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hoar-frosty

hoar-frosty is the alternative form of hoarfrosty.

Meaning of hoarfrosty

Adjective

hoarfrosty (comparative more hoarfrosty, superlative most hoarfrosty)

  1. Covered with hoar frost.
    • […] “the sky all on fire over there,” as the hoarfrosty evening fell.1864, Thomas Carlyle, “Peace of Dresden: Friedrich Does March Home”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume IV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XV, page...
    Synonyms:
    hoarfrosted

Forms of hoar-frosty

comparativemore hoar-frosty
superlativemost hoar-frosty

Origin of hoar-frosty

From hoar frost /hoar-frost + -y.

Questions about hoar-frosty

What is hoar-frosty the alternative form of?
Hoar-frosty is the alternative form of hoarfrosty.

Words near hoar-frosty in the dictionary

  1. hoar frost
  2. hoar frosts
  3. hoar-frost
  4. hoar-frosted
  5. hoar-frosts
  6. hoar-frosty
  7. Hoarafushi
  8. Hoarau
  9. Hoaraus
  10. hoard
  11. hoard out

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