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[Jesse Sheidlower]

1994 is the earliest in The F-Word--same cite as in GDoS. It's not in HDAS (the relevant volume of which only appeared in 1994). I'd welcome an antedating! For what it's worth, I don't recall it from my high-school/college years of the 1980s.

Jesse Sheidlower

On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 03:15:44AM +0000, Baker, John wrote:
> Does “fucktard” really only go back to the 1990s?  I didn’t check HDAS or The F-Word, but Green has it only as early as 1994.  It feels like I’ve heard it a lot longer than that.
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> It’s pretty striking to see “fucktard” spelled out right in the headline, in a story that elides “faggot” as “f—t.”  Since “-tard” obviously derives from “retarded,” the case for elision would seem at least equally as strong.  On the other hand, I’m not sure I would know what to make of a sentence in a news story that someone was called a “f------d.”
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