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| | Wordorigins.org: Letter F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | This American political term derives from the Dutch vrijbuiter, or free-booter, a term applied to pirates in the Caribbean in the 16th century. |
 | | The taboo was so strong that for 170 years, from 1795 to 1965, fuck did not appear in a single dictionary of the English language. |
 | | The root is undoubtedly Germanic, as it has cognates in other Northern European languages: Middle Dutch fokken meaning to thrust, to copulate with; dialectical Norwegian fukka meaning to copulate; and dialectical Swedish focka meaning to strike, push, copulate, and fock meaning penis. |
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