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homo¹

  • /ˈhəʊ.məʊ/ UK
  • /ˈhɒm.əʊ/ UK
  • /ˈhoʊ.moʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊməʊ

Where it comes from

Clipping of homosexual.

noun homos

  1. abbreviation, clipping, colloquial, derogatory, often Clipping of homosexual I heard that he's a homo, but he hasn't come out of the closet yet.

adjective more homo · most homo

  1. colloquial, derogatory, sometimes Of or pertaining to homosexuality.

homo²

  • /ˈhəʊ.məʊ/ UK
  • /ˈhɒm.əʊ/ UK
  • /ˈhoʊ.moʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊməʊ

Where it comes from

Clipping of homogenized.

noun homos

  1. Canada, US, countable, dated, uncountable Homogenized milk with a high butterfat content. One quart of homo wholesale in glass equals one quart equivalent. Certain modifications were made in these relatives to adjust for variations in units per ...

adjective

  1. Canada, US, not comparable Homogenized; almost always said of milk with a high butterfat content. Regular homo milk was being sold out of stores in half gallons for 33 cents against 44 cents on regular homo milk on home delivery.

homo³

  • /ˈhəʊ.məʊ/ UK
  • /ˈhɒm.əʊ/ UK
  • /ˈhoʊ.moʊ/ US

Rhymes with -əʊməʊ

Where it comes from

From Latin homō̆ (“a human being, man, person”), sometimes as a shortening of Homo sapiens. Doublet of gome, hombre, ombre, and omi.

noun homos

  1. nonstandard A human. John, John, if you don't go you're no homo—no! You're only a fowl, an owl, a cow, a sow,—a doll, a poll; a poor, old, good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a Concord bog.

HOMO⁴

noun

  1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of highest occupied molecular orbital To be consistent with the terminology for solids, for molecules, we also call the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) the VBM and CBM, respectively.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: homosexual, man, human, human being, gay, queer, erotism, fairy, bender, poof, fag, penis, pedal, liber, lumo, deus

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noun short form of homosexual

日本語ホモ homo
Portuguêshomo
DeutschHomo
Русскийго́мик gómik
עבריתהומו

noun homogenized milk with butterfat

日本語ホモ牛乳 homo gyūnyū

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@misc{homo_2026,
  title = {homo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/homo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}