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Heck vs Keck - What's the difference?

heck | keck |

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 keck is

to retch or heave as if to vomit.

As a noun keck is

(dialectal) cow parsley or keck can be animal dung.

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.

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    keck

    English

    Etymology 1

    Imitative

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To retch or heave as if to vomit.
    • (Jonathan Swift)

    Etymology 2

    Celtic

    Noun

    (-)
  • (dialectal) cow parsley

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (-)
  • animal dung
    • References
    * 1924, Sophia Morrison, ?Edmund Goodwin, A vocabulary of the Anglo-Manx dialect (page 98). ----