Hoe vs Digger - What's the difference?
hoe | digger |
An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.
* 2009 , TRU TV, 28 March:
The horned or piked dogfish.
(ambitransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
(US, slang) A prostitute.
* 2002 , Eithne Quinn,
* 2003 , Dan Harrington,
(US, slang) To act as a prostitute.
* 2003 , Da’rel the Relentless One,
A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.
A tool for digging.
* 2009 , Sharon Bomgaars, The Best Clubhouse Ever ,
A spade (playing card).
One who digs.
* 1997 , Barbara J. Wrede, Civilizing Your Puppy ,
* 2005 , Gary R. Sampson, Dick Wolfsie, Dog Dilemmas: Simple Solutions to Everyday Problems ,
(Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
* 1853 , (editor), Household Words , Volume 21,
(Australia, dated) An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment .
(Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
* 1998 , Helen Gilbert, Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre ,
* 2002 , Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Pierce, Australia's Vietnam War ,
* 2004 , Lisanne Gibson, Joanna Besley, Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape ,
As an adjective hoe
is .As a noun digger is
a soldier from australia or new zealand.hoe
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) howe, from (etyl) houe, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe .
Derived terms
* backhoeVerb
(d)- to hoe the earth in a garden
- Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.
- I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.
- to hoe corn
Derived terms
* long row to hoeSee also
* mattock * pick * rakeExternal links
*Etymology 2
From non-rhotic whore.Alternative forms
* hoNoun
(en noun)Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap
- […] this chapter […] will […] explore why pimp (and hoe ) characters, with their dramatic staging of gendered and occupational relations […] have taken such hold of the black youth imagination
The Good Eye
- At school they had been among the only couples that had not done “it” at the Pimp & Hoe parties that popped up occasionally at the dorm
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(d)M. T. Pimp
- Pimpin’ came so naturally to MT when he and his sisters played pimp and hoe games that one of his sisters wanted to hoe for him when they grew up.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m).Usage notes
* Now used only in placenames e.g. "Plymouth Hoe". ----digger
English
Noun
(en noun)page 143,
- The post hole digger did look ancient. I was pretty certain myself that it hadn?t dug any holes for a long, long time.
page 75,
- You?ve tried the supposedly sure method of squirting the digger' with water from a hose, and that hasn?t worked.This step will discourage 99 percent of the ' diggers .
page 130,
- Most retrievers are not inveterate diggers — that?s a trait usually reserved for other breeds like wire-haired terriers and schnauzers.
page 64,
- A successful Australian digger — successful, not merely in siftings and washings, but bearing the title, and its best credentials, of a “nuggetter” ? came down from Forest Creek recently and took up his abode in a low lodging-house in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne.
page 191,
- Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship.
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- For many, the congruencies of the Anzac legend and the diggers who served in Vietnam were slight, too slight, and the legend seemed unable to accommodate them.
page 99,
- Like many other Queensland communities, the workers from the North Ipswich Railway Workshops chose a statue of a soldier, or digger , to honour their fellow workers.
