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heaux

heaux is the plural of ho.

Meaning of ho

Noun (1)

ho

  1. 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)

ho (plural hos or hoes or (humorous, nonstandard) heaux)

  1. (US, derogatory, slang, vulgar) A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
    • Bros before hoes!
  2. (US, offensive, slang, vulgar) A woman in general; a bitch.

Noun (3)

ho (plural hos)

  1. (US, obsolete, slang, vulgar) Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
    • Though there bee A thousand cares that heape my hoe.1567, George Turberville, “A. Sani di Cure Aunsweres”, in Heroycall Epistles of Ovid, 155v

See all 12 meanings of ho

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

  1. heaumers
  2. heaumes
  3. heautomorphism
  4. heautoscopic
  5. heautoscopy
  6. heaux
  7. heauy
  8. heav'n
  9. heav'nly
  10. heav'ns
  11. heavage

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