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hobo orig. Western U.S.|ˈhəʊbəʊ|
‘An idle shiftless wandering workman, ranking scarcely above the tramp’ (Funk).
1889Ellensburgh (Wash.) Capital 28 Nov. 2/2 The tramp has changed his name, or rather had it changed for him, and now he is a ‘Hobo’. 1891J. Flynt in Contemp. Rev. Aug., The tramp's name for himself and his fellows is Hobo, plural Hoboes. 1892Pall Mall G. 28 Dec. 3/3 They will be vagrants on the streets and hobos of the night. 1896Pop. Sci. Jrnl. L. 254 The tramp..can scarcely be distinguished from the dyed-in-the wool hoboe. 1896Atl. Monthly Jan. 58 By the ‘Ambulanter’ it is called Gypsyland, by the tramp Hoboland. 1918Let. in F. A. Pottle Stretchers (1929) x. 295 We had been so long separated from our organization that we had pretty thoroughly acquired a hobo frame of mind. 1925J. Buchan John Macnab vii. 157 The gillies have..gathered in some wretched hobo they found looking at the river. 1928Punch 15 Feb. 196/1 Few dramatic critics..could display so adequate a working knowledge of..the ways of hobos in the United States. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. iii. 55 Gipsies, usually known as ‘gyppoes’ or ‘hoboes’. 1963H. Garner in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories 2nd Ser. (1968) 40 Harvest hands are like hobos, their friendships as casual as the mating of a pair of flies.
Hence ˈhobo v. intr. (and quasi-trans. with way), to act the hobo; to journey or travel as a tramp; also with it. Also ˈhobodom, ˈhoboism, the realm or world of the hobo; hoboˈette, an occasional term for a female hobo.
1906U. Sinclair Jungle xxv. 298 Then he explained how he had spent the last summer, ‘hoboing it’, as the phrase was. 1914J. London Let. 28 July (1966) 426 You can scarcely find a tramp today..who has not hoboed with me. 1918Dialect Notes V. 5 Hoboettes of America. 1923H. L. Foster Beachcomber in Orient ix. 183 Having hoboed my way thus far, I could afford to travel as a passenger the rest of the way. 1928Daily Mail 9 Aug. 11/4, I sort of hoboed my way out to San Francisco. 1930Publishers' Weekly 31 May 3736/2 Any hobo temporarily sober can find a publisher to place on the market with great éclat an epic of Hobodom, provided that there is sufficient of the hobo atmosphere. 193019th Cent. June 849 These were the high days of American hoboism. 1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route xv. 172 He can never understand why the hobos want to keep out the women, whom he labels..‘the hoboettes’. 1949Landfall III. 136 Have I..hoboed through fifteen of these United States only to be jailed like a common criminal? 1966Punch 4 May 671/1 They give us a fleeting glimpse into their world of pop, incipient careers, hoboism and love. 1967K. Allsop Hard Travellin' xvii. 206 Typical of this idiom is Benson's Hoboes of America pamphlet in which he loudly warns boys—and ‘hoboettes’ too. 1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 78/3 He and his brother were hoboing it in Missouri. |