hose
pronunciation
How to pronounce hose in British English:
UK [həʊz]
How to pronounce hose in American English:
US [hoʊz]
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- Noun:
- socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear as hosiery)
- man's garment of the 16th and 17th centuries; worn with a doublet
- a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas
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- Verb:
- water with a hose
Word Origin
- hose
- hose: [OE] The original meaning of hose was ‘leg-covering, stocking’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *khuson, which also produced German hose and Dutch hoos. It appears that the metaphorical transference from a ‘long tubular stocking’ to a ‘long tube for conveying liquid’ was first made in Dutch; it was introduced into English in the 15th century.
- hose (v.)
- c. 1300, "to furnish with stockings," from hose (n.). Meaning "to water down with a hose" is from 1889. Related: Hosed; hosing.
- hose (n.)
- late Old English, hosa "covering for the leg," from Proto-Germanic *husan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Norse hosa, Middle High German hose "covering for the leg," German Hose "trousers"), literally "covering," from PIE *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)). Old French hose, Old Spanish huesa are of Germanic origin. Sense of "flexible rubber tube for liquid" is first attested late 15c.
Example
- 1. The valve will usually come with rubber couplings and hose clamps .
- 2. First , fill a garden hose with water from the outside spigot .
- 3. If your legs have cellulite , spider veins or other flaws , then by all means don super-sheer hose .
- 4. Air is pumped through a garden hose so divers can go deeper for longer 40m or more .
- 5. I put my fingers inside it once ; the vagina was long and narrow , like a garden hose .