different between cack vs feck

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Noun

cack (plural cacks)

1. A squawk.
2. A discordant note.

Verb

cack (third-person singular simple present cacks, present participle cacking, simple past and past participle cacked)

1. (of a bird) To squawk.
   • 2000, Minnesota Ornithologists? Union, The Loon, Volumes 72-74, page 37,

     While the Gyrfalcon cacked loudly on each stoop, the owl did not scream.
2. (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.

Etymology 2

From Middle English cakken, from Old English *cacian, from Old English cac (“dung; excrement”), of uncertain origin and relation. Cognate with English caca. Compare Dutch kakken (“to defecate”), German kacken (“to relieve oneself; defecate”), Latin cac?re (“to defecate”); cf. also Irish cac (“feces, excrement”).

Verb

cack (third-person singular simple present cacks, present participle cacking, simple past and past participle cacked)

1. (intransitive) To defecate.
2. (US, slang) To kill.

   “He tried to shoot me, so I cacked him.”

Synonyms

• (to shit): See Thesaurus:defecate
• (to kill): See Thesaurus:kill

Noun

cack (plural cacks)

1. An act of defecation.
2. Excrement.
3. Rubbish.

Synonyms

• (excrement): caca; see also Thesaurus:feces

Derived terms

• cack-handed, cack-house (archaic)

Translations

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

cack (third-person singular simple present cacks, present participle cacking, simple past and past participle cacked)

1. (Australian slang) To laugh.

   I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.

See also

• cack up

Etymology 4

From cock.

Noun

cack (uncountable)

1. (slang) penis.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Scots, aphetic form of effect.

Noun

feck (plural fecks)

1. Effect, value; vigor.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 64:

     some of which have earned a small academic following for their technical feck and for a pathos that was somehow both surreally abstract and CNS-rendingly melodramatic at the same time.

2. (Scotland) The greater or larger part.
   • a. 1786, Robert Burns, The Carle of Kellyburn Braes

     I hae been a devil the feck o' my life

Derived terms

• feckless

Verb

feck (third-person singular simple present fecks, present participle fecking, simple past and past participle fecked)

1. (Ireland, slang) To throw.
2. (Ireland, slang) To steal.
3. (Ireland, slang, sometimes with off) To leave hastily.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:feck.

Etymology 2

Alteration of fuck.

Verb

feck (third-person singular simple present fecks, present participle fecking, simple past and past participle fecked)

1. (euphemistic, chiefly Ireland) Fuck.
   • 1995, Graham Linehan & al., "Good Luck, Father Ted", Father Ted Series 1, Episode 1, Channel Four:

     Father Jack Hackett: Tea? Feck!
     ...
     Mrs. Doyle: I'll tell you what, Father. I'll pour a cup for ye anyway and y' can have it if ya want. Now... And what do you say to a cup?
     Father Jack Hackett: Feck off, cup!

Synonyms

• eff, frak, frig; see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with

Scots

Etymology

From Early Scots fek, aphetic form of Middle English effect, from Old French effect.

Noun

feck (plural fecks)

1. (obsolete) effect
2. (obsolete) value
3. A large amount, or the majority of something.

References

• “feck” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.