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Hoar vs Hyar - What's the difference?

hoar | hyar |

As verbs the difference between hoar and hyar

is that hoar is (obsolete|intransitive) to become mouldy or musty while hyar is (dialectal) hear.

As a noun hoar

is a white or greyish-white colour.

As an adjective hoar

is of a white or greyish-white colour.

As an adverb hyar is

(dialectal) here.

hoar

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A white or greyish-white colour.
  • (BDCADC)
  • Hoariness; antiquity.
  • * Burke
  • Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a white or greyish-white colour.
  • * Spenser
  • hoar waters
  • (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
  • * 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.
  • * Byron
  • old trees with trunks all hoar
  • (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
  • * 1593 , , 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

    See also

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To become mouldy or musty.
  • * 1593 , , II. iv. 136:
  • But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.

    Anagrams

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    hyar

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (dialectal) here
  • * 1875 , -
  • Who CALL me? Listen down de ribber, Dinah! Don’t you hyar
    Somebody holl’in’ “Hoo, Jim, hoo?” My Sarah died las’ y’ar;
    IS dat black angel done come back to call ole Jim f’om hyar ?

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dialectal) hear
  • * 1875 , -
  • Who CALL me? Listen down de ribber, Dinah! Don’t you hyar
    Somebody holl’in’ “Hoo, Jim, hoo?” My Sarah died las’ y’ar;
    IS dat black angel done come back to call ole Jim f’om hyar?
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