Ho vs Hoodrat - What's the difference?
ho | hoodrat |
(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.
(slang) A sexually promiscuous girl.
* Compton's Most Wanted'' - ''Hoodrat (song)
* 2 Live Crew'' - ''Hoochie Mama (song)
* The Hold Steady''- ''Your Little Hoodrat Friend (song)
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* The 40-Year-Old Virgin'' (film)- ''"So what you just got to do is just get you a bunch of these hood rats run through them, just knock them out. Boom, boom, boom. And once you've done slayed like of them hood rats now you ready to go up to the upper echelon type ho. You know what I mean?" Jay
* Hood Rat''-''K'wan, K'wan Foye'' (book)- ''"a woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to "get around" in the 'hood."
As an initialism ho
is , in economics.As a noun hoodrat is
(slang) a sexually promiscuous girl.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 !