Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being hairy; the state of abounding in hair or being covered with it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair.
- noun The quality of being hairy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic of being
hairy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of having hair
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Examples
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In the spirit of "everything matchstick thin", I added enoki mushrooms for extra "hairiness" - and it didn't hurt at all!
she who eats 2010
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In the spirit of "everything matchstick thin", I added enoki mushrooms for extra "hairiness" - and it didn't hurt at all!
she who eats chika 2010
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His skin was different too, coarser feeling, and his hairiness was a delight.
The Princess Jude Deveraux 1987
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His skin was different too, coarser feeling, and his hairiness was a delight.
The Princess Jude Deveraux 1987
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His hairiness was the one point which impressed itself upon Thaddeus Sholto when he saw him at the window.
The Sign of Four 1915
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His hairiness was the one point which impressed itself upon Thaddeus Sholto when he saw him at the window.
The Sign of the Four Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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His hairiness was the one point which impressed itself upon Thaddeus Sholto when he saw him at the window.
The Sign Of The Four Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930. The sign of the four 1889
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Applicable when possession is normative. e.g., blindness and sight, toothlessness and toothedness, hairiness and baldness.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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It made his strength, his height, his hairiness, his solidity more real and present and caused Malik to feel proud of the life they had before Ali came.
The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011
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Would it ignite a certain uncomfortable awareness of my female smoothness and your manly hairiness?
Your Beard And My Hand That Will Never Stroke It Lynn Beighley 2011
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