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hoed

/həʊd/US/hoʊd/

hoed is the simple past and past participle of hoe.

hoed is the simple past and past participle of ho.

Meaning of hoe

Verb

hoe (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle hoed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
    • to hoe the earth in a garden
  2. (transitive) To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
    • to hoe corn

See all 8 meanings of hoe

Meaning of ho

Verb (1)

ho (third-person singular simple present hoes, present participle hoeing, simple past and past participle hoed)

  1. (US, ambitransitive, slang, vulgar) To act as a ho, to prostitute.
    • She holds down a decent job during the day, but is secretly hoeing around with at least 5 different trifling men.2003 November 18, Greywolf Johnson, “Do you know any of these? ”, in alt.strange.days (Usenet)

Verb (2)

ho

  1. (US, obsolete, slang, vulgar) To care, be anxious, to long.
    • To ho for anything, to long for any thing. Berks.1787, Francis Grose, “Ho”, in A Provincial Glossary: […]

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Words formed from hoed

Phrases with hoed

Words that rhyme with hoed

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Questions about hoed

What is hoed the simple past and past participle of?
Hoed is the simple past and past participle of hoe.
How do you pronounce hoed?
Hoed is pronounced /həʊd/ (UK).

Words near hoed in the dictionary

  1. hoecake
  2. hoecakes
  3. Hoeck
  4. Hoecker
  5. Hoecks
  6. hoed
  7. hoed around
  8. hoed in
  9. hoed into
  10. hoed one's row
  11. hoedad

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hoed (page history and authors); hoe (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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