hoary

[US]/ˈhɔːri/
[UK]/ˈhɔːri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj.greyish-white;ancient, old

Phrases & Collocations

hoary old man

hoary tradition

hoary building

hoary folklore

Example Sentences

a man with hoary hair

They discussed the hoary old problem.

young lasses imprisoned by hoary old husbands.

the hoary old adage often used by Fleet Street editors.

Everything is hoary, grisly, bristling with merriment, swollen with the future, like a gumboil.

It is fit for alopecia, hoary hair and pelade caused by deficiency of kidney Yin and deficiency of blood.

See northward farmer head wraps hoary head towel on the way, some ear-muff that still hang shagginess work in the ground.

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