feck
1 Britishnoun
verb
Etymology
Origin of feck
C15 (Scottish dialect) fek , short for effect
Example Sentences
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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
After this has been effected, it descends into the third stomach, or the feck, which looks something like the several leaves of a book; lastly it goes into the fourth stomach, which is merely wrinkled.
From Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals by Harrison Weir
He lives aboot England, a'm telt, an' dis a feck o' gude in his ain place.
From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren
If ye have to rowt, ye can rowt amang the kye; and the maist feck of the caapital punishmeiit ye're like to come across'll be guddling trouts.
From Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ae stride or twa took the silly auld carle, An' a gude lang stride took he: 'I trow thou to be a feck auld carle, Will ye shaw the way to me?'
From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
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