feckly
A Scottish dialect adverb meaning mostly, for the greater part, or approximately — a qualifier implying that something is largely but not entirely the case.
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A Scottish dialect adverb meaning mostly, for the greater part, or approximately — a qualifier implying that something is largely but not entirely the case. It can also mean 'partly.' Derived from 'feck' (the greater part, most of, from 'effect'), which also gives us the Scottish phrase 'the feck of them' (most of them). Now archaic and confined to dialect literature.
He'd feckly finished the work by Tuesday, with just the painting left to do.
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(Scotland) partly.
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(Scotland) mostly; for the greater part.
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- feckful71%
(Scottish, Northern English) Powerful, effective, efficient, vigorous.
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An Irish English euphemism functioning as a softer stand-in for a stronger profanity — essentially "fucky" with the Irish "f-word" ("feck") substituted in. "Feck" itself is the famously milder Irish version of the f-word, popularised globally by the TV show Father Ted. "Fecky" takes that one step further into adjectival territory, describing something as rubbish, broken, messy, or generally useless in that particularly Irish way that manages to sound both frustrated and charming at the same time.
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(British, archaic) Lacking vitality.