hose

English Online Dictionary. What means hose‎? What does hose mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /həʊz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /hoʊz/
• Rhymes: -əʊz
• Homophone: hoes

Noun

hose (countable and uncountable, plural hoses or hosen)

1. (countable) A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
2. (uncountable) A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
3. (obsolete) Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.

Usage notes

• (garment covering legs) Formerly a male garment covering the lower body, with the upper body covered by a doublet. By the 16th century hose had separated into two garments, stocken and breeches. Since the 1920s, hose refers mostly to women's stockings or pantyhose.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

hose (third-person singular simple present hoses, present participle hosing, simple past and past participle hosed)

1. (transitive) To water or spray with a hose.
2. (transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.
3. (transitive) To deliver using a hose.
4. (transitive) To provide with hose (garment)
5. (transitive) To trick or deceive.
6. (transitive, computing, slang) To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.
7. (transitive, sports) To cause an unfair disadvantage to a player or team through poor officiating; especially, to cause a player or team to lose the game with an incorrect call.

Derived terms

• hose down
• home and hosed
• hose off

Translations

Anagrams

• Esho, shoe, Hoes, HEOs, Heos, hoes, Shoe

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hose, hosa, hosu, from Proto-West Germanic *hosā. Compare German Hose.

Alternative forms

• hoyse, hosa, hoose (all rare)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːz(ə)/, /ˈhɒːz(ə)/

Noun

hose (plural hosen or hose or (rare) hoses)

1. Stockings or tights (often worn by men in the ME period).
2. (in the plural) pants, trousers; hose.
3. Armour or protection for the legs; armoured legwear.
4. (rare) The bendable outer casing of grains.
5. (rare) A bendable tube for liquids; a hose.
6. (rare) A bendable tube acting as a trap.

Related terms

• hosen
• hosyer
• hosynge
• taphose (possibly)

Descendants

• English: hose
• Scots: hose, hoe

References

• “hōse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-23.

Etymology 2

From hose (noun).

Verb

hose

1. Alternative form of hosen

Etymology 3

Adjective

hose

1. Alternative form of hos (“hoarse”)

Etymology 4

Adjective

hose

1. inflection of hos (“hoarse”):
   1. weak singular
   2. strong/weak plural

Etymology 5

Pronoun

hose

1. Alternative form of whos (“whose”, genitive)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• hosso (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse hosa, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ.

Noun

hose f (definite singular hosa, indefinite plural hoser, definite plural hosene)

1. (clothing) stocking
2. (clothing)(dialectal) a sock

Derived terms

• hoselest

Old English

Alternative forms

• hosa, hosu

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hosā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxo.se/, [ˈho.ze]

Noun

hose f

1. pant leg, stocking
2. (in the plural) pants, trousers; see hosan

Declension

Synonyms

• brōc

Derived terms

• leþerhose

Descendants

• Middle English: hose, hoyse, hosa, hoose (all rare)
  • English: hose
  • Scots: hose, hoe