feck

¹ British  

/ fɛk /

noun

1. obsolete

   1. worth; value

   2. amount; quantity

   3. the greater part; the majority

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feck ² British  

/ fɛk /

verb

1. slang a variant of fuck

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Etymology

Origin of feck

C15 (Scottish dialect) fek , short for _effect

Example Sentences

Italy had a big influx of quickie "flying tours," with most visitors asking American Express the directions to the fountain into which Gregory feck and Audrey Hepburn threw coins.

From Time Magazine Archive

It's a heap o' money, I ken; but, then, my mind needs a feck o' impruvement—if ye but kenned hoo ignorant I am, ye wadna wonder.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

For gey near twenty year," began Sanny, "I've had maist feck o' the contracts in your pits back and forrit—me an' Tam Fleming.

From The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner by Welsh, James C.

He lives aboot England, a'm telt, an' dis a feck o' gude in his ain place.

From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Maclaren, Ian

"My father war afore me, and that's all t' answer I sall gie thee; and it's as good a reason as Mr. Helstone can give for the main feck o' his notions."

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte