ho
interjectionnomnomverbenomverbecourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//həʊ//
- États-Unis//hoʊ//
- États-Unis//hoʔ//
Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
interjection
- 1
Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
Sail ho!
Land ho!
Man ho!
heave-ho
- 2
halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
What noise there, ho?
Ho! who's within?
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.
- 3
rareSaid accompanying a vigorous attack.
"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!"
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.
Étymologie
From Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), from Old English hō, probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare Dutch ho, German ho, Old French ho! (“hold!, halt!”).
nom
- 1
A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
O I, a plague on ’em, there’s no ho with ’em, they’re madder then^([sic – meaning than]) March hares.
nom
- 1
argotA 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!
So you want to see the show? You really don't have to be a ho.
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.
- 2
argotA woman in general; a bitch.
Étymologie
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.
verbe
- 1
argotTo act as a ho, to prostitute.
She holds down a decent job during the day, but is secretly hoeing around with at least 5 different trifling men.
nom
- 1
obsolèteCare, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
Though there bee A thousand cares that heape my hoe.
Him that..this gentlewoman is in such a hoe about.
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.
Étymologie
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).
verbe
- 1
obsolèteTo care, be anxious, to long.
To ho for anything, to long for any thing. Berks.
(3) To long for anything; to be careful and anxious. West.
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.”
Étymologie
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).
Formes
- pluriel
- hos, hoes, heaux
- passé
- hoed
- participe passé
- hoed
- participe présent
- hoeing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- hoes
ho · Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
Ho · A Central-Eastern Indian Adivasi tribe numbering around 1…hoax · To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that…Hobbs · A surname originating as a patronymic.