Soho

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊ.həʊ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊhəʊ
• Homophones: SoHo, SOHO

From the hunting cry soho.

Soho

1. An area of the West End, in central London.
   • 1978, The Who, “Who Are You”, in Who Are You:

     I woke up in a Soho doorway / A policeman knew my name / He said, "You can go, sleep at home tonight / if you can get up and walk away."

Believed to be an abbreviation of south house.

Soho

1. An area partly in Sandwell borough, and partly in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0389).

Soho

1. Alternative spelling of SoHo: An area of Manhattan, New York.
   • 2013 July 10, Daniel Prendergast, “‘You don’t have the cojones’: 54-year-old woman fronts up to would-be muggers who pointed gun at her chest”, in New York Post‎^[1], archived from the original on 2 August 2016:

     The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.

• Hoos, oh-so, shoo, oh so, oohs

From English Soohoo, from Taishanese 司徒 (lhu¹ hu³). Compare English Szeto.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsoho/ [ˈsoː.ho]
• Rhymes: -oho
• Syllabification: So‧ho

Soho (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜑᜓ)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from English [in turn from Taishanese]