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ho | h |

As an initialism ho

is , in economics.

As a letter h is

the eighth letter of the.

As a symbol h is

(label) symbol for hydrogen.

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

    Anagrams

    * English two-letter words ----

    h

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=g, next=i, image= (wikipedia h)

    Letter

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * (hwair) * (heng with hook)

    Symbol

    (Voiceless glottal fricative) (head)
  • voiceless glottal fricative.
  • Planck's constant

    • See also

    {{Letter , page=H , NATO=Hotel , Morse=ยทยทยทยท , Character=H8 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin H.png, Capital and lowercase versions of H , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter H.png, Uppercase and lowercase H in Fraktur ----