how old were you when you just discovered the 'F' word? did you ever think it was something else when one litt

Question

le kid said to the other, 'oooouuuH! he said the F word!!, im telling!'? when i was little i thought it was Fatso, i had no idea it would be something else, how did you find out?

Answer 1

I guess I was 4 - I came home from daycare one day - looked my mum in the eye and cheerfully said: "F*** you mummy!". Great big smile on my pudgy little face. In a moment she wishes she could take back she, shocked, said "what did you just say" - so I promptly repeated myself feeling quite proud of the new thing I had learned.
Now, I don't actually remember this or know what I was saying but the story has been a family constant for the past 20 years. When I was about 10 - I asked my mum what it meant - knowing by then it was the big bad word - and she told me it was an acronym for adult sex - I can't remember what she told me it was but well into my teens I believed that is what it stood for. Heh!

Function: verb
Etymology: akin to Dutch fokken to breed (cattle), Swedish dialect fókka to copulate
intransitive verb
1 usually obscene : COPULATE
2 usually vulgar : MESS 3 -- used with with
transitive verb

Answer 2

i learned the f word when i was around 9. my cousin told me that it was what the middle finger stood for. i never thought is was anything else because my father always said that word.

Answer 3

I was about 10 years old or so but I never said it. I only heard about it and we knew well enough not to use it.