feck v.1
1. (UK Und.) to ascertain the best method of committing a robbery.
![]() | New Dict. Cant (1795). | |
![]() | Dict. Sl. and Cant n.p.: To feck to look out, to discover the best means of obtaining stolen goods. | |
![]() | Flash Dict. | |
![]() | Modern Flash Dict. 13: Feck, to – to discover which is the safest way of obtaining stolen goods. | |
![]() | Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open [as cit. 1835]. | |
![]() | New and Improved Flash Dict. |
2. to steal.
![]() | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 41: ‘But why did they run away?’ [...] ‘Because they had fecked cash out of the rector’s room.’. | |
![]() | Ulysses 380: Kidnapping a squire’s heir by favour or moonlight or fecking maid’s linen or choking chickens behind a hedge. | |
![]() | (con. 1880–90s) I Knock at the Door 240: I fecked them, said Johnny gleefully [...] A nice thing if you’d been caught feckin’ them, she said, in a frightened voice. | |
![]() | Country Girls (1978) 96: ‘Where are you going?’ ‘To feck a few samples from the surgery’ . | |
![]() | Out Goes She 12: Scutting the whip, trespass, fecking (petty larceny), acts vicious or venturesome. | |
![]() | (con. c.1920) Your Dinner’s Poured Out! 61: ‘Give us another word for feck.’ We shouted together ‘RAWB’ (rob). | |
![]() | (con. 1916) A Star Called Henry (2000) 98: Someone had fecked them from the Waxworks. | |
![]() | Indep. Rev. 23 Mar. 2: ‘Feck’ [...] is also slang for thieving (’Someone’s fecked my pint!’). |