Recks vs Fecks - What's the difference?
recks | fecks |
(reck)
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.
As nouns the difference between recks and fecks
is that recks is while fecks is (in minced oaths) faith.As a verb fecks is
(feck).recks
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Verb
(head)reck
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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?