different between feck vs fack

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.

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

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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