intj
Meaning 1
Hell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic
Examples
- Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.
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Standard Lemma guide
heck
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/hɛk/
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rhymes with -ɛk
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CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
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.
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name
Meaning 3
A surname, possibly from German.
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name
Meaning 4
A civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Selby district, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 5
A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
Hell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, uncountable
Examples
- You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
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noun
Meaning 7
The bolt or latch of a door.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 8
A rack for cattle to feed at.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 9
A door, especially one partly of latticework.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 10
A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 11
An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: business, manufacturing, textiles, weaving
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Synonyms: heck-box
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 12
A bend or winding of a stream.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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verb
Meaning 13
to break, to destroy
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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Synonyms: fuck, bork
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verb
Meaning 14
to mess up
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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History
Etymology
Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.
English, Dutch and south German surname, all from words meaning "hedge," "enclosure," "fence," from *haggju. Compare Van Heck, Hatch.
See hatch (“a half door”).
Possibly supported by feck.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: по дяволите! (po djavolite!) — euphemism of hell
- Czech: safra — euphemism of hell
- Finnish: hitto — euphemism of hell
- Finnish: hemmetti — euphemism of hell
- Finnish: helkkari — euphemism of hell
- Italian: diamine — euphemism of hell
- Māori: ata — euphemism of hell
- Māori: taukahore — euphemism of hell
- Norwegian: helsike — euphemism of hell
- Portuguese: diacho — euphemism of hell
- Spanish: caray — euphemism of hell
- Swedish: Hälsingland — euphemism of hell
- Danish: søren — euphemism of hell
- Italian: diavolo — euphemism of hell
- Swedish: helsike — euphemism of hell