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Vinony

hardy

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈhɑɹdi/ / /ˈhɑːdi/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). Old French hardi is usually regarded as the past participle of hardir ("to harden, be bold, make bold"; compare Occitan ardir, Italian ardire), from Frankish *hardijan; but it may also have come directly from Frankish *hardi, a secondary form of Frankish *hard (compare Old High German harti, herti, secondary forms of Old High German hart (“hard”)); or even yet from Frankish *hardig (compare Middle Low German herdich (“persevering”), Old Danish hærdig, Norwegian herdig, Swedish härdig (“vigorous, courageous”)). Cognate with hard. May have at some point also been surface analysed as hard + -y.

  1. Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.

    “It is an useful sort of the smaller kind of hogs, that is hardy in its nature and of considerable weight in proportion to its size.”

    “Even adding 1mm of thickness to the cardboard, to make it hardier, might use up a substantial forest when multiplied across hundreds of billions of boxes.”

  2. Able to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost.

    “A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.”

    “The oat is hardier than wheat, and ripens in higher latitudes.”

  3. Brave and resolute.

    “But he was not ſo hardy to abide That bitter ſtownd, but turning quicke aſide His light-foot beaſt, fled faſt away for feare:”

  4. Impudent.

name

Etymology: * As an English, Scottish, and French surname, from Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). * As an Irish surname, via mac giolla deacair (“son of the hard lad”) as a calque of the above. * Also as a Scottish surname, variant of Hardie.

  1. A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person.
  2. A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
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  13. A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
  14. A hamlet in Rural Municipality of The Gap No. 39, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  15. A locality east of Peterborough, South Australia.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). Old French hardi is usually regarded as the past participle of hardir ("to harden, be bold, make bold"; compare Occitan ardir, Italian ardire), from Frankish *hardijan; but it may also have come directly from Frankish *hardi, a secondary form of Frankish *hard (compare Old High German harti, herti, secondary forms of Old High German hart (“hard”)); or even yet from Frankish *hardig (compare Middle Low German herdich (“persevering”), Old Danish hærdig, Norwegian herdig, Swedish härdig (“vigorous, courageous”)). Cognate with hard. May have at some point also been surface analysed as hard + -y.

  1. Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.

    “Across the country, various bands of journalistic hardies — newsroom pros whose services are no longer salient to a crippled and disrupted information economy — have taken matters into their own hands.”

  2. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
  3. A hardy hole.