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Heck vs Hick - What's the difference?

heck | hick |

As proper nouns the difference between heck and hick

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 hick is .

heck

English

(wikipedia heck)

Etymology 1

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • (euphemistic) Hell.
    • What the heck are you doing?

    Noun

    (-)
  • (euphemistic) Hell.
    • You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
    Synonyms
    * See under hell.
    Derived terms
    * oh my heck

    Etymology 2

    See .

    Alternative forms

    * hack

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bolt or latch of a door.
  • A rack for cattle to feed at.
  • A door, especially one partly of latticework.
    • (Halliwell)
  • 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.

    • External links

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    hick

    English

    Etymology 1

    from Hick, like Rick and Dick short for Richard. compare hillbilly

    Noun

    (s)
  • (pejorative) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
    • Synonyms
    * boer, boor * country bumpkin * churl * hillbilly * lob * rustic * yokel

    Etymology 2

    .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to hiccup

    • References

    * English ethnic slurs