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"text": "Sail ho! ― Another boat is visible!",
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"text": "Land ho! ― Land is visible!",
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"text": "Man ho! ― A town is visible!",
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"ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 93",
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"ref": "1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 11",
"text": "So I catch you. You stealer! Ho! Ho!",
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"halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach."
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"word": "heus"
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{
"_dis1": "4 94 2",
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"roman": "ahóv!",
"sense": "hey",
"word": "аго́в!"
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"ref": "1900, Ching Foo, the Yellow Dwarf; Or the Bradys and the Opium Smokers, page 2",
"text": "\"I'll hit you again, you thief !” he cried angrily, shaking “Ho-ho-ho!” he croaked.",
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{
"ref": "1955, John Sack, From Here to Shimbashi - Volume 637, page 172",
"text": "It was quite an astonishing show. Colonel Paul Malone of the U.S. Army kept thwacking away with all his might and main, shouting \"Ho!\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Mona the Vampire, \"Attack of the Living Scarecrow\" (season 1, episode 1a)",
"text": "Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Daniel Hellmund, The Answer for Laria, page 93",
"text": "Ho! Take that vile Foresythe!” He snapped his wrist, clicking the stick against the bowed sides of a barrel.",
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"(rare) Said accompanying a vigorous attack."
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"text": "Bros before hoes!",
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"ref": "2001, “Psycho”, in Toxicity, performed by Serj Tankian with System of a Down",
"text": "So you want to see the show? You really don't have to be a ho.",
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{
"ref": "2010, Dennis Shields, God Went Fishing, page 69",
"text": "\"You looking for one of my ho's?\" the diminutive man asked Sigmund.\n\"A hoe?\" Sigmund asked, wondering why the little man wished to sell him farming equipment in the city.\n\"You know, a ho. A tute. A honey, A righteous bit of poontang, my brother,\" he said.\n\"I don't follow,\" Sigmund said.\n\"Indubitably, I means a ho, a whore. I can tell you is a player. You want a whore?\" he asked.",
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"_dis1": "100 0",
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"word": "шлю́ха"
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"ref": "2003 November 18, Greywolf Johnson, “Do you know any of these? ”, in alt.strange.days (Usenet)",
"text": "She holds down a decent job during the day, but is secretly hoeing around with at least 5 different trifling men.",
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"(transitive, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To act as a ho, to prostitute."
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"ref": "1875, William Douglas Parish, A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect (at cited word)",
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"ref": "1787, F. Grose, Provinc. Gloss (at cited word)",
"text": "To ho for anything, to long for any thing. Berks."
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"ref": "1847-78, J. O. Halliwell, Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words",
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{
"ref": "1869-70, William Barnes, The Bells of Alderburnham, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect",
"text": "But still 'tis happiness to know That there's a God above us; An' he, by day an' night do ho Vor all ov us an' love us."
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{
"ref": "1874, T. Hardy, Far from Madding Crowd, II. xxiii. 289",
"text": "To ho and hanker after thik woman.",
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"ref": "1888, B. Lowsley, Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases",
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"ref": "1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 11",
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"ref": "1900, Ching Foo, the Yellow Dwarf; Or the Bradys and the Opium Smokers, page 2",
"text": "\"I'll hit you again, you thief !” he cried angrily, shaking “Ho-ho-ho!” he croaked.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1955, John Sack, From Here to Shimbashi - Volume 637, page 172",
"text": "It was quite an astonishing show. Colonel Paul Malone of the U.S. Army kept thwacking away with all his might and main, shouting \"Ho!\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Mona the Vampire, \"Attack of the Living Scarecrow\" (season 1, episode 1a)",
"text": "Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Daniel Hellmund, The Answer for Laria, page 93",
"text": "Ho! Take that vile Foresythe!” He snapped his wrist, clicking the stick against the bowed sides of a barrel.",
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"sense": "nautical: attention grabber",
"word": "ohoi"
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"word": "аго́в!"
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