Fuck observes that the original use of the word is unknown to scholars,[25] noting that its earliest written appearance was in the 1475 poem Flen flyys".[8][26] It was not, as is often claimed, originally an acronym for For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge or Fornication Under Consent of the King.[27][28][29] The word has been used by authors including Robert Burns, D. H. Lawrence (in his 1928 Lady