euphems.: "fornicating"; "futtering"

[Charles Doyle]

"Futtering" was one of G. Legman's favorite participles (1968? et seq.).

--Charlie
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>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:35:47 -0700
>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: euphems.: "fornicating"; "futtering"
>
>HDAS and OED both lack these euphemisms for the cruder "f-word":
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>  1936 in John Dos Passos _The Fourteenth Chronicle_ (Boston: Gambit, 1973) 483: This novel business is an awful business. Why the hell did I ever get mixed up in it?....And even at that the fornicating business wont get itself finished.
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>  1976 R. C. Hutchinson _Rising_ (London: Michael Joseph) 344: Mausers, that's
>what I'm supplied with - twelve fornicating 433s.
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>  1984 Criena Rohan _Down by the Dockside_ (N.Y.: Penguin) 87: You look fornicating terrible. Ibid. 88: Fornicating head that bad?
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>  2003 Harry Turtledove _Jaws of Darkness_ (N.Y.: Tor) 534:  It's another fornicating new kingdom....If this futtering war ever ends and we get back to fornicating Forthweg, we can set up as fornicating tour guides.
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>  I must confess that the latter three are from Google Books, though they look genuine. The 1936 ex. I have seen myself.
>
>  JL

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