is "feck" a violation?
2006-10-10 10:03:30 · 13 answers · asked by KU 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Yeah feck is pretty commonly used in Ireland and predates Father Ted... No doubt it was created originally to replace saying 'fornicating under consent of the king' and so to avoid a few hail Marys for swearing.
Also to a previous answer... Smeg is a word that has been around for longer than Red Dwarf... It comes from the word 'Smegma' and just be thankful if you don't know what that means!
Logically speaking Feck will not become a violation because it doesn't actually mean anything. This being Yahoo I believe they have it scheduled to become a violation on 1st November.
Use it while you can!
2006-10-10 10:25:38 · answer #1 · answered by â?¥MissMayâ?¥ 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
* Slang expletive employed as an attenuated alternative (minced oath) to ****
* Verb meaning 'to steal' (e.g. 'They had fecked cash out of the rector's room.' James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist (1964) p. 40)
* Verb meaning in Irish argot 'to throw' (e.g. 'He's got no manners at all. I asked him nicely for the remote control, and he fecked it across the table at me.')
The Channel 4 situation comedy Father Ted inadvertently helped to export and popularise this use of feck through its characters' liberal use of the word. In an interview, Dermot Morgan explained that, in Ireland, feck is far less offensive than ****. The usage of Feck is more common in Irish teenagers and young adults, than older generations, who having grown up watching Father Ted use the term frequently. As its non-sexual meaning is understood by most the term is generally seen as humorous and non-offensive and is today considered part of modern Irish slang.
2006-10-11 21:30:44 · answer #2 · answered by catdyer2005 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is an abbreviation of Flaming Heck
feckless means inept, incompetent, irresponsible, so to my mind feck must mean basically competent. I am not at all sure he uses the word correctly - so I go back to my original statement of it being an abbreviation. What else could it be?!
2006-10-10 17:39:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it doesnt replace anything fecks a word thats used all the time in ireland, its like a swear word but not the worse of them its not censored
2006-10-10 17:12:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
'feck didnt replace anything, it was a word created to be a different version of the expitives we use
2006-10-10 17:06:32 · answer #5 · answered by Jonny Boy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will be soon, i can bet you! I think he fecking meant to say fiddlesticks
2006-10-10 17:05:47 · answer #6 · answered by Miss Behavin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
. Effect. [Obs.]
2. Efficacy; force; value. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
3. Amount; quantity. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
He had a feck o' books wi' him. --R. L. Stevenson.
(www.dictionary.com)
2006-10-10 17:06:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we all know the word it replaced.
I don't see why it should be considered a violation.
2006-10-10 17:06:24 · answer #8 · answered by monkeyface 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say not. Its the same as 'smeg' in Red Dwarf.
2006-10-10 17:12:10 · answer #9 · answered by Quizard 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heck?
2006-10-10 17:13:56 · answer #10 · answered by beast 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋