Ho vs Hum - What's the difference?
ho | hum |
(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.
A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
* Shakespeare
Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
(UK, slang) unpleasant odour.
(dated) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
(obsolete) A kind of strong drink.
To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
To express by humming.
To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
To produce low sounds which blend continuously
(British) To reek, smell bad.
(British) To deceive, or impose on one by some story or device.
(transitive, dated, slang) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug.
hmm; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.
As an initialism ho
is , in economics.As a noun hum is
twilight, dusk.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 !
Synonyms
* See alsoAnagrams
* English two-letter words ----hum
English
(wikipedia hum)Noun
(en noun)- They could hear a hum coming from the kitchen, and found the dishwasher on.
- the shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Verb
(humm)- We are humming happily along with the music.
- to hum a tune
- ''The hazers ominously hummed "We shall overcome" while they paddled the unruly pledges
- A slight gloom fell upon the table. Jacob was helping himself to jam; the postman was talking to Rebecca in the kitchen; there was a bee humming at the yellow flower which nodded at the open window.
- 'The streets were humming with activity.''
- This room really hums — have you ever tried spring cleaning, mate?
Derived terms
* hummer * hummingbird * humming-topSynonyms
* bumble * bustle * hustle * buzz * croon * whirAnagrams
*Interjection
(en interjection)- (Alexander Pope)