The word “Fuck.” Where did it come from?
Why is it a bad word? I had to know. 🖕 So did some fucking digging.
What the *&@%!
We all have our favorite curse words to use when we’re feeling angry, frustrated, upset, excited, surprised.
Curse words give us a colorful vocabulary but, where did those filthy (yet cathartic) expressions come from? Well, I went on a quest to look into some of the most common cus words. Fuck, first — Here we go.
Having sex is fucking. But it is used in other ways that are not romantic at all. They are downright mean!
Sex is a word maybe should represent love and having babies. I mean, that is what happens when two people or animals do it. Egg meets sperm and it’s magic. It should be a beautiful thing, right? So where’d the anger and hostility come from by using the word FUCK?
I learned the f-word at school in about the 5th grade.
The hippy thing was blowing up in California. Tons of new things were blossoming in society. Pant had bell bottoms. Mini-skirts. Long hair.
Peace, not war was the thing. The word, “Groovy” was brand new and so strange, but so cool.
Even the word, “Cool” had a new meaning. It was no longer about the temperature or a breeze, an outfit or a person could be cool. “Far-out” and “Man” were also huge!
So I came home from school and asked my mom, “What does Fuck mean?” She told me, it’s a bad word. Never say that word.
But that’s what school is for. So I learned what fuck meant and what sex is from my friends. People seemed so angry when they used the word.
What’s The Origin Of The F-word?
Unlike most of its vulgar counterparts, fuck doesn’t have its roots in Old English.
The F word is thought to come from the German word fricken which means “to strike” or “to hit”. It may also come from the Swedish dialectal word focka (“to strike” or “to copulate”) and/or the Dutch word “fokken” which means to breed.
As a noun … a euphemism for the word fuck: The f-word came into English in the 15th century.
FUCK is one flexible word in the English language. Noun, verb, interjection, adjective, or whatever floats your boat. Originally, the abrasive word has become quite acceptable over time.
The F-word in the dictionary
The use of fuck as an insult (you stupid fuck) is an Americanism from the 1920s. These days, you can fuck around, over, about, up, and off; the list goes on. Our angry potty mouths have created a fuck for every occasion.
Fuck was banned from the Oxford English Dictionary for years. In 1960, Grove Press (in the US) won a court case permitting it to print the word legally for the first time in centuries — in D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (written in 1928).
Here Are Some Replacements For The F Word?
Sadly, there are situations where fuck ain't gonna fly. Here are other options:
These are more mild, indirect, or less barbaric. Frig, frack, frick, fork, fug, fux, and WTF (or whiskey tango foxtrot)work in a pinch, instead of the f-word.
We also now have “eff’, “effed” and “effing”, as well as the f-word, f-bomb, fracking, flipping, and my fav, frigging.
So this word originated from the words to strike or hit!
Oh, now it may kinda make sense! There is a lot of striking or banging body parts and when this act goes on when having sex. I mean rock and roll may be a sex description as well, although at first, it was about being on a ship out to sea.
What the *&@%!
We all have our favorite curse words to use when we’re feeling angry, frustrated, upset, excited, surprised.
Curse words give us a colorful vocabulary but, where did those filthy (yet cathartic) expressions come from? Well, we took a deep look into some of the most common swears around.
For dessert, let’s have a little tiny serving of SHIT!
Shit comes from the Old English “scite,” which was originally a neutral word for “diarrhea,”, especially in cattle.
By the 1500s, people began to use this curse word to mean “an offensive and despicable person (usually for a dude).”
in 1675 people used to put words together with shit for a better impact: “He had basely slandered him calling shit, thief, beast.” (Clever…well, SHIT!)
By the late 1800s, the word could refer to anything “regarded as worthless”.
Then it exploded (pun intended) in popularity, giving rise to so many new phrases (give a shit, shit happens, shit for brains, to name a few). These days people also use it to describe an unfair situation (the classic shit sandwich), and sometimes funny stuff. (shits and giggles).
Finally, asshole. A no-brainer.
As a vulgar term for the “anus,” asshole is recorded in the 1800s. Arshole, with ass being a variant of arse, is even older, recorded in the 1400s.
Fast forward to the 1950s, when the word became more commonly used in reference to a “contemptible person.” Asshole today, well we’ve obviously kept this usage it, showcasing our extreme distaste for someone by calling them an asshole.
— (Of course, if you drop the –hole, you’re just calling that person “a donkey.” But that's a given, right? Donkeys or Asses, can be mean and stubborn)
👠 Funny story👡I had a friend who sold shoes in a very expensive shoe store and some very (sometimes snobby) rich people shop. If they were rude, she would ring up, hand them their bag and say:
FUCK YOU VERY MUCH. — They never had a clue.
Wrapping it up with the classic, George Carlin. & words you can’t say on TV!
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