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FUCK / Verb -ing .er-s (Original Post) Budi Oct 2021 OP
Absofuckingloutely! SheltieLover Oct 2021 #1
LOL... it's all so true! Budi Oct 2021 #2
Youfuckingbetcha! SheltieLover Oct 2021 #4
One of my favorite fucking words FoxNewsSucks Oct 2021 #3
That's funny. Covers the entire English language spectrum Budi Oct 2021 #5
LOL malaise Oct 2021 #13
This is one of the funniest videos ever. I have watched it... 3catwoman3 Oct 2021 #16
And remember dweller Oct 2021 #6
Omg...😄 it's a universal language! Budi Oct 2021 #9
WOW!!!! MyOwnPeace Oct 2021 #7
Historical origins DBoon Oct 2021 #8
So it wasn't the 1st word outta Columbus' mouth when he ran ashore in America? Budi Oct 2021 #10
more likely the first word out of Lief Ericson's mouth DBoon Oct 2021 #11
Or these guys! Budi Oct 2021 #14
It's a great and unique word PJMcK Oct 2021 #12
eff, effin, frig, freakin, ffffk Budi Oct 2021 #15
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
5. That's funny. Covers the entire English language spectrum
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 06:08 PM
Oct 2021

This tweet is probably the truest thing I've seen posted on soc media all day.

😬

3catwoman3

(23,812 posts)
16. This is one of the funniest videos ever. I have watched it...
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 09:31 PM
Oct 2021

...many times, and it makes me laugh every time. The dry, pedantic tones of the narrator, and the flickering of the images are so reminiscent of the filmstrips of elementary school classes in the late 50s and 60s.

dweller

(23,559 posts)
6. And remember
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 06:12 PM
Oct 2021

You can tell someone to fuckoff backwards
ffokcuf
and it means the same thing, just you sound Irish


follow me for more linguistic tips
✌🏻

MyOwnPeace

(16,887 posts)
7. WOW!!!!
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 06:19 PM
Oct 2021

It's the fucking "Vege-O-fucking-matic" of the entire fucking English language!

It fucking slices - it fucking dices - it can fucking DO-IT- ALL!

FUCKIN' A!!!!!!!!!!! (and I have NO fuckin' idea what THAT is supposed to mean! )

DBoon

(22,285 posts)
8. Historical origins
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 06:23 PM
Oct 2021
The Oxford English Dictionary states that the ultimate etymology is uncertain, but that the word is "probably cognate" with a number of Germanic words with meanings involving striking, rubbing and having sex or is derivative of the Old French word that meant 'to have sex'.[8]

The word has probable cognates in other Germanic languages, such as German ficken ('to fuck'); Dutch fokken ('to breed', 'to beget'); dialectal Norwegian fukka ('to copulate'), and dialectal Swedish focka ('to strike', 'to copulate') and fock ('penis').[8] This points to a possible etymology where Common Germanic fuk- comes from an Indo-European root meaning 'to strike', cognate with non-Germanic words such as Latin pugno ('I fight') or pugnus ('fist').[8] By application of Grimm's law, this hypothetical root has the form *pug–. There is a theory that fuck is most likely derived from German or Dutch roots, and is probably not derived from an Old English root.[9]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
10. So it wasn't the 1st word outta Columbus' mouth when he ran ashore in America?
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 06:42 PM
Oct 2021

Yet another myth credited to Columbus, now debunked.

Wonder if Urban Dictionary has revised the meaning yet.



PJMcK

(21,916 posts)
12. It's a great and unique word
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 07:16 PM
Oct 2021

Not many expletives relieve stress the way "fuck" does. And it has so many fucking uses, as the OP points out. It's a noun, a vern, an adverb, etc.

I'm perplexed when DUers post curse words but don't spell them out, i.e., F*CK.

We know what the word is so just spell it! If a writer is offended by the word, then use another goddam word!

It seems so silly and even childish when people half-use the word.

Ah, well. Fuck it!

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
15. eff, effin, frig, freakin, ffffk
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 09:08 PM
Oct 2021

It's being mad, but not as totally pissed as FUCK!!!

Just a guess ~

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