Pronunciations (3)
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/həʊ/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/hoʊ/
Pronunciation notes
- US
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/hoʔ/
Pronunciation notes
- US
Interjection
Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
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Sail ho!
Land ho!
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Man ho!
heave-ho
halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
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What noise there, ho?
Ho! who's within?
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O ho, O ho! Would't had been done!
Ho! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.
"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.
"So I catch you. You stealer! Ho! Ho!"
"How such swooning daughters can do it, constantly fainting and having hysterics, is a mystery to me," said Muriel Jane. "Ho, they're a pretty sly lot," said Silvander Dan.
Said accompanying a vigorous attack.
Usage- Rare
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"I'll hit you again, you thief !” he cried angrily, shaking “Ho-ho-ho!” he croaked.
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!"
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Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!
Ho! Take that vile Foresythe!” He snapped his wrist, clicking the stick against the bowed sides of a barrel.
Noun
A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
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O I, a plague on ’em, there’s no ho with ’em, they’re madder then^([sic – meaning than]) March hares.
Noun
A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
Usage- US usage
- Derogatory
- Slang
- Vulgar
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Bros before hoes!
So you want to see the show? You really don't have to be a ho.
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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.
"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.
A woman in general; a bitch.
Usage- US usage
- Offensive
- Slang
- Vulgar
Verb
To act as a ho, to prostitute.
Usage- US usage
- Transitive or intransitive
- Slang
- Vulgar
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She holds down a decent job during the day, but is secretly hoeing around with at least 5 different trifling men.
Noun
Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
Usage- US usage
- Obsolete
- Slang
- Vulgar
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Though there bee A thousand cares that heape my hoe.
Him that..this gentlewoman is in such a hoe about.
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But by day to the zun they must rise To their true lives o' tweil an' ov ho.
I doänt see as you've any call to putt yourself in no such terrible gurt hoe over it.
Verb
To care, be anxious, to long.
Usage- US usage
- Obsolete
- Slang
- Vulgar
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To ho for anything, to long for any thing. Berks.
(3) To long for anything; to be careful and anxious. West.
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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.
“Oh ’tis true enough, faith. I can’t understand Farmer Boldwood being such a fool at his time of life as to ho and hanker after thik woman in the way ’a do, and she not care a bit about en.”
HO.—To long for, to care greatly for.
Noun
A sexually loose woman