heck
InterjektionSubstantivVerbSubstantivhäufig in Dialogen
- //hɛk//
Hell.
Interjektion
- 1
Hell.
Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.
Herkunft
Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.
Substantiv
- 1
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.
Verb
- 1
umgangssprachlichto break, to destroy
- 2
umgangssprachlichto mess up
Herkunft
Possibly supported by feck.
Substantiv
- 1
umgangssprachlichThe bolt or latch of a door.
- 2
umgangssprachlichA rack for cattle to feed at.
- 3
umgangssprachlichA door, especially one partly of latticework.
- 4
umgangssprachlichA latticework contrivance for catching fish.
- 5
umgangssprachlichAn apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
- 6
umgangssprachlichA bend or winding of a stream.
Herkunft
See hatch (“a half door”).
Formen
- Plural
- hecks
- Präteritum
- hecked
- Partizip II
- hecked
- Partizip I
- hecking
- 3. Person Singular
- hecks