howe

howe (plural howes)

1. Alternative form of how (a tumulus, a bowl barrow).

• WeHo

From Anglo-Norman howe. Attested from ca. 1380.

• houwe

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔu̯(ə)/

howe

1. mattock, pickaxe.

• English: hoe
• Yola: howe

• “houe, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

howe

1. alternative form of hough (“hough, hock”)

howe

1. alternative form of houve

howe (Anglo-Norman)

1. alternative form of hoe (“hoe”)

• “hoe1”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.

• ho-we

Borrowed from Hokkien 好的 (hó--ê, “significant other; boyfriend; girlfriend; sweetheart; soulmate”, literally “the good one”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈhoe/ [ˈhoː.ɛ]
• Rhymes: -oe
• Syllabification: ho‧we

howe (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜏᜒ) (Chinese Filipino, colloquial)

1. significant other; romantic partner; boyfriend; girlfriend; lover; sweetheart; soulmate

   Synonyms: kasintahan, karelasyon, siyota, jowa

• Mae Coyiuto (2023) Chloe and the Kaishao Boys‎^[1], New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 15
• Erin Chupeco (2012) Charles Tan, editor, Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology‎^[2], Maple Shade, New Jersey: Lethe Press, Inc., page 20

From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe.

• IPA^(key): /həʊ/

howe

1. hoe

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 47