Ho vs Ia - What's the difference?
ho | ia |
(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.
Iowa, a state of the United States of America.
(Arabic English) inshallah; God willing
This is the procedure to determine the cause of a rifle stoppage
(computer)
(law enforcement) This is a department responsible for investigating complaints against police officers.
As initialisms the difference between ho and ia
is that ho is Heckscher-Ohlin theorem, in economics while IA is initialism of lang=en This is the procedure to determine the cause of a rifle stoppage.As an interjection ho
is used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.As a noun ho
is a stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.As a proper noun Ho
is a Munda language spoken in India and Bangladesh.As an abbreviation IA is
iowa, a state of the United States of America.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 !