F**K – Where does this word come from

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This documentary takes a look on all sides of the infamous F-word. It’s taboo, obscene and controversial, yet somehow seems to permeate every single aspect of our culture – from Hollywood, to the schoolyard to the Senate floor in Washington D.C. It’s the word at the very center of the debate on Free Speech – and everyone seems to have an opinion.

F**K exams how the word is impacting our world today through interviews, film and television clips, music, and original animation by Bill Plympton. Scholars and linguists examine the long history of f**k.

Comedians, actors, and writers who have charted and popularized the upward course of f**k are heard from, often while defending the Constitutional Right of Free Speech, all the way to the Supreme Court. F**K visits with those who actually f**k for a living.

We hear from advocates who oppose f**k and its infringement into our everyday lives. We watch some of the most famous and infamous film and television clips that feature f**k, we hear some of the most famous f**ks ever uttered and we’ll feel the impact of f**k on our everyday lives.
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Some say its comes from to "fornicate under the order of the king", and other such acronyms.!
This is untrue,no one knows where in history this amazing word comes from, but it has been used in literature since 1600s .watch the video funny and informing .

 

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[Ron in Regina]

I always thought it came from the "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" charge
that was leveled against those that ran afoul of the Church & State before
Church & State where separated.

The punishment would be public humiliation in a stockade, and your charge
would be written beside you so that passers by could ridicule and harass you.
"For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" being rather unwieldy to write every time &
with human nature leading to short-cuts where ever possible....8O

But I could be wrong...:lol::lol::lol:

 

[lone wolf]

I've heard the For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge thing too ... and it sure is a lot more colourful than what Mister Webster says:

akin to Dutch fokken: to breed (cattle), Swedish dialect fokka: to copulate.

 

[#juan]

Professor Steven Cerutti’s (PhD, Duke) master work “The Words of the Day” notes the following on the origins and usage of the “F” word, making it likely that the words was know in the 1820’s, but not used in polite conversation: “Grammatically, “f**k” can be anything. It can be a noun (“That was one screaming f**k I got last night!”); or a verb (“I f**ked the **** out of that bitch all night long!”); it can be an adjective (“She says he’s a virtual f**king machine!”); it can be an adverb (“That’s one f**king bad haircut you got today at the mall.); it need not even have sexual connotation (“That’s a lot of f**king crap you’ve got there!”). It can mean something good (“I really got f**ked last night!”); or, it can mean something bad (“I really got f**ked last night!”); it makes for a great interjection (“F**k! I can’t find my keys!). It also functions well as an interruption (“Outf**kingrageous!” or “I underf**kingestimated what an ass-hole you can be!”). This tells us nothing about the etymology of the word; it is just a commentary on the impressive range of usages the word has acquired over time. To cover all the theories on the history of this word would be to write its own book, which I’m sure has been done, and probably done badly. It would be hard—if even possible—to do it well.
The Dictionary of American Slang (1960) gives as the primary meaning of the word: “[taboo] To Cheat, trick, take advantage of, deceive, or treat someone unfairly.” It goes on to offer this as an explanation of the relationships between fraud and sex: “All slang meanings of ‘f**k’ and all ‘f**k’ expressions, of course, derive consciously or unconsciously from the old and standard but taboo ‘f**k’ = sexual intercourse. All slang meanings and expressions were widely used in W.W. II military units, became part of the slang vocabulary of many veterans, and spread from them to students and friends. This coupling with the lessening of moral standards and taboos, including linguistic taboos, during and after the war, has contributed to…” blah, blah, blah. To tell you the truth, I have no idea what any of that just meant!
From the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd Edition (2005) we learn that “f**k” came into the English language by slipping through the Indo-European back door and surfacing as the Germanic word fuk. It goes on to explain that the word took its derivation from the classical Latin root pug, from the verb pugnare, which means “to fight”—generally with one’s fists, scrapping it out in the dirt, as it were (which can’t help but put one in mind of the old Lennon/McCartney song Why Don’t We Do It in the Road). This is an interesting theory, and we might give it some (though cautious) credence. At the very least, they are correct in that the root of the word “f**k” is classical, but it’s not Latin, nor pugnacious in any way.
The simple truth is that “f**k”—obviously one of the oldest words in the language—if not the world—dates back to nearly the birth of writing, back when our ancestors were barely up on their feet, still hunting and gathering. It comes from the Greek verb φυω (say: “foo-owe”), and its Greek root is phu. It’s an agricultural term. It means, literally, to plant seeds—what a farmer does—dropping seeds into a furrow of soil. When adopted by the Romans, its Latin root changed from phu to fu, and the noun fututio soon became part of Roman vernacular.”
The “Old In Out”
Fututio is an example of what linguists refer to as a “frequentative.” That is, a word that describes repeated action—which is the nature of dropping seeds into a furrow, one after another, after another. It’s also a big part of the act of “f**king”—if you’re doing it right! It takes often considerable repetition to get those seeds to spurt out. Soon, the Roman elegiac poets got hold of the word at a time when erotic love poetry was all the rage in Rome, and fututio became a metaphor for planting a “particular” kind of “seed” in a “specific” kind of “furrow.” This literary debauchery—what the American Dictionary of Slang calls “linguistic tabooism”—began with Catullus in the first century b.c. and then was taken up by his successors, Propertius, Tibullus and Ovid.

When it came to elegy, Ovid was king. Among the many books of poetry that Ovid wrote was one called the Ars Amatoria or the Art of Love, a poem whose main theme is how to pick up chicks in ancient Rome. It’s really a scream, but it, and others like it that came from Ovid’s stylus, were considered too vulgar and ultimately offensive to the emperor Augustus (who was certainly not one to preach about promiscuity given his own reputation!), so he had poor Ovid—who at the time was already in his mid fifties—exiled to an army camp on the southern Steppes of Russia by the shores of the Black Sea, where he would spend the rest of his life. You could say this about Augustus—he really f**ked Ovid!

 

[kiwi_NZ]

does a bear sh*t in the woods?

 

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The usually accepted first known occurrence in a poem in a mixture of Latin and English composed some time before 1500.

A man's name, John le ****er, is said to be reported from AD 1278, but the report is doubtful
False etymologies

One reason that the word **** 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. None of these acronyms were ever heard before the 1960s, according to the authoritative lexicographical work The F-Word, and thus are backronyms. In any event, the word **** 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 **** came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing adultery, they would be punished "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge In the Nude", with "****IN" written on the stocks above them to denote the crime.
• Another theory is that of a royal permission. During the Black Death in the Middle Ages, towns were trying to control populations and their interactions. Since uncontaminated resources were scarce, many towns required permission to have children. Hence, the legend goes, that couples that were having children were required to first obtain royal permission (usually from a local magistrate or lord) and then place a sign somewhere visible from the road in their home that said "Fornicating Under Consent of King", which was later shortened to "****". This story is hard to document but has persisted in oral and literary traditions for many years; however, it has been demonstrated to be an urban legend.[8]
• That it came from any of:
  • "Fornication Under the Christian King"
  • "Fornication Under the Command of the King"
  • "Fornication Under Carnal/Cardinal Knowledge"
  • "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"
  • "Found Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"
  • "Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" (referring to the crime of rape)

 

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List of recent uses

In 1928, D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover gained notoriety for its frequent use of the words ****, ****ed, and ****ing.
Perhaps the earliest usage of the word in popular music was the 1938 Eddy Duchin release of the Louis Armstrong song "Ol' Man Mose". 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, **** 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, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, in their Derek and Clive personas) has led to the banning of their works and criminal charges of obscenity.
After Norman Mailer's publishers convinced him to bowdlerize **** 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 ****." In fact, according to Mailer, the quip was devised by Bankhead's PR man. 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 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.
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger featured an early use of **** you in print. 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.[10] 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'. 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 **** was director Robert Altman's irreverent antiwar film, MASH, released in 1970 at the height of the Vietnam War. 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 ****in' 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. In 2007, some 36 years later, Green Day did a cover of Lennon's song, which was censored for radio airplay, with the "Ph.." 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.[11][12]
The word was used in the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World by a fictional whaler describing pirates who burned his ship in 1802. The word is used occasionally in the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels of Patrick O'Brian, on which the film is based.[13]
Comedian George Carlin once commented that the word **** ought to be considered more appropriate, because of its implications of love and reproduction, than the violence exhibited in many movies. He humorously suggested replacing the word kill with the word **** in his comedy routine, such as in an old movie western: "Okay, sheriff, we're gonna **** you, now. But we're gonna **** you slow..." Or, perhaps in reference to a murderer: "Mad ****er on the Loose", or even the murderer himself: "Stop me before I **** again!" More popularly published is his famous "Filthy Words" routine, better known as "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television."

 

[grumpydigger]

It means to hit with a BIG stick................

 

[strange]

who the fu@k cares. hahah jk thanks for the link the doc looks great

 

[gopher]

I was in junior high school around 1964 when a classmate laughingly came to with the reader we were using in class. There was an old story in it about rural life and he showed a line that stunned both of us. It read, ''the hunter f*cked the knife into the snake''. I'm still laughing about that line to this day.

Too bad we didn't quote that line in class. I would have gotten a bigger laugh.