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feck¹

  • /fɛk/

Rhymes with -ɛk

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Scots, aphetic form of effect.

noun fecks

  1. countable, uncountable 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. Scotland, countable, uncountable The greater or larger part. I hae been a devil the feck o' my life

verb fecks · fecking · fecked

  1. Ireland, slang 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?

feck²

  • /fɛk/

Rhymes with -ɛk

verb fecks · fecking · fecked

  1. Ireland 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 "get

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