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• frack

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”))

• IPA^(key): /fɹæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

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

1. (slang, 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

• eff, feck, frack, frig; see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with

• Appendix:Fictional English curse words

• Frak (expletive)
• Frack
• Battlestarwiki frak.
• Battlestarwiki frack

• fark

Borrowed from French frac or German Frack (itself from French), from English frock, from Middle English frok, from Old French froc, from Frankish *hrokk. Doublet with Dutch rok.

• IPA^(key): /frɑk/

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• Hyphenation: frak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

frak m (plural frakken, diminutive frakje n or fraksken n)

1. (Belgium) A coat, a overcoat (item of apparel).

   De frakken hangen aan de kapstok.

   The coats are at the coatstand.

2. (Netherlands) A chic jacket with long coattails.

• (coat): jas

From the Arabic root ف ر ك (f-r-k). Perhaps originally from a plural *أَفْراك (*ʔafrāk).

• IPA^(key): /fraːk/

frak m (collective, singulative farka, paucal farkiet)

1. crumb(s)

• frakk

From Middle Norwegian frakker, possibly from Old Norse frakkr (“brave”). Related to frekk. Compare with Icelandic frakkur.

frak (neuter frakt, definite singular and plural frake, comparative frakare, indefinite superlative frakast, definite superlative frakaste)

1. in good shape, healthy, strong

• “frak” in The Nynorsk Dictionary..

Derived from Old French froc, from Frankish *hrokk, from Proto-Germanic *hrukkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *rukn-, *ruk-, *rug-, *ruǵ-. Doublet of rok.

• IPA^(key): /frak/

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• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: frak

frak m inan (diminutive fraczek)

1. tailcoat

• frak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• frak in Polish dictionaries at PWN

frak

1. (with indefinite article) (a) lot

   Lanti kisi wan frak kragi. ― The Government has received a lot of complaints.