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Hoe vs Hoodrat - What's the difference?

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Hoodrat is a synonym of hoe.



As nouns the difference between hoe and hoodrat

is that hoe is an agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows while hoodrat is a sexually promiscuous girl.

As a verb hoe

is to cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.

hoe

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) howe, from (etyl) houe, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
    • It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe .
  • The horned or piked dogfish.
    • Derived terms
    * backhoe

    Verb

    (d)
  • (ambitransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
    • 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 clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
    • to hoe corn
    Derived terms
    * long row to hoe

    See also

    * mattock * pick * rake

    External links

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    Etymology 2

    From non-rhotic whore.

    Alternative forms

    * ho

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, slang) A prostitute.
  • * 2002 , Eithne Quinn, 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
  • * 2003 , Dan Harrington, 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 also

    Verb

    (d)
  • (US, slang) To act as a prostitute.
  • * 2003 , Da’rel the Relentless One, 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).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

    • Usage notes

    * Now used only in placenames e.g. "Plymouth Hoe". ----

    hoodrat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A sexually promiscuous girl.
  • * Compton's Most Wanted'' - ''Hoodrat (song)
  • * 2 Live Crew'' - ''Hoochie Mama (song)
  • * The Hold Steady''- ''Your Little Hoodrat Friend (song)
  • *
  • * The 40-Year-Old Virgin'' (film)- ''"So what you just got to do is just get you a bunch of these hood rats run through them, just knock them out. Boom, boom, boom. And once you've done slayed like of them hood rats now you ready to go up to the upper echelon type ho. You know what I mean?" Jay
  • * Hood Rat''-''K'wan, K'wan Foye'' (book)- ''"a woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to "get around" in the 'hood."

    • Usage notes

    The term was largely used by hip-hop artists in the early 1990s.

    Synonyms

    * slut * hoe