different between frack vs fack

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?æk/

Etymology 1

From an abbreviated form of fracture. Also found in English hydrofracking.

Verb

frack (third-person singular simple present fracks, present participle fracking, simple past and past participle fracked)

1. (oil industry) To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking)

Etymology 2

Original and alternate spelling for English frak. See frak.

Alternative forms

• frac, frak

Verb

frack (third-person singular simple present fracks, present participle fracking, simple past and past participle fracked)

1. (slang, euphemistic) Fuck.

Synonyms

• eff, feck, frak, frig; see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with

Etymology 3

Adjective

frack (comparative more frack, superlative most frack)

1. Alternative form of freck

References

• Wikipedia frack.
• Battlestarwiki frack
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

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