Hoe

Noun

 * 1) An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.
 * 2) * 2009, TRU TV, 28 March
 * It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe.

Related terms

 * backhoe

Verb

 * 1) To use the agricultural tool defined above.
 * Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.
 * I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸  A prostitute.
 * 2) * 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
 * 1) * 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 Thesaurus:prostitute

Verb

 * 1) 🇺🇸  To act as a prostitute.
 * 2) * 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.

Thesaurus
backset, cultivate, culture, cut, delve, dig, dress, fallow, fertilize, force, harrow, list, mulch, plow, prune, rake, spade, thin, thin out, till, till the soil, weed, weed out, work

Etymology 1
From howe:, from  houe:, from Old Low Franconian *houwa (cf. Middle Dutch houwe:), from *houwan 'to hew'. More at.

Etymology 2
An eye dialect corruption of whore:, from non-rhotic pronunciations considered typical of Ebonics.

Alternative forms

 * ho

Noun

 * Afrikaans: skoffel
 * Albanian: shat
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: fesoria
 * Azeri: alaqkeş, toxa
 * Bosnian:
 * Cherokee: ᎦᎶᎪᏗ (galogodi)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 鋤, 锄
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: kõblas
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 鍬
 * Kirundi: isuka
 * Korean: 괭이
 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: kaplis


 * Maltese: zappuna, lexxuna
 * Mohawk: atshōkten
 * O'odham:
 * Pawnee: kátạreːrịwɩs
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: тяпка,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: мотика
 * Roman: motika
 * Serbo-Croatian: motika
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: hacka
 * Tagalog: asada, asarol
 * Tai Dam:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: cái cuốc
 * Yucatec Maya: tuhnkuy
 * Yuchi: hafɛ

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: kõplama
 * Finnish: harata, käyttää, haraa
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: kapál


 * Italian:
 * Kirundi: kurima
 * Maltese: agħżaq
 * Russian: мотыжить, разрыхлять
 * Slovak: kopať, okopávať
 * Spanish: azadonar

Noun
hoe


 * 1) water

Etymology
From huo:, from.

Adverb

 * 1)  how

Related terms

 * hoeveel, hoe veel
 * (in) hoeverre
 * hoezeer
 * hoedanig

Verb
hoe



Etymology
From (compare  voce:,  hoe:).

Noun

 * 1) oar

Etymology
From (compare  voce:,  hoe:).

Noun

 * 1) oar

Adverb
hoe


 * 1) how

Adverb
hoe


 * 1) how