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hardy

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Adjective

  1. Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
  2. Able to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost.
  3. Brave and resolute.
  4. Impudent.

Noun

  1. Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
  2. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
  3. hardy hole

Proper noun

  1. A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
  2. A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person.
  3. A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person: Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet.
  4. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  5. A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Sharp County and Fulton County, Arkansas.
  6. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.
  7. A number of places in the United States: A minor city in Humboldt County, Iowa.
  8. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky.
  9. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Grenada County, Mississippi.
  10. A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana.
  11. A number of places in the United States: A village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
  12. A number of places in the United States: A township in Holmes County, Ohio.
  13. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Virginia.
  14. A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
  15. A hamlet in Rural Municipality of The Gap No. 39, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  16. A locality east of Peterborough, South Australia.

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