IT's word derivation time again folks !?

Question

Is is true about the F word ! Word derivation time again folks !?
I heard sometime ago that the F word is an anacranym for:- For Unlawful Carnal Kowledge - tracing back to debtors prisons era of UK history is this correct please - if not where does this - the number one swear word come from please ? And the other one - the ladies hate - the one beginning with C describing ladies genetalia - where does this one derive from and why is it so hated by the ladies please ?

Answer 1

Please observe the following:http://www.theflasharchive.com/f/f-81.htm?PHPSESSID=a1a47e94f38c9ea3add6f591df637b36
Can't help you with the 'c' word, but if I find something, i'll get back to you on it.

Answer 2

Excellent question!

As for the answer "fornicating under consent of king" - use your f*cking common sense, people!

Do you honestly think that there was a time when people had to apply to the KING to have sex?! Must have been hard for people up in the north! Did they spend a few days riding down to London to make the application or could you apply the local duke or baron? Was the king worried that there might be a population explosion if too many people had babies? What was the penalty if you were caught having sex with your wife without permission?

I mean, come ON!

And that "for unlawful carnal knowledge" one is almost as stupid, not least because the word "f*ck" is easily older than that.

Another thing to bear in mind is that acronyms (like F.U.C.K.) don't appear in the English language before the 20th century anyway.

Answer 3

They are both old saxon words, which have been manipulated over the centuries. The Victorians eventually giving both bad press. The fact that they are generally being used again on an everyday bases can only be a good thing. I understand that C*** is offensive to women, but the only way to destroy it's power is to make it an everyday word and give it new meaning. Remember 50-60 years ago Gay ment something completely different.

Answer 4

Old history books say Fornicating Under Consent of the King, and the "C" word is a drivative of old Afrikaans Kont and in conjunction with our English word "Cut" becam what it is, but every year you will find there are many more different explanations, these are the only ones that sem to stay constant

Answer 5

The c word. There's a book written about that. It used to be a term for women with power. Not like a queen, but a woman who knew how to heal things with herbs. But then the men got jealous because they couldn't heal ppl, and started calling the women witches and stuff, so cun.t got a bad name.

I've heard the F word used to be used for farming. To go out and plant your fields was to go out and f*ck them, so sowing seed in a feild to sowing seed somewhere else, it's not too much of a jump to make.

Answer 6

The F word has deep roots in Northern European languages, as witness the Middle Dutch "fokken" (to thrust, copulate, or breed), dialectical Norwegian "fukka" (to copulate), and dialectical Swedish "focka" (to strike, copulate).

I had always heard it was related to the German "ficken," which means the same thing, but apparently that's not currently accepted.

Attempts to find Latin or other Indo-European roots are speculative.

Attempts to explain it as an acronym are urban legends.

The C word likewise has Northern European roots; it is an old Germanic word, and has cognates in most Germanic languages, including the Swedish and Old Norwegian "kunta," the German "kott," and the Afrikaans "kont." Apparently it is related to the English word "cut."

Again, I always heard it was derived from the Latin "cunnus," which was, in turn, derived from "cuneus," meaning "wedge-shaped," but apparently that is now considered speculative.

Answer 7

I dont' really care I think it's becuase of the way that it is used though.. I found an interesting article though if you are interested and this was the most interesting to me:

"'Vagina' is Latin for 'sheath', 'scabbard', and 'quiver', protective coverings into which one slides swords or arrows, and is thus closely linked to pejorative conceptions of sex as a violent, male stabbing act: "In fact, "vagina" is the nastiest kind of name for the female genitalia [...] There is more to the female sex than accommodation of a male weapon" (Germaine Greer, 2002). The German equivalent is even more demeaning: 'Schamscheide' ('vagina') translates literally as 'sheath of shame'."

Answer 8

I once read somewhere that you needed the permission of the king to have children (back then this is why you had sex). You would then have a sign on your house saying Fornicating Under Consent of King F.U.C.K

Answer 9

i don't know about the f word.
the c word though..
i heard that it's like.. short for what the proper term for oral sex for a femal is, which is cunnilingus.
so yea, the first syllable is aaaaaalmost like the c word, haha.

Answer 10

There was a whole book written on this,

check amazon, I think the tittle was "F*ck"