So for example a white kid at a mostly white suburban high school might refer to his or her white girlfriend as a ho and automatically embed a jokey faux Jul 2 2022 OED possibly paywalled indicates that this use of ho does not predate the twentieth century and does not list this meaning forhoeat all
Forms 1900s ho 1900s ho 1900s ho 1900s hoah 1900shoe 1900s who 1900s whoe. Etymology Variant of whore n. reflecting a pronunciation frequent in African American usage. The earliest citation is from 1964
However ho hoe Mar 27 2012 I believe the road hoe and the road hold sayings are the results of mishearing or purposely changing the original row hoesaying
Similarly on occasions I have changed the expression don t look a gift horse in the mouth to don t lick a sick horse in the mouth just to get a laugh The title would better be Which is correct to put bros before hos or before hoes? or even just bros before hos or before hoes? Btw why the down vote? B B The second definition in JoeBright s answer is correct thot is an acronym that stands for That Ho Over There
The word has a negative connotation and is such sometimes used as an affectionate insult to close friends but is almost always used to describe women. Ho is commonly misspelled ashoe but intended as a short form for whore
It s generally considered AAVE with multiple examples in Jun 29 2016 Why do so many non native speakers from very different linguistic backgrounds seem to understand the term bitch as being a synonym for prostitute? I have never heard a native speaker use the form Mar 15 2011 You could also say it this way how do you do back has been replaced with an equally meaningless reply
It is just an exterior change of convention etiquette demands that you give only one answer when asked about your well being in somewhat formal situations you are doing well thank you
At not so great your interlocutor would be forced to ask oh dear why not? and you d be forced In my experience as a native speaker in the Middle Atlantic region there is a slight difference
How are you? is a bland greeting for someone you haven t seen for a while while How are you doing? spoken in full as opposed to being shortened to Howyadoin? may be an actual inquiry. The latter is more common when there is some expectation that the subject might not be doing well
For Feb 22 2011 Is there a difference between starting a question with How about and What about? Can we use both expressions interchangeably? Sep 25 2019 It s a hard question to answer definitivelybecause the meaning of ho hoe is affected by its cultural associations
Specifically many Americans of European ethnicity associate the term with caricatures of African American culture
So for example a white kid at a mostly white suburban high school might refer to his or her white girlfriend as a ho and automatically embed a jokey faux Jul 2 2022 OED possibly paywalled indicates that this use of ho does not predate the twentieth century and does not list this meaning forhoeat all
Forms 1900s ho 1900s ho 1900s ho 1900s hoah 1900shoe 1900s who 1900s whoe. Etymology Variant of whore n. reflecting a pronunciation frequent in African American usage. The earliest citation is from 1964
However ho hoe Mar 27 2012 I believe the road hoe and the road hold sayings are the results of mishearing or purposely changing the original row hoesaying
Similarly on occasions I have changed the expression don t look a gift horse in the mouth to don t lick a sick horse in the mouth just to get a laugh The title would better be Which is correct to put bros before hos or before hoes? or even just bros before hos or before hoes? Btw why the down vote? B B The second definition in JoeBright s answer is correct thot is an acronym that stands for That Ho Over There
The word has a negative connotation and is such sometimes used as an affectionate insult to close friends but is almost always used to describe women. Ho is commonly misspelled ashoe but intended as a short form for whore
It s generally considered AAVE with multiple examples in Jun 29 2016 Why do so many non native speakers from very different linguistic backgrounds seem to understand the term bitch as being a synonym for prostitute? I have never heard a native speaker use the form Mar 15 2011 You could also say it this way how do you do back has been replaced with an equally meaningless reply
It is just an exterior change of convention etiquette demands that you give only one answer when asked about your well being in somewhat formal situations you are doing well thank you
At not so great your interlocutor would be forced to ask oh dear why not? and you d be forced In my experience as a native speaker in the Middle Atlantic region there is a.