 that is chiefly famous for containing the first known written usage in English of the vulgar verb " Fuck " Flea is the Common name for any of the small wingless Insects of the order Siphonaptera (some authorities use the name Aphaniptera True flies are Insects of the Order Diptera ( Greek: di = two and pteron = wing possessing a single pair of A Friar is a member of one of the Mendicant orders. Friars and monks Friars differ from Monks in that they are called to a life of poverty in service The line that contains fuck reads "Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk". Removing the substitution cipher^[1] 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 wives of Ely" (fvccant is a fake Latin form). In Cryptography, a substitution cipher is a method of Encryption by which units of plaintext are substituted with Ciphertext according to a regular system Ely (, rhyming with "freely" is a Cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England. ^[2] The phrase was coded likely because it accused some Church personnel of misbehaving; it is uncertain to what extent the word "fuck" was considered acceptable at the time.

John le Fucker

A man's name "John le Fucker" is said to be reported from AD 1278, but the report is doubtful: an email discussion on Linguist List says:

This name has been exhaustively argued over . The LINGUIST List is the major on-line resource for the academic field of Linguistics. . . The "John le Fucker" reference first appears in Carl Buck's 1949 Indo-European dictionary. Carl Darling Buck ( October 2, 1866 - February 8, 1955) American Philologist, was born in Bucksport Maine. Buck does not supply a citation as to where he found the name. No one has subsequently found the manuscript in which it is alleged to have appeared. If the citation is genuine and not an error, it is most likely a spelling variant of "fulcher", meaning soldier. A soldier is a general English term that refers to a member of a land component of National Armed forces. ^[3]

Anglo-Saxon

An Anglo-Saxon charter [1] [2] granted by Offa, king of Mercia, dated A. For their language see Anglo-Saxon language. Anglo-Saxon is the term usually used to describe the invading Tribes in the south A charter is the grant of authority or rights stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified Offa was the King of Mercia from 757 until his death in July 796 Mercia (ˈmɝsiə was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. D. 772, granting land at Bexhill, Sussex to a bishop, includes the text:

Þonne syndon þa gauolland þas utlandes into Bexlea in hiis locis qui appellantur hiis nominibus: on Berna hornan . Bexhill-on-Sea (often simply Bexhill) is a town and Seaside resort in the county of East Sussex, in the south of England, within the iii. hida, on Wyrtlesham . i. , on Ibbanhyrste . i. , on Croghyrste . viii. , on Hrigce . i. , on Gyllingan . ii. , on Fuccerham 7 and on Blacanbrocan . i. , on Ikelesham . iii. ;

Then the tax-lands of the outland belonging to Bexley are in these places which are called by these names: at Barnhorne 3 hides, at Wyrtlesham [Worsham farm near Bexhill ] 1, at Ibbanhyrst 1, at Crowhurst 8, at (Rye? The ridge north of Hastings?) 1, at Gillingham 2, at Fuccerham and at Blackbrook [may be Black Brooks in Westfield village just north of Hastings ] 1, at Icklesham 3. Bexley is an area of South East London in the London Borough of Bexley, London, England. Bexhill-on-Sea (often simply Bexhill) is a town and Seaside resort in the county of East Sussex, in the south of England, within the The hide was a unit used in assessing land for liability to " Geld " or land tax in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th centuries Bexhill can refer to Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex England Bexhill New South Wales, Australia Crowhurst is an isolated village situated five miles (8 km north-west of Hastings in East Sussex. Rye ( Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain and forage crop Hastings is a town on the coast of East Sussex in England; it is also the administrative centre for the Borough of the same name Gillingham ( is a town in the Unitary authority of Medway in South East England. Known as Westewelle in the Domesday survey, Westfield in the Rother District of East Sussex is one of the largest villages in the area and also a Hastings is a town on the coast of East Sussex in England; it is also the administrative centre for the Borough of the same name Icklesham is a village and Civil parish in the Rother District of East Sussex, England.

The placename Fuccerham looks like either "the home (hām) of the fucker or fuckers" or "the enclosed pasture (hamm) of the fucker or fuckers", who may have been a once-notorious man, or a locally well-known stud male animal, or a group of such. Pasture is land with Herbaceous vegetation cover used for grazing of Ungulate Livestock as part of a Farm or Ranch. A stud in animal breeding is a male animal such as a or, employed for breeding

Older etymology

Via Germanic

The word fuck has cognates in other Germanic languages, such as German ficken (to copulate), Dutch fokken (to breed), dialectical Norwegian fukka (to copulate), and dialectical Swedish fucka (to strike, copulate) and fuck (penis). Cognates in Linguistics are words that have a common origin They may occur within a language such as shirt and skirt as two English words descended from The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language In Biology, mating is the pairing of opposite- Sex or hermaphroditic Organisms for copulation and in Social animals also to raise their Swedish ( is a North Germanic language spoken by more than nine million people predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the The penis (plural penises, penes

This points to a possible etymology where Common Germanic fuk–, by reverse 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" (cf. Proto-Germanic, or Common Germanic, is the hypothetical common ancestor ( Proto-language) of all the Germanic languages such as modern English Grimm's law (also known as the First Germanic Sound Shift or the Rask's-Grimm's rule) named for Jacob Grimm, is a set of statements describing Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly the Latin-derived English words pugnacious = "combative", and pugilist = "fighter, boxer"). In early Proto-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. Proto-Germanic, or Common Germanic, is the hypothetical common ancestor ( Proto-language) of all the Germanic languages such as modern English

The original Indo-European root for to copulate is likely to be *h₃yeb^h– or *h₃eyb^h–, which is attested in Sanskrit yabhati, Russian ебать (yebat'), Polish jebać, and Serbian јебати (jebati), among others: compare the Greek verb οιφω (oiphō) = "I have sexual intercourse with", and the Greek noun ζεφυρος (zephuros) (which references a Greek belief that the west wind Zephyrus caused pregnancy). The root is the primary lexical unit of a Word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents The laryngeal theory is a generally accepted theory of Historical linguistics which proposes the existence of a set of three (or more Consonant sounds that appear Sanskrit (sa संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk, for short sa संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam) is a historical Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Polish ( język polski, polszczyzna) is the Official language of Poland. Serbian (sr-Cyrl српски језик sr-Latn ''srpski jezik'' is a South Slavic language, In Greek Mythology, the Anemoi (in Greek, Άνεμοι &mdash " winds " were Wind gods who were each ascribed

Possible Latin origins

• Other possible connections are to Latin fūtuere (almost exactly the same meaning as the English verb "to fuck"); but it would have to be explained how the word reached Scandinavia from Roman contact, and how the t became k. Terminology and usage As a cultural term "Scandinavia" has no official definition and is subject to usage by those who identify with the culture in question as well From fūtuere came French foutre, Catalan fotre, Italian fottere, Romanian futere, vulgar peninsular Spanish follar and joder, and Portuguese foder. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people Catalan ˈkætəˌlæn ( català kətəˈla or) is a Romance language, the national and official language of Andorra, and a co-official Italian ( or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people as a First language, primarily in Italy. Romanian or Daco-Romanian ( dated: Rumanian or Roumanian; self designation limba română, ˈlimba roˈmɨnə is a Romance Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. However, there is considerable doubt and no clear lineage for these derivations. These roots, even if cognates, are not the original Indo-European word for to copulate, but Wayland Young (who agrees that these words are related) argues that they derive from the Indo-European *b^hu– or *b^hug– ("be", "become"), or as causative "create" [see Young, 1964]. Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet (born August 2, 1923) is a British writer and SDP and Labour Party politician A possible intermediate might be a Latin 4^th-declension verbal noun *fūtus, with possible meanings including "act of (pro)creating". In Linguistics, declension (or declination) is the occurrence of Inflection in Nouns Pronouns and Adjectives indicating A verbal noun is a Noun formed directly as an Inflexion of a Verb or a verb stem, sharing at least in part its constructions

• (The Spanish verb follar has a different origin: according to Spanish etymologists, it (attested in the 19th century) derives via fuelle ("bellows") from Latin folle(m) < Indo-European *b^hel–; the old Spanish verb folgar (attested in the 15^th century) derived from Latin follicare, also ultimately from follem/follis. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar )

• A derivation from Latin facere = "to do", "to make" has been suggested. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome.

Possible Celtic origins

• A Celtic origin has been suggested: compare Irish bot and Manx bwoid (penis), Common Celtic *bactuere (to pierce), from the root buc– (a point). The Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic" a branch of the greater Indo-European Language family. Irish (ga ''Gaeilge'' is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish. Manx ( Gaelg or Gailck, ɡilk or) also known as Manx Gaelic, is a Goidelic language once spoken on the Isle The penis (plural penises, penes

Possible Greek origins

Greek phyō (φυω) has various meanings, including (of a man) "to beget", or (of a woman), "to give birth to". ^[4] Its perfect tense pephyka (πεφυκα) has been likened to "fuck" and its equivalents in other Germanic languages. The perfect aspect is variously considered either an aspect or tense which calls a listener's attention to the consequences generated by an action rather than the

False etymologies

One reason that the word fuck is so hard to trace etymologically is that it was used far more extensively in common speech than in easily traceable written forms.

There are several urban-legend false etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word. An urban legend or urban myth is a form of modern Folklore consisting of stories thought to be factual by those circulating them A false etymology is an assumed or postulated Etymology that current consensus among scholars of Historical linguistics holds to be incorrect Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are Abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name None of these acronyms was ever heard before the 1960s, according to the authoritative lexicographical work, The F-Word, and thus are backronyms. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of Lexicography, especially an author of a Dictionary. A backronym (or bacronym) is a Phrase that is constructed "after the fact" from a previously existing word or Abbreviation, the abbreviation In any event, the word fuck has been in use far too long for some of these supposed origins to be possible. Some of these urban legends are:

• That the word fuck came from Irish law. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world If a couple were caught committing adultery, they would be punished "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge In the Nude", with "FUCKIN" written on the stocks above them to denote the crime. Adultery is the voluntary Sexual intercourse between a married person and another person who is not his or her Spouse, though in many places it is Stocks are devices used since Medieval times for Public humiliation, Corporal punishment, and Torture.
• That it came from any of:
  • "Fornication Under Carnal/Cardinal Knowledge"
  • "Fornication Under [the] Control/Consent/Command of the King"
  • "Fornication Under the Christian King"
  • "False Use of Carnal Knowledge"
  • "Felonious Use of Carnal Knowledge"
  • "Felonious Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"
  • "Full-On Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"
  • "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"
  • "Found Under Carnal Knowledge"
  • "Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", referring to the crime of rape. Fornication, or simple fornication is a term which refers to voluntary Sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other In Common law legal systems a felony is a serious Crime, often contrasted with a Misdemeanor. Rape, also referred to as Sexual assault, is an Assault by a person involving Sexual intercourse with or Sexual penetration of another person

There are unproved stories that fuck arose as an abbreviation of one of the versions containing "unlawful":

• In armed forces log books, when reporting courts martial of men accused of homosexual intercourse. For the military meaning see Armed forces. For the Soviet sports society see Armed Forces (sports society Armed Forces A court-martial (plural courts-martial) is a Military court. These military courts can determine Punishments for members of the Military subject Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation.
• On tombstones around English cemeteries, referring to being put to death for crimes against the state and the church. A headstone, tombstone or gravestone is a marker normally carved from stone, placed over or next to the site of a Burial England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. No such tombstone has been provably found.

Usage history

Main article: History of the word 'fuck'

Early usage

Its first known use as a verb meaning to have sexual intercourse is in "Flen flyys", written around 1475. In the modern English -speaking world the word ' Fuck ' is often considered highly offensive Flen flyys is a poem written in about 1475 that is chiefly famous for containing the first known written usage in English of the vulgar verb " Fuck "

William Dunbar's 1503 poem "Brash of Wowing" includes the lines: "Yit be his feiris he wald haue fukkit: / Ye brek my hairt, my bony ane" (ll. This article is about the Scottish poet for other people of this name see William Dunbar (disambiguation. 13–14).

Some time around 1600, before the term acquired its current meaning, windfucker was an acceptable name for the bird now known as the kestrel. The Common Kestrel ( Falco tinnunculus) is a Bird of prey Species belonging to the Kestrel group of the Falcon family

While Shakespeare never used the term explicitly; he hinted at it in comic scenes in several plays. William Shakespeare ( baptised The Merry Wives of Windsor (IV. The Merry Wives of Windsor is a Comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597 i) contains the expression focative case (see vocative case). The vocative case is the case used for a Noun identifying the person (animal object etc In Henry V (IV. iv), Pistol threatens to firk (strike) a soldier, a euphemism for fuck. A euphemism is a substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener or in the case of doublespeak A Midsummer Night's Dream uses the word "foot" to pun on the French equivalent, "foutre".

Rise of modern usage

Though it appeared in John Ash's 1775 A New and Complete Dictionary, listed as "low" and "vulgar", and appearing with several definitions^[5], Fuck did not appear in any widely-consulted dictionary of the English language from 1795 to 1965. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Its first appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary (along with the word cunt) was in 1972. Cunt ( IPA:/kʌnt/ is an English language Vulgarism referring generally to the Female genitalia. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. There is anecdotal evidence of its use during the American Civil War. (citation needed)

In 1928, D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover gained notoriety for its frequent use of the words fuck, fucked, and fucking. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930 was an English writer of the 20th century whose prolific and diverse output included Novels short Lady Chatterley's Lover is a Novel by D H Lawrence written in 1928

Perhaps the earliest usage of the word in popular music was the 1938 Eddy Duchin release of the Louis Armstrong song "Ol' Man Mose". Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Eddy Duchin ( April 1 1909 or 10 April 1910 - February 9 1951) was an American popular Pianist and Louis Armstrong (August 4 1901 &ndash July 6 1971 nicknamed Satchmo or Sachimo and Pops, was an American Jazz Trumpeter The words created a scandal at the time, resulting in sales of 170,000 copies during the Great Depression years when sales of 20,000 were considered blockbuster. The verse reads:

(We believe) He kicked the bucket,
(We believe) Yeah man, buck-buck-bucket,
(We believe) He kicked the bucket and ol' man mose is dead,
(We believe) Ahh, fuck it!
(We believe) Buck-buck-bucket,
(We believe) He kicked the bucket and ol' man mose is dead.

The liberal usage of the word (and other vulgarisms) by certain artists (such as James Joyce, Henry Miller, Lenny Bruce, and Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, in their Derek and Clive personas) has led to the banning of their works and criminal charges of obscenity. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the Henry Valentine Miller (December 26 1891 &ndash June 7 1980 was an American writer and painter. Lenny Bruce (October 13 1925 &ndash August 3 1966 born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was an American Stand-up comedian, Writer, social Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 &ndash 9 January 1995 was an English Satirist, Writer and Comedian. Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 &ndash 27 March 2002 was an English Actor, Comedian and Musician. Derek and Clive are controversial cult characters created by Double act Dudley Moore and Peter Cook respectively on the Obscenity (in Latin obscenus, meaning "foul repulsive detestable" is a term that is most often used in a legal context to

After Norman Mailer's publishers convinced him to bowdlerize fuck as fug in his work The Naked and the Dead (1948), Tallulah Bankhead supposedly greeted him with the quip, "So you're the young man who can't spell fuck. Norman Kingsley Mailer ( January 31, 1923 &ndash November 10, 2007) was an American Novelist, Journalist, Thomas Bowdler ( IPA /ˈbaʊdlə/ ( July 11, 1754 &ndash February 24, 1825) was an English Physician who published The Naked and the Dead is a 1948 novel by Norman Mailer. It was based on his experiences during World War II. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Tallulah Brockman Bankhead ( January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American Actress, talk-show host and Wit is a form of intellectual Humour. A wit (person is someone skilled in making witty remarks " In fact, according to Mailer, the quip was devised by Bankhead's PR man. Public relations (PR is the practice of managing the flow of Information between an Organization and its Publics Public relations - often referred He and Bankhead didn't meet until 1966 and did not discuss the word then. The rock group The Fugs named themselves after the Mailer euphemism. The Fugs are a band formed in New York City in 1965 by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums A euphemism is a substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener or in the case of doublespeak

The science fiction novel That Hideous Strength (1945), by C.S. Lewis, includes lines of dialog with the word bucking used the same way as fugging would be in Mailer's novel, published three years later. That Hideous Strength is a 1945 Novel by C S Lewis, the final book in Lewis's theological Science fiction Space Trilogy. Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963

In his novel Ulysses (1922), James Joyce used a sly spelling pun for fuck (and cunt as well) with the doggerel verse:

If you see Kay,
Tell him he may. Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the A pun (or paronomasia) is a Phrase that deliberately exploits confusion between similar-sounding Words for humorous or Rhetorical Cunt ( IPA:/kʌnt/ is an English language Vulgarism referring generally to the Female genitalia. Doggerel is a derogatory term for Poetry considered of little literary value
See you in tea,
Tell him from me.

Memphis Slim had a melancholy blues about lost love entitled "If You See Kay". John "Memphis Slim" Chatman (born September 3, 1915, Memphis, Tennessee; died February 24, 1988, in The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger featured an early use of fuck you in print. The Catcher in the Rye is a Novel by J D Salinger. First published in the United States in 1951 the novel has been a frequently Jerome David "J D" Salinger (born January 1 1919 (ˈsælɨndʒɚ is an American author best known for his 1951 Novel The Catcher in the Rye First published in the United States in 1951, the novel remains controversial to this day due to its use of the word, standing at number 13 for the most banned books from 1990-2000 according to the American Library Association. ^[6] The book offers a blunt portrayal of the main character's reaction to the existence of the word, and all that it means.

The Australian vaudeville comedian Roy Rene once had a comedy 'skit' where he would act with another person and would write the letter 'F' on a blackboard (on stage) and then ask his co-actor: 'What letter do you see' to which he would reply: 'K'. Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s Roy Rene ( 15 February 1891 – 22 November 1954) born Henry van der Sluys, was an Australian Comedian and Mo would then say: 'Why is it that whenever I write F you see K?'

One of the earliest mainstream Hollywood movies to use the word fuck was director Robert Altman's irreverent antiwar film, MASH, released in 1970 at the height of the Vietnam War. Robert Bernard Altman (February 20 1925 – November 20 2006 was an American Film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with See also M*A*S*H (TV series, M*A*S*H MASH is a American satirical Dark comedy Film directed by Robert Altman The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia During the football game sequence about three-quarters of the way through the film, one of the MASH linemen says to an 8063rd offensive player, "All right, bud, your fuckin' head is coming right off. " Also, former Beatle John Lennon's 1971 release "Working Class Hero" featured use of the word, which was rare in music at the time and caused it to, at most, be played only in segments on the radio. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born " Working Class Hero " is a song from John Lennon 's first post- Beatles solo album 1970's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. In 2007, some 36 years later, Green Day did a cover of Lennon's song, which was censored for radio airplay, with the "Ph. Green Day is an American rock trio . " sound being audible but then phased out.

Former Saturday Night Live cast member Charles Rocket uttered the vulgarity in one of the earliest instances of its use on television, during a 1980 episode of the show, for which he was subsequently fired. Saturday Night Live ( SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute American Sketch comedy / Variety show based in New York City Charles Rocket ( August 24, 1949 &ndash October 7, 2005) was an American film and television actor notable for his tenure as [3] [4]

The word was used in the film Captain and Commander by a fictional whaler describing pirates who burned his ship in 1802, but it is not clear whether the word was used by Patrick O'Brien. Patrick O'Brien may refer to Patrick O'Brien (musician, American musician and lutenist Patrick O'Brien (footballer, Scottish footballer

Comedian George Carlin once commented that the word fuck ought to be considered more appropriate, because of its implications of love and reproduction, than the violence exhibited in many movies. George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12 1937 – June 22 2008 was an American stand-up comedian, often considered one of the best of all time He humorously suggested replacing the word kill with the word fuck in his comedy routine, such as in an old movie western: "Okay, sheriff, we're gonna fuck you, now. But we're gonna fuck you slow. . . " Or, perhaps in reference to a murderer:"Mad Fucker on the Loose," or even the murderer himself:"Stop me before I fuck again!" More popularly published is his famous "Filthy Words" routine, better known as "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television. "

Use in politics

See also History of the word 'fuck'#Usage in politics. In the modern English -speaking world the word ' Fuck ' is often considered highly offensive

Fuck is not widely used in politics, and because of this, any use by notable politicians tends to produce controversy. Some events of this nature include:

• During the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago mayor Richard Daley became so enraged by a speech from Abraham A. Ribicoff that he shouted "Fuck you, you Jew motherfucker!"^[7] Daley would later claim that he was shouting "you fink, you" and calling Ribicoff a "faker. Chicago Convention redirects here for the Convention on International Civil Aviation for the event also referred to by this name Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Richard Joseph Daley ( May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) served for 21 years as the undisputed Democratic boss of Chicago Abraham Alexander Ribicoff ( April 9, 1910 February 22, 1998) was an American United States Democratic Party politician PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ "^[8]
• During a 1971 debate in the Canadian House of Commons, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau mouthed the words "fuck off" under his breath (perhaps almost silently) at Conservative MP John Lundrigan, while Lundrigan made some comments about unemployment. The House of Commons (Chambre des communes is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The Prime Minister of Canada ( French: Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary Minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ( PC) ( Parti progressiste-conservateur du Canada) ( 1867 – 2003) was a Canadian A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. John Howard Lundrigan (born January 10, 1939) is a former Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Gander—Twillingate Afterward, when asked by a television reporter what he said, Mr. Trudeau famously replied "Oh, I don't know. . . fuddle duddle, or something like that". Fuddle duddle is a euphemistic substitution for " Fuck " or " Fuck off " the most famous use of which was by Pierre Trudeau, "Fuddle duddle" consequently became a catchphrase in Canadian media associated with Trudeau. A catch phrase (or catchphrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance ^[9]
• The first accepted modern use in the British House of Commons came in 1982 when Reg Race, Labour MP for Wood Green, referred to adverts placed in local newsagents by prostitutes which read "Phone them and fuck them". The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords Denys Alan Reginald Race, known as Reg Race, (born 23 June 1947) is a British Labour party politician The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Wood Green was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Wood Green area of North London. Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. Hansard, the full record of debates, printed "F*** them", but even this euphemism was deprecated by the Speaker, George Thomas. Hansard is the traditional name for the printed transcripts of Parliamentary debates in the Westminster system of Government. Thomas George Thomas 1st Viscount Tonypandy PC ( 29 January 1909 &ndash 22 September 1997) was a British Labour
• Shortly after Tony Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party, the then left-wing Labour MP George Galloway told a public meeting "I don't give a fuck what Tony Blair thinks" when questioned about the party's move to the right. Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the George Galloway (born 16 August 1954 in Dundee) is a Scottish Politician, author and talkshow host noted for his Left-wing views confrontational style
• In late 2003, US presidential candidate Senator John Kerry used the word fuck in an interview with Rolling Stone. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives } John Forbes Kerry (born December 11 1943 is an American Politician who is currently serving his fourth term as the junior United States Senator Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published Referring to his vote in favor of the resolution authorizing President George W. Bush to use military force in Iraq, Senator John Kerry stated, "I voted for what I thought was best for the country. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. } John Forbes Kerry (born December 11 1943 is an American Politician who is currently serving his fourth term as the junior United States Senator Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, 'I'm against everything'? Sure. Howard Brush Dean III, (born November 17 1948 is an American Did I expect George Bush to fuck it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did. "^[10]
• In June 2004, US Vice President Dick Cheney told Senator Patrick Leahy to either "fuck off" or "go fuck yourself" during an exchange on the floor of the Senate,^[11] to which Patrick Leahy cried foul. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The Vice President of the United States is the first person in the presidential line of succession, becoming the new President of the United States upon the death Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30 1941 is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States. Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Vermont. Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Vermont.
• In February 2006 (Australia), New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma, while awaiting the start of a COAG media conference in Canberra, was chatting to Victorian Premier Steve Bracks. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. See Premiers of the Australian states for a description and history of the office of Premier Morris Iemma (ˈjɛmə (born 21 July 1961 is an Australian politician and 40th Premier of New South Wales, succeeding Bob Carr, who resigned on 3 Canberra ( is the capital city of Australia With a population of over 340000 it is Australia's largest inland City. See Premiers of the Australian states for a description and history of the office of Premier Stephen Philip Bracks (better known as Steve Bracks (born 15 October, 1954) is a former Australian politician and the 44th Premier of Victoria Not realizing cameras were operating he was recorded as saying "Today? This fuckwit who's the new CEO of the Cross City Tunnel has . The Cross City Tunnel is a 21km-long Tunnel located in Sydney, Australia. . . been saying what controversy? There is no controversy. "^[12] The exchange referred to the newly appointed CEO of a recently-opened toll road within Sydney. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4
• In April 2007, New Zealand Education Minister Steve Maharey said "fuck you" to a fellow MP during parliamentary question time. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island Steven (Steve Maharey (born 3 February, 1953) is a current New Zealand Member of Parliament for Palmerston North as a member of the governing ^[13] He apologised shortly afterwards.

Use in marketing

In April 1997, clothing retailer French Connection began branding their clothes "fcuk" (usually written in lowercase). French Connection is a company founded in the United Kingdom in 1972 which sells clothing and accessories in many parts of the world Though they insisted it was an acronym for French Connection United Kingdom, its similarity to the word "fuck" caused controversy. Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are Abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name ^[14] French Connection fully exploited this and produced an extremely popular range of t-shirts with messages such as "fcuk this", "hot as fcuk", "mile high fcuk", "fcuk me", "too busy to fcuk", "fcuk football", "fcuk fashion", "fcuk fear", "fcuk on the beach", "the joy of fcuk", etc. The company recently announced that the "fcuk" label is to be phased out^[15].

Freedom of expression

In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the mere public display of fuck is protected under the First and Fourteenth Amendments and cannot be made a criminal offense. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the United States Bill of Rights that expressly prohibits the United States Congress The Fourteenth Amendment ( Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution is one of the post- Civil War Reconstruction Amendments, first In 1968, Paul Robert Cohen had been convicted of "disturbing the peace" for wearing a jacket with "FUCK THE DRAFT" on it (in reference to conscription in the Vietnam War). The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia The conviction was upheld by the Court of Appeals and overturned by the Supreme Court. Cohen v. California, 403 U. Cohen v California, 403 US 15 (1971 was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with freedom of speech. S. 15 (1971).

In 1983, pornographer Larry Flynt, representing himself before the U. Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of Sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer Larry Claxton Flynt Jr (born November 1, 1942) is an American Publisher and the head of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP S. Supreme Court in a libel case, shouted, "Fuck this court!" during the proceedings, and then called the justices "nothing but eight assholes and a token cunt" (referring to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor). Asshole (or arsehole in British English) is Slang for the Anus and can be used to describe an unpleasant person Cunt ( IPA:/kʌnt/ is an English language Vulgarism referring generally to the Female genitalia. Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is an American Jurist. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger had him arrested for contempt of court, but the charge was later dismissed on a technicality. Warren Earl Burger ( September 17 1907 – June 25 1995) was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986 Contempt of court is a court ruling which in the context of a court trial or hearing deems an individual as having been disrespectful of the court its process and its invested ^[16]

Popular usage

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fines stations for the broadcast of "indecent language", but in 2003 the agency's enforcement bureau ruled that the airing of the statement "This is really, really fucking brilliant!" by U2 member Bono after receiving a Golden Globe Award was neither obscene nor indecent. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner As U. S. broadcast indecency regulation only extends to depictions or descriptions of sexual or excretory functions, Bono's use of the word as a mere intensifier was not covered. An adverbial or adverbial phrase is a linguistic term for a single adverb or a group of more than one word operating adverbially when viewed in terms of their

In early 2004, the full Commission reversed the bureau ruling, in an order that stated that "the F-word is one of the most vulgar, graphic and explicit descriptions of sexual activity in the English language"; a fine, however, has yet to result. Notwithstanding widespread usage and linguistic analysis to the contrary, the reversal was premised on the conclusion that the word fuck has always referred to sexual activity, a claim that the FCC neither explained nor supported with evidence. Even on cable television, which is not regulated by the FCC, few channels in the United States will broadcast the word fuck due to fear of backlash from advertisers or the FCC. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

The first occurrence of "fuck" being spoken on British television was on 13 November 1965 when Kenneth Tynan said, during a live debate on the satirical BBC show BBC3, "I doubt if there are any rational people to whom the word 'fuck' would be particularly diabolical, revolting or totally forbidden. Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Kenneth Peacock Tynan ( 2 April 1927 - 26 July 1980) was an influential and often controversial British Theatre Critic " This resulted in the BBC having to make a formal apology. It also instigated four House of Commons motions and a letter to the Queen signed by 133 Labour and Tory MPs. The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II It also prompted morality campaigner, Mary Whitehouse, to comment that Tynan "ought to have his bottom smacked". Mary Whitehouse CBE ( 13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was a British campaigner for values of Morality ^[17][18]

The British television show T.F.I Friday officially stood for "Thank Four It's Friday" (the reference to Four being Channel Four on which the show was broadcast). TFI Friday was a Light entertainment show produced by Ginger Productions, and hosted by Chris Evans and broadcast on Fridays at 6pm on Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began However, it was widely understood in fact to stand for "Thank Fuck It's Friday"; it has been suggested that it would have been broadcast with that title had it not been decided to broadcast it before the watershed. The Watershed is a term used to describe a time in television schedules which divides the period when it is permissible to show television programmes which have ' Adult content' The show also holds the record for the most frequent use of the word fuck to a pre-watershed audience, owing to guest Shaun Ryder using the word 9 times whilst impersonating the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten, despite the best efforts of Channel 4. Shaun Ryder (aka X) (born Shaun William Ryder on August 23, 1962, in Little Hulton, near Salford) is an English The Sex Pistols are an English Punk rock band that formed in London in 1975 John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956 in London England also known as Johnny Rotten, is a British Rock musician best known as lead vocalist for the Punk Ryder is now the only person to appear by name in the Channel 4 policy document. ^[19] The show inspired another show named O. F. I Sunday, or "Oh Fuck It's Sunday". Although for decades the word was widely considered taboo on British television, at most only appearing in late night programmes and films on secondary channels BBC Two and Channel Four, and even then edited or faded out on occasion; by 2006 there appear to be few limitations on the use of the word after the 9pm watershed, and it is commonly used. The Watershed is a term used to describe a time in television schedules which divides the period when it is permissible to show television programmes which have ' Adult content'

In 2004, the word reached a musical milestone when the song "Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)" by pop singer Eamon became the first song with an expletive in its title to enter the top 20 on the Billboard charts. " Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back " is a single released by American pop singer Eamon in 2004

Band names

The word "fuck" has been used in a number of band names, generally based on common compounds. Although most of these bands are in the aggressive, non-mainstream genres of punk and metal, e. g. Fucked Up, Fuck... I'm Dead, Fuck the Facts, and The Fucking Champs; bands like Holy Fuck, Fuck, and the Fuck Buttons fall into the categories of more accessible forms of electronic rock and pop. Fucked Up is a Hardcore punk band from Toronto, Ontario. History The band formed and played their first shows in early 2001 FuckI'm Dead (also known as FID or FID) is a Deathgrind band from Melbourne Australia. The Fucking Champs are a three-piece rock band from San Francisco, California. Holy Fuck is an Experimental rock band from Toronto Ontario Canada. Fuck is an American Indie rock band formed in Oakland California in 1993 Fuck Buttons is a two-piece experimental group formed in Bristol, England in early 2004 by Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production Pop music as a genre features a noticeable rhythmic element catchy melodies and hooks, a mainstream style and conventional structure ^[20]

Holy fuck

"Holy fuck" is a widely used example of 'liturgical profanity' used interjectionally to express anger, contempt, or disgust. Usually vulgar. ^[21] Noted by academics ^[22][23] and used in literature ^[24][25][26], deriving its power from a combination of the sacred, holy, and the profane, fuck. SACRED was a Cubesat built by the Student Satellite Program of the University of Arizona. An exclamation, similar to "holy shit!", but more offensive, also used informally for sex within a religious context. Shit is one of the most functionally diverse words in the English language, and is also one of the most frequently used nouns ^[27]

It is notably used for its shock value in the mainstream movie Notting Hill (film) starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant ^[28][29]

Occurrence in machine mistranslations

The word "fuck" occurs sometimes in Chinese/English bilingual public notices in China as a machine translation of the Simplified Chinese character 干 which can also mean "dry" and "do", e. Notting Hill is a 1999 Romantic comedy film set in Notting Hill, London, released on 21 May 1999 g. "spread to fuck the fruit" for "loose dried fruit". The fault occurred in some versions of commonly-used Chinese to English machine translators, for example Jinshan (金山 = "Gold Mountain") and Kingsoft. Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation [5]

Common alternatives

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In conversation or writing, reference to or use of the word fuck may be replaced by any of a large list of alternative words or phrases, including "the F-word" or "the F-Bomb" (a play on A-Bomb / H-Bomb), or simply, "eff" (as in "What the eff!" or "You eff-ing fool!"). A minced oath, also known as a pseudo-profanity, is an expression based on a Profanity that has been altered to reduce or remove the disagreeable or objectionable A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. The Teller–Ulam design is a Nuclear weapon design which is used in Megaton -range Thermonuclear weapons and is more colloquially referred to as "the In addition, there are many commonly used substitutes, such as flipping, frigging, fricking, freaking, fire-truck or any of a number of similar sounding nonsense words. It may also be called "F-sharp" (as in the musical note) or "the Effenheimer". The overuse of swear words is often called "F-ing and blinding". In print, there are alternatives such as, "F***", "F - - k", etc. ; or the use of a string of non-alphanumeric characters, for example, "@$#*%!" (especially favored in comic books). Alphanumeric is a is Portmanteau of Alphabetic and Numeric and is used to describe the collection of Latin letters and Arabic digits

In the popular 1983 film, A Christmas Story, Ralph, the main character, says the offensive word, but written into the script is its own censorship, for the audience only hears the boy say fudge. For other uses see A Christmas Story (disambiguation A Christmas Story is a 1983 film based on the Short stories The highly popular comedy Meet the Parents spawned a 2004 sequel with the eponymous title, Meet the Fockers. Meet the Parents is a 2000 American Comedy film written by Greg Glienna and directed by Jay Roach of Austin Meet the Fockers ( 2004) is a Comedy film and a Sequel to Meet the Parents starring Robert De Niro, Ben

In some television science fiction shows, altered versions of the word have been created to allow characters to express themselves without getting into trouble with the censors. For example, in Farscape the word is frell, and in Battlestar Galactica the word is frak, while Red Dwarf uses smeg in a similar context. Farscape is an American science fiction television series filmed in Australia and produced for the Sci-Fi Channel. Battlestar Galactica is a franchise of Science fiction Films and television series, the first of which was produced in 1978 "Frak" or " Frak " is also a made-up expletive used in the TV series Battlestar Galactica and other popular media According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a red dwarf star is a small and relatively cool Star, of the Main sequence, either late K "Smeg" is a mild Vulgarism which reached prominence through its use as a supposedly inoffensive expletive in the British sci-fi / sit-com In the series Firefly, the characters will often switch to Mandarin to swear, frequently using the word "Gorram" and derivatives as a replacement for 'Fuck', 'Shit, and 'Damn it', again avoiding any accusations of indecency. Firefly is an American Science fiction Television series created by writer/director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer A similar ploy was used in the Irish sitcom Father Ted, where the characters regularly say feck (although the term was not invented by the show's creators and is actually considered acceptable slang in Ireland). Father Ted was a popular 1990s Television Situation comedy set around the lives of three Irish Catholic priests on the remote (and Feck (or in some senses fek) is a monosyllable with several Vernacular meanings and variations in Irish English, Scots

In the science-fiction Future Dystopic British comic 2000 AD and Judge Dredd the words 'Drokk' and 'Stomm' were created by the authors to avoid the censorship issue during the 1970s, whilst also creating expletives that still had the cathartic release mechanism by the way it sounded when voiced by the main character. For the 1995 film see Judge Dredd (film. For the Reggae / Ska performer see Judge Dread.

In the science fiction series by Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the word fuck is replaced in common usage by the characters as zark. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 &ndash 11 May 2001 was an English author comic Radio dramatist The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series In the book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, the narrator openly uses the word in the sexual connotation. So Long and Thanks for All the Fish ( 1984, ISBN 0-345-39183-7 is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series written In the original version of Life, the Universe and Everything the word is a basis of a short joke. Life the Universe and Everything ( 1982, ISBN 0-345-39182-9 is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy In the U. S. version, however, it is replaced with the word Belgium and a scene from the radio series involving that word is added almost verbatim, although in a completely different context. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy radio series written by Douglas Adams (with some material in the first series ^[30]

In the popular NBC television series Scrubs, female doctor Elliot Reid consistently uses the word "frick. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Scrubs is an Emmy and Peabody Award -winning American Comedy-drama that premiered on October 2 2001 on NBC. Elliot Reid MD is a Fictional character played by Sarah Chalke in the American Comedy-drama Scrubs. "

A common replacement word used mainly on the internet is "fsck", derived from the name of the Unix file system checking utility. The system utility fsck (for " f ile s ystem c hec' k' " or " f ile s ystem c onsistency chec'

Other languages

The word "fuck" is touted to be one of the few 'universal' words that can be uttered in any country in the world and yet be understood by anyone. Even so different countries do have their own versions.

Afrikaans

In Afrikaans, the slang word fok has been adopted as an Afrikaans equivalent of fuck (and fokkof as "fuck off"), due to the influence of English media and language in South Africa. Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from 17th century Dutch and classified as Low Franconian Germanic, mainly spoken in The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Coincidentally, the Afrikaans word neuk, which resembles the Dutch neuken, is used in the context of to strike. In Afrikaans the strong expletive for sexual intercourse has always been and remains naai.

Catalan

The translation for "fuck" in Catalan, the verb fotre, could allow a Catalan speaker to use few more verbs and still be understood. Catalan ˈkætəˌlæn ( català kətəˈla or) is a Romance language, the national and official language of Andorra, and a co-official It can replace up to thirty verbs, including fer (do),^[31] which followed by the proper noun can replace even more verbs, for example: fer/fotre un dibuix can be used instead of dibuixar (draw).

Chinese languages

The Shanghainese verb and adjective 发格 fage is derived from the English "fuck" and is used in the exasperated context of things or people "fucking up" or "being difficult. Shanghainese (上海閒話 in Shanghainese sometimes referred to as the Shanghai dialect, is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the city of Shanghai " Although fage is often used pejoratively, the term has lost its sexual connotations. In Cantonese, the slang word 屌 diu2 is used in a similar way as the English word "fuck. Standard Cantonese is the standard variant of the Cantonese (Yuet language " Similar terms in Mandarin are 肏 cào (sometimes written 操), 幹 (simplified 干) gàn, and 搞 gǎo, the latter used more commonly in Taiwan. Standard Mandarin, also known as Standard Spoken Chinese, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used in mainland China and Taiwan Taiwan ( Taiwanese: Tâi-oân/Tāi-oân (historically 大灣/台員/大員/台圓/大圓/台窩灣 is an Island in East Asia.

Dutch

In Dutch, the cognate fokken means "to breed". In the past fokken was sometimes used to indicate sexual intercourse, but this is no longer the case. Sexual intercourse, in its biological sense is the act in which the male reproductive organ (in humans and other higher animals enters the female reproductive tract The literal translation of English "fuck" is neuken, and naaien (literally, "to sew") is a milder form roughly equivalent to "screw". The equivalent of "fucking" used as an all-purpose meaningless expletive is klote (kloten is a crude word for "testicles"). The testicle (from Latin testiculus, diminutive of testis, meaning "witness" virility plural testes) is the male

Recently a slang word "modderfokker" (literally: "one who breeds mud") has developed in imitation of English "motherfucker". Motherfucker (also existing in countless contracted forms eg mofo muthafucka, or shortened to just "mother" is a common Insult and Profanity

French

In French, the word for seal (the animal) is phoque; the word for foresail is foc. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people The true seals or earless seals are one of the three main groups of Mammals within the seal Suborder, Pinnipedia. A foresail is one of a few different types of Sail set on the foremost mast ( foremast) of a Sailing vessel: A Their pronunciation in French resembles that of the word fuck in English. In France, phoque or foc sounds like the British pronunciation of fuck while in Québec French, they sound like the North American English pronunciation, due to regional influences (although this actually is coincidental, and neither term has any relation to the English word). This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Quebec French ( le français québécois, le français du Québec) or less often Québécois French, is the predominant varieties A Sprachbund (ˈʃpraːxbʊnt in German plural Sprachbünde) from the German word for “language union” also known as a linguistic area, convergence As well, the English term has been adopted as the adjective fucké, a slang term commonly used in Québec French to describe something that is broken or off-kilter, or someone who is not in their right mind. Quebec French ( le français québécois, le français du Québec) or less often Québécois French, is the predominant varieties It is not considered particularly offensive.

In Québec, the French word tabernacle, meaning the church tabernacle, is often used in the same way as fuck in English, except in sexual-related usage. A Tabernacle is the fixed locked box in which in some Christian churches the Eucharist is "reserved" (stored It is only used as interjection, noun or adverb. Other Québécois-French swear words (which are pretty much all of clergical origin) such as Christ, calice (chalice) and hostie (communion wafer or host) are much more versatile, particularly when used in combination. The Eucharist, also called Holy Communion or Lord's Supper and other names is a Christian Sacrament by which in a common interpretation those Although commonly used, these terms are considered much worse since they are blasphemous, rather than merely vulgar (the words would be comparable to the use of goddammit in the English language). Blasphemy is the disrespectful use of the name of one or more gods. They are widely used as the only remaining part of the backlash against the domination of Québec society by the Roman Catholic church, which lasted until the "Quiet Revolution" of the 1960s. The Quiet Revolution ( Révolution tranquille) was the 1960s period of intense change in Quebec, Canada, characterized by the rapid and effective Secularization

Note that in Québec French, English swearwords such as "shit" (or the French equivalent, merde) and "fuck" are considered to be much less offensive than if used in the same context for an English speaking person, since they are merely vulgar, or crude, and not blasphemous.

The French word foutre is an approximate translation to "fuck". It was commonly used as an interjection during the French Revolution, and often printed in some newspapers of this period. The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an It is now mainly used in the passive participle adjectival form foutu(e) = "fucked". In Linguistics, a participle (from Latin participium, a Calque of Greek μετοχη "partaking" is a derivative of a non-finite

German

The word "to fuck" literally translates as ficken, but the force of "fuck" usually equates with Scheiße (shit), or Mist (crap or manure). Shit is one of the most functionally diverse words in the English language, and is also one of the most frequently used nouns Manure is Organic matter used as Organic fertilizer in Agriculture. Nonetheless the exclamation "fuck" itself has been borrowed into German as a swear word and is in occasional to frequent use among some (especially younger) Germans. Ficken is used much in the same way to fuck is used in English and has a pronounced vulgar meaning for other (especially older) speakers.

Official censorship for language or voluntary "self-censorship" is far less common in German. The using of alternative expressions like "the F word" is virtually unknown. In addition, geographical regions differ with respect to usage and perceived profanity of swear words.

In the German language there are germanized forms of the word, like the pseudo-anglicism abgefuckt "fucked up". Germanisation (also spelled Germanization) is either the spread of the German language, people and culture either by force or Assimilation Pseudo-anglicisms are words in languages other than English which were borrowed from English but are used in a way native English speakers would not readily recognize or understand German as a language, especially in colloquial and often young slang, borrows deeply from English, including a limited number of English swear words; the two most common examples are fuck and shit (although North German Schiete also means "shit," but is not a loan word). Scheiße is fairly well understood as an expletive among English speakers, although often mis-pronounced with medial [z] instead of [s].

The verb ficken is historically used also in a non-sexual context, but still is related to friction. Examples include:

• ein Schwert ficken: the process of cleaning Slag, Tinder and Ash off a Sword's blade after blacksmithing it; this is done by hanging a Sandbag from the ceiling, lancing the blade through it and then quickly moving the sword back and forth until the blade is clean

More recently, the abbreviation FAQ has been used on German websites and forums, for example on the German wikipedia subsite. FAQ is an Acronym for " Frequently Asked Question(s " The pronunciation is not clearly defined: each letter can be pronounced separately or as one syllable (, which is similar to the English pronunciation of fuck). To avoid confusion regarding the abbreviation in itself, the acronym FAQ is often changed into the full term "Frequently Asked Questions" or into the literal German translation "Häufig gestellte Fragen" in formal everyday speech. FAQ is an Acronym for " Frequently Asked Question(s "

Interlingua

The English fuck can be used in Interlingua, given its widespread, international use. Interlingua is an International auxiliary language (IAL developed between 1937 and 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA Words can be included in Interlingua in either of two ways through regular derivation using roots and affixes or by establishing their eligibility as international words The actual Interlingua words for to fuck, however, are fottar and futuer.

Japanese

Japanese has the word fakku (ファック, fakku^?). is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities The term is a foreign loan from English, but the pronunciation has been adapted to the Japanese phonology. This article deals with the Phonology (ie the sound system of the Japanese language. Semantic usage is not as broad as English as it is only used as a slang term for sexual intercourse. ^[32]

Korean

Korean has the word ssipal (씨발), ssip'al (씨팔) for a strong expression, and the word chonna (존나, 좃나) or yǒt mǒgita (엿 먹이다) for a weak expression. This article is mainly about the spoken Korean language See Hangul for details on the native Korean writing system Those are Korean translations from the English word "fuck". Koreans rarely say "fuck" (p'ǒk 퍽) in their daily life, but they say "fuck you" (p'ǒk'yu 퍼큐) instead. Some Korean emoticons, such as "ㅗ", "ㅗ-o-ㅗ", "凸" and "t(-_-t)", and their variants are also used over the internet.

The above Korean romanisations were from the McCune-Reischauer system for romanising Hangul. McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language Romanization systems along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which

Norwegian

In Norwegian, the word fokk means either foresail or something that gets blown in strong wind; drifting snow (snøfokk) or streaks of foam and spray at sea. Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language A foresail is one of a few different types of Sail set on the foremost mast ( foremast) of a Sailing vessel: A Wind is the flow of Air or other Gases that compose an Atmosphere (including but not limited to the Earth's) ^[33] A Norwegian expletive which is somewhat analogous to the English fuck is the word faen. This is short for fanden, a Norwegian word for the devil. ^[34] Knulle or pule is the most vulgar Norwegian colloquialism describing sexual intercourse.

Swedish

In Swedish, the morpheme fack is pronounced almost identically to the English fuck, and means a box or compartment, for example a letterbox for internal mail. Swedish ( is a North Germanic language spoken by more than nine million people predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the In Morpheme-based morphology, a morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning. As a prefix, the morpheme fack refers to something pertaining to a certain trade or profession, for example in the words facklitteratur (literature pertaining to a certain profession) and fackförening (trade union, colloquially referred to as facket (= "the fack")).

Fuck can also be used in colloquial Swedish as an English loan word, with basically the same meanings as in English. ^[35]

Welsh

In the Welsh language fuck has been transliterated as ffwc or ffwcio which is basically pronounced the same and has the same meaning as in English. Welsh ( cy Cymraeg or cy y Gymraeg, kəmˈrɑːɨɡ and {{IPA|[ə ɡəmˈrɑːɨɡ]}}, is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic

See also

• Censorship
• Euphemism
• Four-letter word
• Fucking, Austria
• List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck"
• Profanity
• Sexual slang
• Madonna on Late Show with David Letterman
• For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
• fcuk
• flick off

References

Further references

• Fabien Fuck, The Fuck Book, BookSurge (2007) ISBN 1419654551.
• Hargrave, Andrea Millwood (2000). 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Delete Expletives? London: Advertising Standards Authority, British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting Standards Commission, Independent Television Commission.
• Jesse Sheidlower, The F Word (1999) ISBN 0375706348. Jesse Sheidlower (born August 5 is an Author and Editor specializing in English Linguistics and Lexicography. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Presents hundreds of uses of fuck and related words.
• Michael Swan, Practical English Usage, OUP, 1995, ISBN 0194311988. Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995
• Phillip J. Cunningham, Zakennayo!: The Real Japanese You Were Never Taught in School, Plume (1995) ISBN
• Wayland Young, Eros Denied: Sex in Western Society. Grove Press/Zebra Books, New York 1964. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar.

External links

• Re: the Cheney-Leahy incident, slate.com discusses how American newspapers decide whether or not to print fuck.
• "Online Etymology Dictionary." Some etymological research on the word fuck.
• Usage of the Word Fuck (sound file), a famous (though factually incorrect) piece of Internet humor, variously and incorrectly attributed to Monty Python and George Carlin. Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) is the collective name of the six creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British Television George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12 1937 – June 22 2008 was an American stand-up comedian, often considered one of the best of all time Recorded anonymously with a Vivaldi soundtrack, it is believed to be the voice of Jack Wagner. Jack Francis Wagner ( December 17, 1925 - June 16, 1995) was the official park announcer for Disneyland until 1993
• Flash animation of the above sound file.
• YouTube version of the above sound file.
• Fuck, academic paper exploring the legal implications of the word, by Christopher M. Fairman, Ohio State University - Michael E. Christopher M Fairman is a full Professor of law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. The Ohio State University ( OSU) is a Coeducational public Research university in the state of Ohio. Moritz College of Law March 2006. Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 59.
• On Youtube, a funny explanation about the word fuck.
• Four Letter Film - "A challenging and provocative documentary takes a look on all sides of the infamous F-word. "