feck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: fecks
form: fecking
form: fecked
form: fecked
Senses: examples: text: Earlier there was a dispute between the Chair and Proinsias de Rossa concerning the words used when a wife is getting rid of her husband. In the case of Deserted Wives' Allowance, Mr de Rossa said, it had to be proved that the wife didn't tell her husband to "feck off". Mr Tunney suggested that "get lost" might be a more appropriate expression for Mr de Rossa to use.
ref: 1987 April 3, Deaglán Bréadún, “Ruairi shows the grey-suits how to break moulds”, in The Irish Times:
text: "Why are you fecking around with this Family Planning Bill when people are dying?" - Senator David Norris to the Minister for Health, Dr O'Connell, on the Bill which does not allow condoms to be sold from vending machines.
ref: 1992 July 18, “This Week They Said”, in The Irish Times:
text: Father Jack Hackett: Tea? Feck! […] Mrs. Doyle: I'll tell you what, Father. I'll pour a cup for ye anyway and y' can have it if ya want. Now... And what do you say to a cup?
Father Jack Hackett: Feck off, cup!
ref: 1995, Graham Linehan & al., "Good Luck, Father Ted", Father Ted Series 1, Episode 1, Channel Four
text: As Charlie Murphy put it to me, 'When the bishops called down fire and brimstone not a man stirred but when Joe Christle fecked off half the shagging IRA followed him!'
ref: 2002, Tim Pat Coogan, The I.R.A.:
text: It didn't stop him turning to a reporter, saying "feck it" and nipping out anyway to talk to friends.
ref: 2004 May 29, “A real thorn in the side; Profile: Diarmuid Gavin”, in The Herald:
text: "My family were Irish," she says, "and the use of the word 'feck' was normal but, of course, as a child, I thought it was a swear word. My first day at Holycross I heard the nuns saying feckin' this and feckin' that and I thought, 'Oh my God, they're all swearing'["]
ref: 2010 October 28, Erwin James, “Britain's queen of crime: Martina Cole”, in The Guardian:
text: the year gets off to a flying start when the words 'Oh feck' are uttered collectively by two million as the January wage sheets are handed out and the true realisation of the Budget kicks in
ref: 2011 January 6, “A year to look forward to”, in Galway Advertiser:
text: And though she had no qualms of submitting to this bubbling desire coiling within her, for she was no prim virgin, she sensed far more than her body was going to get fecked.
ref: 2012, Delilah Marvelle, Forever and a Day, Don Mills, O.N.: HQN, →ISBN, page 117:
text: “I never thought the problem would be of this magnitude. I really didn’t think I’d be waking up this morning to this type of news,” an emotional Ms Phelan said, adding that “they fecked with the wrong women.”
ref: 2018 April 30, Conor Gallagher, “Vicky Phelan: ‘I’m here to tell the tale. And by God I’m going to take these guys on’”, in The Irish Times:
ref: 2022 August 23, Jen Hogan, “Terry Prone on motherhood: ‘I did my best all of the time. I just fecking got it wrong!’”, in The Irish Times:
text: But if you’re not going to set your own trends, and work to your own team, you’re fecked.
ref: 2023 February 4, Denis Walsh, “After a battle with leukaemia, Pat Ryan is comfortable carrying Cork’s great expectations”, in The Irish Times:
synonyms: eff
frak
frig
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: Used in place of fuck.
Derived terms: fecker
fecky