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[wickedflea]

I'm digging on Candlemass again today. Listen to "Bearer of Pain" or "At the Gallows End" and tell me that wasn't a bad-ass band of white boys.

I can't help laughing at them sometimes, though. They have a song called "Through the Infinitive Halls of Death." I think they meant "infinite." (I'll cut 'em a break, though--I think they're Swedish.) And that's not even getting into the fact that their singer was a big fat dude named Messiah wearing a monk outfit.

[Poll #333502]

edit: OK, if you happen to be all hopped up on sugar or something and think it's "ho's", leave a comment and I'll take it into consideration.

Comments

Re: ha

[dichotomous.livejournal.com]

Naw, it's like callin somebody "son" or "dawg."

Re: ha

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, that's how it's used, but where does it come from? And how's it spelled? We need answers.

Re: ha

[nationofsheep.livejournal.com]

Yes this is my confusion as well. I was born in New Jersy and moved to Texas when I was 12. I understood the "dawg" element and that being the way it was used, but I know that "dawg" comes from "dog". Where does "hoss" come from? I could assume it was from "horse", but why? Hey there "horse". There has to be some etymology on the term somewhere.

By the way, I accept "hoss" as the proper way to spell such word, and in context, "hos" is bound to be clear enough. But for the sake of argument, let's say that the apostrophe usually indicated possession or absence in the case of a contraction. "ho" is one word so it is not officially a contraction but it is a shortened word for "whore". So maybe "ho'" and plural "ho's". Now let me go refill my coffee and urinate.

Re: ha

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

The OED sayeth:

hoss, n.

Dial. and U.S. var. of HORSE n.

1. = HORSE n. 1 and 26a.

1815 D. HUMPHREYS Yankey in Eng. v. 77 The boys..see a ghost in the form of a white hoss; and an Indian in every black stump. 1849 N. KINGSLEY Diary (1914) 88 My supper consisted of beans, old hoss, and hard bread. 1877 J. M. BAILEY Folks in Danbury 37 But this is a hoss of another colour. 1877 F. ROSS et al. Gloss. Holderness 78 Hoss, a horse. 1887 T. DARLINGTON Folk-Speech S. Cheshire 225 Hoss-wesh, a horse-pond. 1888 F. R. STOCKTON Dusantes 15 ‘These hosses won't do much at holdin back,’ he said. 1889 M. PEACOCK Taales fra Linkisheere 130 In cums a greät black hoss, all drippin' wi' wet. 1958 S. E. HYMAN in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 55/1 He had him a big black hoss.

Some of those citations are kinda disturbing. :\

You kinda blew my mind with the second paragraph. :) But with "ho" there's no possession or absence, so you make it plural just by adding an "s" like any other word. I think?

Re: ha

[nationofsheep.livejournal.com]

Well, if the OED sayeth, then it is... And yes, disturbing... "He had him a big black hoss."

You're right. Besides, how would you do possession? "Who's jimmy is that?" "That is the ho's jimmy?"