English
futter
Futter comes from French foutre ‘to do, to fuck around with, to dick around, to…’, and goes back to Latin futuo.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfutuoas futuo‘to fuck’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentfoutre‘to do, to fuck around with, to dick around, to fritter, to tinker’
- Englishearliest quotation 1885futter
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfutuoas futuo‘to fuck’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentfoutre‘to do, to fuck around with, to dick around, to fritter, to tinker’
- Englishearliest quotation 1885futter
Earliest quotation: 1885, Richard Francis Burton: “And they began disputing about futtering her.”
The story
Coined by Richard Francis Burton from French foutre, from Latin futuo, futuere.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- ‘to hit’
big, beat, bold, bug, beam, beetle, bile, paddock, beal, poutine, 5 more
through French foutre ‘to do, to fuck around with, to dick around, to…’
Today it means
verb (obsolete) To fuck.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin futuo / futter