hoe

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /həʊ/    美 /hoʊ/|/hoʉ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.; 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.
    — 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.
  2. Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”). alt-of,alternative,derogatory,slang
    — Then we split to the Cafe Black Rose / To party with some hoes
  3. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
  4. The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias. Orkney,Shetland
  5. Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.; Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
    — 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]
动词 v.
  1. To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool. ambitransitive
    — to hoe the earth in a garden
  2. Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”). US,alt-of,alternative,slang
    — 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.
  3. To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe. transitive
    — to hoe corn

词形变化

hoes plural hoes present,singular,third-person hoeing participle,present hoed participle,past hoed past hoes plural ho alternative 'ho alternative hoes present,singular,third-person hoeing participle,present hoed participle,past hoed past ho alternative 'ho alternative hoes plural hough alternative hoes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
action hoe adze hoe adz hoe backhoe 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 hoecake hoedad hoedown hoe-farming hoelike hoe nightshade hoop hoe horse hoe Italian hoe mortar hoe pattern hoe Paxton hoe prong hoe rakehoe ridging hoe scuffle hoe swivel hoe swoe Warren hoe wheel hoe hard row to hoe hoe in hoe into hoe one's row long row to hoe row to hoe tough row to hoe unhoed
相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. More at hew.
词源 2
From a non-rhotic pronunciation of whore.
词源 3
From Middle English hough, hogh, from Old English hōh.
词源 4
Cognate with Dutch haai (“shark”), qv.
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