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ho¹
- /həʊ/ UK
- /hoʊ/ US
- /hoʔ/ US
Sounds like hoe, hoh · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
From Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), from Old English hō, probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare Dutch ho, German ho, Old French ho! (“hold!, halt!”).
interjection
- Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts. Sail ho!
- halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach. What noise there, ho?
- Said accompanying a vigorous attack. "I'll hit you again, you thief !” he cried angrily, shaking “Ho-ho-ho!” he croaked.
noun
- A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace. O I, a plague on ’em, there’s no ho with ’em, they’re madder then^([sic – meaning than]) March hares.
ho²
- /həʊ/ UK
- /hoʊ/ US
- /hoʔ/ US
Sounds like hoe, hoh · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
Pronunciation spelling of whore in non-rhotic accents with the dough-door merger, such as some varieties of African American Vernacular English; compare mo (“more”), fo' (“for; four”). The noun first appears c. 1964, whereas the verb first appears c. 1972.
noun hos · hoes · heaux · hoe · 'ho
- A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality. Bros before hoes!
- A woman in general; a bitch.
verb hoes · hoeing · hoed · hoe · 'ho
- To act as a ho, to prostitute. She holds down a decent job during the day, but is secretly hoeing around with at least 5 different trifling men.
ho³
- /həʊ/ UK
- /hoʊ/ US
- /hoʔ/ US
Sounds like hoe, hoh · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
From Middle English howe, houwe, hoȝe, from Old English hogu and hoga, from Proto-Germanic *hugô, *hugiz, *huguz (“mind, thought, understanding”), akin to Old High German hugu, hugi (Middle High German hüge), Old Saxon hugi (Middle Dutch höghe, Dutch heug), Old Norse hugr, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐍃 (hugs).
noun hos · hoe
- Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow. Though there bee A thousand cares that heape my hoe.
ho⁴
- /həʊ/ UK
- /hoʊ/ US
- /hoʔ/ US
Sounds like hoe, hoh · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
From Middle English howen, hoȝen, hogien, from Old English hogian, hugian, from Proto-Germanic *hugjaną. Cognate with Middle Scots huik, Old High German hucken, Old Saxon huggjan, Dutch heugen, Old Norse hyggja, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hugjan).
verb hoe
- To care, be anxious, to long. To ho for anything, to long for any thing. Berks.
Ho⁵
Where it comes from
From Ho 𑣙𑣉𑣉 (hoː, “Human being”).
noun
- A Central-Eastern Indian Adivasi tribe numbering around 1 million, mainly following the religion of Sarna Dhorom
proper noun
- A Munda language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
Ho⁶
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Chinese 何 (Mandarin: Hé, Cantonese: ho⁴, Hakka: Hò, Min Nan: Hô), or from Vietnamese Hồ.
proper noun
- A surname.
HO⁷
proper noun
- Initialism of Heckler-Ohlin (thereom).
- Initialism of Home Office
noun HOs
- Initialism of head office
- Initialism of holy orders
- Abbreviation of HO scale
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: holmium, kam, tally, gung, choon, hos, westward, tep, hoang, hwang, heigh, kus, tae, weng, yh, whore
Translations
Every language
intj nautical: attention grabber
| Русский | эй ej |
|---|
noun whore
| Español | puta, prostituta |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 똥치 ttongchi |
| Português | puta, prostituta, vadia |
| Français | pute |
| Deutsch | Hure |
| Română | curvă, târfă, bagaboantă |
| Русский | шлю́ха šljúxa |
| Tiếng Việt | đĩ, phò |
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title = {ho},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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