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i think you'll find that the correct spelling is "douche bag" - two words
..... (my mom always told me it was a "hot water bottle")
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Your mom called you a hot water bottle?
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yo' ron -

don't **** with eagles unless you can fly.

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I think you'll find eagles copulate whilst not airborne.



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i think you'll find more appropriate contextual definitions of "****" other
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**** (fk) Vulgar Slang
v. ****ed, ****·ing, ****s
v.tr.
1. To have sexual intercourse with.
2. To take advantage of, betray, or cheat; victimize.
3. Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal.
v.intr.
1. To engage in sexual intercourse.
2. To act wastefully or foolishly.
3. To interfere; meddle. Often used with with.
n.
1. An act of sexual intercourse.
2. A partner in sexual intercourse.
3. A despised person.
4. Used as an intensive: What the **** did you do that for?
interj.
Used to express extreme displeasure.
Phrasal Verbs:
**** off
1. Used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal.
2. To spend time idly.
3. To masturbate.
**** over
To treat unfairly; take advantage of.
**** up
1. To make a mistake; bungle something.
2. To act carelessly, foolishly, or incorrectly.
3. To cause to be intoxicated.

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[Middle English, attested in pseudo-Latin fuccant, (they) ****,
deciphered from gxddbov.]
Word History: The obscenity **** is a very old word and has been
considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more
often now than in the past. Its 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 **** 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 because they
**** wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge]."

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Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun 1. **** - slang terms for sexual intercourse
****ing, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay,
screwing, shtup, ass, shag, screw
carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, sex act, sexual congress, sexual
intercourse, sexual relation, copulation, intercourse, relation, congress -
the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is
inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation
occur
dirty word, vulgarism, obscenity - an offensive or indecent word or
phrase
Verb 1. **** - have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this
man?"
bonk, do it, eff, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have
intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, be intimate, lie with,
make love, roll in the hay, screw, sleep with, hump, jazz, love, bed, bang,
make out, know
neck, make out - kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion; "The
couple were necking in the back seat of the car"
have, take - have sex with; archaic use; "He had taken this woman when
she was most vulnerable"
fornicate - have sex without being married
copulate, mate, couple, pair - make love; "Birds mate in the Spring"

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bugger off
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bum around
buzz off
foul up
jack off
loll around
lounge about
lounge around
nookie
piece of ass
piece of tail
screwing
shtup


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****, a word connected to sexual intercourse, is among the strongest
and most controversial vulgarisms in the modern English language.

When the word was expelled from polite usage, becoming profane, is
unclear. Some evidence indicates that, in some English-speaking locales, it
was considered acceptable as late as the 1600s, meaning 'to strike' or 'to
penetrate'. [1]
(http://dictionary.reference.com/help...e/f/fword.html). Other
evidence indicates that it may have become "vulgar", in polite use, as early
as the 1500s; thus other reputable sources such as the Oxford English
Dictionary contend the true etymology is still uncertain. The two seemingly
contradictory hypotheses might reflect cultural and/or regional dialects.
For more information, see the the section on etymology below.

Contents
1 Modern usage and status

2 Euphemisms

3 Secondary meanings

4 Linguistics

4.1 Verb
4.2 Noun
4.3 Interjection
4.4 Present participle
4.5 Past participle
4.6 Phrasal verbs
4.7 Portmanteau
4.8 Discourse particle


5 Acronyms

6 History of usage and censorship

6.1 Early usage
6.2 Rise of modern usage
6.3 Censorship
6.4 Freedom of expression
6.5 Popular usage


7 Etymology

7.1 Fake etymologies


8 The verb **** in different languages

9 Further reference

10 See also

11 External links


Modern usage and status
In the modern English-speaking world, the word is usually considered
highly offensive. English-speaking countries often censor it on television
and the radio. Non-English speaking cultures tend to recognize the word's
vulgarity within many cultures, but because the word has less effect,
generally do not censor it. For example, American rap songs are frequently
played, on European radio, with the word "****" in the clear. Despite the
word's undisputed "impolite" status, the word is very common in popular
usage and, despite its supposed status as the "worst of all swear words", it
usually has less offensive effect than less common profanities like "****"
and "cock", as well as racial and gender slurs. Some have argued that the
prolific usage of the word "****" has de-vulgarized it, a reverse example of
the "euphemism treadmill".

To **** is to copulate, but it is also used as a more general
expletive or intensifier. Some instances of the word can be taken at face
value, such as:

a.. "Let's ****."
b.. "That was a good ****."
c.. "I can't believe she's ****ing him!"
Other uses are dysphemistic: The sexual connotation, usually connected
to rape or (in the case of "**** you") masturbation, is invoked to incite
additional disgust, but has nothing to do with the matter of discussion.

a.. "**** you!" or "Go **** yourself!" (I don't like you; please
leave me alone.)
b.. "He's a dumb ****." (He's an idiot.)
c.. "Sorry, I ****ed up your computer." (Sorry, I damaged your
computer.)
d.. "He's pretty ****ed up." (He's mentally or emotionally
unstable.)
e.. "I got ****ed on this test." (I was unfairly disadvantaged by
this test.)
f.. "Let's **** around for a couple hours." (Let's kill a couple of
hours.)
Additionally, other uses are completely vacuous in that there is no
desire to offend nor connection to the sexual meaning of the word, and the
word could be removed and leave a sentence of identical syntactical meaning.
For example, rap music often uses the word "****ing" as a meaningless
adjective (I'm the ****ing man) for the word's (rhythmic) properties.
Insertion of the iambic word "****ing" is also an exercise for diagnosing
the cadence of an English-language word. For example, the word
"in-****ing-credible" sounds acceptable to the English ear, and is in fairly
common usable, while "incredi-****ing-ble" is very clumsy and never used.
While neither dysphemistic nor connected to the sexual connotations of the
word, even the vacuous usages are considered offensive and gratuitous, and
censored in some media. Some vacuous uses include:

a.. "None of your ****ing business!"
b.. "Un-****ing-believable!" (Very unbelievable)
c.. "What a ****ing great day outside!"
d.. "Shut the **** up!"
e.. "****!" (Something unpleasant happened.)
f.. "He's a great ****er!" (He's a great fellow, not he's sexually
competent.)
In the last usage, the word "****er" is used as a term of endearment
rather than antipathy. This usage is not uncommon, to say "you're one smart
****er" is often a term of affection. However, because of its ambiguity and
vulgarity, it's best not to use the word "****er" in the context of another
person unless very familiar with him or her, since that affection could be
misinterpreted.

Related to "****er" is the word "mother****er". Sometimes used as an
extreme insult-an accusation of incest- this term occasionally used to
connote respectful awe. For example, "he's a nasty mother****er" does not
mean "he's filthy and copulates with his mother" but "he's someone to be
afraid of." In this context, some gang members even describe themselves as
"mother****ers". The word "mother****er", unlike "****", has not become more
accepted in English usage: it is uncommonly used, and still considered
highly offensive.

Because of its profane status and versatility, the word "****" can be
used many times in an English sentence. For example,

a.. "****ing **** those ****ing ****ers!" ("Forget about those very
disliked people.")
b.. "****ing ****er's ****ing ****ed!" ("It is broken.")
Because of its vulgar status, the word "****" is usually restricted in
mass media and barred from titles in the United States. In 2002, when the
controversial French film Baise-moi (2000) was released in the USA, its
title was changed to Rape Me, rather than the literal **** Me, though this
may have been for effect. Similarly, the Swedish film ****ing Åmål was
retitled Show Me Love.

Online fora and public blogs may censor the word by use of automatic
filters. For example, Fark.com replaces the word "****" with "fark". Others
replace the word with asterisks ("****") to censor it (and other
profanities) entirely. To avert these filters, many online posters will use
the word "fvck"- a poster to one dating website in 2003 thus invented the
phrase "He who fvcks fvssy fvcks fvck-all." (The use of "fvssy" for "fussy"
is technically unnecessary, since the latter is nowhere consider profane.)

Some have claimed that the word "****" is more commonly used among
blue collar workers than professionals, and that it is therefore a trademark
of the lower social classes. However, this claim is unsupported and largely
untrue: college students, predominantly middle- and upper-class, frequently
use the word among themselves, but more rarely with professors and authority
figures. What is true is that the word is more accepted is some social
circles than others- truck-drivers at lunch would probably meet no reproach
using the word "****" with co-workers, while it would be very hazardous to a
corporate executive's career to use it during a professional presentation,
and while she might use the word in private, she almost certainly would not
in this environment.

Euphemisms

A common way to censor ****.
In situations where using or mentioning the word directly may be
considered inappropriate, people often bowdlerize it, either referring to it
with terms such as the f-word or the f-bomb (and in particular, the phrase
"dropping the F-bomb"), or replacing it with feck, fudge, freak, fork, fook,
fizzuck, frick, frickin, f*ck, f**k, f-u! (or simply eff), fahq, fock, f0ck,
phoque (actually French for seal), fawk, fcuk, the "hacker" terms phuck,
puck, funk, or f***, or frig. (Although one dictionary meaning of frig is
**** the rarity of its use renders it less offensive.) In software contexts,
fsck, fuk, fark and f2k are also used. In the formerly British Caribbean
nations it is sometimes spelled fock. Fark is a bowdlerization which
originated in the British Commonwealth countries, derived from exaggerated
pronunciation in, for example, the Australian accent (but see also
fark.com).

The fashion house French Connection United Kingdom controversially
uses its initials, usually in lower case, fcuk, as a trademark symbol. The
word appears on some clothing sold by French Connection, including clothes
marketed to teenagers.

The previously-mentioned fsck usage is derived from the Unix command
fsck(8) for "file-system check". It has been noted that this command is
particularly appropriate, as it is the option of last resort.

In the Irish sitcom Father Ted the word **** was replaced with feck, a
common slang word in Ireland that was acceptable to audiences in other
countries.

Secondary meanings

The phrases "**** off!" or "**** you!" can also be gestured, by giving
someone the finger.
As with other swearwords and taboo words, or intensifiers, **** 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. "****ing 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 ****ing in my bed?
What are you ****ing 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 ****ing, to convey that it is
the literal act of copulating. An acceptable and more common alternative to
the latter is:

What the **** are you doing in my bed?
"**** 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 "**** 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, "**** me!" or "Well, I'll
be ****ed!" without suggesting an open invitation. Similarly, "Well, **** me
stupid!" expresses even greater surprise. The phrase "What the ****!" 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 **** is as a replacement for the word God in
profane statements as in "for ****'s sake!" For example "**** knows," or
"who the **** knows," means something like "I don't know, and neither is
anyone ever likely to know". Sometimes, the phrase "Oh my ****!" is used
instead of "Oh my God!"

Meanwhile, **** can be used as a negation, as in "I know **** all",
for "I know nothing".

Linguistics
Verb
The word can be used as a verb transitively:

He ****ed her.
Or intransitively:

They ****ed all night.
Or as an impersonal command:

I'm not going down there, **** that, dude!
I'm not doing that. **** outta here!(Forget it!)
Noun
As a noun:

She is a real ****. (non-specific insult)
He is a good ****. (specific reference to sexual skill)



Interjection
The interjection **** is frequently used to express shock, discontent
and anger in general.

****! A punctured tire!
Present participle
The present participle ****ing (or ****in' ) is commonly used to
intensify a verb or noun. As described earlier, it is used more negatively
than positively.

My ****ing boss made me work all weekend.
She is ****in' 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 "****ing"-infix are regular: "****ing" may
only be inserted in a multisyllabic word between metrical feet (also known
as a tmesis.) For example:

That was abso-****in-lutely cool!
In-****in-credible
Fan-****in-tastic
un-****in-believable
Past participle
The past participle ****ed connotes that something is completely
useless, destroyed, or messed up. For example:

The hard drive crashed, so now the database is ****ed.
Your engine's ****ed because you forgot to change the oil!
Now that the electricity is out, your computer is ****ed.
(This connotation can also be found as a transitive verb: He totally
****ed his engine when he forgot to change the oil.)

Phrasal verbs
"To **** up" means to ruin, and the related "to be ****ed up"
generally connotes drunkenness in the United States. Although "to be ****ed
up" less commonly refers to physical or emotional injuries in the US, this
can be its primary meaning in other English speaking countries.

a.. I did ten shots in ten minutes, and now I'm totally ****ed up!
b.. The bouncer really ****ed up that guy who kept causing trouble.
c.. My sister's been really ****ed up since her fiancé dumped her.
(could also refer to drunkenness, depending on the context or the sister)
"To **** over" connotes betrayal or a generally unfavorable act.

a.. Yeah, he slept with my girlfriend. I can't believe he ****ed me
over like that!
b.. I got ****ed 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 (****ing ugly).
Discourse particle
**** is sometimes used as a discourse particle or filler, in much the
same way um... is used.

Her name is, ****... What was her name again?
Acronyms
**** is used in various acronyms, especially on the Internet.

a.. FUBAR: ****ed up beyond all recognition (or repair)
b.. FUDIE: **** you and die
c.. FOAD: **** off and die
d.. GTFO: get the **** out
e.. LMFAO: laughing my ****ing ass off
f.. OMFG: oh my ****ing god
g.. RTFM: read the ****ing manual
h.. SNAFU: situation normal, all ****ed up
i.. STFU: shut the **** up
j.. SUSFU : Situation unchanged, still ****ed up
k.. TARFU: things are really ****ed up
l.. WOFTAM: waste of ****ing time and money
m.. WTF: what the ****?
n.. PFO: Please **** Off (usually refers to a letter of rejection
from a potential employer)
History of usage and censorship
Early usage
The earliest reference appears to be the name "John Le ****er", which
John Ayto's Dictionary of Word Origins dates to 1278. What John did to earn
this name is unknown.

Its first known use as a verb meaning to fornicate is in a poem titled
"Flen flyys" some time before 1500. Written half in English and half in
Latin, the poem includes the word fuccant, a hybrid of English root with
Latin conjugation, disguised in the text by a simple code. It was originally
written as gxddbov, and is decrypted by substituting each letter with the
letter which precedes it in the alphabet (keep in mind the alphabet that was
used at the time).

William Dunbar's 1503 poem "Brash of Wowing" includes the lines: "Yit
be his feiris he wald haif fukkit:/ Ye brek my hairt, my bony ane."

Some time around 1600, before the term acquired its current meaning,
"wind****er" was an acceptable name for the bird now known as the kestrel.

While Shakespeare never used the term explicitly, he hinted at it in
comic scenes in several plays. The Merry Wives of Windsor (IV.i) contains
focative case (see vocative case). In Henry V (IV.iv), Pistol threatens to
firk (strike) a soldier, a euphemism for ****.

There are some urban legends postulating an acronymic origin for the
word. In the most popular version, it is said that the word "****" came from
Irish law. If a couple were "Found Under Carnal Knowledge" they would be
penalized, with **** as the crime. Other variants include the ideas that the
word came from "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge," "Fornication Under Consent
of the King," or "Fornication Unlawful in the Commonwealth of the King."
However, all these explanations are considered to be backronyms and hence
recent inventions.

Rise of modern usage
**** did not appear in any widely-consulted dictionary of the English
language from 1795 to 1965. Its first appearance in the Oxford English
Dictionary (along with the word ****) was in 1972.

In 1900, the Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales said, "**** it,
I've taken a bullet" when he was shot by an anarchist while standing on a
Brussels railway station.

The liberal usage of the word (and other vulgarisms) by certain
artists (such as James Joyce, Henry Miller, and Lenny Bruce) has led to the
banning of their works and criminal charges of obscenity.

After Norman Mailer's publishers convinced him to bowdlerize **** as
fug in his work The Naked and the Dead (1948), Tallulah Bankhead supposedly
greeted him with the quip, "So you're the young man who can't spell ****."
(In fact, according to Mailer, the quip was devised by Bankhead's PR man and
he and Bankhead never met until 1966 and did not discuss the word then.) The
rock group The Fugs named themselves after the Mailer euphemism.

Censorship
In 1965, the critic Kenneth Tynan was the first person to say **** on
BBC television, during a late-night live talk show hosted by Eamonn Andrews,
causing a furor and a short TV career for Tynan. For British broadcasting,
the next stage was reached in 1976 when the word was pointedly used in a
prime-time early evening show, during a live interview with the Sex Pistols.

The films Ulysses and I'll Never Forget What's'isname (both 1967) are
contenders for being the first film to use the word. Since the U.S. adoption
of the MPAA film rating system, use of the word has been accepted in R-rated
movies, and under the older rules, use of the word would automatically cause
the film to be given an R rating. Later rule changes permit a single,
non-sexual, strictly exclamatory use of the word in PG-13 movies.

Since the 1970s, the use of the word **** in R-rated movies has become
so commonplace in mainstream American movies that it is rarely noticed by
most audiences. Nonetheless, a few movies have made exceptional use of the
word, to the point where such films as Scarface (1983), Pulp Fiction and
Goodfellas are known for its extensive use. In the popular comedy Four
Weddings and a Funeral, it is the chief word, repeatedly uttered, during the
opening five minutes. One of the most humorous tirades demonstrating various
usages of the word appears in the comedy, Planes, Trains and Automobiles
(1987), where Steve Martin expresses his dissatisfaction in his treatment by
a rental car agency. In several PG-rated movies, however, the word is used,
mainly because at the time there was no PG-13 rating and the MPAA did not
want to give the films R ratings; for instance, All the President's Men
(1976), where it is used seven times, The Kids Are Alright (1979), where it
is used twice, and The Right Stuff (1983), where it is used five times.
Spaceballs (1987) is an anomaly in that it was rated PG after the 1984
introduction of the PG-13 rating, yet it includes the line, "****! Even in
the future nothing works!" In the PG-13 rated movie Soapdish (1991), Sally
Field, played an aging soap opera actress. Appalled that her costume
included a turban, she complained to her show's producer "What I feel like
is Gloria-****ing-Swanson!"

Films edited for broadcast use matching euphemisms so that lip
synching will not be thrown off. One televised version of Quentin
Tarantino's Jackie Brown, for instance, had the actors dub in the words
frick, Nubian, and melon farmer for ****, ******, and mother****er,
respectively. In a similarly dubbed version of Die Hard, Bruce Willis'
catchphrase "Yippee-ki-yay, mother****er" is replaced by "Yippee-ki-yay,
Mister Falcon."

In a similar vein, many stand-up comedians who perform for adult
audiences make liberal use of the word ****. While George Carlin's use of
the word is an important part of his stage persona, other comedians (such as
Andrew Dice Clay) have been accused of substituting vulgarity and
offensiveness for genuine creativity through overuse of the word. Billy
Connolly was a pioneer of the use of the word in his shows for general
audiences.

Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau caused a minor scandal when
opposition MPs stated he had told them to "**** off" in the House of Commons
in February 1971. Pressed by journalists, Trudeau later unconvincingly
stated he may have said (or mouthed) "'fuddle duddle' or something like
that"[2]
(http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-73-571-..._fuddle_duddle),
a phrase which then took on a humorous connotation of that event for
Canadians.

During the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, Connecticut
Senator Abraham Ribicoff, during a speech in which he nominated the
anti-Vietnam War candidate George McGovern, departed from his written text
to say, "If George McGovern were president, we wouldn't have these Gestapo
tactics in the streets of Chicago." Many conventioneers, having been
appalled by the response of the Chicago police to the simultaneously
occurring anti-war demonstrations, promptly broke into ecstatic applause. As
television cameras focused on an indignant Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley,
lip-readers throughout America claimed to have observed him shouting, "****
you, you Jew mother****er." Defenders of the mayor would later claim that he
was calling Senator Ribicoff a faker.

Freedom of expression
In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the mere public display
of **** is protected under the First and Fourteenth Amendments and cannot be
made a criminal offense. In 1968, Paul Robert Cohen had been convicted of
"disturbing the peace" for wearing a jacket with "**** THE DRAFT" on it. The
conviction was upheld by the Court of Appeals and overturned by the Supreme
Court. Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971).

Pornographer Larry Flynt, representing himself before the U.S. Supreme
Court in 1983 in a libel case, shouted, "**** this court!" during the
proceedings and called the justices "nothing but eight assholes and a token
****". Chief Justice Warren E. Burger had him arrested for contempt of court
but the charge was later dismissed.

In Colorado Springs, tavern owner Leonard Carlo had over 29 signs
containing the word "****", including the slogans "Leonard's II ****ing
Much", "No ****ing Children, Animals, Tabs or Checks!", and "No ****ing tap
or draw beer". Signs on the restroom doors read "****ing Men" and "****ing
Women". Also, the top of Leonard's bald head was tattooed with the words
"**** U. Leave Me the **** Alone." A state liquor agent removed all 29 signs
from Leonard's Bar on August 31, 1999 because he believed the signs violated
a state regulation that prohibits profanity in bars.

Popular usage
Various people (primarily musical guests) have said the word on the
weekly American late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live, generally with
little consequence. On the February 26, 1981 show Charles Rocket, playing
J.R. Ewing, said clearly, "Oh man, it's the first time I've been shot in my
life. I'd like to know who the **** did it." He and the rest of the cast
(except Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy) were fired soon thereafter. The show
was in a slump at the time, so Rocket's indiscretion may only have been the
straw that broke the camel's back.

Following the death of Monty Python legend Graham Chapman in 1989, a
speech at his memorial was read by fellow Monty Python actor John Cleese,
which claims to be the first time someone has said the word **** in a
British memorial service.

The Channel 4 television comedy series Father Ted introduced to 90s
Britain an Irish swear-word which was almost **** and not quite a euphemism,
prolifically used by the drunken and lecherous priest Father Jack Hackett:
feck. This was originally a term meaning to steal and is probably derived
from the word fetch. This term is becoming a common substitute for **** in
the United Kingdom as a consequence of the popularity of this series, and
has been further bowdlerized into feth.

In the early commercial days of the Internet, the domain name
registrar Network Solutions blocked certain obscene words from being used.
There was no such restriction in the UK and a group of fans of VIZ comic
registered the domain ****.co.uk. Their website claimed to be promoting the
Fulchester Underwater Canoeing Klubb (Fulchester being the fictional setting
of many of the stories in VIZ). The name now hosts a pornography site.

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission fines
stations for the broadcast of "indecent language", but in 2003 ruled that
the airing of "This is really, really ****ing brilliant!" by U2 member Bono
after receiving a Golden Globe Award was neither obscene nor indecent. In
early 2004 the FCC decided to review that use saying "The F-word is one of
the most vulgar, graphic and explicit descriptions of sexual activity in the
English language"; a fine may result.

The first American play with the word **** in the title is Sex,
****ing and Making Love. It is being produced in New York fall 2004 by
Genesis Productions Worldwide, LLC as an off-off-Broadway production [3]
(http://www.sfml.info/). However Mark Ravenhill's play Shopping and ****ing
opened in London, UK in 1996, and also played in the U.S..

In April 2004 the controversial R&B song "**** It (I Don't Want You
Back)" by Eamon became the first song with an obscenity in its title to
reach the top 20 in the US. The word **** was censored both on the packaging
and on the radio edit. The single also reached #1 in the charts of several
countries including UK and Australia. A reply to that song, titled "F.U.R.B.
(**** U Right Back)", by Frankee was also very successful, and also reached
#1 in the UK in May 2004, and then in Australia in June 2004. American band
Nine Inch Nails' 2000 single, "Starsuckers, Inc." features a lyrical re-work
of the album version, "Star****ers, Inc." intended to give the song a chance
of broadcast both on U.S. television and radio.

On June 22, 2004, while participating in the U.S. Senate class photo,
Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont
had a personal exchange that garnered headlines in the United States. After
comments by Leahy, Cheney allegedly told him to "...go **** [him]self",
which was later characterized as "a frank exchange of views." In response,
Leahy said that Cheney "was just having a bad day." Others have pointed to
this incident and the events that led up to it as evidence of a culture of
extreme partisanship that has developed in Washington. Senate rules prohibit
profanity while the Senate is in session, but Cheney did not violate the
rules because the Senate was not in session at the time.

Most broadcasters replace **** (and other so-called four-letter words)
on broadcast television and radio with a beep "at times of day when there is
a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience", or have the
word/words silenced out, or a reverse of the sound of the word/words in
question is used.

Etymology
The etymology of **** has given rise to a great deal of speculation,
which should be regarded skeptically. The authoritative Oxford English
Dictionary is quite cautious in providing an etymology for this word. In the
quotation below, the dictionary's usual abbreviations are spelled out for
clarity:

Early modern English ****, 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 **** 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 **** wives of Ely
(a town near Cambridge)."

As the OED notes, some have attempted to draw a connection to the
German word ficken (to ****, in dialects: to rub, to scratch, and
historically to strike).

A possible etymology is suggested by the fact that the Common Germanic
fuk-, by an application of Grimm's law, would have as its most likely
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".

Other possible connections are to Latin futuere (hence the French
foutre, the Italian fottere, the vulgar peninsular Spanish follar and
hoder/joder, and the Portuguese foder). However, there is considerable doubt
and no clear lineage for these derivations. These roots, even if cognate,
are not the original Indo-European word for to ****; that root is likely
*h3yebh-, ("h3" is the H3 laryngeal) which is attested in Sanskrit (yabhati)
and the Slavic languages (Russian yebat`), among others: compare Greek
"oiphô" (verb), and Greek "zephyros" (noun, ref. a Greek belief that the
west wind caused pregnancy). However, Wayland Young (who agrees that these
words are related) argues that they derive from the Indo-European *bhu- or
*bhug-, believed to be the root of "to be", "to grow", and "to build".
[Young, 1964]

Spanish follar has a different root; according to Spanish
etymologists, the Spanish verb "follar" (attested in the 19th century)
derives from "fuelle" (bellows) from Latin "folle(m)" < Indo-European
"bhel-"; ancient Spanish verb folgar (attested in the 15th century) derived
from Latin "follicare", ultimately from follem/follis too.

Some have supposed that **** 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
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 **** in different languages
a.. Afrikaans: fok ("fok my", "fok jou")
b.. Albanian: qi ("qifsha" when used in sentences)
c.. Arabic: neak
d.. Armenian: kunel
e.. Bosnian: jebati (to ****)
f.. Bulgarian: ??? (eba)
g.. Catalan: follar, cardar, fotre
h.. Chinese (Cantonese): diu (?, but often denoted as the character
? inside the character ?(?). Pronounced like "dew" in English)
i.. Chinese (Mandarin/Putonghua):
1.. diao (?) Also refers to penis, esp. in Northern China; means
"damn" or "darn" in Taiwan.
2.. cao (?/?) (? pronounced "tsaau" and ? pronounced "tsou")
3.. gan (?) (used more by native speakers of Taiwanese, it occurs
in the expression "Gan ni niang!" which means, "**** your mother!")
j.. Cebuano: iyot
k.. Croatian: jebati; fukati (probably borrowed from English);
karati (literally, to scold)
l.. Czech: píchat (literally "to thrust", used as a slang word for
"to copulate"); ?ukat, ?oustat (? as "sh"), mrdat (all three vulgar, to have
sex [with], to ****); kurva! (vulgar, literally "bitch", used as an
expletive)
m.. Danish: knep
n.. Dutch: neuken (also, the Dutch verb fokken, meaning to breed
animals, usually for pedigree)
o.. Esperanto: fiki
p.. Estonian: nikkuma, nussima, keppima
q.. Filipino: kantot
r.. Finnish: vittu (Curseword, "Voi vitun vittu!!"="****ing ****!!",
literal meaning of "vittu" is "****") nussia (verb)
s.. French: baiser (to have sex with); foutre (dismissive: "Va te
faire foutre!" meaning "Go screw yourself!"; "Fous le camp!" meaning "****
off!" or "Shove aside!"), nique (As in "nique ta mére!" meaning "**** your
mother!")
t.. French (Canada): nicker; fourrer (literally, to stuff); the
adjective ****é, a borrowing, means broken or out of luck, and is not
especially profane. See sacre.
u.. German: ficken (to have sex with, pronounced like ****en, just
with a short e instead of the u)3
v.. Greek: gamao, gamo, gamisi; ?????, ????, ?????? ("g" prounounced
softly, as a voiced velar fricative)
w.. Gujarati: chod ("Ch" as in check & "d" is pronounced softly)
x.. Hebrew: "lezayen", from noun "zayin", which is a slang word for
the penis
y.. Hindi: chod (???)("Ch" as in check & "d" is pronounced softly)
z.. Hungarian: baszni
aa.. Icelandic: ríða (pronounced "ree-tha" with a soft th-sound)
ab.. Indonesian: ngentot
ac.. Italian: fottere, scopare
ad.. Japanese: ["fuzakeru"¹]
ae.. Kannada: kay-yi
af.. Korean: "ssi-bal" (??), pronounced like the English words "she
ball"
ag.. Lithuanian: pisti
ah.. Malay: puki (likely an adoption of ****) or pukimak (likely an
adoption of mother****er) or celaka (*******)
ai.. Malayalam: uook
aj.. Nepali: chik (verb, pronounced chick)
ak.. Norwegian: knulle, pule
al.. Persian: ?????? ga-yee-dan
am.. Polish: jebac (pronounced yebatch), Pierdolic (pronounced
pee-erdolitch), kurwa (pronounced koorva, used as an interjection)
an.. Portuguese: foder (or comer subjectively used, because it means
"to eat", in Northern Portugal pinar ou montar is also used)
ao.. Romanian: a fute
ap.. Russian: yebat [?????] (transitive), yebatsa [???????]
(intransitive).
aq.. Samoan: mea This is not used as a swear word but is not used in
polite company. Other anatomical and physiological words are used as swear
words but not "mea" or any other related word.
ar.. Serbian: ?????? (jebati), ?????? (karati)
as.. Slovak: jebat, drbat
at.. Spanish: Follar
a.. Argentina: coger (this same verb in Spain and other countries
means "to grab")
b.. Chile: culear
c.. Colombia: pichar or tirar (the last one means "to throw" in
most other Spanish-speaking countries)
d.. Ecuador: tirar, culear, pegarse un palo, pegarse un polvo
(meaning "to take a dust" in most other countries)
e.. Mexico: chingar or less but commonly used joder also vergar
(translatable as "to dick")
f.. Peru: cachar
g.. Spain: joder (usually as an all-purpose expletive, can be
accompanied by other expletives) or follar
au.. Tamil: Oatha or Oththa
av.. Swedish: knulla
aw.. Thai: [There is no insulting version.²]
ax.. Turkish: sikmek (Pronounced "seek-make"), düzmek, siktir
(="**** off")
ay.. Urdu: ????? (verb), Chodi (noun)
az.. Viet: dit (Pronounced "dee"), or deo
a.. Example: "Dit me may!" or "Deo me may!" (insulting words
similar to "mother****er", where 'me' is pronounced meh and 'may' is
pronounced my)
ba.. Yiddish: shtup (?????) (literally "to stuff")
¹Ambiguously translated back to English as "to fool around". Many have
argued that a verbal translation of "****" into Japanese is impossible, but
Japanese vulgarity largely comes from speaking in a forceful and explicit
manner. Offensive language is communicated through directness,
self-importance, emphatics, and curtly abbreviated expressions. When
"fuzakeru" is lazily truncated by dropping the "fu" and the formal verb
ending "ru" while adding "na" to mean "not" and "yo" for exclamation, we
have Zakennayo! which if uttered aggressively, sounds like "Don't **** with
me, asshole!" to the Japanese ear, even though its root literally translates
as "don't mess around". It should also be noted that almost all American
curse words, including "****", are recognizable to the Japanese because of
their use in films.

²Thai has a medical word for sexual intercourse (which translated back
means "genitalia touching") and at least two slang versions for it. But even
the slang versions wouldn't work as insults. To the amusement of Thais, the
name of the German automaker Audi sounds like one of the two slang versions.
To confuse matters, Thais have a vegetable whose name sounds like **** (it
irritates some tourists when they hear the name because they think they are
being insulted). But the correct pronunciation for this vegetable is "fug"
with the "g" like in "guest".

3 On an interesting side note, the word ficken was seemingly not used
as an expletive in German until recently. (It was, however, a taboo word,
but this due to its literal meaning, and its belonging to vulgar speech.)
That today fick dich! is used as a common (though very strong) expletive
meaning **** off! is clearly a borrowing from English. The general
all-purpose taboo expletive and correct translation of ****! remains
Scheiße, literally shit, or, increasingly common, **** used in untranslated
verbatim.

Further reference
a.. Jesse Sheidlower, The F Word (1999) ISBN 0375706348. Presents
hundreds of uses of **** and related words.
b.. Michael Swan, Practical English Usage, OUP, 1995, ISBN
019431197X
c.. Philip J. Cunningham, Zakennayo!: The Real Japanese You Were
Never Taught in School, Plume (1995) ISBN 0452275067
d.. Wayland Young, Eros Denied: Sex in Western Society. Grove
Press/Zebra Books, New York 1964.
See also
a.. **** (band)
b.. Four-letter word
c.. Euphemism
d.. Mother****er
e.. Cocksucker
f.. Profanity
g.. Seven dirty words
h.. Sexual slang
i.. This Be The Verse
j.. ****ing, Austria
k.. Fuddle Duddle
l.. Meet the Parents
External links
a.. A thorough and amusing legal brief on the history and
constitutionality of "****".
(http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/fword1.html) All relevant cases are
cited.
b.. slate.com on **** (http://slate.msn.com/id/2103467/)
c.. American Heritage Dictionary
(http://www.bartleby.com/61/95/F0349500.html), see "Word History" for an
enciphered(!) usage of the word in the ribald sixteenth-century poem, Flen
flyys.
d.. "Cheney Dismisses Critic With Obscenity."
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Jun24.html)
Washington Post article on the 2004 Cheney-Leahy incident.
e.. "Online Emtymology Dictionary."
(http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?...earchmode=none) Some
Emtomology Research
f.. "Urban Dictionary."
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...m=****&amp;r=f) Peer-Reviewed
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>> don't **** with eagles unless you can fly.
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> I think you'll find eagles copulate whilst not airborne.
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