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English
Etymology
From haar + -y.
Adjective
haary (not comparable)
- Marked by the presence of haar (“coastal fog”); foggy.
- 1769, Jean-François de Saint-Lambert, Les saisons ; Oeuvres diverses, page 69, quoting Thompson:
- Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft / A haary mist and forms a ceaseleser shovs.
1831, Basil Hall, Fragments of Voyages and Travels: Including Anecdotes of a Naval Life : Chiefly for the Use of Young Persons, page 237:The night was dark, I had no knowledge of the coast, and the usual haary surf which prevails along this whole shore was rolling on the beach ...
1898, Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Ives Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England, page 252:Past yin o ' clock, and a dark, haary moarnin' : I recalled the bull voice of the watchman as he had called it on the night of our escape from the Castle — In the thickening envelope of sea fog I felt like a squirrel in a rotatory cage.
1899, Scottish Mountaineering Club, Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, page 298:Having now children of my own, though not so highly favoured, for they live in the "haary" regions of the East Coast, I thought I ought to be able to help them with their geography lessons by describing to them in detail the features of these
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