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 == Fuck == 

  

  

 Fuck is an English word that, as a verb, means ""to have sexual intercourse"".  It is also a verb that means ""to be cheated"" (""I got fucked by a scam artist"").   As a noun it may describe a contemptible person (also fucker) or a sexual partner. It can be used as an interjection, and its participle fucking is sometimes used as a strong emphatic. The verb to fuck may be used transitively or intransitively, and it appears in compounds, including fuck off, fuck up, and fuck with. In less explicit usages (but still regarded as vulgar), fuck can mean to mess around, or to deal with unfairly or harshly. In a phrase such as ""don't give a fuck"", the word is the equivalent of ""damn"", in the sense of something having little value. In ""what the fuck"", it serves merely as an intensive. 

 The word's use is considered obscene in polite circles, but may be common in informal and domestic situations. It is unclear whether the word has always been considered vulgar, and 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. 

 In the modern English-speaking world, the word 'fuck' is often considered highly offensive. Most English-speaking countries censor it on television and radio. A study of the attitudes of the British public found that fuck was considered the third most severe profanity and its derivative motherfucker second. Cunt was considered the most severe (Hargrave, 2000). Some have argued that the prolific usage of the word fuck has de-vulgarized it, an example of the ""dysphemism treadmill"". Despite its offensive nature, the word is common in popular usage.  

 The highly profane term remains a taboo word to many people in English-speaking countries, while others feel the word remains inappropriate in social etiquette when used by a male in the presence of women. The word also carries a sacrilegious connotation to some.  Many religious people oppose the use of profane, vulgar, and ""curse"" words which they see as offensive to a deity. Finally, it is considered highly offensive to utter the word in the presence of children, who thus may be robbed of their ""innocence.""   
  	  
 Non-English-speaking cultures tend to recognize the word's vulgarity. However, it generally is not censored as frequently in those forums. 
  	  
 Proof of the more relaxed attitude about this English word in non-English countries was very publicly visible on billboards around the downtown of Paris, France in the early 1990s. They featured a woman sticking her tongue out in defiance, along with the slogan ""Préservatifs Fuck le SIDA"" (""Condoms fuck AIDS""). 

 The Canadian Press now considers the word to be commonplace and has added usage advice to the Canadian Press Caps and Spelling guide.  

 ==Etymology== 
 The Oxford English Dictionary states that the ultimate etymology is uncertain, but that the word is ""probably cognate"" with a number of native Germanic words with meanings involving striking, rubbing, and having sex.""Fuck."" OED Online. Draft Revision, June 2008. Oxford University Press. Accessed 26 Aug 2008 . 

 ===Flen flyys and freris=== 
 The usually accepted first known occurrence is in code in a poem in a mixture of Latin and English composed some time before 1500. 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. Removing the substitution cipherHere, replacing each letter by the next letter in alphabetical order, as the English alphabet was then. on the phrase ""gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk"" yields non sunt in coeli, quia fvccant vvivys of heli, which translated means, ""They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely"" (fvccant is a false Latin form).[http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fuck American Heritage Dictionary definition of ''fuck