hosed
adjUK /həʊzd/ · US /hoʊzd/
1
Wearing hose.
- Satins and silks and hoséd legs they shew; / Rich streams of cane-distilled nepenthe flow.1833, M[atthew] J[ames] Chapman, Barbadoes, and Other Poems, London: James Fraser, […], page 72:
- “You must know, Estelle dear, that when one’s”—Kathryn paused, then finished maliciously—“hosed legs and feet are half frozen it is no time to consider too rigid conventions.”1922, Pearl Doles Bell, The Autocrat, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, page 52:
4 more examples
- Bigly built, he looked so foolish in his puffed yellow breeches making his hosed legs seem stalk-like while he pranced and struck himself on the chest and tore the cock-feather out of his round cap and bit it in fury, spit sparkling on the shaven inch of chin between beard and underlip.1947, Philip Lindsay, The Queen’s Confession, Bath: Cedric Chivers Ltd, published 1971, →ISBN, page 24:
- She gathered her skirts waist high to reveal slim hosed legs, a flash of pale thighs.1954, Howard Breslin, The Silver Oar, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, page 85:
- For this man’s eyes held a strange interest, with contempt under, and dwelt upon my hosed legs, where they met my short surcoat.1972, Martha Rofheart, Fortune Made His Sword: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, page 50:
- There were two graying women whose veined hosed legs below gray overcoats straddled shopping bags as they nodded toward one another wordlessly.1981, Shelby Hearon, Painted Dresses, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 11:
2
Ruined, messed up.
- “Weʼre having some internal communication issues. In fact, weʼre pretty hosed at the moment.”2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 362:
- Derived terms
- home and hosed, unhosed