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hoos

hoos is the plural of hoo.

Meaning of hoo

Noun (1)

hoo (plural hoos)

  1. An uttering of the cry 'hoo'.
    • Improvising a stretcher from a cupboard door, they levered Mrs Dibble on to it and got her upstairs to "Hoos!" and "Ows!" of anguish, and laid her on the bed, where Rita administered another stiff dose of gin.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 98

Noun (2)

hoo

  1. (obsolete outside placenames) A strip of land; a peninsula; a spur or ridge.

See all 10 meanings of hoo

Proper noun capitalized: Hoos

Hoos (plural Hooses)

  1. A surname from Dutch.

Forms of hoos

pluralHooses

Origin of hoos

Borrowed from Dutch Hoos.

Phrases with hoos

Questions about hoos

What does hoos mean?
Hoos means a surname from Dutch.
What is hoos the plural of?
Hoos is the plural of hoo.
What part of speech is hoos?
Hoos is a proper noun.

Words near hoos in the dictionary

  1. hoorooed
  2. hoorooing
  3. hooroos
  4. hooroosh
  5. hoorooshes
  6. hoos
  7. hooscow
  8. hooscows
  9. hoose
  10. hoosecow
  11. hoosegow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hoos (page history and authors); Hoos (page history and authors); hoo (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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