# The original word is fuckING.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 21, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483 "2005-07-21T15:37:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/1 "2005-07-21T15:37:46Z")
As in, “This guy is fucking batshit insane.”
Or perhaps, “What a fucking loser.”
If you want to get a little grittier, perhaps you prefer “fuckin’.”
As in, “Y’all’re fuckin’ crazy, man.”
Or perhaps, “This fuckin’ loon is cruisin for a bruisin’.”
Easy enough.
However, there are some who type “fucken.”
What kind of a spelling is “fucken?”
I weep for the state of the SDMB when even those too inarticulate to avoid profanity can’t even get THAT right.
[sub](waits for the parade of “your fucken rite” and “fucken a” and “your fucken stoopid”)[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/2 "2005-07-21T15:39:41Z")
How do you stand on _Frickin_?
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/3 "2005-07-21T15:44:58Z")
“Frickin’” is OK, as is “frackin’.”
But “fricken” and “fracken” are right out.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/4 "2005-07-21T15:50:45Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#):
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> However, there are some who type “fucken.”
>
> What kind of a spelling is “fucken?”
A turducken is a turkey,duck, and chicken stuffed together, right?
I guess if you stuffed a frog in a duck and then a chicken, you’d get a fucken. If the frog is one a those transformed princes, that’d be a royal fucken.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/5 "2005-07-21T15:51:40Z")
I think it’s a nicely ironic touch that you didn’t actually swear at anybody in this pitting; well done.
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### Author:  [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/6 "2005-07-21T15:53:36Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#):
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> “Frickin’” is OK, as is “frackin’.”
> But “fricken” and “fracken” are right out.
Is rassafrassin’ acceptable? You can’t take rassafrassin’ away! How will I swear at those rascally rabbits?
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/7 "2005-07-21T16:15:57Z")
I always thought it was “razzle-frazzis.”
ISTM that “fucken” is a corruption of “fooken”. It always struck me as an English-soccer-hooliganism.
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### Author:  [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/8 "2005-07-21T16:17:16Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#):
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> What kind of a spelling is “fucken?”[/sub]
Perhaps it’s the adjective?
Strike — Stricken
Fuck — Fucken?
Or perhaps not. 😉
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/9 "2005-07-21T16:17:40Z")
> [@FaerieBeth](#):
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> Is rassafrassin’ acceptable? You can’t take rassafrassin’ away! How will I swear at those rascally rabbits?
Rackafracken works nicely.
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### Author:  [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/10 "2005-07-21T16:18:42Z")
I thought this was going to be about that investment company [ING](http://www.ing.com/us/).
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/11 "2005-07-21T16:20:58Z")
> [@Happy Scrappy Hero Pup](#):
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> What kind of a spelling is “fucken?”
Thank you. That has been bothering me for weeks now.
The other one is people referring to TV commercials as adds. As if there’s any math involved.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/12 "2005-07-21T16:21:23Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#):
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> A turducken is a turkey,duck, and chicken stuffed together, right?
>
> I guess if you stuffed a frog in a duck and then a chicken, you’d get a fucken. If the frog is one a those transformed princes, that’d be a royal fucken.
>
> Daniel
::laughs so hard he coughs up his shoes and a lung::
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/13 "2005-07-21T16:24:16Z")
Yeah, that is pretty funny, Daniel.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/14 "2005-07-21T16:35:40Z")
I prefer “phuquin”.
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/15 "2005-07-21T16:39:48Z")
Yeah, I’m about to loose my mind over all them misspellings.
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/16 "2005-07-21T16:45:13Z")
Frikkin’ is spelled with two k’s, no c’s. (That’s not a joke – “frik” is a real word separate from fuck, and is not a fake derivative thereof like frack or frell.)
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/17 "2005-07-21T16:57:47Z")
And frac is spelled “frac”. Well, it is in the oil and gas business.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/18 "2005-07-21T16:58:56Z")
I’ve seen it claimed (with no authority whatsoever) that the original form of the adjective _was_ fucken–a past participle analogous to broken, taken, woven, etc.
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### Author:  [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/19 "2005-07-21T17:30:58Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#):
>
> A turducken is a turkey,duck, and chicken stuffed together, right?
>
> I guess if you stuffed a frog in a duck and then a chicken, you’d get a fucken. If the frog is one a those transformed princes, that’d be a royal fucken.
>
> Daniel
Fucking fabulous post. 😃
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-word-is-fucking/313483/20 "2005-07-21T19:10:57Z")
Isn’t Fucken a little town in Germany, that keeps getting their town signs stolen?
**Frick and Frack** were a comedy duo, before even I was born.
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