Heck

See also: heck

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk

Etymology 1

From German Heck, the surname.

Proper noun

Heck

1. 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.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Heck

1. A surname​, possibly from German.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Heck

1. A civil parish of Selby district, North Yorkshire, England, with the villages of Great Heck and Little Heck.
2. A hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NY0980).

Derived terms

• Great Heck

Anagrams

• chek

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German

Etymology

From Middle Low German heck (“wooden fencing”). The sense “back of a ship” because the position of the helmsman in the stern was enclosed by such a fence. Cognate to Dutch hek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛk/

• Audio

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Noun

Heck n (genitive Hecks or Heckes, plural Hecks or Hecke)

1. stern (of a ship)
2. tail (of an aeroplane)
3. back (of a car)

Usage notes

• The more common plural is Hecks.

Declension

Declension of Heck

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Heck	die	Hecks
genitive	eines	des	Hecks	der	Hecks
dative	einem	dem	Heck	den	Hecks
accusative	ein	das	Heck	die	Hecks

Declension of Heck

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Heck	die	Hecke
genitive	eines	des	Heckes, Hecks	der	Hecke
dative	einem	dem	Heck, Hecke1	den	Hecken
accusative	ein	das	Heck	die	Hecke

¹Now uncommon, see notes

Antonyms

• (stern, tail): Bug m (“bow”)
• (back of car): Front f (“front”)

Related terms

• Bootsheck
• Fließheck
• Heckbremse
• Heckfenster
• Heckklappe
• Heckleuchte
• Hecklicht
• Heckmotor
• Heckpropeller
• Heckrotor
• Heckscheibe
• Heckschraube
• Schiffsheck
• Schrägheck
• Steilheck
• Stufenheck

 

See also

• Backbord (ship)
• Steuerbord (ship)

Proper noun

Heck m or f (genitive Hecks)

1. A surname​.

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German heggia, from Proto-West Germanic *haggju. Cognate with German Hecke, Dutch heg, English hedge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæk/

Noun

Heck f (plural Hecken)

1. bush, hedge

Synonyms

• Ho