hoose

From a dialectal spelling of house, from Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”). Compare Scots hoose.

• enPR: hoo͞s, (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /huːs/

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• enPR: hoo͞s, (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /hus/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /hʉs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

hoose (plural hooses)

1. (Northumbria and Scotland) house

• wreck the hoose juice

• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “HOOSE”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “hoose”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[2], archived from the original on 5 September 2024.

hoose

1. alternative form of hose

hoose

1. alternative form of hos

hoose

1. alternative form of hos

Inherited from Middle Scots hous, from Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-Germanic *hūsą, of unknown origin.

• IPA^(key): /hus/

hoose (plural hooses)

1. house
   • 1983, William Lorimer, transl., The New Testament in Scots, Edinburgh: Canongate, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, Matthew 5:15, page 8:

     […] an again, whan fowk licht a lamp, they pit-it-na ablò a meal-bassie, but set it up on the dresser-heid, an syne it gíes licht for aabodie i the houss.

     […] again, when people light a lamp, they don't put it underneath a flour bowl, but set it up on top of the cupboard, so it gives light for everyone in the house.

• hoos, hous, house, houss, hus
• oos (Cromarty)

• hoosie, housie (diminutive)