Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express surprise or joy, to attract attention to something sighted, or to urge onward: Land ho! Westward ho!
- n. Slang A prostitute.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A cry or call uttered to arrest attention; also, an exclamation of satisfaction or exultation.
- In particular, a cry used to stop one who is passing, or to command a stop in some action; now, especially (also written whoa), a cry used to stop a horse or other draft-animal; used imperatively, stop! hold!
- n. A command to keep silence, or to cease from anything.
- n. Cessation; end; pause; intermission.
- To cry out; call out; hail.
- To stop; cease.
- A Middle English form of who.
- See he.
- The chemical symbol of holmium.
Wiktionary
- interj. Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
- n. A whore; a sexually loose woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a female with connotations of loose sexuality.
GNU Webster's 1913
- pro. Who.
- n. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
- interj. Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
- interj. Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds
Etymologies
- African American Vernacular English, alteration of whore.
Examples
“: 26 AM ho ho ho~~~ tiz a season to be jolly ho's coming back today!!”
“Robin Good-fellow would many times walk in the night with a broom on his shoulder, and cry "chimney sweep," but when any one did call him, then would he run away laughing _ho, ho, hoh!”
“No sooner was he in the midst of it, but Robin Good-fellow left him with nothing but a pack-saddle betwixt his legs, and in the shape of a fish swam to the shore, and ran away laughing, _ho, ho, hoh!”
“Why do not their windows rattle with a Yo, ho, ho?”
“The soundings of the seven trumpets are significant of progressive steps in the general judgment; the days pertaining to the voice of the seventh angel are those immediately preceding the actual sounding of his trumpet, which announces the {95} completion (as indicated by the number seven) of the mystery of God's creation in time, and marks the end of the age (_ho aiôn ho mellôn_) following upon the conclusion of the present age.”
“One or two of them sing, keeping time with their hands, which they strike on their knees: sometimes they stop, exclaiming, _Ho, ho, ho_, when they begin dancing again, puffing like a man out of breath.”
“Arriving in front of the great Sagamore, he threw his dog violently to the ground, when all with one voice exclaimed, _Ho, ho, ho_, after which he went back to his place.”
“And, beginning with the Book of Revelation, at the title ho hon kai ho en kai ho erchomenos, "who is, and was, and is to come," he goes upward through the sacred volume, quoting the passages which bear upon the question, till he comes to the important passage in Exodus in.”
“There are news going around that this season Santas might be banned to use their traditional greeting of "ho, ho, ho" and thus have to use "ha, ha, ha" instead because the term "ho" is too close to the American slang for prostitute.”
“Acusilanus, Simonides the Younger, who bore the title ho Genealogos, as did also Pherecydes) "(p. 136).”
Lists
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Offensive Words
The worst of the bunch, bring um on
twat, asshole, pussy, dick, cunt, whore, slut, cum, blowjob, fuck, bitch, fanny and 42 more...
vanishedone The way Santa Claus is reputed to laugh; see also ha, hee and heh. May 22, 2008
oroboros Ho. Chemical element symbol for Holmium. Dec 15, 2007