Where did the F word originate and was it originally used as another word for sex?
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F**k is an English word which, when used literally as a verb, means "to engage in sexual intercourse". It is generally considered to be an offensive profanity. Its origins may be Germanic, akin to the synonymous German "ficken", which had the original meaning, "to strike".\n\nIt is unclear whether the word has always been considered vulgar, and if not, when it first started to be considered vulgar. Some evidence indicates that in some English-speaking locales it was considered acceptable as late as the 17th century meaning "to strike" or "to penetrate". Other evidence indicates that it may have become vulgar as early as the 16th century in England, although neither set of evidence is inherently contradictory to the other, since many words have multiple connotations. The etymology (origin) of the word is uncertain.\n\nThere are several urban-legend false etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word. One legend holds that the word f**k came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing adultery they would be punished "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge In the Nude", with "F U C K I N'" written on the stocks above them to denote the crime.
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1382, "males or females collectively," from Latin sexus "state of being either male or female, gender." "Commonly taken with seco as division or 'half' of the race" [Tucker], which would connect it to secare "to divide or cut" (see section). Meaning "quality of being male or female" first recorded 1526. Meaning "sexual intercourse" first attested 1929 (in writings of D.H. Lawrence); meaning "genitalia" is attested from 1938. Sexy first recorded 1925 (as an Eng. word in Fr.), originally "engrossed in sex;" sense of "sexually attractive" is 1932. Sex appeal first recorded 1924; sex drive is from 1918; sex object and sex symbol both first attested 1911, the former in ref. to Jesus. Sexpot is from 1954. Sexpert "sex therapist" is from 1924. Sexploitation is attested from 1942.
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Slang words are nothing new. There have always been slang or vulgar words. (the word vulgar originally referred to the language of the "commoners," common people.) I do honestly believe that most men behave decently. It's only the few who don't that you hear about.
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Im not sure if the term originated in WWII or  from the Vietnam war. \nBut I know it originated cause solders married local women and brought them to the US after the war.
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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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It's spelled FUBAR. It means Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition. Some choose to use the "F" word instead of fouled. It originated in WW2. Also standard was the saying SNAFU Situation Normal All Fouled Up. Again Fouled can be replaced with the swear word.
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The only curse word the bible definitely says you shouldn't use is the word 'fools' \n \nMatthew 5:  5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire\n\nBut you can say 'fool' freely without being censored by the public. You can say 'fool' and not get fired. You can't say that other f-word though, because of old taboos, possibly Victorian in origin when polite society attempted to put sex in its place, to be used for reproductive purposes only.
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Curse words date back to the early 17th century. It was said that Witches invented them. It was believed that when a witch put a spell (or a curse) on something, they would yell certain words. These words were thus believed to hold bad things and were not accepted. The history passed on for years and years, however, in the 1900's people started using the words as a means of pillory. The meaning of the words continued to evolve and are what we hear today.\n\n\n\nBy the way - that is a bunch of BS, but it is believeable!
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If you're asking when the word "gay" came to be associated with homosexuals, particularly males, it emerged from Britain in the late 19th century as a sort of "codeword" for being able to identify each other.\n\nThose were in the days when we didn't have a strong identity in the culture and wouldn't say that "fruit" is a bigoted word to use in connection with homosexual people.
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"Have you heard of a search engine? "\n\nQuicker to type in to Google.\n\nOne born every minute.\n\nDear Straight Dope:\n\nWhich Dick came first?\n\nOK, so if this isn't too crude of an opener, I will explain myself. My question is a simple one, but one that has troubled me for many years. I am puzzled as to which of these events occurred:\n\n1. Someone (somebody had to be first didn't they?) named Richard thought it was a grand idea to go by a nickname which was also slang for the male genitalia "penis."\n\n2. Penis slang was personified for someone nicknamed Dick who perhaps resembled in appearance or actions the male genitalia.\n\n3. Some "coincidence" which cannot be explained.\nAdding to the uniqueness of this nickname is that Dick only shares two letters with Richard. Can you imagine for example "Pussy" being an acceptable nickname for Priscilla. Or "Tits" for Theresa. Perhaps "Ass" for Osama is on the way into the language and we don't even know it yet. --Justin aka "Kneecap"\n\nSDSTAFF Dex replies:\n\nSure, or perhaps "to Cecil" will come to mean "to be wise beyond one's years."\n\nObviously the name came first. The name Richard is very old, although its origin is disputed. Old English had Richeard, from Ric (ruler) and heard (hard); French had Richart, and Old German had Ricohard. The name Richer was also fairly common until the 13th Century or thereabouts.\n\nIn those days, manuscripts, letters, grocery lists, and everything else was written by hand; it was therefore common and easier to use agreed-upon abbreviations. "Rich." was used for "Richer" and "Ric." for "Richard" or "Ricard."\n\nRichard and Ricard were equally popular in the Middle Ages, and the abbreviations led naturally to diminutives--such as Rich, Richie, Rick, and Ricket. Rhyming nicknames were also fairly common in the 12th and 13th centuries, and so we also have Hitch from Rich, Hick and Dick from Rick, and Hicket from Ricket. Some of these later became surnames or parts of surnames. We note that while Dick endures as a nickname, "Hick" has thankfully become obsolete, except when tied to "Dick" in rhymes such as "Hickory, Dickory, Dock."\n\nIn the 13th and 14th centuries, "Hick" evolved, however improbably, into "Hudde," from which derives surnames such as "Hudson." W. Bardsley's masterful work, Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1901) cites a Latin manuscript that mentions "Ricardus dictus Hudde de Walkden."\n\nBack at the ranch, Dick and Hick were among the earliest of the rhyming nicknames, first appearing in writing around 1220. Other rhyming nicknames include Polly from Molly, Bob from Rob (from Robert), Bill from Will (from William); and Hodge from Roger.\n\nThe name Dick (like the name Jack) was used colloquially to mean a man or everyman. The expression "every Tom, Dick, or Harry" attests to the this as a long-established usage; Shakespeare uses "every Tom, Dick, or Francis" in Henry IV Part I.\n\nFrom the usage of Dick to mean average person, other usages appeared. Many other usages. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a dick as meaning a type of hard cheese in 1847, which lead to the usage of "spotted dick" (to be dealt with in an upcoming Staff Report.) The term "dick" was also used to mean a riding whip, an apron, the mound around a ditch, and an abbreviation for "dictionary" around 1860.\n\nDick also meant a declaration, in which sense the OED cites someone writing in 1878 "I'd take my dying dick" to mean "I'd swear a dying declaration." The term "dick" came to mean policeman around 1908, and then detective.\n\nAnd we finally get to where you started. The use of "dick" as coarse slang for penis first arises a
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What an obtuse question!\n\nSimply because that word was used by certain people precisely <as> a term of offense to describe 'some other people'.\n\nYour question would have much more validity if it were "why did white people decide to use that word as a term of offense in the first place?"\n\nYes we know that black people use the word within their own community, just as gay people use the word 'queer'. But that doesn't change the fact that the word was first given currency as a deliberate insult.
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what people use it for now is calling someone homosexual in a mean way. saying faggot instead of gay is supposed to be meaner. faggot used to mean a bundle of wood. not sure how it went from that to and insult, but whatever.
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there is a lot of history behind the n-word. It was originally used to hurt black people, and to make them feel inferior however, some black people have taken it and flipped the meaning in an effort to give it a pos. connotation, like how women sometimes refer to each other as hoes, b*****s, etc. but if you'd like more info on the topic read "N*i*g*g*e*r: the strange career of a troublesome word" by Randall Kennedy.
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Vaginal sex when performed with enthusiasm following foreplay between a man and a woman who are comfortable and pleased with each other gives the most pleasure to men and to women.  O--- sex was invented to provide a way to get orgasm for people who CANNOT perform or DO NOT WANT TO perform vaginal sex.  A--- sex was invented for the same reason as o--- sex but is NOT pleasurable for the average woman or man who is heterosexual.
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Gay\nMuch commentary about this adjective referring to homosexuals exists, mostly having to do with usage. Our concern here, however, is etymology and two mistaken notions prevail. The first is that gay, meaning homosexual, originated as an acronym for Good As You. The second is that it is of relatively recent origin, dating only to the late 1960s. Both of these ideas are in error.\n\nMany, believe that gay came to mean homosexual only in the late 1960s with the Stonewall riot and the rise of the gay rights movement. This is not the case. The error these people are making is confusing the adoption of the term by the heterosexual community, and thus the English language as a whole, with its origin. The term is in fact much older, being used by homosexuals to refer to themselves with certainty as early as the 1920s, and possibly as early as the 1860s.\n\nLighter gives the earliest usage cite as a 1922 quote from Gertrude Stein's "Miss Furr & Mrs. Skeene" which appeared in Vanity Fair. It is uncertain, however, if Stein's use of gay in this case is a reference to lesbianism or to the [then] conventional sense of gay meaning happy:\n\nThey were ... gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, ... they were quite regularly gay.\nThe first unequivocal written use of gay to mean homosexual is in 1929, in Noel Coward's musical Bittersweet. In the song Green Carnation, four overdressed, 1890s dandies sing:\n\nPretty boys, witty boys, You may sneer\nAt our disintegration.\nHaughty boys, naughty boys,\nDear, dear, dear!\nSwooning with affectation...\nAnd as we are the reason\nFor the "Nineties" being gay,\nWe all wear a green carnation.\n\nThe penultimate line refers to the 1890s, which were commonly called the gay nineties. In general usage, this appellation had nothing to do with homosexuality, but in this context, Coward clearly uses it as a double entendre. \n\nGay appears again in 1933 in Ford and Tyler's Young & Evil. In 1938 in the movie Bringing Up Baby, the character played by Cary Grant, when asked why he is wearing women's clothing replies, "Because I just went gay all of a sudden." In retrospect, this is obviously a joke intended to slip past the censors. In their 1941 book Sexual Variations, Gershon Legman and G.V. Henry cite gay as a slang term for homosexual, which indicates that it was in use for some time prior.\n\nLighter also indirectly cites an 1868 song by female impersonator Will S. Hays titled, Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store. The lyrics do not explicitly link the word with homosexuality, but they can be interpreted that way, especially if sung by a man in drag. Then again, that may be reading too much into the lyrics. You be the judge:\n\nIt's about a chap, perhaps you know,\nI'm told he is 'Nobody's beau,'\nBut maybe you all knew that before,\nHe's a lively clerk in a Dry-Goods Store.\nO! Augustus Dolphus is his name,\nFrom Skiddy-ma-dink they say he came,\nHe's a handsome man and he's proud and poor,\nThis gay young clerk in the Dry-Goods Store.\nOK, so gay was definitely in use in the 1920s, and perhaps earlier, but how did the term come to be associated with homosexuals? Several possibilities exist, but the acronym for Good As You is not one of them. \nThe most likely explanation is that it derives from gaycat or geycat, a slang term for a tramp or hobo who is new to the road. Gaycats were commonly in the company of older tramps, implying a homosexual relationship. The term, according to Lighter, dates to at least the 1890s. Gaycats were employed as lookouts while other hoboes committed crimes. The OED2 cites the 1935 Underworld & Prison Slang by N. Ersine as defining geycat as a homosexual boy. The origin of gaycat is unknown. Green, however, says a gay cat was a tramp who offered sexual services to women.\n\nAnother possible origin is the late nineteenth century slang usage of gay to mean promiscuous. A
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The terms "girlfriend" and "boyfriend" are relatively new in the english language.  \n\nThe first known usage of the term "boyfriend" is in   George W. E. Russell's "Collections and Recollections" where he says that\n\n"The young ladies...meet their boy-friends at all hours and places."\n\n"Collections and Recollections" was published sometime between 1898 and 1909.\n\nIt is likely that the terms developed colloquially sometime before that and over the years became the popular way to refer to one's significant other.  There are still groups of people who find the term demeaning and prefer either "lady-friend" or "male-friend" or "partner".\n\nPart of the rise in popularity of the terms is likely due to the necesity of some words to describe a new sort of cultural relationship.  In earlier times neither young, nor older people would have had the sort of relationship we refer to as a "boyfriend-girlfriend" relationship.  They certainly would have relationships with those to whom they were "betrothed", but even then, in proper Western society it would have been rare for them to spend extended amounts of time alone together before moving into a husband-wife relationship. \n\nWikipedia:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyfriend\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girlfriend
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This one is not easy.. For one idea, go to the URL below:\n\nhttp://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-jaz1.htm\n\nHOWEVER. I think of all the possibilities, the origin of the word "jazz" is probably that which is traced back to a vulgar term used for sexual acts