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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Subject: Re: The word FUCK
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.223837.21018@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:38:37 GMT
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- In article <C16A6L.HAu@ecf.toronto.edu> pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
- > More folk etymology. Somebody once told me that, in Old English,
- >"fuck" meant to poke a hole in the ground for the purpose of planting
- >seeds, using a long stick. The jump is obvious...
- >
-
- According to AHD3, it's not found in Old English. The first written
- instance (in code, no less!) is in a poem called "Flen flyys". There,
- it means "fuck."
-
- It has cognates in other Germanic languages; in those, it means "fuck,"
- too.
-
- Roger
-