English Explanatory Dictionary

heck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

intj
  1. Hell.
noun
  1. Hell.
verb
  1. to break, to destroy
  2. to mess up
noun
  1. The bolt or latch of a door.
  2. A rack for cattle to feed at.
  3. A door, especially one partly of latticework.
  4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
  5. 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.
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.
name
  1. A surname, possibly from German.
name
  1. A civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
  2. A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).

Pronunciation

/hɛk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-heck.wav

Word forms

heck hecc hecks hecking hecked hack

Etymology

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

Synonyms

under hell fuck bork heck-box

Derived words

as heck bleeding heck bloody heck blooming heck chuffing heck for the heck of it go to heck hecka heck board heck-care heckfire heckhound heck if I know heckin' heckin hecking heck knows heck no heck of a heckuva heck yeah heck yes how the heck like heck oh my heck scare the heck out of snowball's chance in heck the heck to heck in a handbasket what the heck when heck freezes over when the heck where the heck who the heck why the heck heck up at heck and manger Great Heck
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