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feck

FEKverb, interjectionVulgar

A Hiberno-English slang term. Browse all Irish slang.

What it means

  1. A milder stand-in for the stronger f-word, used in the same grammar: feck off, fecking, for feck's sake.

  2. To steal, in older Hiberno-English: 'he fecked a few apples'. Unrelated to the swear and now uncommon.

In use

  • Ah feck it, we'll go anyway.

    Note: This is the everyday use — irritated, not aggressive.

  • Feck off, you're not serious.

    Note: Said to a friend it means disbelief, not dismissal.

Where it comes from

A minced oath, with a separate and older Hiberno-English verb 'feck' meaning to steal feeding into the spelling. Father Ted put it in front of an international audience in the 1990s, which is why visitors overrate how transgressive it is — Irish broadcasters air it without comment.