"feck" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /fɛk/ Audio: En-au-feck.ogg [Australia] Forms: fecks [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛk Etymology: Borrowed from Scots, aphetic form of effect. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|sco|-}} Scots, {{m|en|effect}} effect Head templates: {{en-noun}} feck (plural fecks)
  1. Effect, value; vigor.
    Sense id: en-feck-en-noun-c2uPMAnh
  2. (Scotland) The greater or larger part. Tags: Scotland
    Sense id: en-feck-en-noun-qvBtscFm Categories (other): Scottish English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: feckless
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /fɛk/ Audio: En-au-feck.ogg [Australia] Forms: fecks [present, singular, third-person], fecking [participle, present], fecked [participle, past], fecked [past]
Rhymes: -ɛk Etymology: Borrowed from Scots, aphetic form of effect. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|sco|-}} Scots, {{m|en|effect}} effect Head templates: {{en-verb}} feck (third-person singular simple present fecks, present participle fecking, simple past and past participle fecked)
  1. (Ireland, slang) To steal. Tags: Ireland, slang
    Sense id: en-feck-en-verb-V6eOpCNB Categories (other): Irish English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /fɛk/ Audio: En-au-feck.ogg [Australia] Forms: fecks [present, singular, third-person], fecking [participle, present], fecked [participle, past], fecked [past]
Rhymes: -ɛk Head templates: {{en-verb}} feck (third-person singular simple present fecks, present participle fecking, simple past and past participle fecked)
  1. (minced oath, chiefly Ireland) Used in place of fuck. Tags: Ireland Categories (topical): English minced oaths Synonyms: eff, frak, frig Derived forms: fecker, fecky
    Sense id: en-feck-en-verb-LVAp34TW Categories (other): Irish English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/32/En-au-feck.ogg/En-au-feck.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-au-feck.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "feck"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.