Roger Fuckebythenavele

Roger Fuckebythenavele was a 14th-century Englishman who was cited in court records of 1310–11. His name has been proposed as incorporating the earliest recorded instance of the English swear word fuck.

In 2015, Paul Booth drew attention to the "opprobrious nickname" of Roger Fuckebythenavele, who is mentioned seven times (with minor variations in spelling) in the plea rolls of the Chester County Court for the years 1310–1311. The serjeants of the peace had been ordered to arrest Roger and produce him before the court, but they had failed to find him, as a result of which he was outlawed. Booth argues that, in this case, "there can be no doubt" that the word fuck "has the sexual connotation". He suggests that either Roger was a man who had tried, through ignorance, to have sexual intercourse through his partner's navel (or believed that this was the correct way to copulate); or that he had engaged in frottage, rubbing his penis against his partner's navel, possibly in order to avoid conception. Booth argues that this is the earliest recorded instance of the word fuck in English.[1][2][3]

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  1. ↑ Booth, Paul (2015). "An early fourteenth-century use of the F-word in Cheshire, 1310–11". Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 164: 99–102.
  2. ↑ Gosden, Emily (13 September 2015). "Earliest use of f-word discovered in court records from 1310". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  3. ↑ Eleftheriou-Smith, Loulla-Mae (14 September 2015). "Historian understood to have found first use of word f*** in 1310 English court case". Independent. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
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