Oh fek!

[Fekingfek]

Apparently Fek isn't as bad as the F word- DS informs me it expresses annoyance. Google tells me it doesn't have the same sexual connotations.

What do you think?

If you heard it do you just think it's the F word in an Irish accent?

YABU- it's a different word and not as bad

YANBU- it's the F word

@Feckingfeck

i think from an adult it's much milder, BUT I wouldn't want to hear it from a child. It's just a replacement swear & IMO not nice out of the mouths of babes.

Swearing in our house op, softer but still effectively saying fuck (Irish husband)

Wouldn’t allow DC to say

Irish MIL - definitely not the same as the other. Different word entirely, although usually used in the same context! 😂

This made me chuckle. As did the lady leaving mass in Cork 😂

If people did think it meant the F word that would be even funnier 😂

I don’t think it’s considered to be as bad as the “u” version. I was surprised to hear an Irish relative, who I can’t imagine using any other swear words, let alone that one, fecking and blinding.

My daughter used to watch this show I think it was Milly and Molly, an old lady used to say ohh fiddle sticks, and she used to go round saying it but my cousin HATED it she kept saying stop her saying it cos she’s basically saying oh for fuck sake.
I just thought it was quite cute 😂
I think it depends on what you think is appropriate.

For fuck’s sake!!! Feck is used in Ireland like saying silly or twat rather than cunt and arsehole - by children I mean.
Lots if Irish people swear a lot.
And as for the racist elements by pp - yeah - anti-Irish sentiment abounds by people in Britain perpetuating nonsense about our inability to pronounce things, or indeed .. Father Ted.
bet you wouldn’t wonder if it was “dat” or “that” intended by a non-native British person

Flippin heck. What a load of who-shot-john. Oh sugar, did I fecking say that out loud? Buzzcocks! Darn it! Cripes!

Feck is as old as the hills and is an acceptable word. When in doubt in school we claimed we were using Irish feic - the verb to see. And no it doesn't mean the same thing as the bold f word..

Feck = feach (sp?)= to steal

this makes feck an absolutely valid word according my Irish mammy

who would never dream of saying fuck 🙄

do you just think it's the F word in an Irish accent?
Feck off with yourself

Why are people so wet about swearing? Who even decided what was a swear word? It's like people swear at football and parents are outraged that their children will shatter whilst the entire stadium sings...your fucking shit.

I used to teach at UCC in Cork and was gobsmacked to hear the elderly, devout, v polite professor of French shout ‘Oh feck.’ I got used to it pretty quickly.

You can say feck on the telly in Ireland, you can't say fuck. They might have the same origin but in Ireland they're quite differentiated

I'm in Ireland and it is considered far milder than fuck. People who wouldn't dream of saying that say feck. There are no sexual connotations, so though it's used in the sense of 'the fecker', or 'for feck's sake', there's no such thing as a motherfecker, for example. It does also mean to steal or to throw.
The link below discusses its origin.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/feck-meaning-origin-stan-carey-622374-Oct2012/

Not like any Cork accent I've ever heard 🤔😄

Drink. Feck. Girls.

Mind you, I don't know if I'd be okay with my DC fecking and blinding I've noticed older kids using 'frick' a lot nowadays too.

'...blinding at age 10' I meant to say, sorry.

Very interesting to read. I must say, from Father Ted, I’d assumed it was a bit like the use of ‘naff’ in Porridge.

I's say feckless in front of my mother but probably not fuckless.

I assume feck has a different etymology than fuck.

I'm a big fan of alternative swears though, idiot hole.

it is indeed a euphemism for fuck, use interchangeably depending on the situation, but do spell correctly please - half Irish and spelling it fek... not convinced OP.

Agree with the other Irish posters, not a substitute for fuck at all, although they're used similarly.

I'd say it's like damn or hell - wouldn't want my four year old using them but wouldn't bat an eyelid at a teenager doing so. Would use it in work when chatting with colleagues but not formal meetings or with students.

But feckless is a word meaning someone is irresponsible or unreliable, I'm not even sure fuckless is a word?
You'd tell someone to feck/fuck off but you wouldn't tell someone to go feck themselves. Basically I can't think of any situation where feck would be used to infer sex.

In my head it sounds like the way the queen talks.