heck
interjecciónsustantivoverbosustantivocorriente en diálogos
- //hɛk//
Hell.
interjección
- 1
Hell.
Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.
Etimología
Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.
sustantivo
- 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.
verbo
- 1
informalto break, to destroy
- 2
informalto mess up
Etimología
Possibly supported by feck.
sustantivo
- 1
informalThe bolt or latch of a door.
- 2
informalA rack for cattle to feed at.
- 3
informalA door, especially one partly of latticework.
- 4
informalA latticework contrivance for catching fish.
- 5
informalAn apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
- 6
informalA bend or winding of a stream.
Etimología
See hatch (“a half door”).
Formas
- plural
- hecks
- pasado
- hecked
- participio
- hecked
- gerundio
- hecking
- 3.ª persona del singular
- hecks