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reck | heck |

As a verb reck

is to make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.

As an interjection heck is

hell.

As a noun 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.

reck

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
    • this son of mine not recking danger
  • * Burns
    • And may you better reck the rede / Than ever did the adviser.
  • * 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
    • Ophelia:
    Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
    Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
    Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
    Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
    And recks not his own rede.
  • *
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
    • Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
  • To care; to matter.
  • * 1822 , John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio , vol. XIV
    • Little thou reck'st [2] of this sad store!
    Would thou might never reck [1] them more!
  • * 1900 , , Villanelle of Marguerite's , lines 10-11
  • *:She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall
  • *:With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair
  • To concern, to be important
    • It recks not!
  • * Milton
    • What recks it them?
  • (obsolete) To think.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * reckless

    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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