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Where does “fuck” come from?

Fuck comes from Middle English fukken, from Old Norse fukka, from Proto-Germanic fukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European pewǵ-, pug-, and pew-, with the original sense unknown.

fuck (English): To have sexual intercourse, to copulate; To have...

Definitions

  1. To have sexual intercourse, to copulate; To have...

Ancestry of “fuck”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishclusterfuckA chaotic situation where everything seems to go...
2EnglishclusterA group or bunch of several discrete items that...
3Middle Englishcluster—
4Old Englishcluster—
5Proto-Germanicklus-—

Words derived from “fuck”

  • fucking
  • mug
  • fu
  • fucker
  • motherfucker
  • mugging
  • mugger
  • motherfucking
  • fug
  • Muggle
  • fuckhead
  • fuckable
  • mugful
  • fook
  • fuckwit
  • clusterfuck
  • fuggy
  • fuckface
  • mindfuck
  • fark
  • dumbfuck
  • fucky
  • Bumfuck
  • fcuk
Every word from Proto-Germanic klus- →