Hoe vs Tramp - What's the difference?
hoe | tramp |
An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.
* 2009 , TRU TV, 28 March:
The horned or piked dogfish.
(ambitransitive) To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
(US, slang) A prostitute.
* 2002 , Eithne Quinn,
* 2003 , Dan Harrington,
(US, slang) To act as a prostitute.
* 2003 , Da’rel the Relentless One,
(pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.
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(pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
* 1888 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :
* 1919 , Charles Fort, :
* 1924 , George Sutherland, :
* 1960 , (Lobsang Rampa), :
(Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
* 1968 , John W. Allen, It Happened in Southern Illinois ,
* 2005 , Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring , Lonely Planet,
* 2006 , Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer?s Australia from $60 a Day ,
, especially a very small one.
To walk with heavy footsteps.
To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
To hitchhike
To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
To travel or wander through.
(Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
As an adjective hoe
is .As a noun tramp is
(pejorative) a homeless person, a vagabond.As a verb tramp is
to walk with heavy footsteps.hoe
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) howe, from (etyl) houe, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe .
Derived terms
* backhoeVerb
(d)- to hoe the earth in a garden
- Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.
- I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.
- to hoe corn
Derived terms
* long row to hoeSee also
* mattock * pick * rakeExternal links
*Etymology 2
From non-rhotic whore.Alternative forms
* hoNoun
(en noun)Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap
- […] this chapter […] will […] explore why pimp (and hoe ) characters, with their dramatic staging of gendered and occupational relations […] have taken such hold of the black youth imagination
The Good Eye
- At school they had been among the only couples that had not done “it” at the Pimp & Hoe parties that popped up occasionally at the dorm
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(d)M. T. Pimp
- Pimpin’ came so naturally to MT when he and his sisters played pimp and hoe games that one of his sisters wanted to hoe for him when they grew up.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m).Usage notes
* Now used only in placenames e.g. "Plymouth Hoe". ----tramp
English
Noun
(en noun)- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp .
- "I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp ."
- "Claudia is such a tramp ; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend."
- I was so happy on board that ship, I could not have believed it possible. We had the beastliest weather, and many discomforts; but the mere fact of its being a tramp -ship gave us many comforts; we could cut about with the men and officers, stay in the wheel-house, discuss all manner of things, and really be a little at sea.
- Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another.
- Some of these are regular ocean liners; others are casual tramp ships.
- “Hrrumph,” said the Mate. “Get into uniform right away, we must have discipline here.” With that he stalked off as if he were First Mate on one of the Queens instead of just on a dirty, rusty old tramp ship.
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- The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur.
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- Speaking of knockout panoramas, if you?re fit then consider doing the taxing, winding, 8km tramp' up ' Mt Roy (1578m; five to six hours return), start 6km from Wanaka on Mt Aspiring Rd.
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- The 1½-hour tramp passes through banksia, gum, and wattle forests, with spectacular views of peaks and valleys.
Synonyms
* (homeless person) bum, hobo, vagabond ** See also * (disreputable woman) See also * (type of ship) see * (long walk) bushwalk, hike, ramble, trekDerived terms
* tramp ant * tramp stampVerb
(en verb)- We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.
- to tramp the country
- (Jamieson)