where did cuss words orginate from?
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Swear words come from many different sources, and it's a shame that we don't talk about them more, because profanity is one of the most fascinating ways to learn about another culture.  Most of our swear words do in fact come from Anglo-Saxon dialects, but some also come from French and Latin.\n\nWords usually become considered bad when they describe something that a culture either holds sacred or disturbing.  It used to be that the really bad swear words in English all had to do with religion, but as the English world has become less and less religious over the past few decades, words describing bodily functions have taken their place.
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Probably the most used and common swear word is the F-Word (F**K). Many others as the M-Word (M*****F*****) derive or are complemented by the F-Word, and most of the others (like As*Ho*e) and (cu*t) have an actual meaning but have become swear words.\n\nSo, the only interesting one to research is the F-Word. Here some theories about its origins:\n\n1. The American Heritage Dictionary says its first known occurrence in English literature was in the satirical poem "Flen, Flyss" (c.1500), where it was not only disguised as a Latin word but encrypted - gxddbov - which has been deciphered as fuccant, pseudo-Latin for "they f**k."\n\n2. When doctors wrote a diagnostic notation on the documests of soldiers in the British Imperial Army reporting sick and found to have Sexual Transmitted Diseases., the abbreviation F.*.*.K. was stamped on his documents. It was short for "Found Under Carnal Knowledge."\n\n3. In the 15th Century, when a married couple needed permission from the king to procreate. Hence, "Fornication Under Consent of the King" (F.*.*.K.).\n\n4. May be an acronym of a law term used in the 1500s that referred to rape as "Forced Unnatural Carnal Knowledge" (F.*.*.K.).\n\n5. Referring to the charge for prostitution in England: "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (F.*.*.K.)."
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Try mastering English before you waste your time learning cuss words in other languages.
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Go to http:/wikipedia.org and do a search for "List of Ethnic Slurs". That'll tell you.
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Well English...Started from Anglo-Saxon.Some words are borrowd or adopted. Some were created by accident.
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It's a euphemism for "damn hell" originating in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, when many such euphemisms became popular, such as\n\nGee whiz\nGosh darn\nCrimeny\nJeez\nDash it all\nHoly cow\nHoly moley\nCripes\n...and many, many, many more.
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I think you mean bollocks.it is a slang word for the testicles.
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The phrase in this form started out in the 1950s as an offshoot of "excuse my French."  This is a result of racial stereotyping - Anglo-Saxons of the late 19th century blamed the French for anything remotely dirty.  The belief started in the mid 19th century and held that was France sex-obsessed and pornographic.
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Everyone is wrong except the guy who said it was from Anglo-Saxon.  "F..k" has a long pedigree in the Germanic languages.  It was found in Proto-Germanic about 2500 years ago as the verb *fukan 'have intercourse'.  This was not vulgar at that time and was a euphemism for some older word.  Ultimately, it comes from Proto-Indo-European *pug- "to strike", from which we get the borrowed Latin form pugilism 'boxing'.
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It started with people who didn't like to be blasphemous by saying "For Christ's sake . . ." or "For God's sake . . .", so they would say anything else that started with the same first two syllables and that would give the idea without actually saying it.  So we get "For cry . . . ing out loud" and "for go . . . sh sakes".  Etymologists and dictionaries call this a "minced oath".
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Taken from the included link: "This phrase, in which French refers to "bad language", is employed when the speaker feels compelled to use an obscenity despite having listeners who might be offended.  It's a late 19th century euphemism which first appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1895.\n\nIt is thought that the term French is employed in this sense as it already had a history of association with things considered vulgar.  As far back as the early 16th century, French pox and the French disease were synonyms for genital herpes, and French-sick was another term for syphillis.  The OED also equates the adjective French with "spiciness", as in French letter for "condom", French kiss (1923) and French (i. e. "sexually explicit") novels (from 1749)."
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my kids are still young so we are still pretty much referring to them as bad words!! \n\nbut, as they get older it will be cussing...because I grew up with cussing.
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Vete pa' la pinga / Vete pa' la verga / Vete pa' la mierda / No me jodas All ways of saying "Fuck off!" \nCueca Dyke \nMarimacha Dyke \nChucha e' tu culo Your ass' pussy \nMota Pussy \nVenirse To cum \nCagar To take a shit \nVerguero A really fucked up place (lit. a bunch of dicks) <slang> \nPutero Whorehouse \nCromao' Blow job (slang) \nPaja Cum (slang) \nHacerce la paja To jerk off (slang) \nHacerce la manuela To jerk off (slang) \nCuliar To fuck (slang) \nPonchar To fuck (slang) \nChulo Pimp \nMarica Gay \nCuecón Faggot \nMierda Shit! \nArrecho Horny \nSácate el dedo del culo Stop fucking around. (lit. take your finger out of your ass) \nAwebao (ahuevado) Jackass (lit. no balls, no eggs) \nPorque me pica el huevo Because I fucking say so! (lit. because my balls itch) {used as a retort} \nLa gruta Whorehouse \nTortillera Dyke, lesbian (lit. woman who fries tortillas) \nMota Cunt \nMicha Cunt \nCueco Faggot \nMaricon Faggot \nPerra Bitch \nVerga Dick (also used as an exclamation) \nPinga Dick (also used as an exclamation) \nChucha Fuck! \nChuchamadre Fuck! \nIweputa Son of a bitch \nChucha de tu madre Your mother's cunt (VERY offensive) \nTienes el gusto en el culo Tasteless (lit. your taste is in your ass) \nCilaso Pimp \nMaldicion Damn it! \nPajiso Guy who jerk-offs a lot \nPerra Female bitch \nPuto Male bitch \nHuevos Testicles (lit. eggs) \nMonstruo Penis (lit. monster) \nImbecil Imbecile \nChulo Pimp \nMarica Gay \nCuecón Faggot \nImbecil Imbecile, asshole  \nLe gusta la tortilla She's a dyke (lit. she likes tortillas)  \nEmputar To piss somebody off  \nEmputarse To be pissed off  \nMe emputa sa vaina That fucking pisses me off  \nMe empute It pissed me off  \nCagadera Diarrhea (very crude, comes from cagar, which means to take a shit)  \nArrechura Hornyness  \nArrecho Horny (male)  \nArrecha Horny (female)  \nYo me limpio el culo con tu cara I wipe my ass with your face (teenage slang)  \nCara e'verga Dick face  \nCara e'culo Ass face  \nAqui huele a culo Smells like ass in here  \nEsta vaina huele a culo This smells like ass  \nPutamadre! Fuck! (lit. motherwhore) \nVerga/pinga! Fuck! (lit. dick) \nMierda! Shit!  \nMetete sa vaina en el culo Shove it up your ass  \nMan me metieron el dedo I'm grounded dude! (lit. they stuck their fingers up my ass) (teenage slang) \nMandar pa la verga/pinga To insult someone (lit. to send somebody to the dick) (teenage slang) \nEsta vaina sabe a mierda This tastes like shit  \nSa vaina sabe a mierda That tastes like shit
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Subsitute it first with another more wholesome word. Later on, try omitting the word altogether. You'll get used to it soon enough. You learned to cuss, you can unlearn to cuss.
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The F word is Anglo Saxon.  Most others are corruptions of body parts.  My favourite is my old grandad's: 'Bad cess to you'.   It took me a long time to figure it out, but the cess is as in cesspit.
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It's slang from the UK & Ireland, a made up phrase to avoid cursing when surprised or annoyed.\n\nIt's also a slang term for a sexual position.
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LMAO!!! As my fiancee says, he makes up cuss words while watching baseball or hockey! I'm trying to figure that one out myself.