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Geck vs Heck – What’s the difference?

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Geck vs Heck - What's the difference?
As a noun geck is .

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.

geck

English

Noun

(en noun )

  • scorn; derision; contempt
  • (archaic, pejorative) Fool; idiot; imbecile
  • * Shakespeare
    • To become the geck and scorn / O’ the other’s villainy.
  • :* {{quote-book

    • , year=1859
    , year_published=2010
    , edition=HTML
    , editor=
    , author=George Eliot
    , title=Adam Bede
    , chapter=IX Hetty’s World
    citation
    , genre=
    , publisher=
    , isbn=
    , page=
    , passage= … for where’s the use of a woman having brains of her own if she’s tackled to a geck as everybody’s a-laughing at?
    }}

    Verb

    (en verb )

  • To jeer; to show contempt.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To cheat or trick.
    • (Johnson)

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
    * (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary

  • Webster”>Webster)

    • 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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