bother vs heck

bother

noun
  • Fuss, ado. 

  • Trouble, inconvenience. 

intj
  • A mild expression of annoyance. 

verb
  • To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. 

  • To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. 

  • To annoy, to disturb, to irritate. 

heck

noun
  • Hell. 

  • A bend or winding of a stream. 

  • A rack for cattle to feed at. 

  • The bolt or latch of a door. 

  • 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 latticework contrivance for catching fish. 

intj
  • Hell. 

How often have the words bother and heck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )