ho

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.1 Homophones 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Interjection 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.1.2 References 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.4 Anagrams 2 Catalan 2.1 Pronoun 2.1.1 Contraction 2.2 Usage notes 3 Chickasaw 3.1 Pronoun 4 Czech 4.1 Pronoun 4.1.1 Synonyms 5 Esperanto 5.1 Interjection 6 Italian 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Verb 7 Swedish 7.1 Noun 7.1.1 Derived terms 7.2 Pronoun 7.3 See also

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /həʊ/
• (US) IPA: /hoʊ/

  Rhymes: -əʊ

[edit] Homophones

• hoe, hoh

[edit] Etymology 1

From either Old Norse hó or Old French ho (“‘halt’”)

[edit] Interjection

ho

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

   Sail ho!

[edit] Translations

[edit] References

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

[edit] Etymology 2

An eye dialect corruption of whore, from non-rhotic pronunciations considered typical of African American Vernacular English. Compare mo' (more) and fo' (for).

[edit] Noun

ho (plural hos or hoes)

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

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: ho
• oh, OH

---

[edit] Catalan

[edit] Pronoun

ho (unstressed personal, enclictic -ho)

1. 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

[edit] Contraction

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

[edit] Usage notes

• Ho cannot be used with either en or hi.

---

[edit] Chickasaw

[edit] Pronoun

ho

1. they

---

[edit] Czech

[edit] Pronoun

ho m., n.

1. Accusative case of on.
2. Accusative case of ono.

[edit] Synonyms

• (accusative of on): jej

---

[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Interjection

ho

1. oh

---

[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔ/, SAMPA: /O/

[edit] Verb

ho

1. The first-person singular present indicative form of the verb avere.

---

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

Inflection for ho	Singular		Plural
common	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Base form	ho	hon	hoar	hoarna
Possessive form	hos	hons	hoars	hoarnas

1. Trough; a long container for feeding or watering animals.
2. Sink; often mounted to a wall; especially a kitchen sink or a washing sink.

[edit] Derived terms

• diskho
• tvättho

[edit] Pronoun

ho

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

[edit] See also

• hon
• vem