frak

English

Alternative forms

• frack

Etymology

Coined by an author of Battlestar Galactica (TV series). It was English frack in the original series. Changed to frak in the later series to be a four-letter word. (Compare English fraked (“evil, wicked”) and English frakel (“vile, foul, wretched, worthless”))

Verb

frak (third-person singular simple present fraks, present participle frakking, simple past and past participle frakked)

1. (euphemistic) fuck.
   • 2007, Tara McCarthy, Wouldn't Miss It for the World, page 258:

     “What the frak, Dan?”

   • 2010, John Green, David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson:

     And I say, “Where the frak did everyone get a fake ID anyway?”

   • 2011, Diana Rowland, Secrets of the Demon:

     Her frizzy blond hair was pulled up into a twist on top of her head, and she had on billowing hakama pants that nearly overwhelmed her skinny frame and a gray T-shirt that said FRAK OFF

References

• Wikipedia frak.
• Wikipedia frack.
• Battlestarwiki frak.
• Battlestarwiki frack

See also

• Appendix:Fictional English curse words

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Dutch

Noun

frak m (plural frakken, diminutive frakje or frakske)

1. (Brabantian) coat (item of apparel)

   De frakken hangen aan de kapstok.

   The coats are at the coatstand.

Synonyms

• (coat): ‎jas‎