Hoar vs Hoax - What's the difference?
hoar | hoax |
A white or greyish-white colour.
Hoariness; antiquity.
* Burke
Of a white or greyish-white colour.
* Spenser
(poetic) Hoarily bearded.
* 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
* Byron
(obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
* 1593 , , II. iv. 134:
(obsolete) To become mouldy or musty.
* 1593 , , II. iv. 136:
To deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. (scam)
Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
As nouns the difference between hoar and hoax
is that hoar is a white or greyish-white colour while hoax is anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.As verbs the difference between hoar and hoax
is that hoar is (obsolete|intransitive) to become mouldy or musty while hoax is to deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated (scam).As an adjective hoar
is of a white or greyish-white colour.hoar
English
Noun
(en noun)- (BDCADC)
- Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
Adjective
(-)- hoar waters
- 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.
- old trees with trunks all hoar
- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
Derived terms
* hoarfrost * hoary * hoaredSee also
*Verb
(en verb)- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.