heck

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Scrabble points
13
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13
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/hɛk/

Definition of heck

14 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

intj

  1. (euphemistic)Hell.
    “Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.”
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intj

  1. (euphemistic)Hell.
    “Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.”

noun

  1. (euphemistic, uncountable)Hell.
    “You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.”
    “"And the railway industry needs a heck of a lot of people to be up-skilled," notes Darroch.”
  2. (informal)The bolt or latch of a door.
  3. (informal)A rack for cattle to feed at.
  4. (informal, obsolete)A door, especially one partly of latticework.
  5. (informal)A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
  6. (informal)An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
  7. (informal)A bend or winding of a stream.

verb

  1. (informal)to break, to destroy
  2. (informal)to mess up

name

  1. A hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s.
  2. A surname, possibly from German.
  3. A civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
  4. A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).

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Etymology

Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.

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