hose

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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /həʊz/

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

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.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 3:21:

     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.

   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:

     His youthful hoſe, vvell ſaved, a vvorld too vvide / For his ſhrunk ſhank, […]

   • 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 30:

     [T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest.

• (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.

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.
   • 1995, Vivian Russell, Monet's Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny‎^[1], →ISBN, page 83:

     Only days before the garden opens, the concrete is hosed down with a high-pressure jet and scrubbed.

2. (transitive) To spray as if with a hose; to spray in great quantity.
   • 2003, John R. Bruning, Jungle ace‎^[2], Brassey's, →ISBN, page 136:

     His guns hosed down the vessel's decks, sweeping them clear of sailors, blowing holes in the bulkheads, and smashing gun positions.

3. (transitive) To deliver using a hose.
   • 2003, Tony Hillerman, The Sinister Pig, →ISBN, page 57:

     He had just finished hosing gasoline into his tank, a short man, burly, needing a shave, and wearing greasy coveralls.

4. (transitive) To provide with hose (garment)
   • 1834 July to December, Pierce Pungent, “Men and Manners”, in Fraser's magazine for town and country‎^[3], volume X, page 416:

     The mighty mass of many a mingled race,
     Who dwell in towns where he pursued the chase;
     The men degenerate shirted, cloaked, and hosed-
     Nose and eyes only to the day exposed

5. (transitive) To trick or deceive.
   • 1995, Keath Fraser, Popular anatomy‎^[4], The Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 458:

     Bartlett elaborated on what had happened at the warehouse, saying he thought Chandar was supposed to have advised, not hosed him.

   • 2023 September 7, Adam Chandler, “Americans Should Feel Humiliated by Canadian McDonald's”, in Slate‎^[5], archived from the original on 9 September 2023:

     Poutine? A better McMuffin? A bigger Big Mac?? We've been hosed.

6. (transitive, computing, slang) To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.
   • 2006 Spring, Joel Durham Jr., “Pimp Out Win XP with TweakUI”, in Maximum PC‎^[6], Future US, Inc., →ISSN, page 63:

     There aren't any tricky hexadecimal calculations to snare your brain, nor is there a need to worry about hosing the registry for all eternity.

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.

• hose down
• home and hosed
• hose off

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

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

• hoyse, hosa, hoose (all rare)

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːz(ə)/, /ˈhɒːz(ə)/

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.

• hosen
• hosyer
• hosynge
• taphose (possibly)

• English: hose
• Scots: hose, hoe

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

From hose (noun).

hose

1. Alternative form of hosen

hose

1. Alternative form of hos (“hoarse”)

hose

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

hose

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

• hosso (dialectal)

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

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

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

• hoselest

• hosa, hosu

From Proto-West Germanic *hosā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxo.se/, [ˈho.ze]

hose f

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

• brōc

• leþerhose

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