Fuck

Fuck is an obscene English-language word[1] which often refers to the act of sexual intercourse but is also commonly used as an
intensifier or to denote disdain. While its origin is obscure, it is usually considered to be first attested to around 1475. In modern
usage, the term "fuck" and its derivatives (such as "fucker" and "fucking") can be used as a noun, a verb, an adjective, an interjection
or an adverb. There are many common phrases that employ the word as well as compounds that incorporate it, such as
"motherfucker," "fuckwit", "fuckup" and "fucknut".

Contents
Offensiveness
Etymology
Germanic cognates
Latin and Greek cognates
False etymologies
Grammar
Early usage
Rise of modern usage
Modern usage
Examples of more recent usage
Use in politics
Use in marketing
Band names
Holy fuck
Machine mistranslation
F-bomb
Censorship
Freedom of expression
Common alternatives
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Offensiveness
The word is considered obscene but is commonly used in many informal and familiar situations.

It is unclear whether the word has always been considered vulgar or, if not, when it first came to be used to describe (often in an
extremely angry, hostile or belligerent manner) unpleasant circumstances or people in an intentionally offensive way, such as in the
term motherfucker, one of its more common usages in some parts of the English-speaking world. Some English-speaking countries
censor it on television and radio. Andrea Millwood Hargrave's 2000 study of the attitudes of the British public found that fuck was
considered the third most severe profanity and its derivativemotherfucker second. Cunt was considered the most severe.[2]
Nevertheless, the word has become increasingly less vulgar and more publicly acceptable, an example of the "dysphemism
treadmill", wherein former vulgarities become inoffensive and commonplace.[3][4] According to linguist Pamela Hobbs,
"notwithstanding its increasing public use, enduring cultural models that inform our beliefs about the nature of sexuality and sexual
acts preserve its status as a vile utterance that continues to inspire moral outrage." Hobbs considers users rather than usage of the
word and sub-divides users into 'non-users', for whom the word "evokes the core sexual meanings and associated sexual imagery that
motivate the taboo", and 'users' for whom "metaphorical uses of the wordfuck no more evoke images of sexual intercourse than a ten-
year-old's 'My mom'll kill me if she finds out' evokes images of murder," so that the "criteria of taboo are missing."[5]

Because of its increasing usage in the public forum, in 2005 the word was included for the first time as one of three vulgarities in The
Canadian Press's Canadian Press Caps and Spelling guide. Journalists were advised to refrain from censoring the word but use it
.[6]
sparingly and only when its inclusion was essential to the story

Etymology
The Oxford English Dictionary states that the ultimate etymology is uncertain, but that the word is "probably cognate" with a number
of Germanic words with meanings involving striking, rubbing and having sex or is derivative of the Old French word that meant "to
fuck."[7]

Germanic cognates
The word has probable cognates in other Germanic languages, such as German ficken (to fuck); Dutch fokken (to breed, to beget);
dialectal Norwegian fukka (to copulate), and dialectal Swedish focka (to strike, to copulate) and fock (penis).[7] This points to a
possible etymology where Common Germanic fuk- comes from an Indo-European root meaning "to strike", cognate with non-
Germanic words such as Latin pugno "I fight" or pugnus "fist".[7] By application of Grimm's law, this hypothetical root has the form
*pug–. There is a theory that fuck is most likely derived from Flemish, German, or Dutch roots, and is probably not derived from an
Old English root.[8]

Latin and Greek cognates

There may be a kinship with the Latin futuere (futuo), a verb with almost exactly the same meaning as the English verb "to fuck".
From fūtuere came French foutre, Catalan fotre, Italian fottere, Romanian futere, vulgar peninsular Spanish joder, Portuguese foder,
and the obscure English equivalent to futter, coined by Richard Francis Burton. However, there is no clear past lineage or derivation
for the Latin word. These roots, even if cognates, are not the original Indo-European word for to copulate, but Wayland Young argues
that they derive from the Indo-European *bhu– or *bhug– ("be", "become"), or as causative "create" [see Young, 1964]. A possible
intermediate might be a Latin 4th-declension verbal noun *fūtus, with possible meanings including "act of (pro)creating".

However, the connection to futuere has been disputed—Anatoly Liberman calls it a "coincidence" and writes that it is not likely to
have been borrowed from theLow German precursors to fuck.[9]

Greek phyō (φύω) has various meanings, including (of a man) "to beget", or (of a woman), "to give birth to".[10] Its perfect pephyka
[10]
(πέφυκα) can be likened to "fuck" and its equivalents in other Germanic languages.

False etymologies
One reason that the word fuck is so hard to trace etymologically is that it was used far more extensively in common speech than in
easily traceable written forms. There are several urban-legend false etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word. None
of these acronyms were ever recorded before the 1960s, according to thelexicographical work The F-Word, and thus are backronyms.
In any event, the word fuck has been in use far too long for some of these supposed origins to be possible. Some of these urban
legends are that the word fuck came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing adultery, they would be punished "For
Unlawful Carnal Knowledge In the Nude," with "FUCKIN" written on the stocks above them to denote the crime. A similar variant
on this theory involves the recording by church clerks of the crime of "Forbidden Use of Carnal Knowledge." Another theory is that
of a royal permission. During the Black Death in the Middle Ages, towns were trying to control populations and their interactions.
Since uncontaminated resources were scarce, supposedly many towns required permission to have children. Hence, the legend goes,
that couples that were having children were required to first obtain royal permission (usually from a local magistrate or lord) and then
place a sign somewhere visible from the road in their home that saidFornicating
" Under Consent of King," which was later shortened
to "FUCK." This story is hard to document, but has persisted in oral and literary traditions for many years; however, it has been
demonstrated to be an urban legend.[11]

A different false etymology, first made popular on the radio show Car Talk, states that the phrase "fuck you" comes from the phrase
"pluck yew" and relates the origins of fuck to the myth surrounding the V sign. This myth states that English archers believed that
those who were captured by the French had their index and middle fingers cut off so that they could no longer operate their
longbows, and that the V sign was used by uncaptured and victorious archers in a display of defiance against the French. The addition
of the phrase "fuck you" to the myth came when it was claimed that the English yelled that they could still "pluck yew" (yew wood
[8]
being the preferred material for longbows at the time), a phrase that evolved into the modern "fuck you".

Grammar
Fuck has a very flexible role in English grammar, including use as both a transitive and intransitive verb, and as an adjective, adverb,
and noun.[12] It can also be used as an interjection and a grammatical ejaculation. Linguist Geoffrey Hughes found eight distinct
usages for English curse words, and fuck can apply to each. For example, it fits in the "curse" sense ("fuck you!") as well as the
"personal" sense ("You fucker"). Its vulgarity alsocontributes to its mostly figurative sense, though the word itself is used in its literal
sense to refer to sexual intercourse, its most common usage is figurative—to indicate the speaker's strong sentiment and to offend or
shock the listener.[13]

Early usage
In 2015, Dr. Paul Booth claimed to have found "(possibly) the earliest known use of the word 'fuck' that clearly has a sexual
connotation": in English court records of 1310–11, a man local to Chester is referred to as "Roger Fuckebythenavele", probably a
nickname. "Either this refers to an inexperienced copulator, referring to someone trying to have sex with the navel, or it's a rather
extravagant explanation for a dimwit, someone so stupid they think that this is the way to have sex," says Booth.[14] An earlier name,
that of John le Fucker recorded in 1278, has been the subject of debate, but is thought by manyphilologists to have had some separate
and non-sexual origin.

Otherwise, the usually accepted first known occurrence of the word is found in code in a poem in a mixture of Latin and English
composed in the 15th century.[8] The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, "Flen flyys",
from the first words of its opening line, Flen, flyys, and freris ("Fleas, flies, and friars"). The line that contains fuck reads Non sunt in
coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk. Deciphering the phrase "gxddbou xxkxzt pg ifmk", here by replacing each letter by the previous
letter in alphabetical order, as the English alphabet was then, yields themacaronic non sunt in coeli, quia fuccant vvivys of heli, which
translated means, "They are not in heaven, because they fuck the women of Ely".[15] The phrase was probably encoded because it
accused monks of breaking their vows of celibacy;[8] it is uncertain to what extent the word fuck was considered acceptable at the
time. The stem of fuccant is an English word used as Latin: English medieval Latin has many examples of writers using English
words when they did not know the Latin word: "workmannus" is an example. In the Middle English of this poem, the term wife was
still used generically for "woman".

William Dunbar's 1503 poem "Brash of Wowing" includes the lines: "Yit be his feiris he wald haue fukkit: / Ye brek my hairt, my
bony ane" (ll. 13–14).

The oldest occurrence of the word in adjectival form (which implies use of the verb) in English comes from the margins of a 1528
manuscript copy of Cicero's De Officiis. A monk had scrawled in the margin notes, "fuckin Abbot." Whether the monk meant the
word literally, to accuse this abbott of "questionable monastic morals," or whether he used it "as an intensifier, to convey his extreme
dismay" is unclear.[16]
John Florio's 1598 Italian-English dictionary, A Worlde of Wordes, included the term, along with several now-archaic, but then-vulgar
synonyms, in this definition:

.[17]
Fottere: To jape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupy
Of these, "occupy" and "jape" still survive as verbs, though with less profane meanings, while "sard" was a descendant of the Anglo-
Saxon verb seordan (or seorðan, ON serða), to copulate; and "swive" had derived from earlier swīfan, to revolve i.e. to swivel
(compare modern-day "screw"). As late as the 18th century, the verb occupy was seldom used in print because it carried sexual
overtones.[18][19]

A 1790 poem by George Tucker has a father upset with his bookish son say "I'd not give [a fuck] for all you've read". Originally
printed as "I'd not give ------ for all you've read", scholars agree that the words "a fuck" were removed, making the poem the first
[20]
recorded instance of the now-common phrase "I don't give a fuck".

Farmer and Henley's 1893 dictionary of slang notes both the adverbial and adjectival forms of fuck as similar to but "more violent"
than bloody and indicating extreme insult, respectively.[13]

Rise of modern usage

Though it appeared in English lexicographer John Ash's 1775 A New and Complete Dictionary, listed as "low" and "vulgar," and
appearing with several definitions,[21] fuck did not appear in any widely consulted dictionary of the English language from 1795 to
1965. Its first appearance in theOxford English Dictionary (along with the word cunt) was in 1972.[22]

The variant feck appeared in the English Dialect Dictionary, compiled by Joseph Wright in 1900.[23]

Modern usage
The modern usage and flexibility of fuck was established by the mid-to-late 19th century, and has been fairly stable since.[13] Most
literally, to fuck is to copulate, but it is also used as a more generalexpletive or intensifier. Some instances of the word can betaken at
face value, such as "Let's fuck," "I would fuck her/him," or "He/she fucks." Other uses connotations that are offensive either about
the subject matter or to the audience, or to both: The sexual connotation, usually connected to masturbation (in the case of "go fuck
yourself" or "go fuck yourself in the ass"), is invoked to incite additional disgust, or express anger or outrage. For example, "Fuck
that!", "Fuck no!", "Fuck off!", or "Fuck you!" By itself, fuck is usually used as an exclamation, indicating surprise, pain, fear,
disgust, disappointment, anger, or a sense of extreme elation. In this usage, there is no connection to the sexual meaning of the word
implied, and is used purely for its "strength" as a vulgarity. Additionally, other uses are similarly vacuous; fuck (or variations such as
the fuck or fucking) could be removed and leave a sentence of identical syntactical meaning. For example, rap music often uses the
word fucking as an emphatic adjective ("I'm the fucking man") for the word's rhythmic properties. In British English, to express
surprise and/or disbelief towards a given statement or a question, one can say "does/is it fuck".

Insertion of the trochaic word fucking can also be used as an exercise for diagnosing the cadence of an English-language word. This
is the use of fuck or more specifically fucking as an infix, or more properly, a tmesis (see expletive infixation). For example, the word
in-fucking-credible sounds acceptable to the English ear, and is in fairly common use, while *incred-fucking-ible would sound very
clumsy (though, depending on the context, this might be perceived as a humorous improvisation of the word). Abso-fucking-lutely
and motherfucking are also common uses of fuck as an affix. While neither dysphemistic nor connected to the sexual connotations of
the word, even the vacuous usages are considered offensive and gratuitous, and censored in some media; for example, "None of your
fucking business!" or "Shut the fuck up!" A common insult is "Get fucked", which in a less-offensive context would translate as "get
stuffed." The word is one of the few that has colloquial usage as a verb, adverb, adjective, conjunction, interjection, noun, and
pronoun.

In another usage, the word fucker is used as a term of endearment rather than antipathy. This usage is not uncommon; to say "you're
one smart fucker" is often a term of affection. However, because of its ambiguity and vulgarity, the word fucker in reference to
another person can easily be misinterpreted. Though fuck can serve as a noun, the fucker form is used in a context that refers to an
individual. Normally in these cases, if fuck is used instead of fucker, the sentence refers to the sexual ability of the subject (for
example, "He's a great fuck!"), although confusingly in a minority of occasions the word "fuck" can hold exactly the same meaning
as fucker (e.g., when preceded by an adjective: "Y
ou're a pretty clever fuck.").

Related to fucker is the word motherfucker. Sometimes used as an extreme insult—an accusation of incest—this term is also
occasionally used to connote respectful awe. For example, "he's a mean motherfucker" tends to imply: "he's someone to be feared". In
this context, some people (particularly young men) might even describe themselves as "motherfuckers." In a famous example, the
wallet of Pulp Fiction character Jules Winnfield, played by Samuel L. Jackson, is embroidered with the phrase "Bad
Motherfucker".[24] The word fuck is used in many forms of music, with motherfucker being used as a rhythmic filler in hip hop,
urban music and some rock genres; examples include The Crystal Method's song "Name of the Game" and Turbonegro's "Don't Say
Motherfucker Motherfucker".

The word was used to induce stress during military recruit training[25] and became a dominant element of an English military dialect
identified by Tom Wolfe as Army creole.[26] A succinct example of the flexibility of the word is its use as almost every word in a
sentence. In his book, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, Paul Fussell, literary historian and professor
emeritus of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania, recounted

Once, on a misty Scottish airfield, an airman was changing the magneto on the engine of a Wellington bomber.
Suddenly his wrench slipped and he flung it on the grass and snarled, "Fuck! The fucking fucker's fucked." The
[27]
bystanders were all quite well aware that he had stripped a bolt and skinned his knuckles.

In the United States military air services, the nicknames applied to some aircraft included the word fucker as the letter "F" in their
slang-acronyms. For instance, the B-52 stratofortress strategic bomber was often referred to as the BUFF, or Big Ugly Fat Fucker.
Similarly, the A-7 Corsair was often referred to as the SLUF, or Short Little Ugly Fucker. In polite conversation, these acronyms
usually substituted the word "Fellow" for fucker
.

The phrase "Fuck you, you fucking fuck!" is a memorable quote from the movie Blue Velvet from 1986. Because of its vulgar status,
the word fuck is usually restricted in mass media and barred from titles in the United States. In 2002, when the controversial French
film Baise-moi (2000) was released in the US, its title was changed to Rape Me, rather than the literal Fuck Me. Similarly, the
Swedish film Fucking Åmål was retitled Show Me Love.

Online forums and public blogs may censor the word by use of automatic filters. For example, Fark.com replaces the word fuck with
fark. Others replace the word with asterisks (****) to censor it (and other profanities) entirely. To avert these filters, many online
posters will use the word fvck. This particular alteration is in common usage at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where
students use it in reference to the inscriptions on MIT's neoclassical buildings, in which the letter U is replaced by V. A typical
coinage in this idiom would be "I'm fvcked by the Institvte." (Other less common spellings to cheat a censor are "fück" and "phuck".)
Another way to bypass a word filter is to useleet: fuck becomes F(_) c|< or |=(_)Ck, for example.

The word fuck is a component of many acronyms, some of which—like SNAFU and FUBAR—date as far back as World War II.
Many more recent coinages, such as the shorthand "WTF?" for "what the fuck?," "STFU" for "shut the fuck up," or "FML" for "fuck
my life," have been widely extant on the Internet, and may count as examples of internet memes. Many acronyms will also have an
"F" or "MF" added to increase emphasis; for example, "OMG" ("oh my God") becomes "OMFG" ("oh my fucking God").
Abbreviated versions of the word do not tend to be considered offensive. Although the word is proclaimed vulgar, several comedians
rely on fuck for comedic routines. George Carlin created several literary works based upon the word. Other comedians who use or
have used the word consistently in their routines include Billy Connolly, Denis Leary, Lewis Black, Andrew Dice Clay, Chris Rock,
Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and Sam Kinison.

Examples of more recent usage

In 1928, English writer D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover gained notoriety for its frequent use of the words fuck,
fucked, and fucking.[28]
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger featured the use of fuck you in print. First
published in the United States in 1951, the novel remains controversial to this day
due in part to its use of the word, standing at number 13 for the most banned books
[29]
from 1990 to 2000 according to the American Library Association.

The first documented use of the word fuck on live British television (and probably
on any television system) has been attributed to theatre critic Kenneth Tynan in
1965, though it has been claimed Irish playwright Brendan Behan used the word on
Panorama in 1956 (although no one could understand him because he was drunk) or
the man who painted the railings on Stranmillis Embankment alongside the river "WTF?" spray painted on the rear of
Lagan in Belfast, who in 1959 told Ulster TV's teatime magazine programme, a Sherman tank left over from U.S.
military shelling practice on
Roundabout, that his job was "fucking boring".[30] Controversy also ensued in 1976
Flamenco Beach on the island of
when Today host Bill Grundy interviewed the Sex Pistols, after guitarist Steve Jones
Culebra, Puerto Rico
called Grundy a "dirty fucker" and a "fucking rotter"[31] (see EMI and the Grundy
incident).

John Cleese during his eulogy in the memorial service forGraham Chapman was proud to declare himself to be the first person to use
the word "fuck" on such occasion.[32]

The word began to break into cinema when it was uttered once in the film Vapor (1963) and in two Andy Warhol films - Poor Little
Rich Girl (1965) and My Hustler (1965),[33] and later in each of two 1967 British releases, Ulysses and I'll Never Forget
What's'isname. It was used several times in the 1969 British film Bronco Bullfrog.[34] According to director Robert Altman, the first
time the word "fuck" was used in a major American studio film was in 1970's M*A*S*H, spoken by Painless during the football
match at the end of the film.[35]

Use in politics
Fuck is not widely used in politics, and use of the word by politicians often produces controversy
. Some events include:

In 1965, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson said to the Greek ambassadorAlexandros Matsas when he objected to
American plans in Cyprus, "Fuck your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea.
Greece is a flea. If these two fellows continue itching the elephant they may just get whacked by the elephant's
trunk, whacked good."[36][37]
Former British Secretary of State for DefenceDenis Healey reported that the penultimateHigh Commissioner of
Aden (1965–67), Sir Richard Turnbull, stated that, "When the British Empire finally sinks beneath the waves of
history, it will leave behind it only two memorials: one is the game of Association Football and the other is the
expression 'Fuck Off'"[38]
During the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago mayor Richard Daley became so enraged by a speech
from Abraham A. Ribicoff that he shouted "Fuck you!"[39] Daley would later claim that he was shouting "you fink,
you" and calling Ribicoff a "faker".[40] On the first night of this same convention, which was President Johnson's
birthday, a huge crowd of thousands ofyippies, hippies and anti Vietnam war protesters was famously filmed while
simultaneously roaring "Fuck you, Lyndon Johnson!"[41][42][43]
During debate in February 1971 in theHouse of Commons of Canada, Canadian Prime MinisterPierre Trudeau
mouthed the words "fuck off" at Conservative MP John Lundrigan, while Lundrigan made some comments about
unemployment. Afterward, when asked by a television reporter what he had been thinking,rudeau T famously
replied: "What is the nature of your thoughts, gentlemen, when you sayfuddle ' duddle' or something like that?".
"Fuddle duddle" consequently became acatchphrase in Canadian media associated with Trudeau.[44]
The first accepted modern use in theBritish House of Commonscame in 1982 when Reg Race, Labour MP for
Wood Green, referred to adverts placed in local newsagents by prostitutes which read "Phone them and fuck them."
Hansard, the full record of debates, printed "F*** them", but even this euphemism was deprecated by the Speaker,
George Thomas.[45]
Shortly after Tony Blair was elected Leader of theLabour Party, the then Labour MP George Galloway told a public
meeting "I don't give a fuck what Tony Blair thinks" when questioned about the party's move to the right. [46]

In late 2003, the then-U.S. presidential candidate SenatorJohn Kerry used the word fuck in an interview with Rolling
Stone. Referring to his vote in favor of the resolution authorizing U.S. President George W. Bush to use military force
in Iraq, Senator John Kerry stated, "I voted for what I thought was best for the country . Did I expect Howard Dean to
 go off to the left and say, 'I'm against everything'? Sure. Did I expect George Bush to fuck it up as badly as he did? I
don't think anybody did."[47]
In June 2004, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney told Democratic senator Patrick Leahy, "Go fuck yourself."
Coincidentally, Cheney's outburst occurred on the same day that the Defense of Decency Act was passed in the
Senate.[48]
In February 2006, Premier of the Australian state of New South Wales Morris Iemma, while awaiting the start of a
Council of Australian Governmentsmedia conference in Canberra, was chatting to Victorian Premier Steve Bracks.
Not realizing microphones were recording, he said, "T oday? This fuckwit who's the new CEO of theCross City
Tunnel has ... been saying what controversy? There is no controversy ."[49] The exchange referred to the newly
appointed CEO of the recently opened Cross City T unnel toll road within Sydney.
On January 31, 2007, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer angrily retorted to Assembly Minority LeaderJim Tedisco,
"Listen, I'm a fucking steamroller, and I'll roll over you and anybody else." According toThe New York Post, Spitzer
confirmed the exchange the following day .[50]
In 2007, U.S. Senator John Cornyn objected to John McCain's perceived intrusion upon a Senate meeting on
immigration, saying, "Wait a second here. I've been sitting in here for all of these negotiations and you just parachute
in here on the last day. You're out of line." McCain, known for his short temper ,[51] replied, "Fuck you! I know more
about this than anyone else in the room." [52][53]

In April 2007, New Zealand Education Minister Steve Maharey said "fuck you" to a fellow MP during parliamentary
question time.[54] He apologized shortly afterwards.
In December 2008, recorded telephone conversations revealed Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich trying to "sell" an
appointment to the Senate seat thatBarack Obama resigned after being elected President. In the phone
conversation, Blagojevich said in reference to his power to appoint a new senator , "I've got this thing and it's fucking
golden and I'm just not giving it up for fuckin' nothing." In the recorded conversations, Blagojevich also referred to
Obama as a "motherfucker" and repeatedly said "fuck him." When speaking of the Obama administration's request
that Valerie Jarrett be appointed as Obama's replacement, Blagojevich complained, "They're not willing to give me
anything except appreciation. Fuck them." Blagojevich also saidTribune Company ownership should be told to "fire
those fuckers" in reference toChicago Tribune editors critical of him.[55]
In December 2009 in Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Irish Parliament),Paul Gogarty responded to heckles from
Emmet Stagg with the outburst, "With all due respect, in the mostunparliamentary language, fuck you, Deputy
Stagg. Fuck you."[56][57] Gogarty immediately withdrew the remarks and later made a personal statement of
apology.[56] Reportage of the outburst quickly spread by media and the Internet. [57] A subcommittee of the Dáil's

standing committee on procedure and privilege produced a 28-page report on the incident. [56]

On March 23, 2010, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden whispered into PresidentBarack Obama's ear, "This is a big
fucking deal" when referring to the U.S. health care reform bill. His words were picked up by microphones and
video.[58]
On May 3, 2010, Canadian senatorNancy Ruth advised representatives of women's groups to "shut the fuck up" on
access to abortion, in the run-up to the36th G8 summit.[59]
In late 2012, the then-U.S. House Speaker John Boehner was visiting the White House, where he saw then Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid in the lobby. Boehner was under great stressabout the impending fiscal cliff, and Reid
had also accused him of running a "dictatorship" in the house. Boehner saw Harry Reid, pointed his finger at him,
and told him, "Go fuck yourself!" Reid replied by saying, "What are you talking about?" Boehner then repeated what
he had told him and left.[60]
In late 2016, Philippine PresidentRodrigo Duterte reacted to the European Parliament's criticism over the
prevalence of unsolved extrajudicial killings incurred in hisWar " on Drugs" which he lashed out at EU politicians,
singling out those from Britain and France, calling them "hypocrites" and accusing them of being responsible for the
deaths of thousands caused by their ancestors during the colonial period. [61] Upon making an obscene hand
gesture, Duterte stated that he told EU politicians, "When I read the EU condemnation I told them fuck you.ou Y are
only doing it to atone for your own sins" and "They do not want a safe Philippines. They want it to be ruled by
criminals. Oh, well, I'm sorry. That is your idiotic view".[62] Duterte also claimed, in response to growing international
criticism, the "EU now has the gall to condemn me. I repeat it, fuck you." [63]

On June 10, 2018, Robert De Niro sparked controversy during the72nd Tony Awards as he cursed U.S. President
Donald Trump with the word during the live broadcast. He started with sentence: "I'm gonna say one thing: Fuck
Trump." He clenched his two fists in the air , and ended his remarks by saying "It's no longer down with rTump, it's
fuck Trump!". He received standing ovation from the audience, which were mostly celebrities. [64][65][66]

During the George W. Bush presidency a vehicular bumper sticker with the wordsBuck Fush gained some popularity in the US.[67]

Use in marketing
In April 1997, clothing retailer French Connection began branding their clothes "fcuk" (usually written in lowercase), stating it was
an acronym for "French Connection United Kingdom". Its similarity to the word "fuck" caused controversy.[68] French Connection
produced a range of T-shirts with messages such as "fcuk this", "hot as fcuk", "mile high fcuk", "fcuk me", etc.
In 2009, the European Union's OHIM trade marks agency disallowed a German brewery to market a beer called "Fucking Hell".
They sued, and on 26 March 2010 got permission to market the beer. They claim that it is actually named after the Austrian village of
Fucking and the German term for light beer, hell (which is simply the word for "light in colour").[69]

Band names
The word "fuck" has been used in a number of band names, generally based on common compounds. Although most of these bands
are in the aggressive, non-mainstream genres of punk and metal, others fall into the categories of more accessible forms of electronic
rock and pop.[70]

Holy fuck
"Holy fuck" is an example of 'liturgical profanity' used interjectionally to express anger, contempt, disgust, or amazement. Usually
vulgar.[71] Noted by academics[72][73] and used in literature,[74][75][76] deriving its power from a combination of the sacred, holy,
and the profane, fuck. An exclamation, similar to "holy shit", but more offensive, also used informally for sex within a religious
context.[77]

Machine mistranslation
The word fuck occurs sometimes in Chinese/English bilingual public notices in China as a machine translation of the Simplified
Chinese character 干 (干), which replaced the three Traditional Chinese characters 干 meaning "a pole", 幹 meaning "to do" or "to
work" (and having a secondary slang meaning of "to fuck"), and 乾 meaning "dried". (Traditional Chinese 乾 can also be pronounced
qian, which is a Taoist stem word meaning "sky".) Some examples are "spread to fuck the fruit" for "loose dried fruit", "fuck to adjust
the area" for "dry seasonings section", and "fuck the certain price of goods" for "dry foods price counter". The fault occurred in some
versions of commonly used Chinese to Englishmachine translators, for example Jīnshān (金山 = "Gold Mountain") byKingsoft.[78]

F-bomb
The term "dropping an F-bomb" usually refers to the unanticipated use of the word "fuck" in an unexpected setting, such as public
media, a play on the nickname for the hydrogen bomb (the "H-bomb") and the shock value that using the word "fuck" in discourse
carries. The term was first reported in a newspaper Newsday)
( in 1988 when Hall of Fame baseball catcher Gary Carter used it.[79] In
2012 it was listed, for the first time, in the mainstreamMerriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.[80]

Censorship
On August 19, 1969 the acid rock band Jefferson Airplane played their song "We Can Be Together" uncensored on The Dick Cavett
Show, including the 1960s countercultural slogan "Up against the wall, motherfucker!" (which was also the name of an anarchist
group at that time). This was the first appearance of the word on U.S. television.[81] The word "motherfucker" was also censored on
the song's printed lyrics that came with theVolunteers album as "fred."[82]

Films edited for broadcast use matching euphemisms so that lip synching will not be thrown off. In the film The Big Lebowski, John
Goodman's character repeatedly yells, "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass" while trashing a car. It was
[83]
censored on television as "This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps."

Freedom of expression
In 1971, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the public display of fuck is protected under the First and Fourteenth amendments and
cannot be made a criminal offense. In 1968, Paul Robert Cohen had been convicted of disturbing the peace for wearing a jacket with
a slogan titled "Fuck the Draft" (in a reference to conscription in the Vietnam War). The conviction was upheld by the court of
appeals and overturned by the Supreme Court.Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971).
Common alternatives
In conversation or writing, reference to or use of the word fuck may be replaced by any of many alternative words or phrases,
including "the F-word" or "the F-bomb" (a play on "A-bomb" and "H-bomb"), or simply, eff or f (as in "What the eff" or "You effing
fool", "What the F" or "You f'ing fool"). Also, there are many commonly used substitutes, such as flipping, frigging, fricking,
freaking, feck, fudge, flaming or any of a number of similar-sounding nonsense words. In print, there are alternatives such as, "F***",
"F––k", etc.; or a string of non-alphanumeric characters, for example, "@$#*%!" and similar (especially favored incomic books).

A replacement word used mainly on the Internet is "fsck", derived from the name of the Unix file system checking utility.[84] In
Battlestar Galactica the bowdlerized form f' rack' (spelt 'f-r-a-k' in the reimagined 2003 version) was used as a substitute for fuck. The
[85] Similarly, the word "frell" is used as a substitute on the TV show Farscape,
word was sometimes jokingly used as a curse by fans.
and Dr. Elliot Reid (played by Sarah Chalke) has frequently used the substitute "frick" on the TV show Scrubs. Stu Braudy, a
recurring character on Curb Your Enthusiasm played by Don Stark, is teased by Larry David for constantly using the substitute
"freak" ("Ahh, freak you!").

The phrase feck is a common substitute for fuck in Ireland, where it is considered to be less rude, though still not acceptable in many
contexts. It has come into occasional use across the UK in the last 15 years as a result of its frequent use in the Father Ted comedy
series. Although the word is considered to be equally as rude as fuck, its appearance in Father Ted and in a Magner's Cider ad suggest
the opposite.

See also
Army creole
Bleep censor
Censorship
The finger, a related hand gesture
Fit in or fuck off
Four-letter word
Fuck (film), documentary film about the word
Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties
Harcourt interpolation
List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck"
Madonna on Late Show with David Letterman
Profanity
Profanity in American Sign Language
Profanity in science fiction
Seven dirty words
Sexual slang
WTF

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Further reading
Fairman, Christopher M.(2009). Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties. Sphinx
Publishing. ISBN 1572487119.
Hargrave, Andrea Millwood (2000).Delete Expletives?. London: Advertising Standards Authority
, British
Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting Standards Commission, Independentelevision
T Commission.
Sheidlower, Jesse (1999). The F Word. Random House. ISBN 0-375-70634-8. Presents hundreds of uses offuck
and related words.
Michael Swan, Practical English Usage, Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-19-431198-8.
Wayland Young, Eros Denied: Sex in Western Society. Grove Press/Zebra Books, New York 1964.
Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the T
ransformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. Moffat,
Yard and Company, New York 1916. Translated by Beatrice M. Hinkle, M.D., Neurological Dept. ofCornell University
Medical School and of the New York Post Graduate MedicalSchool.
Richard Dooling, Blue Streak: Swearing, Free Speech & Sexual Harassment,(1996) ISBN 0-679-44471-8. Chapters
on famous swear words, including the f-word, and the laws pertaining to their use.
Fuck – documentary film by Steve Anderson ThinkFilm
( 2005)

External links
Re: the Cheney-Leahy incident, slate.com- discusses how American newspapers decide whether or not to print
fuck.
"Online Etymology Dictionary." Some etymological research on the wordfuck.
Fuck, academic paper exploring the legal implications of the word, byChristopher M. Fairman, Ohio State University
– Michael E. Moritz College of LawMarch 2006. Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 59.
Archive.org – Jack Wagner, "The Word Fuck".

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