fark

From fuck.

• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /fɐːk/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k

fark

1. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) Pronunciation spelling of fuck, used to express surprise, etc.

In Australia and New Zealand, fark is only very slightly less offensive than fuck itself. The only difference in pronunciation between fark and fuck is in vowel length; fuck is pronounced /fɐk/.

From the name of the popular website Fark, because when it links to a small website from its main page, the small site is often subjected to so much new traffic that it is rendered inoperable due to server failure.

fark (third-person singular simple present farks, present participle farking, simple past and past participle farked)

1. (Internet, transitive, US) To subject a website to a high volume of requests, such that the server stops responding.

• Slashdot effect

• frak

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish فرق, from Arabic فَرْق (farq).

• IPA^(key): /faɾk/

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• Hyphenation: fark

fark (definite accusative farkı, plural farklar)

1. difference

• fark in Reverso (Turkish-English)