ho

ho

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Hiri Motu.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /həʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hoʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: hoe, hoh

From Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare Dutch ho, German ho, Old French ho! (“hold!, halt!”).

ho

1. (nautical) Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.

   Sail ho! ― Another boat is visible!

   Land ho! ― Land is visible!

   Man ho! ― A town is visible!

2. halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

     What noise there, ho?

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:

     Ho! who's within?

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     O ho, O ho! Would't had been done!

   • c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:

     Ho! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 93:

     "That was a shot! But the captain will be glad! Ho, ho, here we are!" he cried till it was re-echoed from all the hills around.

   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 11:

     "So I catch you. You stealer! Ho! Ho!"

3. (rare) Said accompanying a vigorous attack.
   • 1900, Ching Foo, the Yellow Dwarf; Or the Bradys and the Opium Smokers, page 2:

     "I'll hit you again, you thief !” he cried angrily, shaking “Ho-ho-ho!” he croaked.

   • 1955, John Sack, From Here to Shimbashi - Volume 637, page 172:

     It was quite an astonishing show. Colonel Paul Malone of the U.S. Army kept thwacking away with all his might and main, shouting "Ho!"

   • 1999, Mona the Vampire, "Attack of the Living Scarecrow" (season 1, episode 1a):

     Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!

   • 2008, Daniel Hellmund, The Answer for Laria, page 93:

     Ho! Take that vile Foresythe!” He snapped his wrist, clicking the stick against the bowed sides of a barrel.

ho

1. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
   • 1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore:

     There is no ho with them.

• 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Pronunciation spelling of whore in a non-rhotic accent with the dough-door merger, which is found in 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.

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ho (plural hos or hoes or heaux)

1. (slang, derogatory) 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!

   • 2001, “Psycho”, in Toxicity, performed by Serj Tankian with System of a Down:

     So you want to see the show? You really don't have to be a ho.

   • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 204:

     They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stank ho for fucking half the basketball team.

   • 2010, Dennis Shields, God Went Fishing‎, page 69:

     "You looking for one of my ho's?" the diminutive man asked Sigmund.
     "A hoe?" Sigmund asked, wondering why the little man wished to sell him farming equipment in the city.
     "You know, a ho. A tute. A honey, A righteous bit of poontang, my brother," he said.
     "I don't follow," Sigmund said.
     "Indubitably, I means a ho, a whore. I can tell you is a player. You want a whore?" he asked.

2. (slang, offensive) A woman in general; a bitch.

• See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

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ho (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle hoed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To act as a ho, to prostitute.
   • 2003 November 18, Greywolf Johnson, “Do you know any of these? <g>”, in alt.strange.days‎ (Usenet):

     She holds down a decent job during the day, but is secretly hoeing around with at least 5 different trifling men.

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).

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ho (plural hos)

1. (obsolete) Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
   • 1567, George Turberville, “A. Sani di Cure Aunsweres”, in Heroycall Epistles of Ovid, 155v:

     Though there bee A thousand cares that heape my hoe.

   • 1798, Charlotte Turner Smith, The Young Philosopher, I. 195:

     Him that..this gentlewoman is in such a hoe about.

   • 1869-70, William Barnes, “The Widow’s House”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect‎:

     But by day to the zun they must rise
     To their true lives o' tweil an' ov ho.

   • 1875, William Douglas Parish, A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect‎ (at cited word):

     I doänt see as you've any call to putt yourself in no such terrible gurt hoe over it.

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).

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ho

1. (obsolete) To care, be anxious, to long.
   • 1787, F. Grose, Provinc. Gloss (at cited word):

     To ho for anything, to long for any thing. Berks.

   • 1847-78, J. O. Halliwell, Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words:

     Ho...to long for anything; to be careful and anxious. West.

   • 1869-70, William Barnes, The Bells of Alderburnham, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:

     But still 'tis happiness to know That there's a God above us; An' he, by day an' night do ho Vor all ov us an' love us.

   • 1874, T. Hardy, Far from Madding Crowd, II. xxiii. 289:

     To ho and hanker after thik woman.

   • 1888, B. Lowsley, Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases:

     Ho, to long for; to care greatly for.

• OH, Oh, oh

ho (requires hard mutation)

1. your pl

   ho preudeur ― your brothers

Inherited from Latin hoc. Compare Occitan o and ac.

• (Eastern) IPA^(key): /u/, /əw/
• (Western) IPA^(key): /u/, /ew/, /o/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ew/, /u/, /o/

ho (enclitic and proclitic)

1. it (direct object); replaces the demonstrative pronouns açò, això and allò
2. replaces an independent clause (one which could grammatically form a sentence on its own)
3. replaces an adjective or an indefinite noun which serves as the predicate of ésser, esdevenir, estar or semblar

• Ho cannot be used with either en or hi.
• ho is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.

  Ho sabem. ― We know that.

• -ho is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs.

  Puc fer-ho. ― I can do it.

  Deixa-ho. ― Leave it.

ho

1. they

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦo]

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ho m or n

1. accusative of on

   Synonym: jej

2. accusative of ono

ho

1. (onomatopoeia) Signifies a hearty laugh.

• ha, he, hi, hæ, hø, hår

• IPA^(key): [ho]
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• Hyphenation: ho

ho (accusative singular ho-on, plural ho-oj, accusative plural ho-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

ho

1. oh

• hu

Compare Karelian ho. An interjection that is found in many languages.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈho/, [ˈho̞]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification^(key): ho

ho

1. Synonym of oho

• IPA^(key): /o/

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ho

1. Used by tamer to calm the animal they are taming, especially horses; whoa

   Ho ! Tout doux ! ― Whoa! Easy!

2. Used to express surprise or shock

   Ho mon Dieu ! ― Oh my God!

• “ho”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From home (“man”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ/

ho!

1. used closing the sentence to bolster the attention of the listener; emphatic

   Para, ho! ― Stop!

   Non o volvo facer! Non ho! ― I'm not doing this again! No way!

• “ho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “ho” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “ho” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ho/

ho (active, intransitive, irregular)

1. to go

   Che aháta che rógape.

   I am going home.

• (che) aha
• (nde) reho
• (ha'e) oho
• (ñande) jaha
• (ore) roho
• (peẽ) peho
• (ha'ekuéra) oho

• o (misspelling)
• ò (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ/^*
• (some parts of Central Italy) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ/^°[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔ

ho

1. first-person singular present indicative of avere (“I have”)

ho

1. The hiragana syllable ほ (ho) or the katakana syllable ホ (ho) in Hepburn romanization.

ho

1. Obsolete spelling of wó

Probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call).

• hoo

• IPA^(key): /hɔː/

ho

1. stop, hold

• English: ho
• Yola: ho

• “hō, interj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

ho

1. Alternative form of who (“who”, nominative)

ho

1. Alternative form of he (“he”)

ho

1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

ho

1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

ho

1. Alternative form of hough (“hough, hock”)

ho

1. Alternative form of hough (“promontory”)

ho

1. Alternative form of oo (“one”)

• hò

• IPA^(key): /hɔ¹/

ho

1. (Mường Bi) I; me

From Old Norse hon.

• IPA^(key): /huː/

ho (accusative henne, genitive hennes)

1. (nonstandard, dialectal) she (form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by hun)

• IPA^(key): /huː/, [hu̞ː]
• (Selbu) IPA^(key): [hũ̞ː]

From Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *hēnō (compare *ainaz). Cognate with Icelandic hún, Danish hun and Swedish hon.

ho (accusative ho or henne, genitive hennar)

1. she, it (third person singular, feminine)

   Ho er bestevenninna mi. ― She is my best friend.

2. her

   Synonym: henne

   Eg ser ho. ― I see her.

Unlike other Scandinavian languages, Nynorsk ho is used to refer not only to feminine persons, but any feminine noun. E.g.: Boka er god. Eg likar ho. (“The book is good. I like it.”)

In some dialects, ho may precede a female given name or a difinite singular feminine noun. E.g: e(r) ho mang(e) ho klokka no? (“what time is it now?”); det er ho Stine som kjem jo! (“It is Stine who is coming (over there)!”)

• hoe

ho f (definite singular hoa, indefinite plural hoer, definite plural hoene)

1. female

   Hoa legg egga oppe i eit tre. ― The female lays the eggs up in a tree.

• “ho” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

ho

1. Alternative spelling of ó

ho

1. Alternative spelling of ó

ho

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 110

ho

1. Used to calm or stop a domestic animal, especially horses; whoa.

   Ho! Ușor! ― Whoa! Easy!

2. (vulgar) Used to calm down a person.

   Ho! Nu mai țipa ! ― Whoa! Stop screaming!

• IPA^(key): [ɦɔ]

ho

1. short genitive/accusative singular of on
2. short genitive/accusative singular of ono

• (long form): jeho
• (prepositional form): neho

ho c

1. a trough; a long container for feeding or watering animals.
2. a sink; often mounted to a wall; especially a kitchen sink or a washing sink.

   Synonym: diskho

• slasktratt (“sink (for discharging wastewater)”)

See vem.

ho

1. (archaic) who
   • 1541, Gustav Vasa Bible, Esaiah, 40:13-14

     Hoo vnderwisar HERRANS anda/ och hwadh rådhgiffuare lärer honom? Hwem fråghar han om rådh, then honom förstånd giffuer/ och lärer honom rettzens wägh/ och lärer honom klookheet och wijsar honom förståndzens wägh?

     (1873 edition) Ho undervisar Herrans Anda; och hvad rådgifvare lärer honom? Hvem frågar han om råd, den honom förstånd gifver, och lärer honom rättsens väg, och lärer honom klokhet, och viser honom förståndsens väg?

     Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

   Ho äst du?

   Who art thou?

• In earlier Swedish, ho was the nominative case form of vem (spelt hvem), corresponding to the difference between English who and whom. Unlike in English, where the oblique form gives way to the nominative, the reverse has happened in Swedish.

• vem

See hon.

ho

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of hon (“she”)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʔ/ [ˈhoʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: ho

hô (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓ)

1. (familiar) honorific particle used while speaking to one's superior, elder, or guest

   Synonym: po

   Taga-saan naman ho kayo? ― Where are you from, sir/madam?

• The word ho is used more on informal, familiar or conversational contexts than po. On some dialects, this is not observed and may even be more used than po.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈho/ [ˈho]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: ho

ho (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓ)

1. used to stop a horse, usually repeated

• la

• “ho”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• IPA^(key): /ɦɔː/

1. 3 (three)

• (Pyu digits):           

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kahu, compare Malay kau and Tetum ó.

ho

1. you

From Proto-Vietic *hɔː.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hɔ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hɔ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [hɔ˧˧]

• Audio (Hà Nội)

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ho • (呼, 𤵡)

1. to cough

ho

1. water

• Hosororo

• Languages of hunter-gatherers and their neighbors, citing Andrés Romero-Figueroa, Warao, Lincom Studies in Native American Linguistics 06 (1997, Munich/ Newcastle: Lincom Europa)

From Middle English ho, from Old Norse hó.

• IPA^(key): /hɔː/
• Homophone: ha

ho

1. ho
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 13, page 90:

     Ha-ho! be mee coshes, th'ast ee-pait it, co Joane;

     Hey-ho! by my conscience, you have paid it, quoth John;

• ha-ho

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 90

• IPA^(key): /hó/

hó

1. (transitive, of liquids) to boil
2. (intransitive, of liquids) to become gaseous, to become boiled
3. to form bubbles or lather
4. to roar with noise

   òkún ń hó yee; ọ̀sà ń mì lẹ̀gbẹ̀ ― The sea was roaring; the lagoon was swaying majestically

• bọ́ (“to cook in boiling water”)

• fó (Igbomina)

• IPA^(key): /hó/

hó

1. (transitive) to peel off the skin or bark of something

   Synonym: bó

Cognate with Bouyei hol (“garlic”).

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• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ho˨˦/
• Tone numbers: ho¹
• Hyphenation: ho

ho (1957–1982 spelling ho)

1. garlic

   Synonym: suenq

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