"pho" meaning in English

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Interjection

IPA: /foʊ/ [US], /fʌ/ [US]
  1. (archaic) Expressing dismissive contempt. Tags: archaic Synonyms: feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, bah, foh, phoh
    Sense id: en-pho-en-intj-Nc4Y1zuq
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /fəʊ/ [UK], /fɜː/ [UK], /foʊ/ [US], /fʌ/ [US], /fə/ [US] Forms: phos [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊ, -ɜː(ɹ), -ʌ, -ə Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese phở. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|vi|phở}} Vietnamese phở Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} pho (usually uncountable, plural phos)
  1. A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and optionally beef or chicken. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Soups Synonyms: phở Translations (Vietnamese soup): ⁧فَا⁩ (fā) (Arabic), ֆո (fo) (Armenian), fo (Azerbaijani), фо (fo) (Belarusian), фъ (fǎ) (Bulgarian), 越南粉 (jyut⁶ naam⁴ fan²) (Chinese Cantonese), 越南河粉 (alt: jyut⁶ naam⁴ ho⁴⁻² fan²) (Chinese Cantonese), 越南河 (alt: jyut⁶ naam⁴ ho⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 越南粉 (Yuènán fěn) (Chinese Mandarin), 越南河粉 (Yuènán héfěn) (Chinese Mandarin), phở (Dutch), pho (Dutch), fao (Esperanto), pho (Finnish), phở (Finnish), pho [masculine] (French), phở [masculine] (French), Phở (German), Pho (German), φο (fo) (Greek), ⁧פו⁩ (fo) (Hebrew), फ़अ (faa) (Hindi), phở (Indonesian), pho (Indonesian), phở (Italian), pho (Italian), フォー () (Japanese), ហ្វើ (faə) (Khmer), (peo) (Korean), 쌀국수 (ssalguksu) (Korean), ເຝີ (fœ̄) (Lao), phở (Portuguese), pho (Portuguese), phở (Romanian), pho (Romanian), фо (fo) [masculine] (Russian), phở (Spanish), pho (Spanish), pho (Swedish), phở (Swedish), เฝอ (fə̌ə) (Thai), phở (Turkish), pho (Turkish), фо (fo) (Ukrainian), phở (Vietnamese), fawm (White Hmong)
    Sense id: en-pho-en-noun-VXGnJXO6 Disambiguation of Soups: 26 74
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "word": "φο"
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          "lang": "Hebrew",
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          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
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          "lang": "Japanese",
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          "word": "フォー"
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          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "faə",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "ហ្វើ"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "peo",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "퍼"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "ssalguksu",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "쌀국수"
        },
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          "code": "lo",
          "lang": "Lao",
          "roman": "fœ̄",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "ເຝີ"
        },
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "phở"
        },
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "pho"
        },
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "pho"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
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        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "phở"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "pho"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "pho"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "phở"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "fə̌ə",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "เฝอ"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "phở"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
          "word": "pho"
        },
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          "word": "фо"
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          "lang": "Vietnamese",
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          "word": "phở"
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          "ref": "1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby",
          "text": "'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 Mrs Rowland, who every morning bathes in Kalydor for nothing? No. Melt all these down into one, with the three Graces, the nine Muses, and fourteen biscuit-bakers' daughters from Oxford Street, and make a woman half as lovely. Pho! I defy you.'",
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      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
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      "word": "pho"
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      "word": "Pho"
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      "word": "φο"
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      "roman": "fo",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "⁧פו⁩"
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      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "faa",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "फ़अ"
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      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "phở"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "pho"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "phở"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "pho"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fō",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "フォー"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "faə",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "ហ្វើ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "peo",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "퍼"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ssalguksu",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "쌀국수"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "fœ̄",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "ເຝີ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "phở"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "pho"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "phở"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "pho"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "fo",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "фо"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "phở"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "pho"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "pho"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "phở"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "fə̌ə",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "เฝอ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "phở"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "pho"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "fo",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "фо"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "phở"
    },
    {
      "code": "mww",
      "lang": "White Hmong",
      "sense": "Vietnamese soup",
      "word": "fawm"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "pho"
  ],
  "word": "pho"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "en:Soups"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [],
  "etymology_text": "",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby",
          "text": "'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 Mrs Rowland, who every morning bathes in Kalydor for nothing? No. Melt all these down into one, with the three Graces, the nine Muses, and fourteen biscuit-bakers' daughters from Oxford Street, and make a woman half as lovely. Pho! I defy you.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Expressing dismissive contempt."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dismissive",
          "dismissive#English"
        ],
        [
          "contempt",
          "contempt#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Expressing dismissive contempt."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/foʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/fʌ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "feh"
    },
    {
      "word": "pfaugh"
    },
    {
      "word": "pish"
    },
    {
      "word": "pshaw"
    },
    {
      "word": "bah"
    },
    {
      "word": "foh"
    },
    {
      "word": "phoh"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pho"
}

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