Where does “fiddlefuck” come from?
fiddlefuck (English) comes from English fuck, from English clusterfuck, from English cluster, from Middle English cluster, from Old English cluster, from Proto-Germanic klus-.
fiddlefuck (English): To waste time
Ancestry of “fiddlefuck”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | fuck | To have sexual intercourse, to copulate; To have... |
| 2 | English | clusterfuck | A chaotic situation where everything seems to go... |
| 3 | English | cluster | A group or bunch of several discrete items that... |
| 4 | Middle English | cluster | — |
| 5 | Old English | cluster | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | klus- | — |