Skank vs Ho - What's the difference?
skank | ho |
(pejorative, slang) A lewdly unattractive and disreputable person, often female, especially one with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
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To cheat, especially a friend.
(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
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A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
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(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.
As nouns the difference between skank and ho
is that skank is any substance that is particularly foul, unhygienic or unpleasant while ho is a stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.As a verb skank
is to dance the skank.As an interjection ho is
used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.As a proper noun Ho is
a Munda language spoken in India and Bangladesh.As an initialism HO is
Heckscher-Ohlin theorem, in economics.skank
English
Etymology 1
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. Middle English, meaning frolicsome and often lascivious conduct.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
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Jamaican originEtymology 4
Slang word used in Northern England (commonly used through the 1980s).Verb
(en verb)- ''He shortchanged a partner, leaving him feeling skanked .
Derived terms
* skanker * skanky Jamaican English ----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 !