different between fark vs fak

English

Etymology 1

From fuck.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /f??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Interjection

fark

1. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) Pronunciation spelling of fuck, used to express surprise, etc.

Usage notes

In Australia and New Zealand, fark is only very slightly less offensive than fuck itself. The only difference in pronunciation between fark and fuck is in vowel length; fuck is pronounced /f?k/.

Etymology 2

From the name of the popular website Fark, because when it links to a small website from its main page, the small site is often subjected to so much new traffic that it is rendered inoperable due to server failure.

Verb

fark (third-person singular simple present farks, present participle farking, simple past and past participle farked)

1. (Internet, transitive, US) To subject a website to a high volume of requests, such that the server stops responding.

See also

• Slashdot effect

Anagrams

• frak

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????, form Arabic ?????? (farq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?k/
• Hyphenation: fark

Noun

fark (definite accusative fark?, plural farklar)

1. difference

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

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

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Noun

fak n (plural fakken, diminutive fakje)

1. profession, trade

Further reading

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