It comes from the Battle Of Agincourt between the French and the English. French planned to allihilate the English and planned to cut off the middle finger of every Englishman they captured, so that when they were released they couldn't pluck the famous English longbow with their middle finger.
The English found out about the French plan and won the battle. As they chased the French away they waved their middle fingers in the air and shouted at the French "see, we can still pluck you". And it has been waped to it's current form over centuries of slang .
Don't know what the audio thing says......I have dial up and don't have time to download such things.
The English found out about the French plan and won the battle. As they chased the French away they waved their middle fingers in the air and shouted at the French "see, we can still pluck you". And it has been waped to it's current form over centuries of slang .
Don't know what the audio thing says......I have dial up and don't have time to download such things.
oh god people stop using ebaums, the guy who created the site steals everything.
Whaddaya mean, 'people'? it's only him posting it...seymorebutts443 wrote:
oh god people stop using ebaums, the guy who created the site steals everything.
lol nice find
True, except that its original intent was "pluck yew", yew being a kind of tree (and wood) from which the famous English Longbows were made.TeamZephyr wrote:
The English found out about the French plan and won the battle. As they chased the French away they waved their middle fingers in the air and shouted at the French "see, we can still pluck you". And it has been waped to it's current form over centuries of slang .
Pluck yew = Fuck you.
Longbows > CrossbowsRedTwizzler wrote:
True, except that its original intent was "pluck yew", yew being a kind of tree (and wood) from which the famous English Longbows were made.TeamZephyr wrote:
The English found out about the French plan and won the battle. As they chased the French away they waved their middle fingers in the air and shouted at the French "see, we can still pluck you". And it has been waped to it's current form over centuries of slang .
Pluck yew = Fuck you.
It actually stands for something, something carnal knowledge. Came about in WWII after aloth of the soldiers were caght raping women, and in the files where they have everything, the would have FUCK (like AWOL)
I always heard fuck stood for Fornification with/of uncarnal knowledge. I heard it was prostitutes or people who have sex before they got married. I can't think of what their called at the moment, but the things where you stand there with your head and arms in a couple pieces of wood clamped over you. They'd be in that contraption as punishment in the town square or whatever and it had it written across it so people knew their punishment. I took that with a grain of salt, though. I've never thought to check the internet to see if there's a widely accepted origin of the word.
/Win.cablecopulate wrote:
http://ebaumsworldsucks.com/articles/flash.html
damn, out of karma!
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http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/pluckyew.htmTeamZephyr wrote:
It comes from the Battle Of Agincourt between the French and the English. French planned to allihilate the English and planned to cut off the middle finger of every Englishman they captured, so that when they were released they couldn't pluck the famous English longbow with their middle finger.
The English found out about the French plan and won the battle. As they chased the French away they waved their middle fingers in the air and shouted at the French "see, we can still pluck you". And it has been waped to it's current form over centuries of slang .
Don't know what the audio thing says......I have dial up and don't have time to download such things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck
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From the "False Etymologies" section of the "Fuck" article on Wikipedia:cablecopulate wrote:
I always heard fuck stood for Fornification with/of uncarnal knowledge. I heard it was prostitutes or people who have sex before they got married. I can't think of what their called at the moment, but the things where you stand there with your head and arms in a couple pieces of wood clamped over you. They'd be in that contraption as punishment in the town square or whatever and it had it written across it so people knew their punishment. I took that with a grain of salt, though. I've never thought to check the internet to see if there's a widely accepted origin of the word.
Other explanations for fuck as an acronym for adultery offer alternative wordings, such as "Fornication Under Carnal/Cardinal Knowledge," or "Fornication Under [the] Control/Consent/Command of the King." Variations on this theme include, "Fornication Under the Christian King", "False Use of Carnal Knowledge", "Felonious Use of Carnal Knowledge", "Felonious Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", "Full-On Unlawful Carnal Knowledge", and "Found Under Carnal Knowledge"; and the closely related variant, "Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" — a label supposedly applied to the crime of rape.
You are incorrect, and source as proof. Here is another source for you.Adams_BJ wrote:
It actually stands for something, something carnal knowledge. Came about in WWII after aloth of the soldiers were caght raping women, and in the files where they have everything, the would have FUCK (like AWOL)
Also, the person who was said it come from the British Longbows, I think you have that confussed with the peace sign. Once again I have a source that says you are incorrect.
I don't think it's the peace sign. I thought it was something to do with the V sign (peace sign reversed) and the archers. They shouted out "Go forth and multiply" rather than "pluck yew".dubbs wrote:
Also, the person who was said it come from the British Longbows, I think you have that confussed with the peace sign. Once again I have a source that says you are incorrect.
The word Fuck has been used for a very long time in English but it's origins are unknown. It does have the crudeness that is typically to many Anglo-Saxon words though.