heck.
Hell.
Meaning & usage
Hell.
Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.
Where this word comes from
Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.
Hell.
You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
Where this word comes from
Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.
to break, to destroy
to mess up
Where this word comes from
Possibly supported by feck.
The bolt or latch of a door.
A rack for cattle to feed at.
A door, especially one partly of latticework.
A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
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.
Where this word comes from
See hatch (“a half door”).
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