feck

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from Scots, aphetic form of effect.

1. Effect, value; vigor.

   “some of which have earned a small academic following for their technical feck and for a pathos that was somehow both surreally abstract and CNS-rendingly melodramatic at the same time.”

2. The greater or larger part.

   “I hae been a devil the feck o' my life”

verb

1. Used in place of fuck.

   “Earlier there was a dispute between the Chair and Proinsias de Rossa concerning the words used when a wife is getting rid of her husband. In the case of Deserted Wives' Allowance, Mr de Rossa said, it had to be proved that the wife didn't tell her husband to "feck off". Mr Tunney suggested that "get lost" might be a more appropriate expression for Mr de Rossa to use.”

   “"Why are you fecking around with this Family Planning Bill when people are dying?" - Senator David Norris to the Minister for Health, Dr O'Connell, on the Bill which does not allow condoms to be sold from vending machines.”