Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Miry.
- Earthly.
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- adjective UK
Touchy ,aggressive orconfrontational , usually whiledrunk . - adjective Australia
Vulgar andflashy . - adjective Australia Socially unacceptable.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This album's lairy gloating is made just about bearable because Tinie is, at heart, a nice guy, who – like his most obvious referent, Kanye West – mentions his mum every few songs.
Tinie Tempah: Disc-Overy Kitty Empire 2010
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Those were the days of Richard Keys appearing in lairy, coloured suits – mustard or bright red – and former players making a name for themselves as pundits.
I was there at the birth of Sky Sports – and what a kerfuffle | David James 2011
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The background noise, a mixture of lairy shouting and R'n'B, is deafening.
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Currently riding high with his lairy clubland anthems – but how can he be in this for the long haul?
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Whether she manages it or not you'll see for yourself while enjoying plenty of richly funny autobiographical stand-up; Pacquola's got a self-critical, obsessively questioning personality that's a far cry from the lairy Aussie stereotype.
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Whether she manages it or not you'll see for yourself while enjoying plenty of richly funny autobiographical stand-up; Pacquola's got a self-critical, obsessively questioning personality that's a far cry from the lairy Aussie stereotype.
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Much has been made of the "lairy, middle-aged" Take That fans on tour.
Farewell and good riddance to Little Britain | Barbara Ellen 2011
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Much has been made of the "lairy, middle-aged" Take That fans on tour.
Farewell and good riddance to Little Britain | Barbara Ellen 2011
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With his floppy haircut, tight T-shirt and lairy onstage swagger, you get the feeling that if he wasn't onstage he'd be on the lash with his mates, chucking kebabs about in the street, and wolf-whistling at girls.
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She was also accompanied by a security detail, in case the locals became unacceptably lairy, and by her unborn son for that voguish thing, in utero slum tourism.
frindley commented on the word lairy
A wonderful, richly endowed slang word. It has various useful meanings in Britain, but Down Under it is almost exclusively called upon as an adjective meaning: 1. exhibitionistic; flashy. 2. vulgar. (Macquarie Dictionary)
frindley to new American friend: "Do you remember a few years back when Apple came out with computers in a whole bunch of lairy colours?"
American friend: "What does lairy mean?" (and after explanation) "Ah, so my husband wears lairy pants!"
(Indeed he did, loud checked ones!)
April 10, 2008
yarb commented on the word lairy
Interesting - coming from the yewkay I use it to denote various stages on the continuum of inebrity - from a bit tipsy, to loud and rude, to roaring and reeling, to hungover. Also (of a person) to mean leery, unsanitary or seedy (c.f. your sense no. 2); also hairy in the sense of precarious. But your first sense I've never heard before.
April 10, 2008
bilby commented on the word lairy
Hmmm, first sense might be an Australian thing. My parents' generation definitely use it in that way.
A person who drives a loud car for example could be described as a lair.
April 10, 2008
frindley commented on the word lairy
And without doubt he would also be a hoon. And would chuck u-ies!
April 10, 2008
asativum commented on the word lairy
Does that make the place where they hold gatherings of dishonest flashy Australians the lair of the liar lair fair?
April 10, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word lairy
"Where, we wonder, are the people of Nashville? That's one thing we like about our cities, we agree: there are always people about. They're usually drunk, of course. Drunk and lairy. But that is a good sign."
Dogma by Lars Iyer, p 20
June 9, 2012
IndiaAmos commented on the word lairy
From Joseph L. Flatley, “Beyond lies the wub: a history of dubstep,” The Verge, August 28, 2012 (http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/28/3262089/history-of-dubstep-beyond-lies-the-wub):
August 29, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word lairy
""They were very aggressive, very lairy, looking for trouble, and they got it really," (Robin) Lee told BuzzFeed News. "There was a PCSO and about four police officers, actually about seven of them on the platform, and a couple of them were being lairy and were wanting to antagonise me.""
-- http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/artist-arrested-for-charging-his-phone-on-the-london-overgro
July 13, 2015