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
- To have sexual intercourse, to copulate; To have...
Ancestry of “fuck”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | clusterfuck | A chaotic situation where everything seems to go... |
| 2 | English | cluster | A group or bunch of several discrete items that... |
| 3 | Middle English | cluster | — |
| 4 | Old English | cluster | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | klus- | — |
Words derived from “fuck”