pho

Noun (1)

pho (usually uncountable, plural phos)

1. (usually) A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and optionally beef or chicken.
   • PHO is the name of an Annamese soup held in high esteem. It is made with beef, a veal bone, onions, a bayleaf, salt, and pepper, and a small teaspoon of nuoc-man, a typically Annamese condiment which is used in practically all their dishes.1935: Marcelle "Countess" Morphy, Recipes of All Nations, p. 802 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924003591769;view=1up;seq=816
   • 2003: Frank Browning, "73106: Lemongrass on the Prairie", National Geographic, vol. 203, issue 3 http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0303/feature6/
     Ten minutes away from the intersection, the heart of Little Saigon, you can easily walk to five restaurants specializing in pho (the classic...

Interjection

1. (archaic) Expressing dismissive contempt.
   • 'She is come!' said the old gentleman, laying his hand upon his heart. 'Cormoran and Blunderbore! She is come! All the wealth I have is hers if she will take me for her slave. Where are grace, beauty, and blandishments, like those? In the Empress of Madagascar? No. In the Queen of Diamonds? No. In...1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

   Synonyms:

   feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw

Noun (2) capitalized: PHO

PHO (plural PHOs)

1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of partially hydrogenated oil.
2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of potentially hazardous object.

Proper noun capitalized: Pho

Pho (plural Phos)

1. A surname.