Hey anyone hear this story about the word --warning contains swear word.

[Nikepallas]

Someone was telling me that they had read somewhere that the origins of Fuck came from Europe during the 16th or 17th century and that it actually came from a Proclamation. The war was causing a lot of death and to get a new generation going and making sure their was enough bodies to fight the Fornication Under Command of the King came into being and was often referred to as F.U.C.K.


I don't know if it is true but I thought I pass this on..

[Wat_Tyler]

1. Nah - that's an old myth.

Fuck is a very old Anglo-Saxon / Germanic term.

[Nikepallas]

2. Ahhh, thanks. so did it at one time mean something else and got

perverted or did it always mean sex (in a sense)?

[ashmanonar]

7. well

go on dictionary.com, and it gives a fairly accurate definition of it...
but yes, it generally had a sexual connotation...(although, it doesn't even mean sex all the time in our usage...there's fuck up, fuck off, etc...it's an attention grabber, an eye-opener...)

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. i think it means

to hit lightly

[McKenzie]

4. link about the term inside

http://www.e-paranoids.com/dictionary/f/fu/fuck.html

[Nikepallas]

5. Thanks for the info I'll tell my friend.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. that word comes from Dutch, I believe

at least that's what they said in "The Story of English". I've also heard that the word initially meant to plant seeds. When I taught upper elementary school, sometimes kids would use it for shock value. I'd say, "Oh, that word deals with gardening. Do you prefer to plant food or flowers?" Always deflated them.

[Barad Simith]

8. origins, according to Merriam-Webster

akin to Dutch fokken to breed (cattle), Swedish dial. fokka to copulate (15th century)