pho
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Vietnamese phở.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
pho (usually uncountable, plural phos)
- A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and optionally beef or chicken.
- 1935: Marcelle "Countess" Morphy, Recipes of All Nations, p. 802 [1]
- 2003: Frank Browning, "73106: Lemongrass on the Prairie", National Geographic, vol. 203, issue 3 [2]
- Ten minutes away from the intersection, the heart of Little Saigon, you can easily walk to five restaurants specializing in pho (the classic Vietnamese beef broth soup), two Asian supermarkets, and several Chinese barbecue cafés.
Translations
Vietnamese soup
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Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Interjection
pho
- (archaic) Expressing dismissive contempt.
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
- '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.'
Synonyms
- feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw; see also Thesaurus:bah
Anagrams
Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 副 (“classifier for sets”, SV: phó).
Pronunciation
Noun
pho
- set
- pho sách ― set of books
Classifier
pho
- Indicates complicated works, chiefly books and statues
Zou
Noun
pho
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