Noun: hose
| Singular | hose |
| Plural | hoses; hosen |
Sample Sentences
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Theſe men were bound in their coates, their hoſen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were caſt into the midſt of the burning fierie furnace. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 3:21:]
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His youthful hoſe, vvell ſaved, a vvorld too vvide / For his ſhrunk ſhank, […] [c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:]
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[T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest. [1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 30:]
Nouns inflected like hose
Sacher-torte,
Wunderkammer,
blitz torte,
Klokan,
linzer torte,
capelle,
pickelhaube,
turnhalle,
druse,
freke,
torte,
schul,
shmoo,
sachertorte,
Aufgabe,
sacher torte,
auslese,
kapelle,
linzertorte,
manbote, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).
2. Cognate with West Frisian hoas (“hose”), Dutch hoos (“stocking, water-hose”), German Hose (“trousers”); also, Tocharian A kać (“skin”), Russian кишка́ (kišká, “gut”), Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”), Sanskrit कोष्ठ (koṣṭha, “intestine”). More at sky.
3. The clothing senses were the original meaning, from which is derived the sense of a tube for fluids. See: Middle English Nouns '
hose', Old English Nouns '
hose', Dutch Nouns '
hoos', German Nouns '
Hose', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κύστις'.
Verbs referencing "hose"
Old Portuguese Nouns
osa.