fack

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *fak, fec, fæc (“space, compartment”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; period of five years, lustrum”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *faką (“division, department, space”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *pÀǵ- (“to fasten, fix”). Cognate with West Frisian fek, Dutch vak (“section, compartment”), German Fach (“compartment”), Swedish fack (“compartment, box, department”), Latin pangō (“fasten, fix”).

Alternative forms

• fec (obsolete)

Noun

fack (plural facks)

1. (UK dialectal) One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.

Etymology 2

Verb

fack (third-person singular simple present facks, present participle facking, simple past and past participle facked)

1. (UK, eye dialect, Cockney) fuck

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

fack n

1. a compartment, a box, a slot (one of several)
2. a trade, a profession, a subject of expertise (seen as a compartment of the larger work life)
3. a trade union; Contraction of fackförening.

Declension

Declension of fack
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	fack	facket	fack	facken
Genitive	facks	fackets	facks	fackens

Related terms

• (compartment): bankfack, frysfack, handskfack, postfack
• (trade): fackansluten, fackidiot, facklitteratur, fackombud, fackspråk, fackförbund, fackförening, facklig

See also

• placera någon i ett fack