heckin'
English
Alternative forms
- heckin
- hecking
Etymology
From heck as a euphemism for hell.
Adjective
heckin' (not comparable)
- (vulgar) A minced oath used as an intensifier.
- 2012, Murray L. Peters, Boyle-Breath Breathes, →ISBN, page 196:
- A heckin' kleptomaniac, he was it.
- 2017 August 16, Wayne Alan Brenner, “Dusty-Danger Dog Day in Austin”, in The Austin Chronicle:
- But how does a doggo, even a heckin' good doggo, warrant such honors?
- 2017 September 12, “Sunday: Abell Community Street Fair”, in Baltimore City Paper:
- Better yet, when the annual Community Street Fair is on, you can enjoy all that alongside live music (featuring Other Colors, Nina Gala, Sac Au Lait, Hexgirlfriends, and more playing across two stages), food (including a crab feast), drinks, and a heckin' cute children's parade.
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- (vulgar) A minced oath used to indicate something undesirable or annoying
- 2003 October 1, LAM, “Can the default attachment folder be changed in OEx6”, in microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress, Usenet:
- And when in the darn heckin heck is this fix?! It's one of the most annoying bugs ms has stupidly made
- 2017 August 9, Tasnim Odrika, “How to deal with trust issues in a relationship”, in The Daily Star:
- Is your significant other doing you a heckin distress?
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Adverb
heckin' (not comparable)
- (vulgar)A minced oath used as an intensifier.
- 1996 July 8, Serge Pontejos, “What does RB 67 stand for?”, in rec.photo.equipment.medium-format, Usenet:
- All I heckin' know is that the RB has a mechanical shutter, and the RZ has a[sic] electronic shutter.
- 1999 January 22, Panther, “Shimon & Muzzer”, in alt.abuse.recovery, Usenet:
- I'm heckin fine :-)
- 2006 June 3, Believe!, “What a disgrace”, in alt.gossip.celebrities, Usenet:
- word is, terrence howard declined to perform the song under pressure that blacks would be painted as "pimps" by the performance. how shallow. and then the song heckin' WON!
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Verb
heckin'
- (vulgar, present participle only) horsing around.
- 1969, The Anglo-Welsh Review - Volumes 18-19, page 180:
- When a zeed me lookin at'm ah made wise that ah was only heckin for fun but I knowed different.
- 2003, Billy Roche, The Cavalcaders, →ISBN, page 11:
- There I was heckin' around me bedroom like a schoolgirl — one shoe on me.
- 2004 August 16, Kloka-mo', “The Facts, You Might As Well Go Warmoth, Etc. Anyway”, in alt.guitar.bass, Usenet:
- Well... not really. Just heckin' around.
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Anagrams
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