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hair⋅y

  [hair-ee]
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–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.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME heeri. See hair, -y 1

Related forms:
hair⋅i⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. furry, woolly, shaggy.
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hair·y   (hâr'ē)   
adj.   hair·i·er, hair·i·est

  1. Covered with hair or hairlike projections: a hairy caterpillar.

  2. Consisting of or resembling hair: a hairy overcoat.

  3. Slang Fraught with difficulties; hazardous: a hairy escape; hairy problems.

hair'i·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
hairy

  1. mod.
    hazardous; difficult. : That was a hairy experience!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: hairy
Pronunciation: 'ha(&)r-E, 'he(&)r-
Function: adjective
Inflected Forms: hair·i·er; -est
1 : covered with hair or hairlike material
2 : made of or resembling hair —hair·i·ness /'har-E-n&s, 'her-/ noun
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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hairy hair·y (hâr'ē)
adj. hair·i·er, hair·i·est

  1. Covered with hair or hairlike projections.

  2. Consisting of or resembling hair.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Computing Dictionary

hairy
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.
4. hairy ball.
[The Jargon File]
(2001-03-29)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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