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

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, it was somebody who did X a lot and with too much enthusiasm.

As in Ray Chales's _Fool For You_:

"Ever since you was five years old [poetic license; Ray Charles wadn
no nasty daddy],
"I been a fool for you, little girl"

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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