I heard that he's a homo, but he hasn't come out of the closet yet.
"... He's a homo."
"My dear Theo, at my age one can't worry about little details like that. Besides, he's got such a nice voice." 1938, Cecil Day Lewis, Starting point, page 127:
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zh 同志 (short form of homosexual) · la draucus (short form of homosexual) · da homo (short form of homosexual) · de Homo (short form of homosexual) · he הומו (short form of homosexual) · fi homo (short form of homosexual) · lv homiķis (short form of homosexual) · nl homo (short form of homosexual) · pt homo (short form of homosexual) · pl homoś (short form of homosexual) · ja ホモ (short form of homosexual) · ru го́мик (short form of homosexual) · hu retkes buzi (short form of homosexual) · sv homo (short form of homosexual) · id homo (short form of homosexual)
(Canada, US, not-comparable) Homogenized; almost always said of milk with a high butterfat content.
Regular homo milk was being sold out of stores in half gallons for 33 cents against 44 cents on regular homo milk on home delivery. 1958, American milk review and milk plant monthly, volume 20, page 190:
(Canada, US, countable, dated, uncountable) Homogenized milk with a high butterfat content.
One quart of homo wholesale in glass equals one quart equivalent. Certain modifications were made in these relatives to adjust for variations in units per ... 1956, Purdue University. Agricultural Experiment Station., Station bulletin, page 25:
pl tłuste mleko homogenizowane (homogenized milk with butterfat) · fi homogenoitu maito (homogenized milk with butterfat) · ja ホモ牛乳 (homogenized milk with butterfat) · zh 均脂牛奶 (homogenized milk with butterfat)
From Latin homō̆ (“a human being, man, person”), sometimes as a shortening of Homo sapiens. Doublet of gome, hombre, ombre, and omi.
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(nonstandard) A human.
John, John, if you don't go you're no homo—no! You're only a fowl, an owl, a cow, a sow,—a doll, a poll; a poor, old, good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a Concord bog. 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, X-ing a Paragrab, published 1850: