Reck vs Feck - What's the difference?
reck | feck |
To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Burns
* 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
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* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
To care; to matter.
* 1822 , John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio , vol. XIV
* 1900 , , Villanelle of Marguerite's , lines 10-11
*:She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall
*:With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair
To concern, to be important
* Milton
(obsolete) To think.
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.
(Ireland, slang) To throw.
(Ireland, slang) To steal.
(Ireland, slang) To leave hastily.
As verbs the difference between reck and feck
is that reck is to make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider while feck is to throw.As a noun feck is
effect, value; vigor.reck
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- this son of mine not recking danger
- And may you better reck the rede / Than ever did the adviser.
- Ophelia:
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
- Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
- Little thou reck'st [2] of this sad store!
- Would thou might never reck [1] them more!
- It recks not!
- What recks it them?