Heck vs Beck - What's the difference?
heck | beck |
(euphemistic) Hell.
The bolt or latch of a door.
A rack for cattle to feed at.
A door, especially one partly of latticework.
A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
(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.
A bend or winding of a stream.
(Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
* Drayton
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
* Shakespeare
*{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, title=Winter Evening Tales, chapter=, edition=
, passage="I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Various, title=The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing. }}
As proper nouns the difference between heck and beck
is that heck is a hardy breed of domestic cattle, the result of an attempt to breed back the extinct aurochs from modern aurochs-derived cattle in the 1920s and 1930s while beck is a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist günther von mannagetta und lërchenau beck (1856-1931).heck
English
(wikipedia heck)Etymology 1
Noun
(-)- You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
Synonyms
* See under hell.Derived terms
* oh my heckEtymology 2
See .Alternative forms
* hackNoun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
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* * * ----beck
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with low German bek or beckNoun
(en noun)- The brooks, the becks , the rills.
Synonyms
* brook * burn * creek * streamEtymology 2
A shortened form of (beckon), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- To be at the beck and call of someone.
Verb
(en verb)- When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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