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

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2011  http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/153089481 : First I should
> mention that I am a "ho" for "Letters" compendia. That being said, TE
> [Lawrence] was a really fascinating dude.

Isn't this just a variation of the "X whore" snowclonelet, glossed by
Arnold Zwicky as ‘one who craves X (or something to do with X)
extravagantly’?

http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/x-whore/

--bgz

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