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"Oh!--ho--ho!" she sighed in solitude, "if Arthur could have learned from Godfrey how to wait, or even if Isabel could but have learned from Ruth how to keep one waiting She paused at a window that looked over the garden and into the street.

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  1. interjection Used to express surprise or joy, to attract attention to something sighted, or to urge onward: Land ho! Westward ho!
  2. noun Slang A prostitute.

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  1. African American Vernacular English, alteration of whore.

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  1. Also written hoa, formerly hoe, and, as a teamster's cry, whoa, q. v.; from Middle English ho, hoo = German ho = Icelandic hō = French ho = Hindustani ho, etc.; an aspirated form of O, oh, a sonorous syllable: see O, oh, and cf. ah, and ha, hoo, etc.
  2. from Middle English ho, apparently from ho, interjection; but perhaps considered as short for hold: cf. Dutch hou, hold, stop, properly houd, imperative of houden = English hold: see avast.
  3. from Middle English hoen = Icelandic hōa, cry ho; from the interjection Cf. hoy.
 

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