different between fack vs fak

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

From Middle English *fak, fec, fæc (“space, compartment”), from Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; period of five years, lustrum”), from Proto-Germanic *fak? (“division, department, space”), from Proto-Indo-European *pÀ?- (“to fasten, fix”). Cognate with West Frisian fek, Dutch vak (“section, compartment”), German Fach (“compartment”), Swedish fack (“compartment, box, department”), Latin pang? (“fasten, fix”).

Alternative forms

• fec (obsolete)

Noun

fack (plural facks)

1. (Britain dialectal) One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.

Etymology 2

Verb

fack (third-person singular simple present facks, present participle facking, simple past and past participle facked)

1. (Britain, pronunciation spelling, Cockney) fuck

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

fack n

1. a compartment, a box, a slot (one of several)
2. a trade, a profession, a subject of expertise (seen as a compartment of the larger work life)
3. (informal) a trade union; clipping of fackförening.

Declension

Related terms

• (compartment): bankfack, frysfack, handskfack, postfack
• (trade): fackansluten, fackidiot, facklitteratur, fackombud, fackspråk, fackförbund, fackförening, facklig

See also

• placera någon i ett fack

English

Noun

fak (uncountable)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of fuck

   Get the fak out.

   punk as fak

Verb

fak

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of fuck

   Fak off!

   Go fak yourself.

Anagrams

• AFK, FKA, afk, f.k.a., f/k/a, fka, kaf

Abinomn

Noun

fak

1. (anatomy) heart

Amanab

Noun

fak

1. arrow

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fak/

Conjunction

fak

1. (Quebec, informal) Phonetic, vernacular spelling of fait que

Rohingya

Etymology

Cognate with Assamese ???? (pakhi)

Noun

fak

1. wing

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English fuck

Interjection

fak (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (colloquial) fuck, dammit

   Fak, zakasnit ?u! — Dammit, I'm gonna be late!

Related terms

• sranje, šit

Tboli

Noun

fak

1. frog

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Noun

fak n (plural fakken, diminutive fakje)

1. profession, trade

Further reading

• “fak”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011