fack

• Rhymes: -æk

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.

• fec (obsolete)

fack (plural facks)

1. (UK dialectal) One of the four stomachs of a ruminating animal; rumen; paunch.

fack (third-person singular simple present facks, present participle facking, simple past and past participle facked)

1. (UK, Cockney, vulgar) Pronunciation spelling of fuck.

From German Fach (“compartment, drawer”), from Proto-Germanic *faką (“division, department, space”).

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fack n

1. a compartment, a box, a slot (often one of several)
2. a trade, a profession, a subject of expertise (seen as a compartment of the larger work life)

   Synonym: gebit

3. (informal) a trade union, a labor union; clipping of fackförening.

• (compartment): bankfack, frysfack, handskfack, lönnfack, postfack
• (trade): fackansluten, fackidiot, facklitteratur, fackombud, fackspråk, fackförbund, fackförening, facklig

• placera någon i ett fack

• fack in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fack in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fack in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)