different between huck vs huc

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.

Verb

huck (third-person singular simple present hucks, present participle hucking, simple past and past participle hucked)

1. (transitive, informal) To throw or chuck.

   He was so angry that he hucked the book at my face.

   • 2008, Stephen King, "A Very Tight Place"

     Mostly these portable toilets are just thin molded plastic […] But at construction sites, we sheet-metal the sides. Cladding, it's called. Otherwise, people come along and punch holes through them. […] Or kids will come along and huck rocks through the roofs, just to hear the sound it makes.

2. To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
3. To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
4. (transitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee a long distance.
5. (intransitive, Ultimate Frisbee) To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
6. (mountain biking) To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly.

   A longer fork makes the bike more cumbersome, but you will be able to huck more stuff.

   If you huck it (the take-off), you'll drop about 20 feet.

7. (mountain biking) To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
8. (transitive, whitewater kayaking) To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.

   I hucked a sweet 25-foot waterfall on the Tomata River.

Noun

huck (plural hucks)

1. (Ultimate Frisbee) A long throw, generally at least half a field in length.
2. (skiing, snowboarding) A drop or jump off a cliff or cornice.

Etymology 2

Backformation from huckle, or from Middle English hoke (“hook”); compare hokebone (“hip”).

Noun

huck (plural hucks)

1. (dialect) A person's hip.

Related terms

• huckle

Etymology 3

From Middle English hukken, related to German höken (“to haggle; traffic”).

Verb

huck (third-person singular simple present hucks, present participle hucking, simple past and past participle hucked)

1. (dated) To haggle in trading.

Anagrams

• HKCU

English

Noun

huc (plural hucs)

1. Acronym of hydrologic unit code.

See also

• Hydrologic unit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CHU, Ch'u, Chu, UHC, chu

Latin

Etymology

Probably from the Old Latin locative hoi + -ce, from Proto-Indo-European *g?e and Proto-Indo-European *?e (“here”), according to De Vaan (2008). Compare the mostly pre-Classical h?c (“to this place, for this reason”), which De Vaan says is from an instrumental case form.

Confer the same alternation between ill?c and the older ill?c. See also hinc.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hu?k/, [hu?k]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /uk/, [uk]

Adverb

h?c (not comparable)

1. (generally) to this, to this (alone), to (only) this subject/matter; for this (alone), for this (one) thing
2. (locatively) to/at (precisely) this place, hither, here
3. (temporally) to (merely) this point in time, thus far, so far
4. (indicatively of purpose) to (solely) this end, for (just) this purpose, for (none other than) this reason, that, so that, in order that
5. (together with illuc as huc et illuc, indicatively of either disordered or reciprocating action) in a disorderly manner: to this and to that, hither and thither, from pillar to post, from post to pillar, helter-skelter, willy-nilly, chaotically, haphazardly; in a reciprocating manner: to here and to there, hither and thither, back and forth, to and fro, by turns, alternately, alternatingly
6. besides, additionally

Usage notes

The adverb huc may either function specifying a direction (simply referring to "here"), or excluding it from the rest (referring to "only here"), depending on context. In English translation, the latter exclusivity can be expressed by including the adverbs provided above in parentheses.

Derived terms

• adh?c

Related terms

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “hic, haec, hoc”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 284
• huc in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• huc in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• huc in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Manx

Pronoun

huc (emphatic form hucsyn)

1. third-person plural of hug

   to them