Talk:hare
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Backinstadiums in topic Plural hare
my surname is Hare, is it Irish or English or?...
- See Hare. Damn, no article. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:39, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
- Sure it is English. Means one of your ancestors was a hare. --Vahagn Petrosyan 21:15, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
About the obsolete sense of hare. edit
Samuel Johnson writes "To HARE. v. n. [harier, French.] To fright; to hurry with terrour. To hare and rate them, is not to teach but vex them. Locke. " Is it the same definition presented under the obsolete sense? Can I add this as suitable quote? L.T.G (talk) 11:32, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
- Yes, please. (If possible, cite the original Locke text and not the other dictionary.) Equinox ◑ 11:42, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
he went haring past edit
How is the following sentence best analized syntactically? he went haring past --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:59, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
- See the first verb definition of hare. SemperBlotto (talk) 11:02, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
- @SemperBlotto: That leads to a sentence such as he hared past us, but what about the verb go? --Backinstadiums (talk) 13:56, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
Plural hare edit
Pl. (esp. when thought of as a group) hare --Backinstadiums (talk) 19:24, 26 September 2020 (UTC)