ho = 'eager or gullible enthusiast, usu. female (for); "sucker" (for).'

[Victor Steinbok]

 From one of the earliest episodes of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
(the quintet that brought you "metrosexual"): "Men are exfoliating fools."

     VS-)

On 4/22/2011 7:07 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Remember when somebody could be "an X-in' fool," where X is a verb? "A
> fightin' fool," for example. Or "an etymologizin' fool" (maybe that's an
> unlikely collocation).
>
> Anyway, it was somebody who did X a lot and with too much enthusiasm.
>
> JL

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