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heck.

Hell.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

intj/hɛk/
  1. Hell.

    euphemistic
    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.

noun/hɛk/
  1. Hell.

    euphemistic · uncountable
    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.

verb/hɛk/
  1. to break, to destroy

    informal
  2. to mess up

    informal
Where this word comes from

Possibly supported by feck.

noun/hɛk/
  1. The bolt or latch of a door.

    informal
  2. A rack for cattle to feed at.

    informal
  3. A door, especially one partly of latticework.

    informal · obsolete
  4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.

    informal
  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.

    informal
  6. A bend or winding of a stream.

    informal
Where this word comes from

See hatch (“a half door”).

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