hoar vs hoary what difference

what is difference between hoar and hoary

English

Etymology

From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“grey, dark”). Cognate with German hehr (“noble, sublime”), Herr (“sir, gentleman”), Scottish Gaelic ciar (“dusky”), and Russian се́рый (séryj, “grey”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hô, IPA^(key): /hɔː/
• (General American) enPR: hôr, IPA^(key): /hɔɹ/ *
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: hōr, IPA^(key): /ho(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /hoə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: whore

Noun

hoar

1. A white or greyish-white colour.

2. Hoariness; antiquity.

Synonyms

• (hoariness): agedness, ancientness, oldhood; see also Thesaurus:oldness

Translations

Adjective

hoar (not comparable)

1. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
2. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
   • 1751, Thomas Warton, Newmarket, a Satire

     And lo, where rapt in beauty’s heavenly dream
     Hoar Plato walks his olived Academe.

   • 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie

     This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,

     Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,

     Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,

     Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.

3. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 134:

     But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

Derived terms

• hoarfrost
• hoary
• hoared

Related terms

• haar
• horehound

Verb

hoar (third-person singular simple present hoars, present participle hoaring, simple past and past participle hoared)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 136:

     But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• Haro, Hora, ROAH, haor, haro, hora, oh ar

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• Härre, haar, hoor, hàre

Etymology

From Old High German hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą. Compare German Haar, Dutch haar, English hair, Swedish hår.

Noun

hoar n

1. (Gressoney, anatomy) hair (the long hair on a person’s head)

References

• “hoar” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Swedish

Noun

hoar

1. indefinite plural of ho

Verb

hoar

1. present tense of hoa.

Anagrams

• hora

English

Etymology

hoar +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɔː.ɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɔɹ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɔːri
• Homophone: whorey

Adjective

hoary (comparative hoarier, superlative hoariest)

1. White, whitish, or greyish-white.
2. White or grey with age.
3. (zoology) Of a pale silvery grey.
4. (botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs; canescent.
5. (obsolete) Remote in time past.
6. (obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty.
7. Old or old-fashioned; trite.

Synonyms

• (whitish, greyish-white): albescent, griseous, whity
• (white or grey with age): grey-haired, grizzled, grizzly, silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired; see also Thesaurus:elderly
• (old): aged, ancient, olden; see also Thesaurus:old
• (botany: covered with greyish-white hairs): canescent
• (remote in time past): bygone, foregone; see also Thesaurus:past

Derived terms

• hoarily
• hoariness

Related terms

• hoar

Translations

Anagrams

• Yahor

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