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birthplace | ho |

As a noun birthplace

is the location where a person was born.

As an initialism ho is

, in economics.

birthplace

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The location where a person was born.
    • Portsmouth was Charles Dickens’ birthplace .
  • (by extension) The location where something was created or devised.
    • Coney Island was the birthplace of the hot dog.

    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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