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heck

1[hek]
interjection
1.
(used as a mild expression of annoyance, rejection, disgust, etc.): What the heck do you care?
noun
2.
something remarkable of its kind (usually used in the phrase heck of a): That was a heck of an impressive speech. Have one heck of a good time.

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Heck is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
3.
as heck (used as a mild intensifier): I say he's guilty as heck.

Origin:
1850–55; euphemistic alteration of hell
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heck

2[hek]
noun
1.
a comblike attachment on a loom, for guiding the warp threads as they are dressed for the warp beam.
2.
a device that guides yarn onto the bobbin of a spinning wheel.
3.
a gridlike arrangement of glass or metal rods below the hooks on a Jacquard loom, used for lifting all harness eyes equally or evenly.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English hekke, Old English hecc, variant of hæcc hatch2
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heck1 (hɛk)
 
interj
a mild exclamation of surprise, irritation, etc
 
[C19: euphemistic for hell]

heck2 (hɛk)
 
n
dialect (Northern English) a frame for obstructing the passage of fish in a river
 
[C14: variant of hatch²]

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heck
euphemistic alteration of hell, first recorded 1865.
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