Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Covered with hair; hairy.
  • adjective Biology Covered with stiff or coarse hairs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hairy; shaggy.
  • 2. Specifically, in zoology and botany, rough or bristling with hairs; having a thick covering of long and rather stiff hairs.
  • Coarse; boorish; unmannerly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
  • adjective rare Rough and coarse; boorish.
  • adjective (Bot.) Pubescent with coarse or stiff hairs.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Covered in hair or bristles; hairy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or covered with hair

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin hirsūtus, hairy, bristly.]

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From Latin hirsūtus ("shaggy, hairy").

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Examples

  • Her sled-dogs clustered about her in hirsute masses, and the leader, Wolf Fang, laid his long snout softly in her lap.

    A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA 2010

  • A certain hirsute mutant may want to rethink that next trip to England.

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  • Her sled-dogs clustered about her in hirsute masses, and the leader, Wolf Fang, laid his long snout softly in her lap.

    A Daughter of the Aurora 1901

  • For decades the right had successfully demonized women who embraced the label as hirsute succubi, family-scorning and erotically disadvantaged old bags.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • For decades the right had successfully demonized women who embraced the label as hirsute succubi, family-scorning and erotically disadvantaged old bags.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • For decades the right had successfully demonized women who embraced the label as hirsute succubi, family-scorning and erotically disadvantaged old bags.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • For decades the right had successfully demonized women who embraced the label as hirsute succubi, family-scorning and erotically disadvantaged old bags.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • They dubbed their hirsute trio the Full Silkwood, after a typically audacious punch line from the show.

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  • I loved that "hirsute" was used; I always remember that one by thinking it is someone saying "hair suit" with a really thick accent.; p

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  • [[Genesis]], the son of [[Isaac]], was notably hirsute; his name means 'hirsute' in

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  • Thanks, WeirdNet: "Hmm... what does hirsute mean? Ah, here it is... it means... hirsute."

    November 30, 2007

  • Vs. hairless, don't forget.

    What I don't get is all the stray parentheses floating around in WeirdNet. Close them, for crying out loud!

    *having an editorial conniption*

    November 30, 2007

  • she is cold and demanding

    in her business suit

    dismissive, haughty,

    (yet inspiring hot pursuit!)

    and underneath

    hirsute, hirsute!

    November 6, 2009

  • "They wound through the ranks of the deformed and obese, the bizarrely hirsute and the small." From Perdido Street Station by China Mieville.

    September 27, 2011