Fugging

English

Etymology

From Austrian German Fugging, of the same origin as Fucking, the name of the village in Upper Austria until 2021.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʊkɪŋ/

Proper noun

Fugging

  1. A village in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria, part of the municipality of Tarsdorf, formerly called Fucking.
    • 2020 November 26, Philip Oltermann in Berlin, “Fugging hell: tired of mockery, Austrian village changes name”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Minutes from a municipal council meeting published on Thursday showed that the village of about 100 people, 350km (215 miles) west of Vienna, will be named Fugging from 1 January 2021.
  2. A village in the Sankt Pölten-Land district of Lower Austria, part of the municipality of Obritzberg-Rust.

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