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Where does “fuckling” come from?

fuckling (English) comes from English fuck, from English clusterfuck, from English cluster, from Middle English cluster, from Old English cluster, from Proto-Germanic klus-.

fuckling (English): A stupid or annoying person; A child

Definitions

  1. A stupid or annoying person; A child

Ancestry of “fuckling”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfuckTo have sexual intercourse, to copulate; To have...
2EnglishclusterfuckA chaotic situation where everything seems to go...
3EnglishclusterA group or bunch of several discrete items that...
4Middle Englishcluster—
5Old Englishcluster—
6Proto-Germanicklus-—
Every word from Proto-Germanic klus- →