hoar

Meanings

Noun

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.

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

agedness, ancientness, frost, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoarfrost, hoary, oldhood, oldness, rime, white-haired

Scrabble Score: 7

hoar is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
hoar is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
hoar is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

hoar is a valid Words With Friends word