Definitions

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

  • adjective Covered with hair or hairlike projections.
  • adjective Consisting of or resembling hair.
  • adjective Slang Fraught with difficulties; hazardous.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Overgrown with hair; covered or abounding with hair.
  • 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.

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

  • adjective Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; hirsute.
  • adjective colloq. Very complicated, difficult, or involved.
  • adjective Dangerous or frightening.

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

  • adjective Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body.
  • adjective Of an animal, having a lot of fur.
  • adjective Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it.
  • adjective Difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating.

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

  • adjective having or covered with hair
  • adjective hazardous and frightening

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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."

    Researchers try to understand naked mole rats' resistance to cancer 2011

  • 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."

    Researchers try to understand naked mole rats' resistance to cancer 2011

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2002 2002

  • In 2009, local hunters witnessed what they described as "hairy humanoid creatures" near the Azass Cave in Mount Shoriya.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • "A transcriptional suppressor, which we call hairy, is crucial for reducing the mismatch between supply and demand of oxygen," said Dan Zhou, Ph. D.,

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

  • 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.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • 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.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • 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.

    Discussion Forum - Geeks! 2009

  • I'll be on the motorcycle so no trailer .... and hairy is probably what I'm looking for:)

    Any route from Ciudad Victoria to SLP? 2007

  • 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.

    Jay Weston: The Best Chinese Meal of My Life... Again! Jay Weston 2011

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  • 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

    April 10, 2008

  • Yes, all hairy monsters are upset for being only in the 25th definition.

    April 10, 2008

  • But WeirdNet, what if they just have regular monster-type hair? Why discriminate like that? Not every monster can afford snakey hair, you know.

    April 10, 2008

  • Citation (as a noun) on kine.

    June 30, 2008

  • hairy means awesome.

    no, really.

    April 23, 2009