different between fsck vs fack

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of file system check.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?sk/

Noun

fsck (countable and uncountable, plural fscks)

1. (computing) A *nix file system check or the tool fsck that performs such a check.

Verb

fsck (third-person singular simple present fscks, present participle fscking, simple past and past participle fscked)

1. (computing, transitive) To perform this kind of file system check on.

Interjection

fsck

1. (computing, Internet slang, text messaging, vulgar, euphemistic) fuck
   • 2002, David D. Huff Jr., Re: Mandrake 8.2 Musings, alt.os.linux.mandrake, [1]

     At some point in your Linux career you should ask yourself:

     "If there are 3.4 million successful, happy Mandrake users...what the fsck is wrong with me?"

   • 2002, Lev Lafayette, Re: "We are all Africans under the Skin", alt.politics.nationalism.white, [2]

     What the fsck are you on?

   • 2003, Agelmar, Re: SSH problem, alt.roundtable, [3]

     At least I know what the fsck is going on with Slack...

Anagrams

• f*cks

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