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Fecked vs Recked - What's the difference?

fecked | recked |

As verbs the difference between fecked and recked

is that fecked is (feck) while recked is (reck).

fecked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (feck)

    • 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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    • recked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (reck)

    • Anagrams

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    reck

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • this son of mine not recking danger
  • * Burns
    • And may you better reck the rede / Than ever did the adviser.
  • * 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
    • 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.
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  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
    • Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
  • To care; to matter.
  • * 1822 , John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio , vol. XIV
    • Little thou reck'st [2] of this sad store!
    Would thou might never reck [1] them more!
  • * 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
    • It recks not!
  • * Milton
    • What recks it them?
  • (obsolete) To think.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * reckless