Editing Feck (section)

==Irish English==
* The most popular and widespread modern use of the term is as a slang [[Profanity|expletive]] in Irish English, employed as a [[Minced oath|less serious alternative]] to the expletive "[[fuck]]" to express disbelief, surprise, pain, anger, or contempt. It notably lacks the sexual connotations that "fuck" has.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/feck?q=feck |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021082245/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/feck?q=feck |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 October 2013 |title=feck – definition of feck in English from the Oxford dictionary |publisher=Oxforddictionaries.com |access-date=2015-06-25}}</ref>
* It is also used as Irish slang meaning "throw" (e.g. "he fecked the remote control across the table at me".)
* It has also been used as a verb meaning "to steal" (e.g. "they had fecked cash out of the rector's room")<ref>[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man|''Portrait of the Artist'']], [[James Joyce]], (1964) p. 40</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0voNAAAAQAAJ&q=feck%20slang&pg=PA310 |title=The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang – Eric Partridge |isbn=9780710077615 |access-date=2015-06-25|last1=Partridge |first1=Eric |year=1973 |publisher=Routledge and Kegan Paul }}</ref> or to discover a safe method of robbery or cheating.<ref>Eric Partridge ''A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English''. London: Bibliophile Books, 1982; p. 269</ref>