hoe

Clipping of English Horom with e as a placeholder.

hoe

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Horom.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Horom terms

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

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophone: ho

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

hoe (plural hoes)

2. Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.
   2. (when not otherwise specified) An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.

      Synonym: hand hoe

      Hyponyms: action hoe, adze hoe, adz hoe, 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, hoop hoe, Italian hoe, mortar hoe, pattern hoe, Paxton hoe, prong hoe, ridging hoe, scuffle hoe, swivel hoe, Warren hoe

      Coordinate terms: wheel hoe, backhoe, trackhoe

      For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.

      • 2009, TRU TV, 28 March:

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

   4. Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.

      Hyponyms: wheel hoe, horse hoe, backhoe, trackhoe

      The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]

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

1. (ambitransitive) 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

• mattock
• pick
• rake

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

From a non-rhotic pronunciation of whore.

• ho, 'ho

hoe (plural hoes)

2. (slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).

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

     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

   • 2023 June 9, John Mac Ghlionn, “The new Andrew Tate: Toxic ‘manosphere’ podcaster claims ‘all women are whores’”, in New York Post‎^[4]:

     On the podcast, Gaines and his co-host Walter Weekes (Fresh), regularly refer to women as “hoes” or 304s (304 on an upside-down calculator looks like the word “hoe”).

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

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^[5]:

     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.

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

• hough

hoe (plural hoes)

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

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

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

hoe (plural hoes)

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

• HEO, Heo

From Dutch hoe.

• IPA^(key): /ɦu/

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hoe

1. how

• hoekom

• IPA^(key): /xoe/

hoe

1. water

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

hoe

1. friend

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ɦu/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: hoe
• Rhymes: -u

hoe

1. how

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

hoe

1. (hoe ... hoe, hoe ... des te) the ... the, forms a parallel comparative

   Synonym: des te

   Hoe meer hoe beter! ― The more the better!

   Hoe eerder hoe beter! ― The sooner the better!

hoe

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

hoe

1. yes, indeed

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

From Proto-Polynesian *fohe (compare with Māori hoe, Tongan fohe, Samoan foe),^[1] from Proto-Central Pacific *voce (compare with Fijian voce), from Proto-Oceanic *pose , from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *boʀse, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀsay (“canoe paddle”) (compare with Pangutaran Sama busay, Kelabit besai, Central Dusun bosi, Cebuano bugsáy).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈho.e/, [ˈho.we]

hoe

1. oar
2. paddle

• lauhoe (“paddle blade”)

hoe

1. to row, to paddle
2. to propel, to start
3. (figurative) to keep working

• hoʻohoe (causative)
• hoehoe (reduplicated form)
• pāhoe (“paddler”)

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

From Proto-Polynesian *fohe (compare with Tongan fohe, Samoan foe), from Proto-Central Pacific *voce (compare with Fijian voce), from Proto-Oceanic *pose, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *boʀse, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀsay (“canoe paddle”) (compare with Pangutaran Sama busay, Kelabit besai, Central Dusun bosi, Cebuano bugsáy).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoe/ [ˈhɔɛ]

hoe

1. oar
2. paddle

hoe (passive hoea)

1. to row, to paddle
2. to push away with one's hand
   1. (figurative) to refuse, to reject

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “hoe”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 65-6 (+28)
• “hoe” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

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

hoe

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

• woe (eastern)

• Dutch: hoe
• Limburgish: woe

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

hoe

1. alternative form of heo (“she”)

hoe

1. alternative form of he (“they”)

hoe

1. alternative form of houe (“hoe”)

• IPA^(key): /huːə/

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

1. alternative form of ho

• hou, howe, hewe, owe (Anglo-Norman)
• haue (Anglo-Norman, Picard)
• houe

From Frankish *hauwā. Attested from the late 12th century.

• (classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /ˈhuə/

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

1. hoe
2. billhook
3. (by extension) toeclip of a horseshoe

• Middle French: houe
  • French: houe
• Norman: hoe, haoue (Guernésiais)
• Picard: hau (Ch'ti)
• Walloon: awe, hawe
• → Middle English: howe, houwe
  • English: hoe
  • Yola: howe

• “hoe1”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*hauwa”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 16: Germanismes: G–R, page 185

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

hoe (plural hoes)

1. The piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hwɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hwɛ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [wɛ˧˧]

hoe • (暉, 槐)

1. reddish; carroty

   khóc nhiều mắt đỏ hoe ― to cry so much that the eyes become reddish

   tóc hoe hoe ― reddish hair

• đỏ hoe

• heo

Perhaps borrowed from English ho (“a stop; a halt”).^[1]

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /hoːɨ̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /hɔi̯/

hoe f (plural hoeau, not mutable)

1. pause, break, rest

   Synonyms: egwyl, gosteg, saib, seibiant

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

• IPA^(key): /hu/

hoe

1. how (interrogative)

• hoe't

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