Ho vs Ha - What's the difference?
ho | ha |
(nautical) Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
:: Another boat is visible!
:: Land is visible!
:: A town is visible!
halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* Bishop Joseph Hall
A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
* Decker
(slang, pejorative) A whore; a sexually loose woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
Ha is a related term of ho.
Ha is a synonym of ho.
As interjections the difference between ho and ha
is that ho is used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts while ha is a representation of laughter.As proper nouns the difference between ho and ha
is that ho is a Munda language spoken in India and Bangladesh while Ha is an ethnic and linguistic group based in Kigoma Region in western Tanzania.As initialisms the difference between ho and ha
is that ho is Heckscher-Ohlin theorem, in economics while HA is highways Agency.As a noun ho
is a stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.As a verb ha is
alternate spelling of a4As a pronoun ha is
a gender-neutral, third person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.ho
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ho, .Interjection
(en interjection)- Sail ho !
- Land ho !
- Man ho !
- What noise there, ho ?
- Ho ! who's within?
- Ho ! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.
Noun
- There is no ho with them.
References
* 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988Etymology 2
An eye dialect corruption of whore , from non-rhotic pronunciations considered typical of African American Vernacular English. Compare .Noun
(en-noun)- Bros before hos !
