George Tucker, a Virginian/Judge poet in 1790, is credited with the first recorded instance of the phrase "I don't give a fu**"

George Tucker, a Virginian/Judge poet in 1790, is credited with the first recorded instance of the phrase "I don't give a fu**"
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A 1790 poem by George Tucker has a father upset with his bookish son say "I'd not give [a fuck] for all you've read". Originally printed as "I'd not give ------ for all you've read", scholars agree that the words "a fuck" were removed, making the poem the first recorded instance of the now-common phrase "I don't give a fuck".[18] @Curionic

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