heck
interjectionnomverbenomcourant dans les dialogues
- //hɛk//
Hell.
interjection
- 1
Hell.
Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.
Étymologie
Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.
nom
- 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.
verbe
- 1
familierto break, to destroy
- 2
familierto mess up
Étymologie
Possibly supported by feck.
nom
- 1
familierThe bolt or latch of a door.
- 2
familierA rack for cattle to feed at.
- 3
familierA door, especially one partly of latticework.
- 4
familierA latticework contrivance for catching fish.
- 5
familierAn apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
- 6
familierA bend or winding of a stream.
Étymologie
See hatch (“a half door”).
Formes
- pluriel
- hecks
- passé
- hecked
- participe passé
- hecked
- participe présent
- hecking
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- hecks