Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered with hair or hairlike projections: a hairy caterpillar.
- adj. Consisting of or resembling hair: a hairy overcoat.
- adj. Slang Fraught with difficulties; hazardous: a hairy escape; hairy problems.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Overgrown with hair; covered or abounding with hair. In botany a plant is said to be hairy when the hairs are simple (not branched), and separately distinguishable. (See
hair , 4.) Specifically used in entomology to describe a surface densely covered with short and rather stiff hairs: distinguished from pilose, villose, pubescent, etc. - Consisting of hair or of something like hair; having the character or appearance of hair: as, the hairy covering of an animal; the hairy filaments of a plant.
- Having or characterized by something resembling hair.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body.
- adj. Of an animal, having a lot of fur.
- adj. Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it.
- adj. Difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; hirsute.
- adj. colloq. Very complicated, difficult, or involved.
- adj. Dangerous or frightening.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or covered with hair
- adj. hazardous and frightening
Examples
“On that front, molecular evolutionary biologist Aaron Avivi of the University of Haifa in Israel and his colleagues have focused on the Spalax genus of mole rat, which he describes as a "hairy sausage whose ends are hard to tell apart.”
The Washington Post: Researchers try to understand naked mole rats' resistance to cancer
“I suspect what happened here, Catherine, is that they were sitting in Shooney's and maybe she was giving them what we call the hairy eyeball and they thought they would have some fun with her by talking about September 11 and September 13.”
“In 2009, local hunters witnessed what they described as "hairy humanoid creatures" near the Azass Cave in Mount Shoriya.”
“A transcriptional suppressor, which we call hairy, is crucial for reducing the mismatch between supply and demand of oxygen," said Dan Zhou, Ph. D.,”
“On young fruits the wax-producing glands are more prominent than the wax itself, so they are known as hairy or fuzzy gourds or melons.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“Well one of my online buddies sent me this on messenger a moment ago I found it gross but quite interesting at the same time. its called hairy tongue also know as black tongue disease.”
“I'll be on the motorcycle so no trailer .... and hairy is probably what I'm looking for:)”
“Lee and I laughed as we remembered some remarkable meals in Singapore and Shanghai with an ingredient found there called hairy crab, usually in season for about six week in November.”
The Huffington Post: Jay Weston: The Best Chinese Meal of My Life... Again!
“They talk about Susan saying “she has been dubbed the hairy angel”, forgetting that they were the ones who coined this unappealing nickname.”
“* Sumatran rhino: Also known as the hairy or Asian two-horned rhinoceros, fewer than 300 survive today in the subtropical and tropical dry forests of Indonesia and Malaysia.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hairy’.
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Weftage
The many textures of touch.
smooth, warty, velvety, sleek, grainy, shaggy, abrasive, scratchy, bumpy, corded, ribbed, roughish and 95 more...
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Adjectives with 2 syllables that end ...
angry, bossy, busy, chilly, cheesy, creepy, dirty, early, funny, hairy, happy, healthy and 126 more...
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Y
What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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It's Complicated
Words about complication, complexity.
nookshotten, finicky, challenging, intricate, complex, complication, involved, elaborate, labyrinthine, involute, sophisticated, tangled and 21 more...
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Unite 2
unspeakable, unavoidable, snobbish, sluggish, sizeable, rocky, reputable, numerous, moody, misty, knowledgeable, justifiable and 18 more...
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Favorites
disparage, partisan, cupidity, hokum, tussle, odious, dastardly, overture, plane, chronic, peering, peer and 328 more...
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It was good enough for Billy Burroughs
smack, dope, junk, mud, h, skag, black tar, horse, brown sugar, chiva, boy, black and 237 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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Jamey's Words
hitherto, usurp, retrofit, desirous, suicidal, machiavellian, hate, lust, love, cancerous, poetic, pain and 29 more...
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Best of weirdnet
buttocks, peeler, mum, sweets, tree, auld, bowery, pynchon, horror-stricken, and, tatou, scarf and 37 more...
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Are We Not Men?
man, male, masculine, macho, dude, guy, manly, boy, father, gentleman, monsieur, fellow and 34 more...
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I am
pierced, bearded, mustachioed, blogger, writer, tattooed, high cholesterol, diabetic, overweight, anxious, pet owner, husband and 62 more...
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brittany's words!
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these words are sweet to me.porphyrous, iconoclastic, idosyncratic, hairy, synopsis, regardless
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hairy.
bm_hootx hairy means awesome.
no, really.
Apr 22, 2009
yarb Citation (as a noun) on kine. Jun 30, 2008
reesetee But WeirdNet, what if they just have regular monster-type hair? Why discriminate like that? Not every monster can afford snakey hair, you know. Apr 10, 2008
Prolagus Yes, all hairy monsters are upset for being only in the 25th definition. Apr 10, 2008
yarb I like this word in the sense of hazardous or precarious.
Sample weirdnet definitions:
(adj): having glossy hair
(adj): with long hair
(adj): with short hair
(adj): having soft hair
(adj): having stiff hair
(adj): having thick hair
(adj): having hair the color of silver
(adj): (of monsters) having snakes for hair Apr 9, 2008