hoe

See also: Hoe, hoë, hö, hō'ē, hòe, and hoè

English

A hoe

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: hō, IPA^(key): /həʊ/
• (US) enPR: hō, IPA^(key): /hoʊ/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophone: ho

Etymology 1

From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā (compare Middle Dutch houwe), from Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to cut, hew”). More at hew.

Noun

hoe (plural hoes)

1. An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.
   • 2009, TRU TV, 28 March:

     It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe.

Derived terms

• action hoe
• adze hoe
• adz hoe
• backhoe
• clam hoe
• collineal hoe
• collinear hoe
• double hoe
• draw hoe
• drill hoe
• Dutch hoe
• eye hoe
• flower hoe
• fork hoe
• grab hoe
• grubbing hoe
• grub hoe
• hand hoe
• hoedad
• hoe-farming
• hoe nightshade
• hoop hoe
• horse hoe
• Italian hoe
• mortar hoe
• pattern hoe
• Paxton hoe
• prong hoe
• ridging hoe
• scuffle hoe
• swivel hoe
• Warren hoe
• wheel hoe

 

Translations

agricultural tool

• Afrikaans: skoffelpik
• Albanian: shat (sq) f, gërmues (sq)
• Arabic: مِعْزَقة‎ f (miʕzaqa)
• Armenian: բրիչ (hy) (bričʿ)
• Aromanian: sapã f
• Assamese: কোৰ (kür)
• Asturian: fesoria f
• Avar: газа (gaza)
• Azerbaijani: alaqkeş, toxa
• Bashkir: тәпке (täpke), кәтмән (kätmän)
• Basque: aitzur
• Bats: თოჴ (toq)
• Belarusian: маты́ка f (matýka)
• Bikol Central: asadol
• Bukar-Sadung Bidayuh: sangkul
• Bulgarian: моти́ка (bg) f (motíka)
• Catalan: aixada (ca)
• Central Melanau: sakul
• Chechen: цел (cel)
• Cherokee: ᎦᎶᎪᏗ (galogodi)
• Chichewa: khasu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鋤／锄 (zh) (chú)

• Czech: motyka (cs) f
• Danish: hakke c
• Dutch: schoffel (nl) m, hak (nl) m
• Egyptian: (ḥnn m), (ḫbsyt f), (jknw m)
• Esperanto: rastro (eo), sarkilo
• Estonian: kõblas (et)
• Finnish: kuokka (fi)
• French: binette (fr) f, houe (fr) f
• Friulian: sape f
• Galician: aixada (gl) f, legón m, ligoña f, sacho m
• Georgian: თოხი (toxi)
• German: Hacke (de) f

  Alemannic German: Grebel m

• Greek: τσάπα (el) f (tsápa)

  Ancient: σκαφεῖον n (skapheîon), ἐπισκαφεῖον n (episkapheîon), σκαλίς f (skalís)

• Hebrew: מעדר‎ (he) m (má'der)
• Hungarian: kapa (hu)
• Iban: changkol
• Icelandic: hlújárn n
• Ido: bineto (io), hauo (io)
• Ingush: цел (cel)
• Irish: grafóg f
• Italian: zappa (it) f
• Japanese: 鍬 (ja) (くわ, kuwa)
• Kazakh: шот (şot), кетпен (ketpen)
• Kikuyu: icembe
• Kitembo: fuka
• Korean: 괭이 (ko) (gwaeng'i)
• Ladino: kavakadura
• Latgalian: kapacs f
• Latin: sarculum n, marra (la) f
• Latvian: kaplis (lv) m
• Laz: ბერგი (bergi), თოხი (toxi), ჩაფა (çapa)
• Lezgi: къупу (q̄upu)
• Lithuanian: kaplys m
• Luxembourgish: Heel m
• Macedonian: мотика f (motika)
• Malay: cangkul (ms), pangkur, pacul (ms), cak
• Malayalam: മൺവെട്ടി (ml) (maṇveṭṭi), തൂമ്പ (ml) (tūmpa), കൈക്കോട്ട്‌ (kaikkōṭṭ‌)
• Maltese: zappuna f, lexxuna f
• Manchu: ᡥᠣᠮᡳᠨ (homin)
• Maori: pāketu, hetiheti, tipitipi, karaone
• Mazanderani: بلو‎ (balu), فوکا‎ (fokā)
• Mingrelian: ბერგი (bergi), თოხი (toxi)
• Mohawk: atshōkten
• Mwani: jembe
• Norman: houette f
• Norwegian: hakke (no)
• O'odham: sibiyo
• Ossetian: къӕпи (k’æpi)
• Ottoman Turkish: چاپه‎ (çapa), كنند‎ (kenend)
• Pawnee: kátạreːrịwɩs
• Persian: کج‌بیل‎ (kaj-bil)
• Piedmontese: sapa f
• Plautdietsch: Weedhak f, Hak f
• Polabian: ťüpål m
• Polish: motyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: enxada (pt) f, facholo m (Mozambique)
• Quechua: lampa
• Romanian: sapă (ro) f
• Russian: тя́пка (ru) f (tjápka), моты́га (ru) f (motýga)
• Rwanda-Rundi: isuka (Rundi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мотика f

  Roman: motika (sh) f

• Slovak: motyka f
• Slovene: motika (sl) f
• Southern Altai: кертме (kertme)
• Spanish: azada (es) f, azadón (es) m
• Svan: ბე̄რგ (bērg)
• Swahili: jembe (sw)
• Swedish: hacka (sv) c
• Tagalog: asada, asarol
• Tai Dam: chóp
• Thai: จอบ (th) (jɔ̀ɔp)
• Turkish: çapa (tr)
• Turkmen: kätmen
• Udi: тохи (toχi)
• Ukrainian: моти́ка f (motýka)
• Uzbek: motiga (uz)
• Venetian: sapa (vec) f
• Vietnamese: cuốc (vi)
• Welsh: hof f, chwynnogl f
• West Coast Bajau: sangkul
• Yiddish: גראָבאײַזן‎ n (grobayzn)
• Yucatec Maya: tuhnkuy
• Yuchi: hafɛ
• Zhuang: gvak
• Zuni: waba’’ananne

Verb

hoe (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle hoed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

   to hoe the earth in a garden

   Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.

   I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.

2. (transitive) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

   to hoe corn

Derived terms

• hard row to hoe
• hoe one's row
• long row to hoe
• row to hoe
• tough row to hoe

 

Translations

to use the gardening tool

• Albanian: gërmoj (sq)
• Afrikaans: skoffel
• Aromanian: sãrcljedz, prãshescu
• Atayal: pazih
• Bulgarian: прекопавам (bg) (prekopavam)
• Danish: hakke
• Dutch: schoffelen (nl)
• Estonian: kõplama
• Finnish: kuokkia (fi)
• French: houer (fr)
• Galician: sachar, cavar (gl)
• Georgian: თოხავს (toxavs), მოთოხავს (motoxavs)
• German: hacken (de)
• Greek: τσαπίζω (el) (tsapízo)

  Ancient: σκάλλω (skállō), σκάπτω (skáptō)

• Hungarian: kapál (hu)
• Ido: hauagar (io)
• Italian: zappare (it)
• Latin: sariō
• Maltese: agħżaq
• Maori: pāpako, hetiheti, whakapāpako
• Piedmontese: sapé
• Portuguese: enxadar
• Quechua: lampay
• Romanian: prăși (ro), săpa (ro)
• Russian: моты́жить (ru) (motýžitʹ), разрыхля́ть (ru) (razryxljátʹ)
• Rwanda-Rundi: kurima (Rundi)
• Serbo-Croatian: kopati motikom
• Slovak: kopať, okopávať
• Spanish: azadonar, cavar (es)
• Venetian: sapar (vec)

See also

• mattock
• pick
• rake

Further reading

• Hoe (implement) in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.

Etymology 2

From non-rhotic whore.

Alternative forms

• ho

Noun

hoe (plural hoes)

1. (slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
   • 1973, “Spoon”, in Hustler's Convention, performed by Lightnin' Rod:

     Then we split to the Cafe Black Rose / To party with some hoes

   • 1994, Juicy‎^[1] (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G., 0:00 from the start:

     Fuck all you hoes.
     Get a grip, motherfucker.

   • 2002, Eithne Quinn, Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap‎^[2]:

     […] 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

   • 2003, Dan Harrington, The Good Eye‎^[3]:

     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

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hoe.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:prostitute

Derived terms

• art hoe
• captain save a hoe
• Joe and the hoe gotta go

 

Verb

hoe (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle hoed)

1. (US, slang) Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).
   • 2003, Da’rel the Relentless One, M. T. Pimp‎^[4]:

     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.

Etymology 3

From Middle English hough, hogh, from Old English hōh.

Alternative forms

• hough

Noun

hoe (plural hoes)

2. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

Usage notes

• Now used only in place names, such as Plymouth Hoe.

Etymology 4

Cognate with Dutch haai (“shark”), qv.

Noun

hoe (plural hoes)

1. (Orkney, Shetland) The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.

Anagrams

• HEO, Heo

'Are'are

Noun

hoe

1. friend

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch hoe.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Adverb

hoe

1. how

Related terms

• hoekom

Angor

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xoe/

Noun

hoe

1. water

References

• Robert Lee Litteral, Features in Anggor Discourse (1980), page 38

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hoe, from Old Dutch huo, from Proto-Germanic *hwō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦu/

• audio

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• Hyphenation: hoe
• Rhymes: -u

Adverb

hoe

1. how

Derived terms

• hoeveel
• in hoeverre
• hoezeer
• hoedanig
• hoe dan ook

Descendants

• Berbice Creole Dutch: ho
• Jersey Dutch: hû
• Negerhollands: hoe, ho, hue

Conjunction

hoe

1. (forms a the parallel comparative) the ... the

   Hoe meer hoe beter! ― The more the better!

   Hoe eerder hoe beter! ― The sooner the better!

Usage notes

Second hoe can be replaced by des te; there is no difference between the two as they are purely a matter of preference, both are commonly used throughout the Dutch-speaking regions.

Finnish

Verb

hoe

1. present active indicative connegative of hokea
2. second-person singular present imperative of hokea
3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of hokea

Garo

Particle

hoe

1. yes, indeed

Usage notes

There is no real equivalent of an antonym to yes in Garo. When denoting negative sentences, attach the suffix -ja to the main verb.

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fohe, from Proto-Central Pacific *voce, from Proto-Oceanic *pose, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *boʀse, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀsay (“canoe paddle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈho.e/, [ˈhowe]

Noun

hoe

1. oar
2. paddle

Verb

hoe

1. to row
2. to paddle

Derived terms

• hoʻohoe

References

• “hoe” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fohe, from Proto-Central Pacific *voce, from Proto-Oceanic *pose, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *boʀse, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀsay (“canoe paddle”).

Noun

hoe

1. oar
2. paddle

Verb

hoe

1. to row
2. to paddle

Derived terms

• hoea

References

• “hoe” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch huo, from Proto-Germanic *hwō.

Adverb

hoe

1. how, in what way/manner
2. how, to what degree

Alternative forms

• woe (eastern)

Descendants

• Dutch: hoe
• Limburgish: woe

Further reading

• “hoe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “hoe (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hoe

1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hoe

1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

Min Nan

For pronunciation and definitions of hoe – see 花 (“flower; blossom; florid; flowery; etc.”). (This character, hoe, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 花.)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /huːə/

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of ho

Old French

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, probably from or related to Frankish *hauwan (“to chop”).

Noun

hoe f (oblique plural hoes, nominative singular hoe, nominative plural hoes)

1. hoe (tool)

Scots

Etymology

Probably from Norn høg or Middle Norwegian haa. Ultimately from Old Norse hár

Noun

hoe (plural hoes)

1. The piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias

Welsh

Noun

hoe f (plural hoeau, not mutable)

1. pause, break, rest

   Synonyms: egwyl, gosteg, saib, seibiant

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hoe”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hū, from Proto-Germanic *hwō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu/

Adverb

hoe

1. how (interrogative)

Derived terms

• hoe't

Further reading

• “hoe (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011