fack
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English *fak, fec, fæc (“space, compartment”), from Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; period of five years, lustrum”), from Proto-West Germanic *fak, from Proto-Germanic *faką (“division, department, space”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-, *paǵ- (“to fasten, fix”). Cognate with West Frisian fek, Dutch vak (“section, compartment”), German Fach (“compartment”), Swedish fack (“compartment, box, department”), Latin pangō (“fasten, fix”). Doublet of Fach.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
fack (plural facks)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
fack (third-person singular simple present facks, present participle facking, simple past and past participle facked)
- (UK, Cockney, vulgar) Pronunciation spelling of fuck.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From German Fach (“compartment, drawer”), from Proto-Germanic *faką (“division, department, space”).
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
fack n
- a compartment, a box, a slot (often one of several)
- a trade, a profession, a subject of expertise (seen as a compartment of the larger work life)
- Synonym: gebit
- (informal) a trade union, a labor union; clipping of fackförening.
Declension edit
| Declension of fack | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | fack | facket | fack | facken |
| Genitive | facks | fackets | facks | fackens |
Related terms edit
- (compartment): bankfack, frysfack, handskfack, lönnfack, postfack
- (trade): fackansluten, fackidiot, facklitteratur, fackombud, fackspråk, fackförbund, fackförening, facklig