different between frack vs flack

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

• IPA^(key): /flæk/
• Rhymes: -æk
• Homophone: flak

Etymology 1

From Middle English flacken (“to palpitate, flutter”), from Proto-Germanic *flakk?n (“to swerve”), from Proto-Indo-European *ple?-, which could be related to Ancient Greek ????? (pláz?, “to turn away from”).

Akin to Middle Dutch vlacken (“to flicker, flash, sparkle”), Danish flakke (“to wander”), Swedish flacka (“to rove, rove about, ramble”), Icelandic flakka (“to move”). Compare also Icelandic flaka (“to flap, hang loose”), Swedish flaxa (“to flap, flutter”).

Verb

flack (third-person singular simple present flacks, present participle flacking, simple past and past participle flacked)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
3. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To beat by flapping.

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

flack (plural flacks)

1. (Canada, US) A publicist, a publicity agent.
   • 1999, Patricia Cornwell, The Southern Cross, page 233

     Thought you were flack," she said.

     "I'm not flack."

     "All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."

Verb

flack (third-person singular simple present flacks, present participle flacking, simple past and past participle flacked)

1. (Canada, US) To publicise, to promote.

Etymology 3

Variant of flak.

Noun

flack (countable and uncountable, plural flacks)

1. Alternative spelling of flak.

Further reading

• flack at OneLook Dictionary Search
• flack in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Falck