Hoke vs Hoe - What's the difference?
hoke | hoe |
(obsolete)
* 1535 , ,
(slang) To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.
* 1993 , Reed Whittemore, Jack London'', ''Six Literary Lives ,
* 1999 , David Lewis, 15: Humean Supervenience Debugged'', ''Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology , Volume 2,
* 2008 , Terry Penner, 12: The Forms and the Sciences in Socrates and Plato'', Hugh H. Benson (editor), ''A Companion to Plato ,
(Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.
* 1987 , , 2010,
* 2000 , , The Little Hammer ,
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,
As a noun hoke
is a joke.As an adjective hoe is
.hoke
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl).Noun
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- Thou shalt make hokes' of golde also, and two wreth? cheynes of pure golde, and shalt fasten them vnto the ' hokes .
Etymology 2
From (hokum).Verb
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- He even checked the Thomas Cooke & Son travel people about how to get'' to the East End (here he was hoking''' a bit), learning that they were ready to advise him on how to journey to any point in the world ''except'' the East End. Then he hailed a cab and found (here he was ' hoking further) that the cab driver didn't know how to get there either.
page 228,
- If we define partitions of alternative cases by means of ingeniously hoked -up properties, we can get the principle to say almost anything we like.
page 179,
- If it be asked how we come to talk about them, the answer is: for purposes of rejecting these misbegotten creatures of sophistic imaginations, “hoked up” with such things as interest'', ''strength'', and the like, which ''do exist, although only outside of these combinations.
Derived terms
* hokeyEtymology 3
Compare (etyl) howk.Verb
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- When I hoked there, I would find / An acorn and a rusted bolt
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- We met when I was hoking about in the rocks – just the sort of thing a virtual only child does to put in the day.
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.
