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Feck vs Freck - What's the difference?

feck | freck |

As verbs the difference between feck and freck

is that feck is (ireland|slang) to throw or feck can be (euphemistic|chiefly|irish) fuck (except literally) while freck is (transitive|rare|poetic) to checker; to diversify.

As a noun feck

is effect, value; vigor.

feck

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), aphetic form of (effect).

Noun

(en noun)
  • Effect, value; vigor.
  • *1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 64:
  • *: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.
    • Derived terms
    * feckless

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Ireland, slang) To throw.
  • (Ireland, slang) To steal.
  • (Ireland, slang) To leave hastily.
    • Quotations
    * (English Citations of "feck")

    Etymology 3

    Alteration of (fuck)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (euphemistic, chiefly, Irish) Fuck (except literally).
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    • freck

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.
    • The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. — Lowell.
    (Webster 1913)