Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fog; a chill easterly wind accompanied by light fog.
Wiktionary
- n. coastal fog along certain lands bordering the North Sea
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Scot. A fog; esp., a fog or mist with a chill wind.
Etymologies
- From Scots. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“From the Scots dictionary: haar (pronounced hahr) – A haar is a type of cold mist or fog from the North Sea which frequently occurs along the East coast.”
“Edinburgh "haar," though it was not cold except between midnight and daybreak; the air was thick with fine sand dust, and often she could not see three yards away.”
“A regular St. Andrews "haar;" and St. Andrews people know what that is.”
“On cloudless days in Summer, when the wind dies down, a cold sea fog (known as a "haar") often descends on the city, a metereologically interesting phenomenon of temperature inversion.”
“i 'the "killing times," ye ken, preachin' till the puir hill folk, an 'baptizin' their bairns -- he baptized a forebear o 'my ain -- and it would likely be the annivairsary o' the day when he escaped frae the hans o 'the hunters through the "haar," when I chanced to come by here an' saw a bit tent pit up, an 'heard folk carousin' within.”
“Dat is waar, maar we kunnen anders Helga's haar proberen ...”
“Hmmm, als het jouw haar al te kort is dan kom ik zeker een halve meter te kort.”
“Mijn haar groeit snel, maar een halve meter in 4 weken??”
“Overigens had Monique toestemming gegeven voor het publiceren van haar naam en de foto, dus dat was wel netjes geregeld.”
“Posted March 26, 2010 at 9: 32 am | Permalink the interior shuld be more sofistticated, more chrome. and the colour is alll rong. haar”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘haar’.
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Ar!
ar, Ar, argon, are, area, arf, arc, ark, aardwolf, aardvark, aardcucumber, yardarm and 253 more...
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Fun Weather Words
A list of my favorite words relating to weather
apricity, petrichor, almacantar, nimbostratus, diamond dust, squall, updraft, mesolow, thundersnow, wind shear, haar
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respelt
'He spent the greater part of his life campaigning to have respelt those words that LOOK as though they are spelt wrongly but aren't.'
Re Otto Tibbit's father, fourteen times Scrabble champio...skiing, vacuum, freest, eczema, gnu, diarrhoea, taxiing, piing, safariing, qamchiing, dooziing, hongiing and 49 more...
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words that make me happy inside
amanuensis, inamorata, armigerous, yurt, fugacious, ephemeral, gambit, defenestration, orotund, toper, teuchter, apostasy and 90 more...
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Stumbled Words
A list of words that I stumbled upon while reading.
penumbra, prolix, propitious, resplendence, sepulchral, Weltschmerz, apparition, brigand, probity, chalice, paroxysm, pallor and 160 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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Interesting/mellifluous/delicious
insouciant, expiate, apotheosis, insidious, teacup, homunculus, porcine, perestroika, milquetoast, unputdownable, paroxysm, agitprop and 65 more...
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pendlerpiken's Words
serendipity, fork, whee, pursuit, squeee, badger, hedge-swaine, wicked, ochre, umbra, verisimilitude, antediluvian and 15 more...
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some words I like
lorem ipsum, amble, conjunctiva, ribaldry, pedestrian, floret, frith, philately, mercy, transpierced, wrist, codicil and 40 more...
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water
ocean, queequeg, rain, acqua, squid, paxillosida, blue beach glass, haar, iceblink, tashtego, squall, wave and 81 more...
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When Weather Strikes...
...everyone laughs!
haboob, dzud, foehn, squall, williwaw, gegenschein, haar, sastrugi, graupel, tsunami, pogonip, ball lightning and 11 more...
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Olden
wanse, heeld, Waugh, styll, breme, swarf, laund, ver, Hurst, Fae, thern, flet and 30 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for haar.
jmjarmstrong JM hasn't the foggiest about haar. Feb 16, 2011
bilby haar haar Jul 17, 2009
yarb Thanks for the reminder, sionnach. Jul 10, 2009
sionnach Let's not forget that any locally compact Hausdorff topological group has a unique (up to scalars) nonzero left invariant measure which is finite on compact sets. If the group is Abelian or compact, then this measure is also right invariant and is known as the Haar measure. Jul 10, 2009
yarb ...once, as he was walking along Princes Street on a cruel day when there was an easterly ha'ar blowing off the Firth, she had stepped towards him out of the drizzle, not seeing him but smiling sleepily.
- Rebecca West, The Judge, ii Jul 10, 2009
oroboros also, what pirates say! ;^) Dec 6, 2006
pendlerpiken what a lovely word Dec 6, 2006
tallpaul A dialect word from Scotland and the North of England Dec 6, 2006