hon

Shortened from honey.

• hun

• enPR: hŭn, IPA^(key): /hʌn/

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• Rhymes: -ʌn
• Homophone: Hun

hon (plural hons)

1. (mostly as a term of address) Honey, sweetheart, a term of endearment; (Southern US) a friendly term of address.

   Hey, hon! How was your day at work?

2. (transgender slang, 4chan, derogatory) A trans woman who does not pass; a clocky trans woman. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
   • 2015 October 18, Anonymous, 4chan‎, /lgbt/:

     If you didn't experience that you'll end up one of those ugly SJW programmer transbian hons with dyed hair sucking each other's dicks while acting like men in every way possible.

   • [2018 July 10, @addamschloe, Twitter‎:

     [cw anti-trans slurs] I get that they're rarer than 'trap' (being used to describe trans women as intentional deceivers) but I'd like it if people could be equally hostile to the terms 'brick' and 'hon' honestly
     it's all transmisic garbage]

   • [2018 July 10, @addamschloe, Twitter‎:

     'brick' refers to a trans woman who doesn't 'pass', 'hon' refers to a trans woman who doesn't pass and also is nice to other trans women who don't pass, particularly used against older trans women]

   • 2020 May 12, @MsBdUnicorn, Twitter‎:

     Consider the fact that /tttt/ calls any positive trans space a hugbox full of hons. We're still hung up about passing and it's so pathetic.

   • 2022 June 2, @stacycay, Twitter‎:

     listen hon, if you’re a "biological boy" that’s cool and all but the rest of us are trans women.

   • 2022 September 16, @mishawave, Twitter‎:

     i feel like that depends on how you're using it. referring to yourself as a "hon", or using it as a joke, sure. but calling other trans people hons directly or indirectly is a bit far imo. it's an insult about something specific, so it's different from general slurs like "tranny"

Clipping of come on with devoicing of /m/. Compare c'mon.

• 'hon, h'on

• IPA^(key): [m̥ɑn], /hmɒn/, /hɒn/
• Rhymes: -ɒn

hon

1. (Ireland, slang); (typically) cheering a sports team, especially a GAA team; exhortation or encouragement come on; congratulations well done, bravo
   • 2013 September 9, Rosita Boland "Feelings of relief and anti-climax in Ennis car park" The Irish Times

     “Hon the Banner!” is the single-minded mantra being roared everywhere else.

   • 2016 August 17, Jennifer Dollard "Seagulls cover Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage'" Today FM:

     We're not normally impressed by this kind of stuff but h'on the lads! This is pretty good.

   • 2017 March 16, Amy O'Connor "GQ did a swanky photoshoot in loads of Dublin pubs with the star of Beauty and the Beast" Daily Edge:

     To coincide with the film’s release, GQ recently enlisted the actor to take part in a photoshoot in some of Dublin’s most beloved pubs. ... Hon Dublin!

   • 2017 April 7, Johnny Watterson, John O'Sullivan, "Liveblog: US Masters: Day One" The Irish Times:

     22:23 BIRDIE: Lowry (-2) can't find the bottom of the cup with his eagle putt but taps in for birdie. Hon the Offalyman. He's one behind the leaders, McGirt and Hoffman

hon (plural hons)

1. Alternative form of hoon (“Indian gold coin”)

• NOH, Noh, noh, ohn

Compare Welsh ein. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̃n/

hon

1. our

hon

1. Archaic form of on.

• “hon” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Proto-Slavic *gònъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦon]

hon m

1. hunt, chase

   hon na lišku ― fox hunt

• While lov may refer to any kind of hunting, hon refers only to those which involve chasing such as of ducks or fox.

• honit

• lov

• hon in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• hon in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• hon in Internetová jazyková příručka

From Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *hēnō. Cognate with Icelandic hún, Danish hun and Norwegian Bokmål hun.

• IPA^(key): [hoːn]

hon

1. she

From the archaic honn (“at home”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhon]

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• Rhymes: -on

hon (plural honok)

1. (literary) home, homeland, fatherland

   Synonym: haza

• (homeland): hon in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• (alternative form of honn (“at home”, rare, archaic)): hon in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• han

From Central Franconian hann, from Middle High German haben, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn.

• IPA^(key): /hɔn/

hon

1. to have

   Ich hon en gros Haus.

   I have a big house.

   Hod-der Zeid fer mich se hellfe?

   Do you have time to help me?

   Ich had en komischer Draam gester Nacht.

   I had a weird dream last night.

2. (auxiliary, with a past participle) to have (forms the perfect)

   Er hod es gemach.

   He has done it.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

• hún
• hón (archaic)

From the archaic form hón.

hon (personal pronoun):

1. (archaic) she

hon

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほん

hon (third-person singular simple present honeth, present participle honende, honynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle honed)

1. Alternative form of honen (“to linger”)

hon

1. Alternative form of on

hon

1. Alternative form of oon

hon

1. Alternative form of oon

hon (plural hones)

1. Alternative form of hond

hon (third-person singular simple present hoþ, present participle honde, first-/third-person singular past indicative heng, past participle ihon)

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of hongen

From Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han.

• IPA^(key): /xoːn/, [hoːn]

hōn

1. to hang
2. to suspend

• āhōn
• behōn
• ġehōn
• ymbhōn

• henġan

• Middle English: hōn, hangen, hongen (merger with hangian)
  • English: hang
  • Scots: hang

hon m

1. Alternative form of hom

From Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *hēnō.

hōn

1. she

• Swedish: hon

Cognate with Assamese কোন (kün), Hindi कौन (kaun), Romani kon.

hon

1. who

From Old Swedish hōn, from Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *hēnō (compare *ainaz). Cognate with Icelandic hún, Danish hun and Norwegian Bokmål hun.

• IPA^(key): /hʊn/

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hon

1. she; the third-person, singular, feminine pronoun in the nominative case

   Hon är mycket vacker.

   She is very beautiful.

2. it (for certain nouns that were feminine in Old Swedish)

   Vad är hon?

   What (time) is it?

   Går hon bra?

   Is it (the car) working all right?

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /huːn/

hon

1. definite singular of ho.

From Middle High German haben, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn.

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hon

1. to have

See hwn (“this”)

• IPA^(key): /hɔn/

hon f (masculine hwn, neuter hyn)

1. this

• honno

hon

1. First person dual subject (medial position)

   we two

2. First person plural subject (medial position)

   we (three or more)

• ho'na'
• ho'n'aawan