hose

From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kew- (“to cover”). 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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /həʊz/
• Rhymes: -əʊz
• (US) IPA^(key): /hoʊz/
• Rhymes: -oʊz
• Homophone: hoes

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.
   • Bible, Daniel iii. 21

     These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments.

   • Shakespeare

     His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank.

• (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

• air hose
• hose clamp
• hose clip

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 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.

3. (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

4. (transitive) To attack and kill somebody, usually using a firearm.
   • 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.

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.

6. (transitive, computing) To break a computer so everything needs to be reinstalled; to wipe all files.
   • 2006 Spring, Joel Durham Jr., “Pimp Out Win XP with TweakUI”, in Maximum PC‎, Future US, Inc., ISSN 1522-4279, 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.

• hose down
• home and hosed

• HEOs, Heos, Shoe, hoes, shoe

From Old English huse, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ.

• (all rare) hoyse, hosa, hoose

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːz(ə)/

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.

• hosen
• hosyer
• hosynge
• taphose (possibly)

• English: hose
• Scots: hose, hoe

• “hōse, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-23.

From hose (noun).

hose

1. Alternative form of hosen

From Old English hās, *hārs.

hose

1. Alternative form of hos (“hoarse”)
2. Inflected form of hos

• hosa, hosu

From Proto-Germanic *husǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhose/, [ˈhoze]

hose f

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

• brōc

• leþerhose

• Middle English: hose, hoyse, hosa, hoose
  • English: hose
  • Scots: hose, hoe