hose
Meanings
noun
- A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
- A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
- Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
verb
- To water or spray with a hose.
- To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.
- To deliver using a hose.
- To provide with hose (garment)
- To trick or deceive.
- To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.
- 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.
name
- A surname.
- A village in Clawson, Hose and Harby parish, Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK7329).
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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”). Cognate with West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”); also, Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky. The clothing senses were the original meaning, from which is derived the sense of a tube for fluids.
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