Ho vs Nob - What's the difference?
ho | nob |
(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, chiefly, British) a wealthy or influential person; a toff
:: Baldrick, Blackadder Goes Forth
The head.
(cribbage) a jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
(slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis.
To hit in the head
As an initialism ho
is , in economics.As a noun nob is
ioc.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 ----nob
English
Etymology 1
* From "nobleman" or "member of the nobility" (Doubtful) * From "white-nob" (Eighteenth century) or "white-head", referring to the powdered wigs used by those affecting upper middle-class status.Noun
(en noun)- The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.
Etymology 2
(en)Noun
(en noun)- Jack and Jill went up the hill / to fetch a pail of water; / Jack fell down and broke his crown / and Jill came tumbling after. / Up Jack got and home did trot, / as fast as he could caper, / to old Dame Dob / to mend his nob / with vinegar and brown paper.
- One for his nob .