Talk:hoo

I was hoping to find the etymology of the Anglo-Saxon word Hoo here, as in Sutton Hoo, Cliff's Hoo, Pin-Hoo, etc. Can anyone please provide this? CHalverson (talk) 23:06, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

it means cliff, from OE hōh. apparently not related to G hoch "high". —Soap— 18:14, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

hoo justice

is this really a set phrase? all google hits go to a single book, where someone says in a thick Lancastrian dialect something like "i mistook her for a hoo justice, she was so mighty fine ... they say the hoo justices do most of the work". im not embarrassed. i could see this meaning anything from a prostitute to a female judge, but the clues we have are pretty opaque. but its possible this wasnt used outside this book and he was just saying "woman justice". —Soap— 18:14, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

it might mean a jufdge's WIFE: https://archive.org/details/sim_spectator-uk_1842-11-26_15_752/page/1142/mode/2up?q=%22hoo+justice%22 , from a time and place in which His Worship was an acceptable title, though we list it as meaning a mayor, not a judge, but the same text shows that it is the wife of "the Justice". So unless Justice was also a title for a mayor, or mayor and judge were the same person, i think it means the judge's wife. —Soap— 18:23, 21 November 2024 (UTC)