Oho vs Pho - What's the difference?
oho | pho |
Expressing surprise or gloating realisation; aha.
* 1880 , Lucy Bethia Walford, Troublesome Daughters
* 1914 , Rupert Hughes, What Will People Say?
* 1997 , Bruce A Shuman, Beyond the library of the future
A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and beef or chicken.
* 1935: Marcelle "Countess" Morphy, Recipes of All Nations , p. 802 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924003591769;view=1up;seq=816]
* 2003: Frank Browning, "73106: Lemongrass on the Prairie", National Geographic , vol. 203, issue 3 [http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0303/feature6/]
As an interjection oho
is expressing surprise or gloating realisation; aha.As a noun pho is
a vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and beef or chicken.oho
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- There is Kate, taking no heed of anybody; sensible old darling — she goes at her tea and cake — Oho ! she has not touched them!
- "Oho , my boy, that's the woman who keeps you here! Mrs. Neff hinted at it, but I wouldn't believe it till I had it from you."
- Oho ! Now I see where he's going with this, Frank thinks. Would have seen it earlier if I hadn't been so tired.
pho
English
(wikipedia pho)Noun
(-)- PHO is the name of an Annamese soup held in high esteem. It is made with beef, a veal bone, onions, a bayleaf, salt, and pepper, and a small teaspoon of nuoc-man,(SIC) a typically Annamese condiment which is used in practically all their dishes.
- Ten minutes away from the intersection, the heart of Little Saigon, you can easily walk to five restaurants specializing in pho (the classic Vietnamese beef broth soup), two Asian supermarkets, and several Chinese barbecue cafés.