huck

[huhk-uh-bak]

huck·a·back

[huhk-uh-bak]
noun
toweling of linen or cotton, of a distinctive absorbent weave.
Also called huck.


Origin:
1680–90; origin uncertain
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Huck 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.
WordNet
huck

noun
toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric 
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