hoe

Meaning

Noun

1. Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.
2. Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.

Verb

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

Verb

Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).

Synonyms

spade

mattock

daba

pickax

weed

shovel

dig

pick

⛏️

spud

cultivate

plow

whore

hack

bitch

hew

pierce

plough

poke

rake

sew

weeder

mattok

pick-hoe

peck

pecker

pewter

excavate

digger

pick-axe

grafting tool

flattening tool

delve

straw rake

rabble

plough harrow

raking

scuffle

sarcle

cultivator

small

crash

clean

strumpet

thin

tool

chop

garden hoe

weeding tool

axe

🪓

digging tool

Translations

houe

Hacke

zappa

azada

schoffel

azadón

daba

enxada

binette

zappare

biner

τσάπα

aixada

’daba’

Pronounced as (IPA)

/həʊ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: howe

Cognate with Middle Dutch: houwe

Inherited from Middle English: hough

Inherited from Old English: hōh

Cognate with Dutch: haai

In summary

From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. More at hew.