Crossword clues for hardy
hardy
- Robust; novelist
- Start of a Kramden laugh
- Start of a Ralph Kramden laugh
- Rooney role in many MGM films
- Laurel's partner
- Physically robust
- Surname of two detective brothers
- Frank or Joe of books
- Tom who played Bane in "The Dark Knight Rises"
- The ___ Boys (teen detectives)
- The __ Boys: fictional detectives
- Tess Durbeyfield creator
- Resistant to cold, as plants
- Novelist Thomas ____
- Jude Fawley's creator
- Having great stamina
- Creator of Tess
- Comedy duo's tie twiddler
- Author of Jude the Obscure
- Actor Tom of "The Revenant"
- "The Dynasts" author
- "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" author Thomas
- "Mad Max: Fury Road" star Tom
- "Far From the Madding Crowd" writer
- "Far from the Madding Crowd" author
- Heavy of old comedies
- Stalwart
- Built to take it
- One in "another fine mess"
- Robust and strong
- Ruggedly healthy
- English novelist and poet (1840-1928)
- United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)
- Author of "The Dynasts"
- Vigorous
- Robust; strong
- "Jude the Obscure" author Thomas
- Creator of 62 Across
- He wrote "Jude the Obscure"
- Oliver or Thomas
- Author of "Jude the Obscure"
- Thomas or Oliver
- He wrote "The Dynasts"
- "Love Finds Andy ___": 1938 film
- Strong
- English novelist
- "Jude the Obscure" novelist
- Only just missing line for writer, d. ’28
- Writer Grass takes drive up
- Writer finds way into literary festival
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hardy \Har"dy\ (h[aum]r"d[y^]), a. [Compar. Hardier (-d[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Hardiest.] [F. hardi, p. p. fr. OF. hardir to make bold; of German origin, cf. OHG. hertan to harden, G. h["a]rten. See Hard, a.]
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Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolute; intrepid.
Hap helpeth hardy man alway.
--Chaucer. Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
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Strong; firm; compact.
[A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric.
--South. Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
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Able to withstand the cold of winter.
Note: Plants which are hardy in Virginia may perish in New England. Half-hardy plants are those which are able to withstand mild winters or moderate frosts.
Hardy \Har"dy\, n. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "bold, daring, fearless," from Old French hardi, from past participle of hardir "to harden, be or make bold," from Frankish *hardjan "to make hard" (cognates: Old Frisian herda, Old High German herten, Old Norse herða, Gothic gahardjan "make hard"), from Proto-Germanic *hardu- (see hard). Sense influenced by English hard. Related: Hardily; hardiness. Hardhede "physical hardiness" is attested from early 15c.
Wiktionary
a. Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost. n. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the (term: hardy hole).
WordNet
adj. having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes" [syn: stalwart, stout, sturdy]
able to survive under unfavorable conditions; "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"; "camels are tough and hardy creatures"
n. United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957) [syn: Oliver Hardy]
English novelist and poet (1840-1928) [syn: Thomas Hardy]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 89
Land area (2000): 0.609700 sq. miles (1.579115 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 0.609700 sq. miles (1.579115 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20995
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.009417 N, 97.926397 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68943
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Headwords:
Hardy
Housing Units (2000): 489
Land area (2000): 2.361985 sq. miles (6.117512 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.233994 sq. miles (0.606042 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.595979 sq. miles (6.723554 sq. km)
FIPS code: 29920
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 36.320553 N, 91.480645 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72542
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Headwords:
Hardy
Housing Units (2000): 30
Land area (2000): 0.442085 sq. miles (1.144995 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.442085 sq. miles (1.144995 sq. km)
FIPS code: 34455
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.810207 N, 94.051713 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50545
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hardy
Housing Units (2000): 7115
Land area (2000): 583.392697 sq. miles (1510.980084 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.086904 sq. miles (2.815068 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 584.479601 sq. miles (1513.795152 sq. km)
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.049674 N, 78.885741 W
Headwords:
Hardy, WV
Hardy County
Hardy County, WV
Wikipedia
Hardy may refer to:
Hardy is an English and a French surname of Old French origin. Hardy comes from Old French hardi > French hardi meaning "bold, courageous" which comes from Old Frankish hardjan meaning "to make hard." The final -y is also typical of the French proper names (first names, surnames and place names, with the notable exception Henri, when it is a given name). The name could also be an Anglicized form of the Irish name Mac Giolla Deacair meaning ‘son of the hard lad’. Notable persons with that surname include:
Hardy is the given name of:
- Hardy Åström (born 1951), Swedish retired National Hockey League goaltender
- Hardy Binguila (born 1996), Congolese footballer
- Hardy Brown (1924-1991), American National Football League and American Football League player
- Hardy Campbell, Jr. (c. 1863-1898), American horse trainer and owner
- Hardy Cross (1885-1959), American structural engineer
- Hardy Cross Dillard (1902-1982), American jurist, judge on the International Court of Justice
- Hardy N. Ganong (1890-1963), Canadian sportsman and major general
- Hardy Haberman (born 1950), American author, filmmaker, educator, designer and prominent figure in the leather/fetish/BDSM community
- Hardy Ivy (1779–1842), said to be the first person of European descent to permanently settle in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Hardy Jones, American wildlife and conservation documentary filmmaker
- Hardy Künzli, Swiss former slalom canoeist who competed in the 1970s
- Hardy Limeback, Canadian associate professor of dentistry
- Hardy Lucas, a member of the National Assembly of Seychelles
- Hardy Murfree (1752-1809), American lieutenant colonel in the American Revolutionary War
- Hardy Myers (born 1939), American lawyer and politician
- Hardy Nickerson (born 1965), American former National Football League player
- Hardy Nilsson (born 1947), Swedish retired ice hockey player and coach
- Hardy Pace (1785–1864), American ferryman, miller and early settler of Atlanta, Georgia
- Hardy Falconer Parsons (1897-1917), English First World War officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Hardy Rafn (1930-1997), Danish actor
- Hardy Rawls (born 1952), American actor
- Hardy Strickland (1818-1884), Confederate politician and soldier
- Hardy Ward (born c. 1950), American former world champion archer
- Hardy Williams (1931-2010), American politician
Usage examples of "hardy".
On the return of spring, nothing appeared in arms except a hardy and desperate band, the remnant of that mighty host which had embarked at the mouth of the Niester.
Jones has suggested that it is heat that is lacking and has advanced the idea that even though the trees are hardy to winter cold they have not sufficient summer heat at Aspers to enable them to mature their crops.
The planter should choose the large plump beans with a pale interior, or he should choose the nearest kind to this that is sufficiently hardy to thrive in the particular environment.
The powerful halogen lights mounted on the front of the Hard-suit caught snowy motes of marine vegetation and nervous schools of fish in their beams, but before long, Austin was dropping into the benthic levels, where only the hardiest of fish lived.
Jana Hardy, a biracial recent graduate of Claremont McKenna College now working in urban planning.
The wives of the censitaires, rough hardy women whose lives had been spent under the shadow of a constant danger, were for the most part quiet and collected, though a few of the younger ones whimpered a little.
With these high-spirited reinforcements and with his own hardy Rhodesians Plumer pushed on, and the two columns reached the hamlet of Masibi Stadt within an hour of each other.
The Ramen are hardy, and I have taught my Cords the care of such wounds.
There never has been a moment, there never could have been a moment, when Great Britain or the British Empire, single-handed, could fight Germany and Italy, could wage the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, and the Battle of the Middle East, and at the same time stand thoroughly prepared in Burma, the Malay peninsula, and generally in the Far East, against the impact of a vast military empire like Japan, with more than seventy mobile divisions, the third Navy in the world, a great Air Force, and the thrust of eighty or ninety millions of hardy, warlike Asiatics.
In February MOM premiered Broadway Melody a huge box-office success followed by Hollywood Revue of 1929, offering such stars as Marie Dressier, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Laurel and Hardy and Joan Crawford.
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Presence of mind was no good in a situation like this, when his words were followed by a peal of loud laughter which would have confounded the hardiest spirit.
His rifle was still in the war wag, but his pistol flowed into his fingers without any conscious thought, only to be bolstered again when he recognized the white blur as one of the hardy mountain goatlike creatures that thrived near the tree line in the Darks.
Some of the hardier species had developed ways of eating the more noxious chemicals, and a few seaweeds had developed a symbiotic relationship with them, carrying the algae in their nodelike floats or under the broad leaves, until the entire coast was poisoned.