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Where does “fuggo” come from?

fuggo (English) comes from English fugly, from English Fucking, from English -ing, from Old English -ing, from Old English -tūn, from Old English tūn, from Proto-West Germanic tūn, from Proto-Germanic tūną — smoke; mist, haze.

fuggo (English): An ugly person

Definitions

  1. An ugly person

Ancestry of “fuggo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfuglyExtremely ugly; An extremely ugly person
2EnglishFucking—
3English-ingUsed to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns,...
4Old English-ingForming nouns from verbs, indicating action,...
5Old English-tūn—
6Old Englishtūnenclosure, yard; place; dwelling
7Proto-West Germanictūnfence
8Proto-Germanictūnąfence; enclosure
9Gaulishdunumfort; hill, hillfort
10Proto-Celticdūnomstronghold, rampart
11Proto-Indo-Europeandʰewh₂-smoke; mist, haze
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