haary

haary

English

Etymology

haar +‎ -y

Adjective

haary (not comparable)

1. 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.^[sic]

   • 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 […]