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On another board I frequent, some of the younger members use trucking as what seems to be a euphemistic rhyme. Has anyone else noticed this?
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Is it a sub-species of Cockney rhyming slang?
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I've heard younger USns say "freaking" or "fecking." I like "trucking" and will start using it posthaste.
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Hey! "Fecking" seems to be commonly used in Ireland, or should I say, commonly used by Rubrick - I don't know how representative he is...
I usually use frickin', FWIW.
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There's nothing *worth the original.
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I don't know how representative he is...
So far as that particular usage os concerned, he is absolutely stereotypical: and the use of "fecking" is just as common in Northern Ireland as in the Republic. It isn't used to such a great extent by older persons with any pretensions to respectability, but among the young, it is used absolutely without hesitation in all situations.
There seems to be no feeling of it being a swear-word, either, merely an emphatic adjective (or adverb, sometimes).
The people who say "fecking" are often quite shocked if a "u" is substituted for the "e",EDITED thanks to eta! apparently treating the two pronunciations as two completely different words.
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if a "u" is substituted for the "i"
feckung?
formerly known as etaoin...
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(or adverb, sometimes).
ADVERB???
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(or adverb, sometimes)
Yeah. Adverb. Does that feckin' bother you?
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>> feckung? << thanks for pointing it out, eta - I have now amended it! 
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>> feckung? <<I dunno, Rhu ~ that brings it back nicely to fecundity 
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fecundity
Ooh Maverick, nice catch!
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Yeah. Adverb. Does that feckin' bother you?
It bothers me feckingly!
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bothers me feckingly
Well, then, you'd best fecking listen to people.
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A bit late to the party, but I use "Firetruck" particularly in personal emails originating from my work email address, due to the prudishness of the incoming mail server - if people reply and I've written the real word in there, it will bounce. I've used firetruck for ages - particularly around very young, innocent ears who don't need to hear the other. I suspect that "trucking" could have come from F iretruck, and a nice bit of rhyming to boot!
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That threatens to make an emergency more complicated, Hev... "911 - what service do you require?" "A Firetruck - NOW!" "We don't do that kind of service ma'm..."
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