hose

See also: Hose, hōse, hőse, hó-sè, and Hô-se

English
A US naval officer using a fire hose

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”).

Cognates:
Compare West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”). Compare Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky.

Pronunciation

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.

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
stocking-like garment — see tights

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.
    • 1995, Vivian Russell, Monet's Garden: Through the Seasons at Giverny‎, →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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhɔːz(ə)/, /ˈhɒːz(ə)/

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.
Descendants
  • English: hose
  • Scots: hose, hoe
References

Etymology 2

From hose (noun).

Verb

hose

  1. Alternative form of hosen

Adjective

hose

  1. Alternative form of hos (“hoarse”)

Adjective

hose

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

Pronoun

hose

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hosā.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈxo.se/, [ˈho.ze]

Noun

hose f

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

Declension
Declension of hose (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative hose hosan
accusative hosan hosan
genitive hosan hosena
dative hosan hosum

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • leþerhose

Descendants
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