hoeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: hō, IPA: /həʊ/
• (米国発音) enPR: hō, IPA: /hoʊ/
• (General Australian) enPR: hō, IPA: /hoʉ/
• 韻: -əʊ
• Homophone: ho

語源 1

From 中期英語 howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. More at hew.

名詞

hoe (plural hoes)

1. Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.
   1. (when not otherwise specified) An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.

      Synonym: hand hoe

      Hyponyms: action hoe, adze hoe, adz hoe, clam hoe, collineal hoe, collinear hoe, double hoe, draw hoe, drill hoe, Dutch hoe, eye hoe, flower hoe, fork hoe, grab hoe, grubbing hoe, grub hoe, hand hoe, hoedad, hoop hoe, Italian hoe, mortar hoe, pattern hoe, Paxton hoe, prong hoe, ridging hoe, scuffle hoe, swivel hoe, Warren hoe

      Coordinate terms: wheel hoe, backhoe, trackhoe

      For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.

      • 2009, TRU TV, 28 March:

        It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe.

   2. Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.

      Hyponyms: wheel hoe, horse hoe, backhoe, trackhoe

      The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]

派生語

動詞

hoe (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle hoed)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.

   to hoe corn

派生語

参考

• mattock
• pick
• rake

Further reading

• Hoe (implement) in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.

語源 2

From a non-rhotic pronunciation of whore.

別の表記

• ho

名詞

hoe (plural hoes)

1. (slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostitute

   • 1973, “Spoon”, in Hustler's Convention, performed by Lightnin' Rod:

     Then we split to the Cafe Black Rose / To party with some hoes

   • 1994, 0:00 from the start, in Juicy‎ (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:

     Fuck all you hoes.
     Get a grip, motherfucker.

   • 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

   • 2023 June 9, John Mac Ghlionn, “The new Andrew Tate: Toxic ‘manosphere’ podcaster claims ‘all women are whores’”, in New York Post‎:

     On the podcast, Gaines and his co-host Walter Weekes (Fresh), regularly refer to women as “hoes” or 304s (304 on an upside-down calculator looks like the word “hoe”).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hoe.

派生語

動詞

hoe (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle hoed)

1. (US, slang) Alternative spelling of ho (“to 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.

派生語

語源 3

From 中期英語 hough, hogh, from 古期英語 hōh.

別の表記

• hough

名詞

hoe (plural hoes)

1. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

使用する際の注意点

• Now used only in place names, such as Plymouth Hoe and Samphire Hoe.

語源 4

Cognate with Dutch haai (“shark”), qv.

名詞

hoe (plural hoes)

1. (Orkney, Shetland) The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.

アナグラム

• HEO, Heo

代名詞

hoe

1. alternative form of heo (“she”)

語源 2

代名詞

hoe

1. alternative form of he (“they”)