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Po vs Ho - What's the difference?

po | ho |

As nouns the difference between po and ho

is that po is a peacock while ho is a stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.

As proper nouns the difference between po and ho

is that po is italy's longest river, which flows 652 kilometers eastward to the Adriatic Sea near Venice while Ho is a Munda language spoken in India and Bangladesh.

As initialisms the difference between po and ho

is that po is post office while HO is Heckscher-Ohlin theorem, in economics.

As an interjection ho is

used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.

po

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A peacock.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Australia, NZ, colloquial, dated) A chamberpot.
  • * 1988 , (Richard Hoggart), A Local Habitation, 1918-40 , Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0-7011-3305-8, page 67,
    • ‘Pos ’ or ‘chamber pots’ were provided under the beds.
  • * 1989 , (Leonard Woolf), Frederic Spotts (editor), Letters of Leonard Woolf , page 86,
    • There are always several spitoons & pos [chamber pots] about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.

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    ho

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ho, .

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (nautical) Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
    • Sail ho !
  • :: Another boat is visible!
    • Land ho !
  • :: Land is visible!
    • Man ho !
  • :: A town is visible!
  • halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach
  • * Shakespeare
    • What noise there, ho ?
  • * Shakespeare
    • Ho ! who's within?
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
    • Ho ! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.

    Noun

  • A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
  • * Decker
    • There is no ho with them.
    References
    * 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988

    Etymology 2

    An eye dialect corruption of whore , from non-rhotic pronunciations considered typical of African American Vernacular English. Compare .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (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.
    • Bros before hos !
    Synonyms
    * See also

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