Fucking

Borrowed from Austrian German Fucking. The association with the unrelated vulgar term fucking led to a name change in 2020.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʌkɪŋ/, /ˈfʌkɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ʌkɪŋ
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfʊkɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ʊkɪŋ

Fucking

1. A village in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria, part of the municipality of Tarsdorf, now called Fugging.
   • 2020 November 26, Philip Oltermann in Berlin, “Fugging hell: tired of mockery, Austrian village changes name”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 January 2021:

     Located 260km (161 miles) west of Vienna, Fucking has in recent years become a popular stop-off point for tourists, particularly from English-speaking countries, who snap pictures of themselves by the signposts at the entrance and exit to the village and post them on social media.

• Fugging, Upper Austria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Focko (the founder's name) +‎ -ing (denoting a people's membership; belonging to).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊkɪŋ/

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Fucking n (proper noun, genitive Fuckings or (optionally with an article) Fucking)

1. Fucking (former name of a village in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria, now called Fugging)

• Fugging (Gemeinde Tarsdorf) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de