hairy
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i adjective, hair·i·er, hair·i·est.
1.
covered with hair; having much hair.
2.
consisting of or resembling hair: moss of a hairy texture.
3.
Informal.
a.
causing anxiety or fright: a hairy trip through the rapids.
b.
full of hardship or difficulty: a hairy exam; a hairy illness.
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World English Dictionary
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| —adj , hairier, hairiest | |
| 1. | having or covered with hair |
| 2. | slang |
| a. difficult or problematic | |
| b. scaring, dangerous, or exciting | |
| 'hairiness | |
| —n | |
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Medical Dictionary
hairy hair·y (hâr'ē)
adj. hair·i·er, hair·i·est
Covered with hair or hairlike projections.
Consisting of or resembling hair.
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Slang Dictionary
hairy definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Computing Dictionary
hairy definition
1. Annoyingly complicated. "DWIM is incredibly hairy."
2. Incomprehensible. "DWIM is incredibly hairy."
3. Of people, high-powered, authoritative, rare, expert, and/or incomprehensible. Hard to explain except in context: "He knows this hairy lawyer who says there's nothing to worry about." See also hirsute.
The adjective "long-haired" is well-attested to have been in slang use among scientists and engineers during the early 1950s; it was equivalent to modern "hairy" and was very likely ancestral to the hackish use. In fact the noun "long-hair" was at the time used to describe a hairy person. Both senses probably passed out of use when long hair was adopted as a signature trait by the 1960s counterculture, leaving hackish "hairy" as a sort of stunted mutant relic.
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[Jargon File]
(2001-03-29)
Example sentences
Hair sets us apart from plants and mushrooms and reptiles, but several thousand other mammals are hairy, too.
It had short sleeves, and his sinewy forearms were hairy.
Offer him a bribe, such as a hairy dog, if that's what he wants.
Though beards and hairy legs may be unwanted, head hair is greatly desired.
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