heaux
heaux is the plural of ho.
Meaning of ho
Noun (1)
ho
- A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
- O I, a plague on ’em, there’s no ho with ’em, they’re madder then^([sic – meaning than]) March hares.1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, signature I3...
Noun (2)
Noun (3)
ho (plural hos)
Origin of heaux
Pseudo-Gallicism, derived from hos + French -eaux.
Questions about heaux
- What is heaux the plural of?
- Heaux is the plural of ho.
Words near heaux in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: heaux (page history and authors); ho (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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