Fugging

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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, archived from the original on 30 November 2020:

     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.

Further reading

• Fugging, Upper Austria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Fugging, Lower Austria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia