Noun: fack
Sample Sentences
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Preparation, burning, facks and mattocks. [1778, John Wynn Baker, The Reclaiming and Cultivation of a Bog in the County of Kildare, Dublin: S. Powell, page 8:]
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Tom, in his hurry, had nivir minded the bringin' a fack wid him, so he thought to run home and fetch one, an' that he might know the place agin, he tuk aff one o' his red garthers, and tied it round the bolyawn. [1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 375:]
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[B]een diggin' into the granite haart of my counthry wud a fack or spade, and a pickaxe, or maybe a plow or a scuffle whin a neighbour'd lind thim, and my loved counthry gev me back - what you're lookin' at this minit. [1940, Edwin Sarsfield, The Black Fox Walks, Little and Brown, page 173:]
Nouns inflected like fack
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
*fak', Old English Nouns '
fæc', Dutch Nouns '
vak', German Nouns '
Fach', Swedish Nouns '
fack', Latin Nouns '
pangō'.