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Heck vs Huck - What's the difference?

heck | huck |

As nouns the difference between heck and huck

is that heck is hell while huck is long throw, generally at least half a field or more.

As an interjection heck

is hell.

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 verb huck is

to throw a long way.

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.
  • huck

    English

    Verb

  • (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a long way
  • (informal) to throw or chuck
  • He was so angry he hucked the book at my face.
  • (mountain biking) To gain extra height from a jump by compressing the springs just before the take-off
  • Longer forks make the bike more cumbersome, but you will be able to huck off of more stuff.
    If you huck it (the take-off), you'll drop about 20 feet.
  • (mountain biking) To make a maneuver in a clumsy way.
  • (whitewater kayaking) To paddle off of a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
  • I hucked a sweet 25 foot waterfall on the Tomata River.
  • (dated) To haggle in trading.
  • (snowboarding, skiing) To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
  • Dude go huck that cornice!

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Ultimate Frisbee) Long throw, generally at least half a field or more.
  • (skiing, snowboarding) a drop or jump off of a cliff or cornice