Word.ws English Dictionary

hosing off

hosing off is the present participle and gerund of hose off.

Meaning of hose off

Verb

hose off (third-person singular simple present hoses off, present participle hosing off, simple past and past participle hosed off)

  1. (ditransitive, transitive) To rinse off (dirt or the thing that it is besmirching) with a hose.
    • Near-synonym: wash off
    Synonyms:
    wash off

Questions about hosing off

What is hosing off the present participle and gerund of?
Hosing off is the present participle and gerund of hose off.

Words near hosing off in the dictionary

  1. hosieries
  2. hosiers
  3. hosiery
  4. hosing
  5. hosing down
  6. hosing off
  7. hosings
  8. hosiomartyr
  9. hosiomartyrs
  10. Hoskie
  11. Hoskin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hosing off (page history and authors); hose off (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hosing off.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hosing_off. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.