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Interesting history on that most versatile word. I don't know the origin, either; but I do have a sort of cartoon and poem that was printed in 1799. It shows a bare-assed woman on a horse with a man seated behind her and his penis in her. The poem is titled "NEW FEATS OF HORSEMANSHIP", and two lines in the poem reads:

"Corrina and her favorite buck

Are pleas'd to have a flying fuck"

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Well, fuck.

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In England, I did hear that a pile of four-letter words were brought over by the Danes (notice, there's a lot - fuck, shit, arse, (the "c" word you don't like, but we use liberally in the UK, especially Scots - it happens to be the only word censored by the BBC, too). But we definitely know that it's not an acronym!!

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