different between feck vs weck

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

Etymology

From German Weck, Wecken (“bread roll”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?k/

Noun

weck (plural wecks)

1. kummelweck bread

Derived terms

• beef on weck

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• wick (some dialects of Ripuarian, including Kölsch)
• weit (Moselle Franconian)
• wiet (westernmost Ripuarian)

Etymology

From Old High German (*)w?d, northern variant of w?t, from Proto-Germanic *w?daz. The word underwent the regular Ripuarian velarisation -?d- ? -igd- ? -eg-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ek/

Adjective

weck (masculine wegge, feminine weck, comparative wegger, superlative et weckste)

1. (some dialects of Ripuarian) far; wide; distant

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?k/
• Homophone: weg

Verb

weck

1. second-person singular imperative of wecken

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Shortened from Middle High German enwec, from Old High German in weg. Compare German weg, Dutch weg, Norwegian Bokmål vekk.

Adverb

weck

1. away