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- John_le_Fucker abstract "John le Fucker was a 13th-century Englishman who is recorded in the Close Rolls (administrative records) of the chancery of Edward I. According to an entry of 26 April 1278 (as published in summary calendar form in 1900), he was imprisoned for a double murder but was seeking bail:John le Fucker of Tythinge, imprisoned at Peterborough for the death of Walter de Leyghton and William de Leyghton, wherewith he is charged, has letters to the sheriff of Northampton to bail him.His unusual surname has attracted interest since it was highlighted by Carl Buck in his 1949 Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages. Buck suggested that the surname derived from the Middle English word Fike or Fyke meaning "to fidget" – in other words, "John the Fidgeter" or perhaps more colloquially, "John the Restless". Other philologists have questioned Le Fucker's existence as Buck did not cite his source, hindering their ability to check the validity of the name or the context in which it appears.In 1990, John Ayto brought Le Fucker to wider public attention when he claimed in his Dictionary of Word Origins that the surname was the earliest recorded instance of the English swear word fuck. Noting that fuck is not recorded in writing until about the start of the 16th century, Ayto suggested that Le Fucker's surname indicated that the word "was around before 1500 (perhaps not committed to paper because even then it was under a taboo)." However, David Wilton rejects this theory, commenting that there is "no guarantee that this is an instance of the word fuck. Instead, the name is more likely a variant of the surname Fulcher (soldier)." This was a well-known 13th century surname recorded in a variety of forms, some of which were very close to "Fucker", including Foucher, Foucar, Fucher, Foker and Fuker. Wilton concludes that Le Fucker's surname was "just another spelling of [Fulcher]."Robert Reisner suggested in 1971 that "it was not uncommon in the Middle Ages to have a characterizing adjectival phrase attached to one's name, such as Charles the Simple, Louis the Pious, so why not John the Fucker, if that was his most salient quality?" Allen Walker Read rejects this connection; although it was certainly commonplace at the time for people to acquire surnames reflecting their occupations, skills, places of origin, characteristics and so on, he comments that he "cannot imagine people seriously giving this activity prominence, or any man seriously accepting the name". Read argues that the existence of the surname actually indicates that fuck could not have been in use at the time; if it had been, "the name John le Fucker would surely have been avoided."".
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- John_le_Fucker name "Fucker, John le".
- John_le_Fucker shortDescription "English murderer".
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- John_le_Fucker comment "John le Fucker was a 13th-century Englishman who is recorded in the Close Rolls (administrative records) of the chancery of Edward I.".
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