Hosen vs Hoser - What's the difference?
hosen | hoser |
(poetic, historical, archaic)
* Bible, Daniel iii. 21
*1877 , Golden Hours:
*1979 , George G. Coulton, Five centuries of religion: The last days of medieval monachism :
*2009 , Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Daily Life in Elizabethan England :
*2014 , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems :
Coverings for the legs; trousers; pants.
*1857 , The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
*1862 , Gustav Freytag, Pictures of German Life in the XVth,XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries :
*1990 , Ellen J. Gehret, Rural Pennsylvania Clothing :
*2004 , Margaret Frazer, The Hunter's Tale :
*2005 , Adam McCune, Keith McCune, The Rats of Hamelin :
*2009 , The Old Testament Made Easier:
*2014 , Karen Chance, Masks :
One who operates a hose, e.g. a fire hose or a garden hose.
* 2010 , Rosalind Noonan, In a Heartbeat (ISBN 0758241674), page 34:
* 2011 , Nigel Raab, Democracy Burning?: Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society (ISBN 0773537791):
One that hoses, i.e. hurts (someone) badly.
* 1997 , Beth Moursund, The Official Magic: The Gathering : Strategies & Secrets (ISBN 0782120318), page 179:
(Canada, slang) A person (especially a farmer) who siphons gasoline out of a vehicle or piece of equipment.
(Canada, slang) A person who hoses down a lake after a game of hockey, to return it to a smooth state.
(Canada, slang) A clumsy, boorish person, especially an over-eating, beer-drinking man, or a man prone to petty infractions such as taking other people's food or drinks.
* 1985 , Canadian Dimension , volume 19, page 94:
* 2012 , Canadian Television: Text and Context (ISBN 1554583888), page ix:
* 2013 , The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover (ISBN 1451614187):
As nouns the difference between hosen and hoser
is that hosen is "pants/trousers" while hoser is one who operates a hose, eg a fire hose or a garden hose.hosen
English
Noun
(head)- These men were bound in their coats, their hosen , and their hats, and their other garments.
- And I hoped that in youth the good path may be chosen By each little man who may chance wear these hosen .
- It has crept up the leg and become hose, and it is made no longer of leather but of cloth. Gradually these hosen became longer and longer, until they joined at the top into one garment, which betrayed its dual origin by keeping the plural [...]
- Francis the Schoolboy Margaret, give me my hosen ; dispatch I pray you.
- [...] and the shape of the horrible swollen members, that seem like to the malady of hernia, in the wrapping of their hosen , and eke the buttocks of them, [...]
- At the court of the Kaiser I born was and bred ; and there my hosen and jerkin were made ; […]
- Then I searched the pocket of my hosen and found a little knife, such as could be closed, which they had not chosen to take, [...]
- They differed in the length of the leg but were generally similar in the cut at the top. ... By 1770, they bought new hosen .
- And the doublet is long enough it hid most of the blood-spattered part of my hosen and they were dark enough the blood didn't much show after I'd rubbed some dirt over them.
- The invisible cord ... I followed him down a narrow path with a rippling lake of grain on each side, wheat stalks brushing my hosen .
- Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen [pants, trousers], and their hats, and their other garments, […]
- These hosen have saggy butt.” “Don't touch yourself,” Paulo hissed, slapping Jerome's hand away. “I wasn't touching myself, I was trying to pull up these damned—” “Don't touch your clothing, either! Don't touch anything!”
Anagrams
* *hoser
English
Noun
(en noun)- Membership [in early Russian fire departments] included the mayor, a retired general, a teacher at a school for artists, a merchant, at least sixteen duma members, and teams of hosers , climbers, and security guards.
- All three of these are blue-hosers'. Every color in Magic has cards specifically designed to hurt it. Against many of the ' hosers , you can't really do much; the best strategy is simply not to rely too much on a single color.
- We bet you know lots of hosers', eh. And you want to help them not be ' hosers .
- This brings me to the second, more interesting genre of Canadian TV drama, one focused on what can be summarized as “hosers , whores, boozers, and losers.”
- As we laughed, we passed a table of scowling hosers and they gave our chortles an extra boost. They were beginning to come to terms with the notion that family resorts are not known for their abundance of poon tang
