Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In heraldry, strewed with hurts, without regard to number; semé of hurts. Also hurted.

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  • adjective That hurts

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Examples

  • Just know that it was difficult and kind of hurty, and involved a lot of rolling and unrolling of the control top waistband.

    She Just Walks Around With It 2008

  • Nowadays young people, as the BBC used to call them, want their books to have vampires and proto-sex, or Justin Bieber's haircuts, or rainbow kitten fairies with hurty paws.

    Enid Blyton's child transporters | Louisa Young 2011

  • Almost finished hurty laser treatment, moving slowly through the NHS system and feeling a lot more happy with how I look are another few things that have been really good lately.

    Life « I'm Not Broken 2009

  • I has hurty tooth much time noaw and I cannutt take strong medicine.

    OMG! We find tomb - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • It was however quite hurty to get done on my scrawny skin'n'bone physique.

    Email Sorted Hal Duncan 2008

  • The day before Christmas I decided to tape again only to be rewarded with hurty, unhappy ears that started bleeding for the first time since I started the process.

    ear drama « paper fruit 2008

  • Instead, we should all know about the hard pointy places on our own bodies which can be used with force against potential assailants 'soft, hurty places -- like eyes, throat, temples and yes ... gonads.

    Ellen Snortland: Vaccine For Violence 2010

  • Especially ones that you can point at and say, "and I got this one when my tummy-wummy got all hurty-wurty and I cried."

    SLACKERJACK – Cute Knight 2008

  • The day before Christmas I decided to tape again only to be rewarded with hurty, unhappy ears that started bleeding for the first time since I started the process.

    2008 December « paper fruit 2008

  • His writing is actively brain-hurty, the way sensible observations and total WTF run together in gleeful abandon.

    I blame Sartorias shweta_narayan 2009

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