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Soho
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Appendix:Variations of "soho"
English
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Pronunciation
en /ˈsəʊ.həʊ/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Soho.wav Southern England
en /ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/ US
en əʊhəʊ 2
en SoHo SOHO
Etymology 1
From the hunting cry en soho.
Proper noun
en area of the area/West End in central city/London.
en 1978 w:The Who Who Are You w:Who Are You I woke up in a Soho doorway / A policeman knew my name / He said, "You can go, sleep at home tonight / if you can get up and walk away."
Derived terms
en Sohoite
Etymology 2
Believed to be an abbreviation of south house.
Proper noun
en area partly in bor/Sandwell and partly in city/Birmingham co/West Midlands cc/England OS grid ref SP0389.
Etymology 3
Proper noun
en SoHo: en area bor/Manhattan s/New York.
Daniel Prendergast ‘You don’t have the cojones’: 54-year-old woman fronts up to would-be muggers who pointed gun at her chest https://nypost.com/2013/07/10/you-dont-have-the-cojones-54-year-old-woman-fronts-up-to-would-be-muggers-who-pointed-gun-at-her-chest/ 2013-07-10 The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday. https://web.archive.org/web/20160802204546/https://nypost.com/2013/07/10/you-dont-have-the-cojones-54-year-old-woman-fronts-up-to-would-be-muggers-who-pointed-gun-at-her-chest/
Anagrams
en hoos Hoos oh-so shoo oh so oohs
Tagalog
Etymology
From tl en Soohoo, from tl zhx-tai 司徒 lhu1 hu3. Compare en Szeto.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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tl Chinese Filipino English < Taishanese