ho

• (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 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
   • Shakespeare

     What noise there, ho?

   • Shakespeare

     Ho! who's within?

   • Shakespeare

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

   • Bishop Joseph Hall

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

ho

1. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
   • Decker

     There is no ho with them.

• 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988

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”).

• hoe

ho (plural hos or hoes)

1. (slang, derogatory) A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.

   Bros before hos!

   • 2010 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.

• See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

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).

• hoe

ho (plural hos)

1. (obsolete) Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
   • 1567, G. Turberville tr. A. Sani di Cure Aunsweres in tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 155v:

     Though there bee A thousand cares that heape my hoe.

   • 1798, C. Smith, Young Philosopher I. 195:

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

   • 1869-70, William Barnes, The Widow’s House, 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, W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial (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).

• hoe

ho

1. (obsolete) To care, be anxious, 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

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

From Latin hoc.

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.

Proclictic

• m'ho
• s'ho
• t'ho

Enclictic

• -ens-ho
• -li-ho
• -los-ho
• 'ls-ho
• -m'ho
• 'ns-ho
• -s'ho
• -t'ho
• -us-ho
• -vos-ho

ho

1. they

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦo]

ho m, n

1. accusative of on
2. accusative of ono

• (accusative of on): jej

ho

1. (onomatopoeia) Signifies a hearty laugh.

• ha, he, hi, hæ, hø, hår

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

1. The name of the Latin-script letter 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

• IPA^(key): /o/

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!

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.

• o (misspelling)

• IPA^(key): /ɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔ

ho

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

ho

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ホ

ho

1. Obsolete spelling of wó

ho

1. who

From Old English hē, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”).

ho

1. Alternative form of he

• “he, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

ho

1. Alternative form of heo

• “he, pron. (2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

From Old English hīe, hī.

ho

1. Alternative form of he

• “he, pron. (3)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

• hun

• IPA^(key): /huː/

From Old Norse hon.

ho (accusative henne, genitive hennes)

ho

1. (Non-standard since 2005) she, (third person singular, feminine)

• IPA^(key): /huː/ (example of pronunciation)

From Old Norse hon.

ho (accusative ho or henne, genitive hennar)

ho

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

   Ho er bestevenninna mi.

   She is my best friend.

2. her

   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.

• (her): henne

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɔ/

ho

1. short genitive singular of on
2. short accusative singular of on
3. short genitive singular of ono
4. short 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.

• diskho
• tvättho

ho

1. (obsolete) who
2. (dialectal) she

• hon
• vem

ho

1. (Batangas) a honorific particle

   Taga-saan naman ho kayo?

   Where are you from? (when addressing a person of higher status, like elders)

• (Manila, Standard Tagalog, other dialects) po

From Proto-Vietic *hɔː.

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

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)

Cognate with Bouyei hol (“garlic”).

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

ho (old orthography ho)

1. garlic