feck

noun
/fɛk/

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots, aphetic form of effect.

Definitions

  1. Effect, value

    Effect, value; vigor.

    • 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. The greater or larger part.

    • I hae been a devil the feck o' my life
  3. To steal.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. Used in place of fuck.

      • "Why are you fecking around with this Family Planning Bill when people are dying?" - Senator David Norris to the Minister for Health, Dr O'Connell, on the Bill which does not allow condoms to be sold from vending machines.
      • 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!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for feck. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA