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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Interjection[edit]
heck
- (euphemistic) Hell.
- What the heck are you doing?
Translations[edit]
euphemism of hell
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Noun[edit]
heck (uncountable)
- (euphemistic) Hell.
- You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
Synonyms[edit]
- See under hell.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See hatch (“a half door”).
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
heck (plural hecks)
- The bolt or latch of a door.
- A rack for cattle to feed at.
- A door, especially one partly of latticework.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
- (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.
- A bend or winding of a stream.
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- 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
Anagrams[edit]
German[edit]
Verb[edit]
heck
- Imperative singular of hecken.
- (colloquial) First-person singular present of hecken.
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
heck
- Alternative form of hacche
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- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English interjections
- English euphemisms
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- Requests for quotation/Halliwell
- en:Weaving
- English minced oaths
- German non-lemma forms
- German verb forms
- German colloquialisms
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns