And it ’s a Thelonious Sphere Monk expressing his displeasure at an abbot . In the margins of a guide to moral behaviour . Because of grade .
Technically , “ fuck ” appeared two times before this . In 1500 , it was used in a satiric verse form to describe some friar . In that case , nothing like “ shag ” was actually written out . Instead , the word washidden in a code . And in 1513 , it appear in a Scottish verse form as “ fukkit . ”
A abbreviated history of four letter of the alphabet words
But for English ’s first use of goods and services , we ’ve got a dissatisfied 1528 monk . He ’s spell “ O D fuckin abbot . ” Melissa Mohr , author of Holy Sh*t : A abbreviated chronicle of Swearing , saysthis “ fuck ” could be either literal or metaphoric :
It is hard to know whether the annotator intended “ bally ” to mean “ have sex , ” as in “ that hombre is doing too much shag for someone who is suppose to be celibate , ” or whether he used it as an intensifier , to convey his extreme consternation ; if the latter , it expect the first immortalize use by more than three hundred years . Either is possible , really — John Burton , the archimandrite in question , was a military man of questionable cloistered morality .
So , either this monk was recording his archimandrite ’s sexual urge life or he was the first person to be so wild that only “ fuck ” could convey it ’s scope .
What ’s also keen is that the “ D ” likely stand for “ damned . ” The Thelonious Monk had no job with fucking , but eternal damnation was a curse too far . candidly , pass the import , that ’s fair .
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