See heck in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "as heck"
},
{
"word": "bleeding heck"
},
{
"word": "bloody heck"
},
{
"word": "blooming heck"
},
{
"word": "for the heck of it"
},
{
"word": "hecka"
},
{
"word": "heck board"
},
{
"word": "heck-care"
},
{
"word": "heck if I know"
},
{
"word": "heckin"
},
{
"word": "heckin'"
},
{
"word": "hecking"
},
{
"word": "heck knows"
},
{
"word": "heck no"
},
{
"word": "heck of a"
},
{
"word": "heckuva"
},
{
"word": "heck yeah"
},
{
"word": "heck yes"
},
{
"word": "how the heck"
},
{
"word": "like heck"
},
{
"word": "oh my heck"
},
{
"word": "scare the heck out of"
},
{
"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": "when the heck"
},
{
"word": "where the heck"
},
{
"word": "who the heck"
},
{
"word": "why the heck"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.",
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"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "heck (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English euphemisms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2024 March 20, Richard Foster, “Vital experience in an open-air classroom”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 57:",
"text": "\"And the railway industry needs a heck of a lot of people to be up-skilled,\" notes Darroch.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Hell."
],
"links": [
[
"Hell",
"hell"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(euphemistic) Hell."
],
"tags": [
"euphemistic",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/hɛk/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛk"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "under hell"
},
{
"word": "hecc"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "euphemism of hell",
"word": "søren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "euphemism of hell",
"word": "hitto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "euphemism of hell",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "diavolo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "euphemism of hell",
"word": "helsike"
}
],
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"The English Dialect Dictionary",
"heck"
],
"word": "heck"
}
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],
"derived": [
{
"word": "heck up"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "to heck",
"3": "fuck",
"t1": "destroyed, messed up"
},
"expansion": "Blend of to heck (“destroyed, messed up”) + fuck",
"name": "blend"
}
],
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{
"form": "hecks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "hecking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "hecked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
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"form": "hecked",
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"past"
]
}
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"2": "informal"
},
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"name": "tlb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"to break, to destroy"
],
"links": [
[
"break",
"break"
],
[
"destroy",
"destroy"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:break"
],
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{
"word": "fuck"
},
{
"word": "bork"
}
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"to mess up"
],
"links": [
[
"mess up",
"mess up"
]
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
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},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛk"
}
],
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{
"word": "hecc"
}
],
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"heck"
],
"word": "heck"
}
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"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛk",
"Rhymes:English/ɛk/1 syllable"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "at heck and manger"
}
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"etymology_text": "See hatch (“a half door”).",
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{
"form": "hecks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
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"name": "en-noun"
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],
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"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The bolt or latch of a door."
],
"links": [
[
"bolt",
"bolt"
],
[
"latch",
"latch"
],
[
"door",
"door"
]
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A rack for cattle to feed at."
],
"links": [
[
"rack",
"rack"
],
[
"cattle",
"cattle"
],
[
"feed",
"feed"
]
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A door, especially one partly of latticework."
],
"links": [
[
"latticework",
"latticework"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A door, especially one partly of latticework."
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A latticework contrivance for catching fish."
],
"links": [
[
"fish",
"fish"
]
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Weaving"
],
"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."
],
"links": [
[
"weaving",
"weaving#Noun"
],
[
"warp",
"warp"
],
[
"bobbin",
"bobbin"
]
],
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"(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."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"manufacturing",
"textiles",
"weaving"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A bend or winding of a stream."
],
"links": [
[
"bend",
"bend"
],
[
"winding",
"winding"
],
[
"stream",
"stream"
]
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/hɛk/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛk"
}
],
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{
"word": "hack"
},
{
"word": "hecc"
}
],
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"heck"
],
"word": "heck"
}
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