different between hose vs hoise

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??z/
• Rhymes: -??z
• (US) IPA^(key): /ho?z/
• Rhymes: -o?z
• 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.

   • These men were bound in their coates, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fierie furnace.

   • His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank,

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 deliver using a hose.
3. (transitive) To provide with hose (garment)
4. (transitive) To attack and kill somebody, usually using a firearm.
5. (transitive) To trick or deceive.
6. (transitive, computing) To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.
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

Translations

Anagrams

• HEOs, Heos, Shoe, hoes, shoe

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• (all rare) hoyse, hosa, hoose

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??z(?)/

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

• “h?se, 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

From Old English h?s, *h?rs.

Adjective

hose

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

Old English

Alternative forms

• hosa, hosu

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hos?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xo.se/, [?ho.ze]

Noun

hose f

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

Declension

Synonyms

• br?c

Derived terms

• leþerhose

Descendants

• Middle English: hose, hoyse, hosa, hoose
  • English: hose
  • Scots: hose, hoe

English

Etymology

Probably from Middle Dutch hisen (modern hijsen) or Middle Low German hissen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??z/

Verb

hoise (third-person singular simple present hoises, present participle hoising, simple past and past participle hoised or hoist)

1. (transitive, obsolete except in dialects or after Shakespeare) to hoist
2. (intransitive, obsolete): to hoist, be raised