hoss
See also: Hoss
EnglishEdit
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EtymologyEdit
Variant of horse. See also 'oss in English dialects with H-dropping.
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NounEdit
hoss (countable and uncountable, plural hosses)
- (Southern US, slang) Pronunciation spelling of horse.
- 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 563:
- “That ole black hoss let out a whinny.”
- (Southern US, slang) A big, strong and respected or dependable person, usually a man; one who is large like a horse.
- (Southern US, slang, often capitalized) Term of address for a man.
- What's up, hoss?
- (Northwestern US, slang) A car.
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Norwegian BokmålEdit
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hoss
- form removed with the spelling reform of 1959; superseded by hvordan
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hoss