Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. euphemistic fuck.
Etymologies
- Coined by an author of Battlestar Galactica (TV series). It was English frack in the original series. Changed to frak in the later series to be a four-letter word. (Compare English fraked ("evil, wicked") and English frakel ("vile, foul, wretched, worthless")) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“(And, being the neighborhood busybodies that we are: who the frak is going to clean it up???)”
“I loved the start of the new season but I am trying to figure out what the frak is Starbuck?”
“Ellen was the fifth Cylon so what the frak is Starbuck?”
“I'm going to leave this post unlocked because maybe some folks not on my f-list can help me figure out what the frak is going on here ...”
“Then the entire fleet retreats while the Galactica crew wonders what the frak is happening.”
“What the Frak? we need more scoop! and throw Cheif out of an airlock what the frak is Roslin thinking after everything he has done for the ship. blog comments powered by Disqus”
“Tim ... what the 'frak' - the battlestar galactica live blogging event doesn't start until January 08 .... of course with all these brits on the island i can understand where you'd be confused. desmond does sort of resemble baltar”
“Speaking of DVD’s, when the frak is BATTLESTAR’s third season coming out?”
“First on my list of questions for Mr. Kring … What the frak is happening with last season’s best new show?”
Got A Question for New Hero Kristen Bell or Tim Kring? | the TV addict
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frak’.
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Words I stumble across in TV, Radio, ...
A list for words I stumble across.
pregzilla, vibeology, boombastic, stylomania, bro code, stonker, presenteeism, divorsary, deskclump, desk-clump, desk clump, Bing it, Danno and 89 more...
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outcasts
Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.
I wrote a little script that runs every day. It searches the Twitter API for tweets containing the words, "is not a word". Each (non...unfollow, suppose-ably, qirl, darkskin, haz, stoints, uglyer, boringest, fustrating, linx, yolo, excapes and 22620 more...
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truman486's list
Masterbatory Aids
ensorcelled, scintilla, maudlin, lugubrious, frisson, praxis, copasetic, crotch, corollary, bandy, undulating, anthropomorphic and 65 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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Battlestar Galactica swear words (Old...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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Words I like
There's nothing more to this list, really.
lily, defenestrate, gloaming, aesthetically, melody, translucent, semiotics, wistful, linear, origami, plethora, schadenfreude and 92 more...
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Wenderful's Whirled World of Blurred ...
Lexicon I likez... in no order whatsoever.
omnivalence, cerebration, sprachgefühl, schadenfreude, rutabaga, septuagenarian, foible, vainglorious, leviathan, remunerative, catastrophize, ancillary and 182 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 more...
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samoritan's Words
moxie, zarf, crepuscular, serenity, halcyon, powerfuller, instant classic, abecedary, trilobite, doomsters, 'da bome, evanescence and 149 more...
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hober's Words
anglosphere, wiki, slither, cylon, satchel, faustian, ragamuffin, frak, salient, fervid, tartan, snowclone and 299 more...
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Invented swear words
Red Dwarf's given us "smeg" (among others), Battlestar recently entered the fray with "frak", but what other swear words have been invented by the inventive TV/film people?
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words that need to be retired in the ...
jeebus, lurve, frak, webinar, ftw, preggers, huzzah, boo-urns, w00t, totes, up the yin yang, that's what she said and 2 more...
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klumka's Words
acheronian, tenebrious, interstice, antediluvian, verdure, jejune, insouciant, stygian, ingle, infernal, snarky, snockered and 38 more...
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Sarastani's Words
tendentious, halcyon, satchel, longstocking, teleological, imprimatur, quiescent, quagmire, milwaukee, raider, raspberry, dichotomy and 13 more...
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kerrikins's Words
glimmering, iridescent, gleam, cock, livejournal, exquisite, pleasure, orgasm, moonlight, luminous, tranquil, melody and 11 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for frak.
samoritan http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/02/tv.what.the.frak.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview Sep 2, 2008
lampbane More Frak Than You Could Ever Want (io9, May 16, 2008):
It's the censorship-evading word that stands as proof at how involved Battlestar Galactica has become in modern popular culture. Frak has even shown up in non-Cylon-friendly shows like Veronica Mars and Gilmore Girls. But did you know that many households the world over are more familiar with frakking than you'd expect? More on that, and four other Frak Facts, after the jump. May 16, 2008