hoe
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From Old French hoe from Old High German term+goh. Possibly through hew.
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hoe (plural hoes)
- An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.
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agricultural tool
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to hoe (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle hoed)
- To use the agricultural tool defined above.
- Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.
- I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.
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to use the gardening tool
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An eye dialect corruption of whore, from non-rhotic pronunciations considered typical of Ebonics.
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hoe (plural hoes)
- (US, slang) Alternative spelling of ho. A prostitute.
- 2004, 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
- 2006, 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
- 2004, Eithne Quinn, Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap
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- See also Wikisaurus:prostitute
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to hoe (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle hoed)
- (US, slang) Alternative spelling of ho. To act as a 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.
- 2003, Da’rel the Relentless One, M. T. Pimp
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hoe
- (interrogative and conjunctive pro-adverb) how
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hoe
- Indicative present connegative form of hokea.
- Second-person singular imperative present form of hokea.
- Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of hokea.
[edit] Hawaiian
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Compare Maori hoe.
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hoe
[edit] Maori
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Compare Hawaiian hoe.
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hoe

