feck

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (5)  · 
“
And where the feck is the Big Media to tell the voters about this growing Liberal-Ignatieff-Kinsella scandal?

View all »
Definitions (9)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (8)

  1. An obsolete or dialectal variant of fake.
  2. Power; force; strength; vigor; use; value. They are mair faschious nor of feck. Cherrie and Slae, st. 46.
  3. Space; quantity; number: as, what feck of ground (how much land)? what feck o' folk (how many people)?
5 more from this dictionary »

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • The Scots feck is actually an aphesis, or cropping, of the English word effect . —  The Word Detective
  • Personally I love 'feck' and use it myself all the time, even when I could curse for real if I wanted to. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • Oh, and did I happen to mention I interviewed Kiera Knightley the other day and taught her how to say "feck" and "shite"? —  The Pointy Adventures Of Jean-Claude Supremo
  • By the way, the rates freeze has benefited business by feck-all squared. —  Slugger O'Toole
  • When you are driving your husband's big, feck-off Merc or Beamer, remember it is rear-wheel drive and when you put on the power it is likely your arse will swing (or at least your car's arse). —  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 103 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Scots, a popular corruption of effect, in the senses of power, force: see effect, n. The origin is more obvious in feckful and feckless, q. v. The Anglo-Saxon fæc, a space, interval, does not appear in later English, and cannot, for other reasons, be connected with feck.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a year.

Recently looked up

killdeer · emetic · double-faced · trilby · exaggerating

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich