hoeとは

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: hō, IPA^(key): /həʊ/
• (米国発音) enPR: hō, IPA^(key): /hoʊ/
• 韻: -əʊ
• Homophone: ho

語源 1

From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwa (compare Middle Dutch houwe), from Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to cut, hew”). More at hew.

名詞

hoe (複数形 hoes)

1. An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.
   • 2009, TRU TV, 28 March:

     It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe.

2. The horned or piked dogfish.

派生語

• backhoe

動詞

hoe (三人称単数 現在形 hoes, 現在分詞 hoeing, 過去形および過去分詞形 hoed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

   to hoe the earth in a garden

   Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.

   I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.

2. (transitive) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

   to hoe corn

派生語

• long row to hoe

参考

• mattock
• pick
• rake

Further reading

• Hoe (implement) in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.

語源 2

From non-rhotic whore.

別の表記

• ho

名詞

hoe (複数形 hoes)

1. (US, slang) Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
   • 2002, Eithne Quinn, Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap

     […] this chapter […] will […] explore why pimp (かつ hoe) characters, with their dramatic staging of gendered and occupational relations […] have taken such hold of the black youth imagination

   • 2003, Dan Harrington, The Good Eye

     At school they had been among the only couples that had not done “it” at the Pimp & Hoe parties that popped up occasionally at the dorm

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:prostitute

動詞

hoe (三人称単数 現在形 hoes, 現在分詞 hoeing, 過去形および過去分詞形 hoed)

1. (US, slang) Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).
   • 2003, Da’rel the Relentless One, M. T. Pimp

     Pimpin’ came so naturally to MT when he and his sisters played pimp and hoe games that one of his sisters wanted to hoe for him when they grew up.

語源 3

From 古期英語 hōh. Related to hough.

名詞

hoe (複数形 hoes)

1. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

使用する際の注意点

• Now used only in placenames e.g. "Plymouth Hoe".

アナグラム

• HEO, Heo