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- Title
Fucfast, Flemings Daughter, and Sowters Dowghter: Some Sixteenth-Century Insults.
- Authors
Briggs, Keith; McClure, Peter
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study of the history of taboo words and coarse language in the 15th- and 16th-centuries. Topics include an Oxford English Dictionary (OED) entry for the verb f##ck and the Latinized form fuccant, some records of the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Ely that survived in Cambridge University Library, and significant numbers of Dutch such as fleming daughters recorded in Cambridge, London and other towns in England in the 15th-century.
- Subjects
LINGUISTIC taboo; VULGARITY; ENGLISH etymology; HISTORY of the English language; OXFORD English Dictionary; CAMBRIDGE University Library
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2021, Vol 68, Issue 4, p390
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjab152