Ho in Scrabble Dictionary

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2 letters words from 'ho'

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Definitions and meaning of ho

ho

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /həʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hoʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: hoe, hoh

Etymology 1

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!”).

Interjection

ho

1. (nautical) Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.

2. halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach
   • c. 1600, Joseph Hall, Satires

     Ho! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.
3. (rare) Said accompanying a vigorous attack.
   • 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!

Translations

Noun

ho

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

     There is no ho with them.

References

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

Etymology 2

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”).

Alternative forms

• hoe

Noun

ho (plural hos or hoes)

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

Translations

Etymology 3

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).

Alternative forms

• hoe

Noun

ho (plural hos)

1. (obsolete) Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.

Etymology 4

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).

Alternative forms

• hoe

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• OH, Oh, oh

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Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Etymology

From Latin hoc. Compare Occitan o and ac.

Pronoun

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

Usage notes

• Ho cannot be used with either en or hi.
• ho is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.

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

Declension

Contraction

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Chickasaw

Pronoun

ho

1. they

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦo]

Pronoun

ho m, n

1. accusative of on

   Synonym: jej

2. accusative of ono

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Danish

Interjection

ho

1. (onomatopoeia) Signifies a hearty laugh.

See also

• ha, he, hi, hæ, hø, hår

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ho/
• Hyphenation: ho
• Audio:

Noun

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

1. The name of the Latin-script letter H.

See also

• (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

Interjection

ho

1. oh

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o/

Interjection

ho

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

2. Used to express surprise or shock.

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Galician

Etymology

From home (“man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ/

Interjection

ho!

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

References

• “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.

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Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ho/

Verb

ho (active, intransitive, irregular)

1. to go

   Che ahata che rógape.

   I am going home.

Conjugation

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

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Italian

Alternative forms

• o (misspelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔ

Verb

ho

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

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Japanese

Romanization

ho

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

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Lower Sorbian

Preposition

ho

1. Obsolete spelling of wó

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

ho

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

Etymology 2

Pronoun

ho

1. Alternative form of he (“he”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

ho

1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

ho

1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /huː/

Pronoun

ho (accusative henne, possessive hennes)

1. (nonstandard, dialectal) she (form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by hun)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hon.

Pronoun

ho (accusative ho or henne, genitive hennar)

Pronoun

ho

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

2. her

   Synonym: henne

Usage notes

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.”)

See also

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• hoe

Noun

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

1. female

References

• “ho” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old Irish

Conjunction

ho

1. Alternative spelling of ó

Preposition

ho

1. Alternative spelling of ó

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Orya

Noun

ho

1. water

References

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

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Romanian

Interjection

ho

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

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

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɦo]

Pronoun

ho

1. short genitive/accusative singular of on
2. short genitive/accusative singular of ono

Synonyms

• (long form): jeho
• (prepositional form): neho

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Swedish

Etymology 1

Noun

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.

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See vem.

Pronoun

ho

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

Usage notes

In earlier Swedish, ho was the nominative form of vem (hvem), corresponding to the difference between English who and whom. Unlike in English, where the oblique form has been lost to the nominative, the reverse has happened in Swedish.

Related terms

• vem

Etymology 3

Dialectal form of hon, with identical meaning.

Pronoun

ho

1. (dialectal) she

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Tagalog

Particle

ho

1. (Batangas) a honorific particle

   Synonym: (Manila, Standard Tagalog, other dialects) po

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *hɔː.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

ho • (呼, 𤵡)

1. to cough

Derived terms

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Warao

Noun

ho

1. water

Descendants

• Hosororo

References

• Languages of hunter-gatherers and their neighbors, citing Andrés Romero-Figueroa, Warao, Lincom Studies in Native American Linguistics 06 (1997, Munich/ Newcastle: Lincom Europa)

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Zhuang

Etymology

Cognate with Bouyei hol (“garlic”).

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

ho (old orthography ho)

1. garlic

   Synonym: suenq

Derived terms

• gyaeujho

Source: wiktionary.org

• to stop.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)