Where did the F word come from?

The F-word in the dictionary. The F-word was recorded in a dictionary in 1598 (John Florio's A Worlde of Wordes, London: Arnold Hatfield for Edw. Blount). It is remotely derived from the Latin futuere and Old German ficken/fucken meaning 'to strike or penetrate', which had the slang meaning to copulate.
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When did people start using the F-word?

The modern usage and flexibility of fuck was established by the mid-to-late 19th century, and has been fairly stable since. Most literally, to fuck is to have sex, but it is also used as a more general expletive or intensifier.
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What does the F-word stands for?

the f-word

or the F-word. — used as a way to refer to the offensive word “fuck” without saying it or writing it. He got in trouble for using the f-word on television.
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What was the first cuss word?

Fart, as it turns out, is one of the oldest rude words we have in the language: Its first record pops up in roughly 1250, meaning that if you were to travel 800 years back in time just to let one rip, everyone would at least be able to agree upon what that should be called.
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What is the longest curse word?

Dunbar is famed in Scottish and ecclesiastical history for issuing the longest curse, a 1000-word diatribe against the Borders reivers who he excommunicated saying this: “I curse their head and all the hairs of their head.
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What was the first F word in a movie?

Then in 1970, Robert Altman's comedy M*A*S*H became the first major studio film to use the f-word, a passing comment during a football scene.
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What is the D word?

d-word (plural d-words) (euphemistic) The word damn.
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What does the G word mean?

(euphemistic) The word goddamn.
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What is the e word?

e-word (plural e-words) Any word beginning with e, especially one referring to something electronic, or one that is (often humorously) treated as controversial in a given context (for example, evolution, evangelical or enlightenment). quotations ▼
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What's the H word?

Noun. h-word (plural h-words) (euphemistic) The word hell/Hell.
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Is YEET a word now?

NATIONAL (WCIA) — Yeet, cringe, sus and adorkable are now officially in the dictionary. Merriam-Webster announced Wednesday that it added 370 new words and phrases to its dictionary, including plenty of social media slang.
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What does M stand for?

M is the Roman numeral for thousand and MM is meant to convey one thousand-thousand — or million. To take it further; one billion would be shown as $1MMM or one-thousand million.
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What does the N stand for?

N is a common abbreviation many people use online and in text messages to be short for "and." People may also abbreviate it as 'n' (with quotes).
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What is a G girl?

g-girl (plural g-girls) (LGBT slang) A genetic girl, a cis woman.
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Did Obama make the G word?

The show discusses topics and their connection to the federal government of the United States, with "the g word" referring to 'government. ' The show is produced by Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, and his wife, Michelle Obama.
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What is G in British slang?

grand. one thousand dollars, one thousand pounds.
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What is T & D word?

Training and development, a function of human resource management.
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Who says the F-word most?

It's Joe Pesci, who's said the F-word 272 times in his various movies. But check this out: 241 of those were from a single movie: “Casino”. Al Pacino is second, with 197, followed by Jason Mewes of Jay & Silent Bob fame and Jonah Hill with 183 apiece, Leonardo DiCaprio with 144, and Seth Rogen with 140.
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What age rating is the F-word?

This is an incomplete list of media which are exceptions to guidelines at different age ratings (such as one F-word in a film rated PG-13 by the MPA).
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WHO said the first F-word on TV?

1965: First use of the f– word on TV is on 13 November 1965 by literary agent Kenneth Tynan (UK) during a satirical discussion show entitled BBC3.
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What does NN mean in slang?

(Internet slang, text messaging, slang) Abbreviation of non (“not”).
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What does NS mean on Tik Tok?

NS means "no s***"
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What does H or N mean?

Influenza A viruses are classified by subtypes based on the properties of their hemagglutinin (H or HA) and neuraminidase (N or NA) surface proteins. There are 18 different HA subtypes and 11 different NA subtypes. Subtypes are named by combining the H and N numbers – e.g., A(H1N1), A(H3N2).
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What is the meaning of 1k?

This is a counting abbreviation that is put after numbers to make the counting easier. 1 K stands for 'a thousand' ⇒ the numerical value preceding K has to be multiplied with 1000 to substitute K.
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What does K stand for?

thousand, K (thousand)
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