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What is the history of the f. word?

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The "f" word seems to have originated in the early 16th century of Germanic origin (compare Swedish dialect focka and Dutch dialect fokkelen ); possibly from an Indo-European root meaning ‘strike’, shared by Latin pugnus ‘fist’.

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