crack hardy
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He smiled gratefully to her for 'cracking hardy', pretending she was not tired when her back ached and her head swayed giddily on the long days, driving, and gazing through dust and blinding sunshine, over the ever-widening ever-distancing plains."
- "In diagnosis, he had to discriminate, besides the disease, the human element; to spot the man who was only "fed up," the man seriously ill but "cracking hardy," and the man nearing his limit but not quite there within the stern purpose of Gallipoli."
- "Daley's got a big family to keep, the old man said. And he's got his interest to pay. So he cracks hearty."
- "Two days earlier the Minister of Finance had cracked hardy and had said, "Do not criticise my tax. You will not get away with it.""
- ""We can't bear what you're going through," I said. "We can't bear to lose you. We want to look after you. You're so dear to us. But you crack hardy. You hold us away. We can't get to you. You fight us off. And you make us feel silly for getting upset.""