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Etymology

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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))

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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

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Dutch

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Etymology

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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.

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  • IPA(key): /frɑk/
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  • Hyphenation: frak
  • Rhymes: -ɑk

Noun

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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

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Maltese

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Root
f-r-k
2 terms

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

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frak m (collective, singulative farka, paucal farkiet)

  1. crumb(s)
    • 2022, Nadia Mifsud, meta tinfetaq il-folla, Ede Books, →ISBN:
      f’żarbun ġa ssikkat. irkiekel dahri
      tat-terrakotta - ’kk tmisshom,
      isiru frak. dil-belt tentakli waħedha -
      għoddha qalftitni fatat.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. a small quantity [with object]
    frak ġobona little bit of cheese.

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frak

  1. a bit, a little bit
  2. somewhat
    frak tarisomewhat tender

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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

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

  1. in good shape, healthy, strong

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Polish

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Etymology

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

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frak m inan (diminutive fraczek)

  1. tailcoat

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Further reading

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

Sranan Tongo

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Determiner

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frak

  1. (with indefinite article) (a) lot
    Lanti kisi wan frak kragi.The Government has received a lot of complaints.