heck

See also: Heck

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛk/
  • Rhymes: -ɛk

Etymology 1

Interjection

heck

  1. (euphemistic) Hell.
    What the heck are you doing?
Translations

Noun

heck (uncountable)

  1. (euphemistic) Hell.
    You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
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Etymology 2

See hatch (“a half door”).

Alternative forms

Noun

heck (plural hecks)

  1. The bolt or latch of a door.
  2. A rack for cattle to feed at.
  3. A door, especially one partly of latticework.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
  4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
  5. (weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
  6. A bend or winding of a stream.
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Further reading

  • heck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • heck in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • heck at OneLook Dictionary Search

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German

Verb

heck

  1. Imperative singular of hecken.
  2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of hecken.
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