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Date "HOSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Hosed adj. Same as down. Used primarily by Unix hackers. Humorous: also implies a condition thought to be relatively easy to reverse. Probably derived from the Canadian slang `hoser' popularized by the Bob and Doug Mackenzie skits on SCTV, but this usage predated SCTV by years in hackerdom (it was certainly already live at CMU in the 1970s). See hose. It is also widely used of people in the mainstream sense of `in an extremely unfortunate situation'. Once upon a time, a Cray that had been experiencing periodic difficulties crashed, and it was announced to have been hosed. It was discovered that the crash was due to the disconnection of some coolant hoses. The problem was corrected, and users were then assured that everything was OK because the system had been rehosed. See also dehose. Source: Jargon File. |
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Crosswords: HOSED |
| Specialty definitions using "HOSED": catch pit ♦ dehose ♦ farkled ♦ I didn't change anything! ♦ pilot error ♦ tanked. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The sanctuary looks like its been hosed down with Pepto Bismol. (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling) | |
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| "HOSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 52.63% of the time. "HOSED" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 52.63% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 47.37% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "HOSED": well-hosed. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hosed | 35 |
foot hosed | 21 |
b b hosed no | 11 |
hosed toe | 4 |
hosed leg | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HOSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | "软管淋浇. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 물을 뿌리". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | osedhay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "HOSED": metamorphosed. (additional references) | |
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"HOSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hisex, hized, hobed, hoded, Hodeida, Hodsden, hoeed, hoised, hoose, hooser, Hosayn, hosea, hosef, Hosek, hosel, hoser, hoset, hoseu, hosey, hoshed, Hosoe, hossa, Hossam, hossed, hosser, hoved, Hovsep, howed, hoxed, hozad, hoze, hozer, hozod, hseq, husat, huset, Husodo, osed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HOSED" (pronounced hō"zd) |
| 3 | -ō" z d | closed, composed, decomposed, deposed, disclosed, disposed, dozed, enclosed, exposed, foreclosed, imposed, juxtaposed, nosed, opposed, overexposed, posed, predisposed, proposed, reimposed, superimposed, supposed, transposed, undisclosed, unopposed. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: shoed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-o-s" | |
-1 letter: does, dose, edhs, hods, hoed, hoes, hose, odes, ohed, shed, shod, shoe. | |
-2 letters: doe, dos, edh, eds, hes, hod, hoe, ode, ods, oes, ohs, ose, she, sod. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, eh, es, he, ho, od, oe, oh, os, sh, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-o-s" | |
+1 letter: coshed, dholes, ephods, hoised, hordes, horsed, hosted, housed, joshed, moshed, noshed, reshod, shooed, shored, shoved, showed. | |
+2 letters: beholds, choused, chowsed, coheads, cowshed, dehorns, dehorts, douches, ghosted, hideous, hocused, hoddens, hoidens, hoisted, holders, hondles, hoodies, hotbeds, howdies, hoydens, methods, shoaled, shocked, shodden, shogged, shooled, shopped, shorted, shotted, shouted, sloshed, soothed, soughed, southed, wooshed. | |
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