hoary
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hoary
- /hɔː.ɹi/ UK
- /hɔɹ.i/ US
Sounds like whorey, Horae (one pronunciation) · Rhymes with -ɔːɹi
Where it comes from
Possibly from Middle English *hori (suggested by horilocket (“hoary-locked, having hoary locks or curls”)), equivalent to hoar + -y. Alternatively, Middle English horilocket may represent Middle English hor (“hoar, hoary”) + ilocket (“locked”) rather than hori (“hoary”) + locket (“locked”).
adjective hoarier · hoariest
- White, whitish, or greyish-white. As hoary frost with spangles doth attire, The mossy braunches of an oke halfe ded,
- White or grey with age. The old man bowed his hoary head in acquiescence.
- Of a pale silvery grey.
- Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs.
- Old or old-fashioned; trite. It was, however, most interesting work, and the moulders themselves were a decent crowd, never tired of making jokes about themselves such as the hoary one that moulders did not live long, which however ran counter to the other one that no germs could live in a foundry—the atmosphere was too foul.
- Remote in time past. The probability of these flattering fictions could no longer be examined, when the hoary antiquity of such traditions had gained them veneration. An adventure of ancient date was in blind after-ages too readily received as truth.
- Moldy; mossy; musty. By chance there was at that time brought out of the citie into the campe verie course, hoarie, moulded bread, which some of the souldiours hauing bought, and thrusting it vpon the points of their speares, shewed it vnto their fellowes in great choller, railing against king Ferdinand, which in his ow
