Gorilla or elephant?

[gilmore]

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The F word is an old English word for a type of seed planting where a stick makes a hole and the seed is dropped in the hole ( as opposed to scattered). ....

What is your source for that?

I had heard nothing of its etymology other than it came from the Dutch, fokken.

Edit: We are both wrong. For the various proposed etymologies, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**** The article claims the earliest known usage, sometime before 1500, was in a poem in a mixture of Latin and English, "non sunt in coeli, quia fvccant vvivys of heli."