hoe

• (UK) enPR: hō, IPA^(key): /həʊ/
• (US) enPR: hō, IPA^(key): /hoʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophone: ho

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.

hoe (plural 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.

• backhoe

hoe (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle 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

• long row to hoe

• mattock
• pick
• rake

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

From non-rhotic whore.

• ho

hoe (plural 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 (and 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

• See also Thesaurus:prostitute

hoe (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle 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.

From Old English hōh. Related to hough.

hoe (plural hoes)

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

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

• HEO, Heo

From Dutch hoe.

hoe

1. how

• hoekom

• IPA^(key): /xoe/

hoe

1. water

• Robert Lee Litteral, Features in Anggor Discourse (1980), page 38

From Middle Dutch hoe, from Old Dutch huo, from Proto-Germanic *hwō.

• Rhymes: -u
• IPA^(key): /ɦu/

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hoe

1. how

• hoeveel
• in hoeverre
• hoezeer
• hoedanig
• hoe dan ook

hoe

1. (forms a the parallel comparative) the ... the

   Hoe meer hoe beter! ― The more the better!

   Hoe eerder hoe beter! ― The sooner the better!

Second hoe can be replaced by des te; there is no difference between the two as they are purely a matter of preference, both are commonly used throughout the Dutch-speaking regions.

hoe

1. Indicative present connegative form of hokea.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of hokea.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of hokea.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Fijian voce, Maori hoe).

hoe

1. oar

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian [Term?] (compare Fijian voce, Hawaiian hoe).

hoe

1. oar

From Old Dutch huo, from Proto-Germanic *hwō.

hoe

1. how, in what way/manner
2. how, to what degree

• woe (eastern)

• Dutch: hoe
• Limburgish: woe

• “hoe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “hoe (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

hoe

1. Alternative form of heo

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

hoe

1. Alternative form of he

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

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

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

1. Alternative form of ho

hoe f (oblique plural hoes, nominative singular hoe, nominative plural hoes)

1. hoe (tool)

hoe

1. how (interrogative)

• “hoe (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011