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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Fuck is among the strongest and most controversial vulgarisms in the English language, invariably considered offensive and unacceptable in polite situations. It is, however, rather common in daily use, as well as in popular, or vulgar, late 20th and early 21st century culture. To fuck is to copulate (as in "let's fuck"), but it is also used as a general-purpose expletive, as in "fuck off!" ("go away!" or "none of your business!") or "what a dumb fuck" ("what a stupid person"), or to emphasise, as in "this is fucking great" ("this is very good" or "this is very bad", depending on tone of voice) – it can even be used within words via tmesis, as in "un-fucking-believable" or "unbe-fucking-lievable" ("incredibly unbelievable"), or even as nearly every word in a sentence "Fuck [the] fucking fuckers!" ("Forget about [the] very displeasing people!") or "the fucking fucker's fucking fucked!" ("this thing doesn't work!").
In popular culture, the word fuck has grown in usage, and rules allowing it and other vulgar expletives have softened — largely due to demand trends.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/220px-F%2Auck%21.png
A common way to censor 'fuck'
Secondary meanings
As with other swearwords and taboo words, or intensifiers, fuck is often not used in its original, literal meaning. Rather, it is an intensifier expressing nothing but the speaker's strong emotional involvement (often negatively, but not necessarily: e.g. "fucking good" is a rude way of saying "very good"). In the book Practical English Usage, the two meanings of the word are clearly illustrated by juxtaposing the sentences:
What are you doing fucking in my bed?
What are you fucking doing in my bed?
The first sentence means "Why are you copulating in my bed?", while the second merely emphasizes the sentence "What are you doing in my bed?". The second usage is more common than the first. In the former usage, emphasis will more often than not be put on fucking, to convey that it is the literal act of copulating. An acceptable and more common alternative to the latter is:
What the fuck are you doing in my bed?
"Fuck you!" expresses anger, and thus seems to be more related to "I am so angry at you, I am going to rape you to punish you" (although it carries no connotation of this sort) than to "I would like to lovingly have sexual intercourse with you". It also may be related to "fuck off", which seems to be a reference to masturbation, where it might originally have been a vulgar way of saying "quit bugging me and go back to masturbating or whatever stupid stuff you usually do". It may also express indifference with respect to the well-being of another person or of other people in general, for example reacting to a request, or the imposing of rules.
Surprise or bemusement can be expressed by, "Fuck me!" or "Well, I'll be fucked!" without suggesting an open invitation. Similarly, "Well, fuck me stupid!" expresses even greater surprise. The phrase "What the fuck!" is also used to express surprise, in the same way as "What the hell!". In internet slang this is abbreviated to WTF.
Another use of the word fuck is as a replacement for the word God in profane statements as in "for fuck's sake!" For example "fuck knows," or "who the fuck knows," means something like "I don't know, and neither is anyone ever likely to know". Sometimes, the phrase "Oh my fuck!" is used instead of "Oh my God!"
Meanwhile, fuck can be used as a negation, as in "I know fuck all", for "I know nothing".
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b1/180px-Middle_finger.JPG The phrase "fuck off!" or "fuck you!" can also be gestured, by giving someone the finger
Linguistics
Verb
The word can be used as a verb transitively:
He fucked her.
Or intransitively:
They fucked all night.
Or as an impersonal command:
I'm not going down there, fuck that, dude!
Noun
As a noun:
She is a real fuck. (non-specific insult)
He is a good fuck. (specific reference to sexual skill)
Interjection
The interjection fuck is frequently used to express shock, discontent and anger in general.
Fuck! A punctured tire!
Present participle
The present participle fucking (or fuckin' ) is commonly used to intensify a verb or noun. As described earlier, it is used more negatively than positively.
My fucking boss made me work all weekend.
She is fuckin' hot.
In addition, the present participle is sometimes inserted in the middle of a word as an intensifier, a process known as expletive infixation. The rules for insertion of the "fucking"-infix are regular: "fucking" may only be inserted in a multisyllabic word between metrical feet (also known as a tmesis.) For example:
That was abso-fuckin-lutely cool!
In-fuckin-credible
Fan-fuckin-tastic
Past participle
The past participle fucked connotes that something is completely useless, destroyed, or messed up. For example:
The hard drive crashed, so now the database is fucked.
Phrasal verbs
"To fuck up" means to ruin, and the related "to be fucked up" generally connotes drunkenness in the United States. Although "to be fucked up" less commonly refers to physical or emotional injuries in the US, this can be its primary meaning in other English speaking countries.
I did ten shots in ten minutes, and now I'm totally fucked up!
The bouncer really fucked up that drunk guy who kept causing trouble.
My sister's been really fucked up since her fiancé dumped her. (could also refer to drunkenness, depending on the context or the sister)
"To fuck over" connotes betrayal or a generally unfavorable act.
Yeah, he slept with my girlfriend. I can't believe he fucked me over like that!
I got fucked over at work today – they promoted my assistant instead of me.
Portmanteau
Prepended to another word, the sound "f" is sometimes used to evoke the entire expletive, with an intensifying sense.
That's fugly (fucking ugly).
Discourse particle
Fucking is sometimes used as a discourse particle or filler, in much the same way um... is used.
Her name is, fucking... What was her name again?
Acronyms
Fuck is used in various acronyms, especially on the Internet.
FUBAR: fucked up beyond all recognition (or repair)
GTFO: get the fuck out
SNAFU: situation normal, all fucked up.
STFU: shut the fuck up
RTFM: read the fucking manual.
WOFTAM: waste of fucking time and money.
Etymology
Early modern English fuck, fuk, answering to a Middle English type *fuken (weak verb) [which 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.” The Latin words “Non sunt in coeli, quia,” mean “They (the friars) are not in heaven, since.” The code “gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk” is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields “fvccant (a fake Latin form) vvivys of heli.” The whole thus reads in translation: “They are not in heaven since they fuck wives of Ely (a town near Cambridge).”
Germanic fuk- would be expected to come from an Indo-European ancestor *pug-, which appears in Latin and Greek words meaning "fight" and "fist". In early Common 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".
Some have supposed that fuck has cognates in other Germanic languages, such as Middle Dutch fokken (to thrust, to copulate), dialectical Norwegian fukka (to copulate), and dialectical Swedish focka (to strike, copulate) and fock (penis). A very similar set of Latin words that have not yet been related to these are those for hearth or fire, "focus/focum" (with a short o), fiery, "focilis", Latin and Italian for hearthly/hearthling, "foc[c]ia/focac[c]ia", and fire, "focca", and the Italian for bonfire, "focere". But these words came from New Latin, centuries after Middle Dutch.
There is perhaps even an original Celtic derivation; futuere being related to battuere (to strike, to copulate); which may be related to Irish bot and Manx bwoid (penis). The argument is that battuere and futuere (like the Irish and Manx words) comes from the Celtic *bactuere (to pierce), from the root buc- (a point). An even earlier root may be the Egyptian petcha (to copulate), which has a highly suggestive hieroglyph. Or perhaps Latin "futuere" came from the root "fu", Common Indo-European "bhu", meaning "be, become" and originally referred to procreation.
Fake etymologies for fuck
There are many imaginative fake etymologies, including the backronyms "Fornication Under Consent of the King", which was supposedly placed on signs above houses in medieval England during times of population control, and "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", supposedly written on the stocks above people who committed adultery or "Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" in various things linked to rape cases. These acronyms were never heard before the 1960s, according to the authoritative lexicographical work, The F-Word. See also fake etymology.
The verb fuck in different languages
Afrikaans: fok ("fok my", "fok jou")
Albanian: qi ("qifsha" when used in sentences)
Arabic: neak
Bosnian: jebati (to fuck)
Chinese (Cantonese): diu (屌, but often denoted as the character 小 inside the character 門(). Pronounced like "dew" in English)
Chinese (Mandarin/Putonghua):
diao (屌) Also refers to penis, esp. in Northern China; means "damn" or "darn" in Taiwan.
gan (幹) (used more by native speakers of Taiwanese, it occurs in the expression "Gan ni niang!" which means, "Fuck your mother!")
Czech: píchat (literally "to thrust", used as a slang word for "to copulate"); šukat, šoustat (š as "sh"), mrdat (all three vulgar, to have sex [with], to fuck); kurva! (vulgar, literally "bitch", used as an expletive)
Dutch: neuken
French: baiser (to have sex with); foutre (dismissive: "Va te faire foutre!" meaning "Go screw yourself!"; "Fous le camp!" meaning "Fuck off!" or "Shove aside!")
French (Canada): nicker; fourrer (literally, to stuff); the adjective fucké, a borrowing, means broken or out of luck, and is not especially profane. See sacre.
German: ficken (to have sex with, pronounced like fucken, just with a short e instead of the u)3
Hebrew: "lezayen", from noun "zayin", which is a slang word for the penis
Italian: fottere
Japanese: ["fuzakeru"¹]
Korean: "ssi-bal" (씨발), pronounced like the English words "she ball"
Malay: puki (likely an adoption of fuck) or pukimak (likely an adoption of motherfucker) or celaka (bastard)
Portuguese: foder (or comer subjectively used, because it means "to eat", in Northern Portugal pinar is also used)
Romanian: a fute
Russian: yebat
Spanish: All of the following are understood to be the same thing, and can be used interchangebly in any given country, although many Spanish-speakers appear to have a preferred way to say fuck.
Chile: culear
Colombia: pichar or tirar
Ecuador: echar en polvo
Mexico: chingar or less but commonly used joder also vergar (translatable as "to dick")
Peru: cachar
Spain: joder (usually as an all-purpose expletive, can be accompanied by other expletives) or follar
Viet: du (Pronounced "doo") or deo
Example: "Du me may!" or "Deo me may!" (insulting words similar to "motherfucker")
Yiddish: shtup (שתוופ) (literally "to stuff")
See also
Fuck (band)
Four-letter word
Euphemism
Motherfucker
Cocksucker
Profanity
Seven dirty words
Sexual slang
This Be The Verse
Fucking, Austria
Fuddle Duddle
Fuck
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Fuck is among the strongest and most controversial vulgarisms in the English language, invariably considered offensive and unacceptable in polite situations. It is, however, rather common in daily use, as well as in popular, or vulgar, late 20th and early 21st century culture. To fuck is to copulate (as in "let's fuck"), but it is also used as a general-purpose expletive, as in "fuck off!" ("go away!" or "none of your business!") or "what a dumb fuck" ("what a stupid person"), or to emphasise, as in "this is fucking great" ("this is very good" or "this is very bad", depending on tone of voice) – it can even be used within words via tmesis, as in "un-fucking-believable" or "unbe-fucking-lievable" ("incredibly unbelievable"), or even as nearly every word in a sentence "Fuck [the] fucking fuckers!" ("Forget about [the] very displeasing people!") or "the fucking fucker's fucking fucked!" ("this thing doesn't work!").
In popular culture, the word fuck has grown in usage, and rules allowing it and other vulgar expletives have softened — largely due to demand trends.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/220px-F%2Auck%21.png
A common way to censor 'fuck'
Secondary meanings
As with other swearwords and taboo words, or intensifiers, fuck is often not used in its original, literal meaning. Rather, it is an intensifier expressing nothing but the speaker's strong emotional involvement (often negatively, but not necessarily: e.g. "fucking good" is a rude way of saying "very good"). In the book Practical English Usage, the two meanings of the word are clearly illustrated by juxtaposing the sentences:
What are you doing fucking in my bed?
What are you fucking doing in my bed?
The first sentence means "Why are you copulating in my bed?", while the second merely emphasizes the sentence "What are you doing in my bed?". The second usage is more common than the first. In the former usage, emphasis will more often than not be put on fucking, to convey that it is the literal act of copulating. An acceptable and more common alternative to the latter is:
What the fuck are you doing in my bed?
"Fuck you!" expresses anger, and thus seems to be more related to "I am so angry at you, I am going to rape you to punish you" (although it carries no connotation of this sort) than to "I would like to lovingly have sexual intercourse with you". It also may be related to "fuck off", which seems to be a reference to masturbation, where it might originally have been a vulgar way of saying "quit bugging me and go back to masturbating or whatever stupid stuff you usually do". It may also express indifference with respect to the well-being of another person or of other people in general, for example reacting to a request, or the imposing of rules.
Surprise or bemusement can be expressed by, "Fuck me!" or "Well, I'll be fucked!" without suggesting an open invitation. Similarly, "Well, fuck me stupid!" expresses even greater surprise. The phrase "What the fuck!" is also used to express surprise, in the same way as "What the hell!". In internet slang this is abbreviated to WTF.
Another use of the word fuck is as a replacement for the word God in profane statements as in "for fuck's sake!" For example "fuck knows," or "who the fuck knows," means something like "I don't know, and neither is anyone ever likely to know". Sometimes, the phrase "Oh my fuck!" is used instead of "Oh my God!"
Meanwhile, fuck can be used as a negation, as in "I know fuck all", for "I know nothing".
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b1/180px-Middle_finger.JPG The phrase "fuck off!" or "fuck you!" can also be gestured, by giving someone the finger
Linguistics
Verb
The word can be used as a verb transitively:
He fucked her.
Or intransitively:
They fucked all night.
Or as an impersonal command:
I'm not going down there, fuck that, dude!
Noun
As a noun:
She is a real fuck. (non-specific insult)
He is a good fuck. (specific reference to sexual skill)
Interjection
The interjection fuck is frequently used to express shock, discontent and anger in general.
Fuck! A punctured tire!
Present participle
The present participle fucking (or fuckin' ) is commonly used to intensify a verb or noun. As described earlier, it is used more negatively than positively.
My fucking boss made me work all weekend.
She is fuckin' hot.
In addition, the present participle is sometimes inserted in the middle of a word as an intensifier, a process known as expletive infixation. The rules for insertion of the "fucking"-infix are regular: "fucking" may only be inserted in a multisyllabic word between metrical feet (also known as a tmesis.) For example:
That was abso-fuckin-lutely cool!
In-fuckin-credible
Fan-fuckin-tastic
Past participle
The past participle fucked connotes that something is completely useless, destroyed, or messed up. For example:
The hard drive crashed, so now the database is fucked.
Phrasal verbs
"To fuck up" means to ruin, and the related "to be fucked up" generally connotes drunkenness in the United States. Although "to be fucked up" less commonly refers to physical or emotional injuries in the US, this can be its primary meaning in other English speaking countries.
I did ten shots in ten minutes, and now I'm totally fucked up!
The bouncer really fucked up that drunk guy who kept causing trouble.
My sister's been really fucked up since her fiancé dumped her. (could also refer to drunkenness, depending on the context or the sister)
"To fuck over" connotes betrayal or a generally unfavorable act.
Yeah, he slept with my girlfriend. I can't believe he fucked me over like that!
I got fucked over at work today – they promoted my assistant instead of me.
Portmanteau
Prepended to another word, the sound "f" is sometimes used to evoke the entire expletive, with an intensifying sense.
That's fugly (fucking ugly).
Discourse particle
Fucking is sometimes used as a discourse particle or filler, in much the same way um... is used.
Her name is, fucking... What was her name again?
Acronyms
Fuck is used in various acronyms, especially on the Internet.
FUBAR: fucked up beyond all recognition (or repair)
GTFO: get the fuck out
SNAFU: situation normal, all fucked up.
STFU: shut the fuck up
RTFM: read the fucking manual.
WOFTAM: waste of fucking time and money.
Etymology
Early modern English fuck, fuk, answering to a Middle English type *fuken (weak verb) [which 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.” The Latin words “Non sunt in coeli, quia,” mean “They (the friars) are not in heaven, since.” The code “gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk” is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields “fvccant (a fake Latin form) vvivys of heli.” The whole thus reads in translation: “They are not in heaven since they fuck wives of Ely (a town near Cambridge).”
Germanic fuk- would be expected to come from an Indo-European ancestor *pug-, which appears in Latin and Greek words meaning "fight" and "fist". In early Common 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".
Some have supposed that fuck has cognates in other Germanic languages, such as Middle Dutch fokken (to thrust, to copulate), dialectical Norwegian fukka (to copulate), and dialectical Swedish focka (to strike, copulate) and fock (penis). A very similar set of Latin words that have not yet been related to these are those for hearth or fire, "focus/focum" (with a short o), fiery, "focilis", Latin and Italian for hearthly/hearthling, "foc[c]ia/focac[c]ia", and fire, "focca", and the Italian for bonfire, "focere". But these words came from New Latin, centuries after Middle Dutch.
There is perhaps even an original Celtic derivation; futuere being related to battuere (to strike, to copulate); which may be related to Irish bot and Manx bwoid (penis). The argument is that battuere and futuere (like the Irish and Manx words) comes from the Celtic *bactuere (to pierce), from the root buc- (a point). An even earlier root may be the Egyptian petcha (to copulate), which has a highly suggestive hieroglyph. Or perhaps Latin "futuere" came from the root "fu", Common Indo-European "bhu", meaning "be, become" and originally referred to procreation.
Fake etymologies for fuck
There are many imaginative fake etymologies, including the backronyms "Fornication Under Consent of the King", which was supposedly placed on signs above houses in medieval England during times of population control, and "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", supposedly written on the stocks above people who committed adultery or "Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" in various things linked to rape cases. These acronyms were never heard before the 1960s, according to the authoritative lexicographical work, The F-Word. See also fake etymology.
The verb fuck in different languages
Afrikaans: fok ("fok my", "fok jou")
Albanian: qi ("qifsha" when used in sentences)
Arabic: neak
Bosnian: jebati (to fuck)
Chinese (Cantonese): diu (屌, but often denoted as the character 小 inside the character 門(). Pronounced like "dew" in English)
Chinese (Mandarin/Putonghua):
diao (屌) Also refers to penis, esp. in Northern China; means "damn" or "darn" in Taiwan.
gan (幹) (used more by native speakers of Taiwanese, it occurs in the expression "Gan ni niang!" which means, "Fuck your mother!")
Czech: píchat (literally "to thrust", used as a slang word for "to copulate"); šukat, šoustat (š as "sh"), mrdat (all three vulgar, to have sex [with], to fuck); kurva! (vulgar, literally "bitch", used as an expletive)
Dutch: neuken
French: baiser (to have sex with); foutre (dismissive: "Va te faire foutre!" meaning "Go screw yourself!"; "Fous le camp!" meaning "Fuck off!" or "Shove aside!")
French (Canada): nicker; fourrer (literally, to stuff); the adjective fucké, a borrowing, means broken or out of luck, and is not especially profane. See sacre.
German: ficken (to have sex with, pronounced like fucken, just with a short e instead of the u)3
Hebrew: "lezayen", from noun "zayin", which is a slang word for the penis
Italian: fottere
Japanese: ["fuzakeru"¹]
Korean: "ssi-bal" (씨발), pronounced like the English words "she ball"
Malay: puki (likely an adoption of fuck) or pukimak (likely an adoption of motherfucker) or celaka (bastard)
Portuguese: foder (or comer subjectively used, because it means "to eat", in Northern Portugal pinar is also used)
Romanian: a fute
Russian: yebat
Spanish: All of the following are understood to be the same thing, and can be used interchangebly in any given country, although many Spanish-speakers appear to have a preferred way to say fuck.
Chile: culear
Colombia: pichar or tirar
Ecuador: echar en polvo
Mexico: chingar or less but commonly used joder also vergar (translatable as "to dick")
Peru: cachar
Spain: joder (usually as an all-purpose expletive, can be accompanied by other expletives) or follar
Viet: du (Pronounced "doo") or deo
Example: "Du me may!" or "Deo me may!" (insulting words similar to "motherfucker")
Yiddish: shtup (שתוופ) (literally "to stuff")
See also
Fuck (band)
Four-letter word
Euphemism
Motherfucker
Cocksucker
Profanity
Seven dirty words
Sexual slang
This Be The Verse
Fucking, Austria
Fuddle Duddle
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