hoe

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

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• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophone: ho

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.

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.

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

• long row to hoe

• mattock
• pick
• rake

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

From non-rhotic whore.

• ho

hoe (plural hoes)

1. (US, slang) 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 (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

     […] 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

     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.

• See also Thesaurus:prostitute

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

     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)

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

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

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

hoe (plural hoes)

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

• HEO, Heo

hoe

1. friend

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

From Dutch hoe.

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hoe

1. how

• hoekom

• IPA^(key): /xoe/

hoe

1. water

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ɦu/

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• Hyphenation: hoe
• Rhymes: -u

hoe

1. how

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈho.e/, [ˈhowe]

hoe

1. oar
2. paddle

hoe

1. to row
2. to paddle

• hoʻohoe

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

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”).

hoe

1. oar
2. paddle

hoe

1. to row
2. to paddle

• hoea

• “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”)

• IPA^(key): /huːə/

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

1. Alternative form of ho

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

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

1. hoe (tool)

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

hoe (plural hoes)

1. The piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias

hoe f (plural hoeau, not mutable)

1. pause, break, rest

   Synonyms: egwyl, gosteg, saib, seibiant

• 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

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