hoar
Plural: hoars
Noun
- A white or grayish coating of frost or age.
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- A white or greyish-white colour.
- Hoariness; antiquity.
Adjective Satellite
- showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; -Coleridge
- "whose beard with age is hoar"
- "nodded his hoary head"
Adj
- Of a white or greyish-white colour.
- Hoarily bearded.
- Musty; mouldy; stale.
- Figuratively, grey-haired with age.
Verb
- To become mouldy or musty.
Examples
- The old wooden Scrabble tiles were covered with a faint hoar of dust.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English hor, hore, from Old English hār (“hoar, hoary, grey, old”), from Proto-West Germanic *hair, 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”).
Synonyms
frost, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoarfrost, hoary, rime, white-haired, agedness, ancientness, oldhood, oldness
Scrabble Score: 7
hoar: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhoar: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hoar: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary