When did "frigging" become a good substitute for f@#king? I use it all

[Pirate Smile]

the time but I'm not sure when it started.

When did it become like "shoot" for shit, "dang" or "darn" for damn, "heck" for hell?

I just thought about it after I read this sentence from LBN "The US military denied the reports. "We're not flying over frigging Iran," an official said."

[Anarcho-Socialist]

1. Hmmm, where I'm from - 'frigging' is a taboo term for female masturbation

[Pirate Smile]

3. In England? I've never heard of that before.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

5. I don't know if it's something for the whole of England...

...or if it is a local North Eastern England thing.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. where the heck are you from? (nt)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

9. County Durham, England

:)

[tuvor]

2. Frigging in the Rigging

by the Sex Pistols is the oldest example I can think of.

[HawkerHurricane]

13. as a collector of Victorian erotica...

I can tell you the term is older than that. It's a term for masterbation, sometimes mutual masterbation.

[pbartch]

4. why be a potty mouth all the time?

[miss_kitty]

7. Why not?

:evilgrin:

[miss_kitty]

8. From AskOxford.com

http://www.askoxford.com/?view=

frig

• verb (frigged, frigging) vulgar slang 1 have sexual intercourse with. 2 masturbate.

— ORIGIN originally in sense move restlessly, later rub, chafe: of unknown origin.

[MrScorpio]

10. I can tell you from 22 years of military experience...

That the word is "Fucking".

Except NO substitutions.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. I don't know. I use freaking all the time instead.

My mother calls it "wooden" swearing. :)

[skygazer]

12. I don't think it is a good substitute

Just a substitute. There's nothing like the real thing, baby. ;)

As for when, you got me. People will always mess with words.