英和和英

名詞

'ho (plural 'hos)

1. (African-American Vernacular) Contraction of whore.

アナグラム

• OH, oh, Oh, -oh, Oh.

前置詞句

h/o

1. (medicine) Abbreviation of history of.
   • 2009, Sarah T. Melton, Cynthia K. Kirkwood, “Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder”, in Terry L. Schinghammer, Julia M. Koehler, editors, Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach‎, 7th edition, McGraw Hill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 194:

     H/O complex partial seizures in childhood and teen years (off medication and seizure-free for 7 years)

アナグラム

• OH, oh, Oh, -oh, Oh.

語源 1

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

間投詞

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!

   heave-ho

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!

   • 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:

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

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, 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!"

   • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 24:

     "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.

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.

派生語

名詞

ho

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

     There is no ho with them.

参照

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

語源 2

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.

別の表記

• hoe, 'ho

名詞

ho (plural hos or hoes or heaux) (vulgar, slang)

1. (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. (offensive) A woman in general; a bitch.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

派生語

動詞

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? ”, 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.

語源 3

From 中期英語 howe, houwe, hoȝe, from 古期英語 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).

別の表記

• hoe

名詞

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.

語源 4

From 中期英語 howen, hoȝen, hogien, from 古期英語 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).

別の表記

• hoe

動詞

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.

アナグラム

• OH, oh, Oh, -oh, Oh.

発音

• IPA: /xoː/, [hoː]
• 韻: -oː

動詞

hō

1. first-person singular present indicative of hōn

語源 2

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

発音

• IPA: /xo/, [ho]
• 韻: -o

間投詞

ho

1. Call of attention.
2. Hey!

派生した語

• Middle English: ho, hoo
  • English: ho
  • Yola: ho

別の表記

• hoo

発音

• IPA: /hɔː/

間投詞

ho

1. stop, hold

派生した語

• English: ho
• Yola: ho

参照

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

語源 2

代名詞

ho

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

語源 3

代名詞

ho

1. alternative form of he (“he”)

語源 4

代名詞

ho

1. alternative form of heo (“she”)

語源 5

代名詞

ho

1. alternative form of he (“they”)

語源 6

名詞

ho

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

語源 7

名詞

ho

1. alternative form of hough (“promontory”)

語源 8

名詞

ho

1. alternative form of o (“one”)