英语词汇feckless的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	feckless
词源	feckless. (1) Ineffective, feeble, futile, incompetent. (2) Care- less, irresponsible, lazy. From the Scots feck, effect (an altera- tion of effect + less). In Our Language (1966) Simeon Potter says that Thomas Carlyle “brought such Scottish words into En- glish as feckless, lilt (with the meaning of ‘cadence’) and out- come, and made them current.” Many of Carlyle’s coinages be- came part of the language.
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