tomtucker
11-28-2013, 03:09 PM
you learn something new everyday :eek:
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A 1790 poem by George Tucker has a father upset with his bookish son say "I'd not give [a ****] for all you've read". Originally printed as "I'd not give ------ for all you've read", scholars agree that the words "a ****" were removed, making the poem the first recorded instance of the now-common phrase "I don't give a ****". In 1837, the first instance of the phrase "go **** yourself" or its variants was recorded when a woman who told a group to "go **** themselves" was charged with the crime of obscenity.
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Another common figurative use of **** ("to cheat, victimize, or betray") was first recorded in 1866, when an unnamed court witness swore to hearing another man saying he would be "****ed out of his money" by another man. Farmer and Henley's 1893 dictionary of slang notes both the adverbial and adjectival forms of **** as similar to but "more violent" than bloody and indicating extreme insult, respectively.[11]
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A 1790 poem by George Tucker has a father upset with his bookish son say "I'd not give [a ****] for all you've read". Originally printed as "I'd not give ------ for all you've read", scholars agree that the words "a ****" were removed, making the poem the first recorded instance of the now-common phrase "I don't give a ****". In 1837, the first instance of the phrase "go **** yourself" or its variants was recorded when a woman who told a group to "go **** themselves" was charged with the crime of obscenity.
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Another common figurative use of **** ("to cheat, victimize, or betray") was first recorded in 1866, when an unnamed court witness swore to hearing another man saying he would be "****ed out of his money" by another man. Farmer and Henley's 1893 dictionary of slang notes both the adverbial and adjectival forms of **** as similar to but "more violent" than bloody and indicating extreme insult, respectively.[11]
wikipedia is gold
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