(n.) a female hobo. ("hobo" is a rather negative term for what we now call the homeless, connoting a choice to defy any work ethic, rather than the unintended flotsamee into which most homeless people fall when all or part of the economy goes under. This defiant connotation, unfortunately, makes the feminine term "hoba" more an expression of contempt or disgrace than the pathos or even humor connoted by the masculine "hobo." I therefore have to classify it as a derogatory term.)
Примеры использования:
Hobos were frighteningly common in the 1930s because of the Dust Bowl and the Depression. One did not often see hobas, however, despite the grim reality that there were thousands of them outcast and struggling against hollow-eyed famine for themselves and their children.
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