Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete or dialectal variant of fake.
- n. Power; force; strength; vigor; use; value.
- n. Space; quantity; number: as, what feck of ground (how much land)? what feck o' folk (how many people)?
- n. The greatest part or number; the main part: as, the feck of a region.
- Brisk; vigorous.
- A variant of fick.
Wiktionary
- n. effect, value, vigor
- v. Ireland, slang To throw.
- v. Ireland, slang To steal.
- v. Ireland, slang To leave hastily.
- v. euphemistic Fuck (except literally).
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- Alteration of fuck (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mind you, Amazon still does not have an Australian branch: what the feck is up with that?”
“Sometimes it's a bit hard to distinguish the "bone" weekends and Tuesdays from the good ones, and when you have occasional commitments knowing when the big efforts are really help everybody involved. where the feck is the feckin sarcasm icon?”
“And where the feck is the Big Media to tell the voters about this growing Liberal-Ignatieff-Kinsella scandal?”
“The Booker prize-winning Irish novelist John Banville also agreed that Gough "has a point, or more than one point", but added that "his notion that shouting the word 'feck' -”
“I have seen "feck" used to get around this problem and used to establish the awesome street cred of the author.”
“To be honest I had not heard of "feck" until Father Ted came along at the end of the 90's.”
Requiems for the Departed: Crime collection inspired by Irish myths looks like a hit
“The first is that his characters like to say "feck" a lot -- an Irish variation on our much beloved "f-word.”
“The English have never been granted the same indulgence in their use of profanities as the Celts, particularly the Irish, who have virtually been given a free pass for their own variant, "feck".”
“Oh, and did I happen to mention I interviewed Kiera Knightley the other day and taught her how to say "feck" and "shite"?”
“Personally I love 'feck' and use it myself all the time, even when I could curse for real if I wanted to.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘feck’.
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Deprefixed words
A list of words you more frequently hear used with prefixes than without.
clement, witting, ravel, whelm, fettered, licit, couth, bridled, wieldy, kempt, ingenuous, iterate and 116 more...
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Expletive Mimicry
Words that sound like words you shouldn't use.
frak, feldergarb, dagummit, daggum, gosh, darn, golly, fiddleesticks, fudge, gee, dang, shoot and 36 more...
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Found Poetry
Sometimes there are definitions from the Century Dictionary, American Heritage Dictionary, and Wiktionary which would make lovely found poems. This is a list of words which seem to have lyrical or ...
remote, diurnally, thence, anthesis, lew, interlock, fremd, pluck, commit, meddle, cant, cloud-built and 17 more...
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Goatboy's list
Goatboy's Word Emporium
juggernaut, abhor, discombobulate, fankle, oose, orchid, schadenfreude, doppleganger, garibaldi, coquette, arabesque, meme and 19 more...
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Actual Words
I checked, because I wasn't sure, but these words were coined and entered into a dictionary before I thought them up.
dishevelment, commoditize, feck, foppery, grimoire, apposite, impassible, reparable, arithmomania, patois, absquatulate, scopperil and 18 more...
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2455 more... -
Infinite Jest
Words to remember from DFW's "Infinite Jest"
wen, matriculation, circumflex, lapidary, effete, sotto, hypertrophy, presbyopic, ideogram, pinion, parquet, nelson and 152 more...
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worddom
put words in their place
theca, wisdom, kingdom, freedom, boredom, seldom, martyrdom, abdomen, doom, samhita, duma, dumka and 151 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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neologisms I like
nimrod, snarky, painbow, interrobang, hoser, kooky, craptastic, preggers, asshat, brainiac, shoegaze, skanker-sore and 146 more...
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fitting words
a list of words from the indo european root ar- and variations : to fit together
ambry, rede, coarctate, anarthrous, artiodactyl, exordium, harmony, army, armoire, arm, armada, armadillo and 349 more...
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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 more...
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Aeonn's Words
discombobulation, dank, crass, abolishment, quite, ubiquitous, crank, catapult, sponge, click, queer, irish and 124 more...
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Don't Make Me Blush
Euphemisms hoped to avoid censorship or embarrassment
cnut, vahjayjay, fcuk, barsteward, arts, fup-ucked, dampt, zounds, fkhd, bullpucky, thingstable, feck and 2 more...
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Dahnielson's English Words
schwag, clitterati, ignocrat, feck, manscaping, monetize, crypto-dyke, prickish, cms, tiramisoup, instapreneur, tweople and 5 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for feck.
bilby (how much land)?
(parenthesis of conjecture)
(how many people)?
(feckity feck-feck)
(except literally)
Aug 8, 2012
pomegranate what feckless people do not have Jan 10, 2008
dahnielson Has the meaning "to throw" or "to steal" in Irish English in addition to being an accepted expletive. Oct 16, 2007
seanahan From "effect" Jan 28, 2007
sonofgroucho What, you mean as in feckless? Jan 28, 2007