feck
/fɛk/
feck noun: effect, value; vigor.
Noun
feck (countable and uncountable, plural fecks)
- 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.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 64
- The greater or larger part.
- I hae been a devil the feck o' my lifea. 1786, Robert Burns, The Carle of Kellyburn Braes
Verb (1)
feck (third-person singular simple present fecks, present participle fecking, simple past and past participle fecked)
- To steal.
- —But why did they run away, tell us?
—I know why, Cecil Thunder said. Because they had fecked cash out of the rector's room.
—Who fecked it?
—Kickham's brother. And they all went shares in it. But that was stealing. How could they have done that?1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - And isn't it pure gangsters run the car parks, the price of them, and security cameras my arse, begging your pardon, sure it's watching videos they'd be, while some scut of a ten-year-old's fecking your tape machine and maybe going back to break off the aerial if they don't approve of your taste in...2009, Julian Gough, Juno & Juliet: A Novel
- —But why did they run away, tell us?
Verb (2)
feck (third-person singular simple present fecks, present participle fecking, simple past and past participle fecked)
- Used in place of fuck.
- Earlier there was a dispute between the Chair and Proinsias de Rossa concerning the words used when a wife is getting rid of her husband. In the case of Deserted Wives' Allowance, Mr de Rossa said, it had to be proved that the wife didn't tell her husband to "feck off". Mr Tunney suggested that...1987 April 3, Deaglán Bréadún, “Ruairi shows the grey-suits how to break moulds”, in The Irish Times
- "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.1992 July 18, “This Week They Said”, in The Irish Times
Examples of feck in a sentence
- In the case of Deserted Wives' Allowance, Mr de Rossa said, it had to be proved that the wife didn't tell her husband to "feck off".1987 April 3, Deaglán Bréadún, “Ruairi shows the grey-suits how to break moulds”, in The Irish Times:
- As Charlie Murphy put it to me, 'When the bishops called down fire and brimstone not a man stirred but when Joe Christle fecked off half the shagging IRA followed him!'2002, Tim Pat Coogan, The I.R.A.:
- It didn't stop him turning to a reporter, saying "feck it" and nipping out anyway to talk to friends.2004 May 29, “A real thorn in the side; Profile: Diarmuid Gavin”, in The Herald:
- "My family were Irish," she says, "and the use of the word 'feck' was normal but, of course, as a child, I thought it was a swear word.2010 October 28, Erwin James, “Britain's queen of crime: Martina Cole”, in The Guardian:
Synonyms of feck
Forms of feck
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fecks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fecks |
| present participle | fecking |
| past participle | fecked |
| past | fecked |
Origin of feck
Borrowed from Scots, aphetic form of effect.
Words formed from feck
Words that rhyme with feck
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Questions about feck
- What does feck mean?
- Feck means effect, value; vigor.
- How do you use feck in a sentence?
- In the case of Deserted Wives' Allowance, Mr de Rossa said, it had to be proved that the wife didn't tell her husband to "feck off".
- What part of speech is feck?
- Feck can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce feck?
- Feck is pronounced /fɛk/.
- What is the plural of feck?
- The plural of feck is fecks.
Words near feck in the dictionary
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