heckin'

alternative heckin · alternative hecking

1. not comparableA minced oath used as an intensifier.

   A heckin' kleptomaniac, he was it.

   2012, Murray L. Peters, Boyle-Breath Breathes, →ISBN, page 196

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   But how does a doggo, even a heckin' good doggo, warrant such honors?

   2017 August 16, Wayne Alan Brenner, “Dusty-Danger Dog Day in Austin”, in The Austin Chronicle

   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.

   2017 September 12, “Sunday: Abell Community Street Fair”, in Baltimore City Paper

   Now our social media feeds are full of heckin’ good doggos and puppers, cute kittehs and cattos.

   2019 March 24, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, “When bad pets happen to good people”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 295, number 83, page K4

   Millennials' love for their pups is so intense, it's spawned its own language. Us hoomans chase our heckin floofers, iPhones in hand, snapping pics of their snoots and bleps to share with frens, posting with captions about the goodest boy in the world.

   2019 December, Stephanie Wilson, “Woo-Woo Woofers”, in Sensi Magazine, page 37

   If your idea of heaven is being surrounded by hecking good boys (and girls) then you've come to the right place.

   2021, Charlie Ellis, Love Is a Cockapoo: A Dog-tastic Celebration of the World’s Cutest Breed, Summersdale Publishers

2. not comparableA minced oath used to indicate something undesirable or annoying

   Is your significant other doing you a heckin distress?

   2017 August 9, Tasnim Odrika, “How to deal with trust issues in a relationship”, in The Daily Star

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   And when in the darn heckin heck is this fix?! It's one of the most annoying bugs ms has stupidly made

   2003 October 1, LAM, “Can the default attachment folder be changed in OEx6”, in microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress (Usenet)

alternative heckin · alternative hecking

1. not comparableA minced oath used as an intensifier.

   I'm heckin fine :-)

   1999 January 22, Panther, “Shimon & Muzzer”, in alt.abuse.recovery (Usenet)

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   All I heckin' know is that the RB has a mechanical shutter, and the RZ has a^([sic]) electronic shutter.

   1996 July 8, Serge Pontejos, “What does RB 67 stand for?”, in rec.photo.equipment.medium-format (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!

   2006 June 3, Believe!, “What a disgrace”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet)

   Are memes really more than just words or pictures and have they evolved into a lifestyle? Honestly, I don’t have the answer to that question, so for now, in the words of my favorite Facebook doggos: Heckin’ bamboozled.

   2017 October 19, Rachel Henry, “Heckin’ bamboozled”, in The Daily Californian, archived from the original on 04 May 2023

alternative heckin · alternative hecking

1. participlepresentHorsing around.

   Well... not really. Just heckin' around.

   2004 August 16, Kloka-mo', “The Facts, You Might As Well Go Warmoth, Etc. Anyway”, in alt.guitar.bass (Usenet)

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   When a zeed me lookin at'm ah made wise that ah was only heckin for fun but I knowed different.

   1969, The Anglo-Welsh Review - Volumes 18-19, page 180

   There I was heckin' around me bedroom like a schoolgirl — one shoe on me.

   2003, Billy Roche, The Cavalcaders, →ISBN, page 11