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"id": "en-heck-en-noun-nb2TXHge", "links": [ [ "latticework", "latticework" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) A door, especially one partly of latticework." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] }, { "glosses": [ "A latticework contrivance for catching fish." ], "id": "en-heck-en-noun-O9RVpht0", "links": [ [ "fish", "fish" ] ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Weaving", "orig": "en:Weaving", "parents": [ "Crafts", "Society", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine." ], "id": "en-heck-en-noun-haMBeQ65", "links": [ [ "weaving", "weaving#Noun" ], [ "warp", "warp" ], [ "bobbin", "bobbin" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine." ], "topics": [ "business", "manufacturing", "textiles", "weaving" ] }, { "glosses": [ "A bend or winding of a stream." ], "id": "en-heck-en-noun-zwmSXfUc", "links": [ [ "bend", "bend" ], [ "winding", "winding" ], [ "stream", "stream" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/hɛk/" }, { "rhymes": "-ɛk" }, { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-heck.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heck.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heck.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heck.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-heck.wav.ogg", "tags": [ "Southern-England" ], "text": "Audio (Southern England)" } ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0", "word": "hack" } ], "word": "heck" }
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"lang": "Finnish", "sense": "euphemism of hell", "word": "helkkari" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "euphemism of hell", "word": "diamine" }, { "code": "mi", "lang": "Maori", "sense": "euphemism of hell", "word": "ata" }, { "code": "mi", "lang": "Maori", "sense": "euphemism of hell", "word": "taukahore" }, { "code": "no", "lang": "Norwegian", "sense": "euphemism of hell", "word": "helsike" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "euphemism of hell", "word": "diacho" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "euphemism of hell", "word": "caray" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "euphemism of hell", "word": "Hälsingland" } ], "wikipedia": [ "The English Dialect Dictionary" ], "word": "heck" } { "derived": [ { "word": "as heck" }, { "word": "bleeding heck" }, { "word": "bloody heck" }, { "word": "blooming heck" }, { "word": "for the heck of it" }, { "word": "heck board" }, { "word": "heck-care" }, { "word": "heck no" }, { "word": "heck of a" }, { "word": "heck yeah" }, { "word": "like heck" }, { "word": "oh my heck" }, { "word": "snowball's chance in heck" }, { "word": "the heck" }, { "word": "to heck in a handbasket" }, { "word": "what the heck" }, { "word": "when heck freezes over" }, { "word": "where the heck" } ], "etymology_number": 1, "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "hell" }, "expansion": "hell", "name": "m" } ], "etymology_text": "Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "heck (uncountable)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English euphemisms", "English terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "text": "You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "Hell." ], "links": [ [ "Hell", "hell" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(euphemistic) Hell." ], "tags": [ "euphemistic", "uncountable" ] } 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