Hoer
/ˈhoʊ.ər/noun
A person who hoes or cultivates soil with a hoe.
Did you know?Although the noun is built from hoe plus the agent suffix -er, hoe itself may trace back to ancient Germanic words connected with hewing or cutting.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
Proto-Germanic
*hawwaną
“to cut or hew; a proposed ancestral source connected with the tool-name family”
Old High German
Old High German
houwa
“a hoe or cutting tool”
14th Century
Middle English
houe
“a gardening or agricultural implement for cutting and loosening soil”
15th–16th Century
English
hoe
“a tool used to break up, weed, or cultivate earth”
Modern English
English
hoer
“a person who hoes; hoe plus the agent-forming suffix -er”