WORD **** COME FROM - ORIGIN
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].”-
2007-03-21 21:47:27
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answered by Anonymous
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Probably the easiest thing for you to do is to go to the Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki and type in the word you are looking for.
Or, you could do a web search on the etymology of the word you are looking for.
2007-03-22 04:38:54
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answered by busted.mike 4
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In England years ago it was For Uncommon Carnal Knowledge.
Don't remember the whole story, but they put that on a sign, and eventually shortened it to to days lovely word we cant print here.
2007-03-22 02:20:25
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answered by baldy 4
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i forgot. it's an acronym. the last letter stands for king. and F is fornication. fornication with the consent of the king soemthing like that.
2007-03-22 02:18:31
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answered by warrior is a child 6
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its from the old german fikkin which means to penetrate
2007-03-22 14:29:59
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answered by MONK 6
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You mean fork, fink, funk?
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2007-03-22 04:21:09
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answered by Anonymous
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