Etymology

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Today it means: shitty, crappy Full definition →

Yiddish פֿאַרקאַקטע
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  1. Yiddish · borrowed fromפֿאַרקאַקטע
  2. English todayverkakte

From Yiddish פֿאַרקאַקטע (farkakte), inflected form of פֿאַרקאַקט (farkakt, “shitty, turned into shit, shat upon”). Compare synonymous German verkackt. The English forms with v- are influenced by the German spelling of the prefix ver-.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.