different between seck vs heck

English

Etymology

French sec dry, from Latin siccua.

Adjective

seck (comparative more seck, superlative most seck)

1. (obsolete) barren; unprofitable

Related terms

• rent seck

Anagrams

• Ecks, ksec

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.

Interjection

heck

1. (euphemistic) Hell.

   What the heck are you doing?

Translations

Noun

heck (uncountable)

1. (euphemistic) Hell.

   You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.

Synonyms

• See under hell.

Derived terms

• oh my heck

Translations

Etymology 2

See hatch (“a half door”).

Alternative forms

• hack

Noun

heck (plural hecks)

1. The bolt or latch of a door.
2. A rack for cattle to feed at.
3. A door, especially one partly of latticework.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
5. (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.
6. A bend or winding of a stream.

Derived terms

• at heck and manger

References

Further reading

• heck in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• heck in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• heck at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• chek

German

Pronunciation

Verb

heck

1. singular imperative of hecken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of hecken

Middle English

Noun

heck

1. Alternative form of hacche