

He has no idea, or no power, to keep his wife from another man. Insulting a mother's fidelity is so powerful because it lies at the nexus at many of the most fundamental issues that a successful marriage must negotiate - saying I fucked your mother is a many pronged insult that implies a large score of unpleasant things. To appreciate the thrust of the insult motherfucker doesn't require knowledge of the technology, or culture, or local history of any particular milieu the logic behind it is virtually ageless, because it is undergirded by a fundamental evolutionary truth, instinctually apparent to every creature since sex first came about - and that truth is that a mother's fidelity is dear, to both her and her partner, and it is mostly unfavorable circumstances that serve to erode it.

I'd imagine that since the dawn of language more than 200,000 years ago, people have been insulting one another by attacking their mothers. First of all, the germ of the idea behind the word motherfucker is likely very old. Let's start at the beginning of your questions. In writing the book, the author had access to the Oxford English's Dictionary's archives - the most extensive and renowned of all dictionaries - so what he has to say is likely the final word on the matter. For example if a person is told an incredible tale or description of an event they may respond with "Motherfucker" said slowly.Most fortuitously for you, just a couple of days ago I stumbled upon a book that answers this and most any question one might have on the word fuck and its multitudinous derivatives - anyone who has the slightest bit curiosity about this subject would do well to check out Jesse Sheidlower's The F-word, a very accessible and fun book. The word is also well known to be used as a single word sentence describing something intense. Instead it is understood as a swear word, related to the usage of parent word " fuck". Often, the word does not actually imply that someone has had sex with another person's mother.

That trig problem was a real motherfucker. Usually the word 'motherfucker' is used in place of a noun in a sentence, such as: Conversely, when paired with an adjective, it can become a term denoting such things as originality and masculinity. The verb to motherfuck also exists, although it is less common. The participle motherfucking is often used as an emphatic, in the same way as the less strong fucking. Motherhumper, motherfugger, mothersucker, motherlover, you motha, mofo, motherflower, motherkisser and many more are sometimes used in polite company or to avoid censorship.

Like many widely used offensive terms, motherfucker has a large list of derivative terms.
