Well, I've been educated. I just assumed it was an Irish version of fuck! Very interesting.

I never use it myself, just tend to use the real thing, but I have often used "fock." I have no idea if there is some other meaning to such a word, but I started using it because that's the way I used to "hear" it...phonetically... as a kid growing up in an Italian-American-Community.   "Hey ya' can tell the focker I got his fockin' answer right here!" And actually, that's pretty close to the sound of it coming out of my mouth too.   And of course when my son Michael was 3, he turned to another kid that was bothering him and said, "Hey...Ya' fockin asshole!".........Perfect inflection....a chip off the old block.

So before that one comes up, now you know. Wasn't it a Norman Mailer piece that was cone in WWII that drew commentary because he used another phonetic spelling......fug?

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