different between feck vs freck

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

• IPA^(key): /f??k/

Etymology 1

Compare freak (transitive verb), freckle.

Verb

freck (third-person singular simple present frecks, present participle frecking, simple past and past participle frecked)

1. (transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.
   • 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral

     the painted windows, frecking gloom with glow

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• frack

Adjective

freck (comparative more freck, superlative most freck)

1. (Scotland) prompt; eager

Anagrams

• KFCer