Standard Lemma guide
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noun
One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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noun
A long-handed spade, especially used for turf.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland
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verb
Pronunciation spelling of fuck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Cockney, UK, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, vulgar
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History
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.
