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▪ I. hoss, n.|hɒs|
Dial. and U.S. var. of horse n.
1. = horse n. 1 and 26 a.
1815D. Humphreys Yankey in Eng. v. 77 The boys..see a ghost in the form of a white hoss; and an Indian in every black stump. 1849N. Kingsley Diary (1914) 88 My supper consisted of beans, old hoss, and hard bread. 1877J. M. Bailey Folks in Danbury 37 But this is a hoss of another colour. 1877F. Ross et al. Gloss. Holderness 78 Hoss, a horse. 1887T. Darlington Folk-Speech S. Cheshire 225 Hoss-wesh, a horse-pond. 1888F. R. Stockton Dusantes 15 ‘These hosses won't do much at holdin back,’ he said. 1889M. Peacock Taales fra Linkisheere 130 In cums a greät black hoss, all drippin' wi' wet. 1958S. E. Hyman in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 55/1 He had him a big black hoss.
2. U.S. = horse n. 4.
1843in Amer. Speech (1965) XL. 130 Sez he old hoss, I'll eat you up jis like I would a cabbage. 1844Yale Lit. Mag. X. 168 Well, hoss, I reckon I will. 1847Knickerbocker XXIX. 204 We've sworn to give the first strange old hoss that comes along this road an up-and-down beating. 1847W. T. Porter Quarter Race Kentucky 39 Good mornin', old hoss. 1857T. H. Gladstone Englishm. in Kansas iv. 41 Step up this way, old hoss, and liquor. 1904W. N. Harben Georgians xv. 148 ‘Went back on us, ole hoss,’ Jim said, cordially. 1940Amer. Speech XV. 216/1 Varmint might be applied to a contemptible person..but in Florida hound or hoss would as likely be used.
3. = horse n. 15. U.S. slang.
1968Sun Mag. (Baltimore) 13 Oct. 19/3, I was square to them, one step lower because I wasn't on hoss.
4. attrib. and Comb. = horse n. 27 and 28.
1837R. M. Bird Nick of Woods II. iv. 63, I do [know]..all the parts injacent and outjacent, circumsurrounding the hoss-stump. 1877J. Habberton Jericho Road xv. 142 Losin' your health when you started with Sam Reeves' hoss-gang. 1909‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xvi. 263 Amos Colvin and me were thicker than two hoss thieves more than ten years. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §608/9 Western picture, hoss opera, opery.
▪ II. † hoss, v. Obs. rare—0.
[An onomatopœic form akin to huzz.]
intr. To buzz.
1530Palsgr. 588/1, I hosse, as a bee or flye dothe..It is a perylous noyse..to here a bee hosse in a boxe.
▪ III. hoss, -e, hossell
obs. ff. hose n., housel. |