Heck vs Hock - What's the difference?
heck | hock |
(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.
A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region, but often applied to all Rhenish wines.
The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
Meat from that part of a food animal.
, obligation as collateral for a loan.
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Debt.
Installment purchase.
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Prison.
As a proper noun 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.As a noun hock is
a rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the hochheim region, but often applied to all rhenish wines or hock can be the tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog or hock can be , obligation as collateral for a loan.As a verb hock is
to disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough or hock can be (senseid)(colloquial) to leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan or hock can be (us) to bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.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)
External links
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English
Etymology 1
From hockamore, from the name of the German town of .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) hoch, hough, hocke, from Old English ‘skeleton’)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* rattle one's hocksEtymology 3
.Noun
(-)- He needed $750 to get his guitar out of hock at the pawnshop.
- They were in hock to the bank for $35 million.