English
Fucking
Fucking comes from Austrian German Fucking.
- Austrian GermanmodernFucking
- Englishearliest quotation 2020same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Austrian GermanmodernFucking
- Englishearliest quotation 2020same form
Earliest quotation: 2020, Philip Oltermann in Berlin, Fugging hell: tired of mockery, Austrian village changes nam: “Located 260km (161 miles) west of Vienna, Fucking has…”
The story
The association with the unrelated vulgar term fucking led to a name change in 2020.
Every English word from Austrian German Fucking
Today it means
name A village in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria, part of the municipality of Tarsdorf, now called Fugging.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Austrian German Fucking / Fucking