ho

1. (international standards)ISO 639-1language code forHiri Motu.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/həʊ/
• (US)IPA^(key):/hoʊ/

• Audio(General Australian):

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• Rhymes:-əʊ
• Homophones:hoe,hoh

FromMiddle Englishho,hoo(interjection), probably fromOld Norsehó!(interjection, also, a shepherd's call). CompareDutchho,Germanho,Old Frenchho!(“hold!, halt!”).

ho

1. (nautical) Used to attractattention to somethingsighted, usually bylookouts.

   Sailho! ―Another boat is visible!

   Landho! ―Land is visible!

   Manho! ―A town is visible!

2. halloo;hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
   • c.1610–1611 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene iii]:

     What noise there,ho?

   • c.1596–1598 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene vi]:

     Ho! who's within?

   • 1610–1611 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene ii]:

     Oho, Oho! Would't had been done!

   • c.1600,John Ayliffe,Satires:

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

   • 1886,Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad,Folk and Fairy Tales, page93:

     "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, published1965, page11:

     "So I catch you. You stealer!Ho!Ho!"

   • 1936,Norman Lindsay,The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page24:

     "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, page172:

     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, page93:

     Ho! Take that vile Foresythe!” He snapped his wrist, clicking the stick against the bowed sides of a barrel.

• ho there

ho

1. Astop; ahalt; amoderation ofpace.
   • 1604,Thomas Dekker,The Honest Whore:

     There is noho with them.

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

Pronunciation spelling ofwhore in anon-rhotic accent with thedough-door merger, which is found in some varieties ofAfrican American Vernacular English. Comparemo(“more”),fo'(“for; four”). The noun first appears c. 1964, whereas the verb first appears c. 1972.

• hoe

ho (pluralhosorhoesorheaux)

2. (slang,derogatory) Awhore; asexuallypromiscuouswoman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman withconnotations ofloosesexuality.

   Bros beforehoes!

   • 2001, “Psycho”, inToxicity, performed bySerj Tankian withSystem of a Down:

     So you want to see the show? You really don't have to be aho.

   • 2006, Noire[pseudonym],Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.:One World,Ballantine Books,→ISBN,page204:

     They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stankho for fucking half the basketball team.

   • 2010, Dennis Shields,God Went Fishing‎^[2], page69:

     "You looking for one of myho'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, aho. A tute. A honey, A righteous bit of poontang, my brother," he said.
     "I don't follow," Sigmund said.
     "Indubitably, I means aho, a whore. I can tell you is a player. You want a whore?" he asked.

3. (slang,offensive) Awoman in general; abitch.

• See alsoThesaurus:promiscuous woman

• ho stroll
• ho tag
• hoism

ho (third-person singular simple presenthoes,present participlehoeing,simple past and past participlehoed)

1. (transitive,intransitive,slang,vulgar) Toact as a ho, toprostitute.
   • 2003 November 18, Greywolf Johnson, “Do you know any of these? <g>”, inalt.strange.days‎^[3] (Usenet):

     She holds down a decent job during the day, but is secretlyhoeing around with at least 5 different trifling men.

FromMiddle Englishhowe,houwe,hoȝe, fromOld Englishhogu andhoga, fromProto-Germanic*hugô,*hugiz,*huguz(“mind, thought, understanding”), akin toOld High Germanhugu, hugi (Middle High Germanhüge),Old Saxonhugi (Middle Dutchhöghe,Dutchheug),Old Norsehugr,Gothic𐌷𐌿𐌲𐍃(hugs).

• hoe

ho (pluralhos)

1. (obsolete)Care,anxiety,trouble,sorrow.
   • 1567,George Turberville, “A. Sani di Cure Aunsweres”, inHeroycall Epistles ofOvid,155v:

     Though there bee A thousand cares that heape myhoe.

   • 1798,Charlotte Turner Smith,The Young Philosopher,I. 195:

     Him that..this gentlewoman is in such ahoe about.

   • 1869-70,William Barnes, “The Widow’s House”, inPoems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect‎^[4]:

     But by day to the zun they must rise
     To their true lives o' tweil an' ovho.

   • 1875, William Douglas Parish,A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect‎^[5] (at cited word):

     I doänt see as you've any call to putt yourself in no such terrible gurthoe over it.

FromMiddle Englishhowen,hoȝen,hogien, fromOld Englishhogian,hugian, fromProto-Germanic*hugjaną. Cognate with Middle Scotshuik,Old High Germanhucken,Old Saxonhuggjan,Dutchheugen,Old Norsehyggja,Gothic𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽(hugjan).

• hoe

ho

1. (obsolete) Tocare, beanxious, tolong.
   • 1787, F. Grose,Provinc. Gloss (at cited word):

     Toho 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 doho Vor all ov us an' love us.

   • 1874, T. Hardy,Far from Madding Crowd, II. xxiii. 289:

     Toho and hanker after thik woman.

   • 1888, B. Lowsley,Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases:

     Ho, to long for; to care greatly for.

• OH,oh,Oh,-oh,Oh.

Clipping ofhome

• IPA^(key):/ˈo/[ˈo]

ho

1. friendlyinterjection used at the end of a phrase when speaking to someone, "bro", "man"

   ¿Sabíes eso,ho?

   Did you know that,man?

   Vamos pa mio casa,ho

   Let's go to my place,man

2. used closing the sentence to bolster the attention of the listener;emphatic

   ¡Apara yá,ho!

   Stop (it) already,man!

• This interjection is used very frequently in Asturian, more than Englishman orbro, as such when translating to English many instances of "ho" would not be translated.
• Although "ho" was originally the adult male form, the children equivalent beingnin, "ho" is now used extensively for either, without taking into account the receptor's gender or age, while "nin" has largely retained its connotations.
• "Ho" is usually only used at the end of phrases, "home" is used at the beginning.

Eso ye lo qu'hai de facer,ho ―That's what you gotta do,man

Home, eso ye lo qu'hai de facer ―Man, that's what you gotta do

ho (requires hard mutation)

1. your pl

   hopreudeur ―your brothers

Inherited fromLatinhoc. CompareOccitano andac.

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

ho (enclitic and proclitic)

1. it(direct object);replaces the demonstrative pronounsaçò,això andallò
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 ofésser,esdevenir,estar orsemblar

• Ho cannot be used with eitheren orhi.
• ho is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.

  Ho sabem. ―We knowthat.

• -ho is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs.

  Puc fer-ho. ―I can doit.

  Deixa-ho. ―Leaveit.

ho

1. they

• IPA^(key):[ˈɦo]

• Audio:

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ho m orn

1. accusative ofon

   Synonym:jej

2. accusative ofono

ho

1. (onomatopoeia)Signifies a hearty laugh.

• ha,he,hi,hæ,hø,hår

• IPA^(key):/ho/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-o
• Hyphenation: ho

ho (accusative singularho-on,pluralho-oj,accusative pluralho-ojn)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterH/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

• hu

CompareKarelianho. An interjection that is found in many languages.^[1]

• IPA^(key):/ˈho/,[ˈho̞]
• Rhymes:-o
• Hyphenation^(key):ho

ho

1. Synonym ofoho

• IPA^(key):/o/

• Audio:

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ho

1. Used bytamers to calm the animal they are taming, especially horses;whoa

   Ho ! Tout doux ! ―Whoa! Easy!

2. Used to expresssurprise orshock

   Ho mon Dieu ! ―Oh my God!

• “ho”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Fromhome(“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! Nonho! ―I'm not doing this again! No way!

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ho”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ho”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ho”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

• IPA^(key):/ho/

ho (active,intransitive,irregular)

1. togo

   Cheaháta che rógape.

   I amgoing home.

• (che) aha
• (nde) reho
• (ha'e) oho
• (ñande) jaha
• (ore) roho
• (peẽ) peho
• (ha'ekuéra) oho

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*həqə(“yes; expression of agreement”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈhuʔ/[ˈhoʔ]
• Rhymes:-uʔ
• Syllabification:ho

hô (Hanunoo spellingᜱᜳ)

1. yes(word used to indicate agreement or acceptance)

• ho'

• IPA^(key):/ˈhu/[ˈho]
• Rhymes:-u
• Syllabification:ho

ho (Hanunoo spellingᜱᜳ)(literary)

1. 1st person nominative pronoun:I;me

   Synonyms:ako,(literary)kaa

• hom

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953)Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press,→OCLC,page128

• o(misspelling)
• ò(obsolete)

• IPA^(key):/ˈɔ/^*
• (some parts of Central Italy)IPA^(key):/ˈɔ/^°[1]
• Rhymes:-ɔ

ho

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofavere(“I have”)

ho

1. Thehiragana syllableほ(ho) or thekatakana syllableホ(ho) inHepburn romanization.

ho

1. Obsolete spelling ofwó.

Probably fromOld Norsehó!(interjection, also, a shepherd's call).

• hoo

• IPA^(key):/hɔː/

ho

1. stop,hold

• English:ho
• Yola:ho

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

ho

1. Alternative form ofwho(“who”,nominative)

ho

1. Alternative form ofhe(“he”)

ho

1. Alternative form ofheo(“she”)

ho

1. Alternative form ofhe(“they”)

ho

1. Alternative form ofhough(“hough, hock”)

ho

1. Alternative form ofhough(“promontory”)

ho

1. Alternative form ofoo(“one”)

• hò

• IPA^(key):/hɔ¹/

ho

1. (Mường Bi)I;me

FromOld Norsehon.

• IPA^(key):/huː/

ho (accusativehenne,genitivehennes)

1. (nonstandard,dialectal)she (form removed with thespelling reform of 2005;superseded byhun)

• IPA^(key):/huː/,[hu̞ː]
• (Selbu)IPA^(key):[hũ̞ː]

FromOld Norsehón, fromProto-Germanic*hēnō (compare*ainaz). Cognate withIcelandichún,Danishhun andSwedishhon.

ho (accusativehoorhenne,genitivehennar)

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

   Ho er bestevenninna mi. ―She is my best friend.

2. her

   Synonym:henne

   Eg ser ho. ―I seeher.

Unlike other Scandinavian languages, Nynorskho is used to refer not only to feminine persons, but any feminine noun. E.g.:Boka er god. Eg likarho.(“The book is good. I likeit.”)

In some dialects,ho may precede a female given name or a definite singular feminine noun. E.g:e(r)ho mang(e)ho klokka no?(“what time is it now?”);det erho Stine som kjem jo!(“It is Stine who is coming (over there)!”)

• hoe

ho f (definite singularhoa,indefinite pluralhoer,definite pluralhoene)

1. female

   Hoa legg egga oppe i eit tre. ―Thefemale lays the eggs up in a tree.

• “ho” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

hō

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofhōn

ho

1. Alternative spelling ofó

ho

1. Alternative spelling ofó

ho

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve,Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics),page 110

ho

1. Used to calm or stop a domestic animal, especially horses;whoa.

   Ho! Ușor! ―Whoa! Easy!

2. (vulgar)Used to calm down a person.

   Ho! Nu mai țipa ! ―Whoa! Stop screaming!

• jeho,neho,oň(after prepositions)

• IPA^(key):[ɦɔ]

ho

1. genitive/accusative ofon andono

ho c

1. atrough; a longcontainer forfeeding orwateringanimals.
2. asink; oftenmounted to awall; especially akitchen sink or awashing sink.

   Synonym:diskho

• slasktratt(“sink (for discharging wastewater)”)

Seevem.

ho

1. (archaic)who
   • 1541,Gustav Vasa Bible,Esaiah,40:13-14

     Hoo vnderwisar HERRANS anda/ och hwadh rådhgiffuare lärer honom? Hwem fråghar han om rådh, then honom förstånd giffuer/ och lärer honom rettzens wägh/ och lärer honom klookheet och wijsar honom förståndzens wägh?

     (1873 edition)Ho undervisar Herrans Anda; och hvad rådgifvare lärer honom? Hvem frågar han om råd, den honom förstånd gifver, och lärer honom rättsens väg, och lärer honom klokhet, och viser honom förståndsens väg?

     Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

   Ho äst du?

   Who art thou?

• In earlier Swedish,ho was thenominative case form ofvem (spelthvem), corresponding to the difference between Englishwho andwhom. Unlike in English, where the oblique form gives way to the nominative, the reverse has happened in Swedish.

• vem

Seehon.

ho

1. (dialectal)Alternative form ofhon(“she”)

• ho inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• ho inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ho inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈhoʔ/[ˈhoʔ]
• Rhymes:-oʔ
• Syllabification:ho

hô (Baybayin spellingᜑᜓ)

1. (familiar)honorific particle used while speaking to one's superior, elder, or guest

   Synonym:po

   Taga-saan namanho kayo? ―Where are you from,sir/madam?

• The word does not appear at a beginning of a sentence unless used alone.
• The wordho is used more on informal, familiar or conversational contexts thanpo. On some dialects, this is not observed and may even be more used thanpo.

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈho/[ˈho]
• Rhymes:-o
• Syllabification:ho

ho (Baybayin spellingᜑᜓ)

1. used to stop a horse, usually repeated

• la

• “ho”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018

• Oh,oh

• IPA^(key):/ɦɔː/

1. 3 (three)

• (Pyu digits):                     

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*(i-)kahu, compareMalaykau andTetumó.

ho

1. you

Borrowed fromArabicحَاء(ḥāʔ).

ho (pluralholar)

1. the Arabic letterح

FromProto-Vietic*hɔː.

• (Hà Nội)IPA^(key):[hɔ˧˧]
• (Huế)IPA^(key):[hɔ˧˧]
• (Saigon)IPA^(key):[hɔ˧˧]

• Audio(Hà Nội):

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ho• (呼,𤵡)

1. tocough

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)

FromMiddle Englishho, fromOld Norsehó.

• IPA^(key):/hɔː/

ho

1. ho
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number13, page90:

     Ha-ho! be mee coshes, th'ast ee-pait it, co Joane;

     Hey-ho! by my conscience, you have paid it, quoth John;

• ha-ho

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page90

• IPA^(key):/hó/

hó

1. (transitive, of liquids) toboil
2. (intransitive, of liquids) tobecomegaseous, to becomeboiled
3. toformbubbles orlather
4. toroar withnoise

   òkún ńhó yee; ọ̀sà ń mì lẹ̀gbẹ̀ ―The sea wasroaring; the lagoon was swaying majestically

• bọ́(“to cook in boiling water”)

• fó(Igbomina)

• IPA^(key):/hó/

hó

1. (transitive) topeeloff theskin orbark ofsomething

   Synonym:bó

Cognate withBouyeihol(“garlic”).

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

ho (1957–1982 spellingho)

1. garlic

   Synonym:suenq

• gyaeujho