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English

hoes

noun

Meaning

  1. A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
  2. Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
  3. To care, be anxious, long.
  4. An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.
  5. The horned or piked dogfish.
  6. To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
  7. To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
  8. A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data