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Etymology The etymology of fuck has given rise to a great deal of speculation, which should be regarded skeptically. The authoritative Oxford usertalk:24.147.248.130 English Dictionary is quite cautious in providing an etymology for this word. In the quotation below, the dictionary's usual usertalk:24.147.248.130 abbreviations are spelled out for clarity:Early modern English fuck, fuk, answering to a Middle English usertalk:24.147.248.130 type *fuken (weak verb) is not found; ulterior etymology unknown. Synonymous German ficken cannot be shown to be related.The first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. 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”; that is, “Fleas, flies, and friars”. The line that contains fuck reads “Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk.”
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