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4. "said fuck a lot, which i'm pretty sure came later"
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 12:23 PM
Sep 2021

Early usage:
... 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.

An earlier name, that of John le Fucker recorded in 1278, has been the subject of debate, but is thought by many philologists to have had some separate and non-sexual origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck

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