From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61369
Date: 2008-11-04
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...>
>> >> feefokker "rancher"
>>
>> > Literally "cattle-breeder" (the English profanity
>> > apparently meant simply "to breed")
>>
>> I don't know of any evidence that it ever had that meaning
>> in English.
>>
>> Brian
>>
> Yes, I was extrapolating from Dutch to English: I just remember
> reading somewhere that <fokken> in Dutch, or some variety of Dutch,
> means "to breed (cattle)", and that the English word comes from the
> Dutch word in this sense. <Fuck> (hope this is not too vulgar for
> Cybalist, I am citing it objectively) is not in the Oxford English
> Dictionary, 1971 edition (I was quite surprised to find this), but
> Webster's relates it to Middle Dutch <fokken> "to strike, copulate"
> and dialectal Swedish <fock> "penis". So although I don't know
> anything about the word's history in English, from these two cognates
> I would guess (now that I know about the MDu and SW dial. words) it
> always had the meaning "copulate" in English.
>
> Andrew
>
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Does "feefokker" mean "fuck the tax-gatherer" ?
I'm a bit lost in your "tax-copulation".
Arnaud