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 Definitions of hairy  [ˈhɛər i]  

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Definition of 'hairy' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) hairy
covered with hair.

2.  hairy
consisting of or resembling hair:
moss of a hairy texture.

3.  hairy
difficult, frightening, or risky.

Etymology:  (1250–1300)

Definition of 'hairy' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) hairy, haired, hirsute
having or covered with hair
"Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"

2. (adj) hairy
hazardous and frightening
"hairy moments in the mountains"


Definition of 'hairy' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) hairy
having a lot of hair
his hairy arms


Definition of 'hairy' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) hairy
bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute


Definitions of 'hairy' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  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.

There is a theorem in simplicial homology theory which states that any continuous tangent field on a 2-sphere is null at least in a point. Mathematically literate hackers tend to associate the term ‘hairy’ with the informal version of this theorem; “You can't comb a hairy ball smooth.” (Previous versions of this entry associating the above informal statement with the Brouwer fixed-point theorem were incorrect.)

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 senses 1 and 2, and was very likely ancestral to the hackish use. In fact the noun ‘long-hair’ was at the time used to describe a person satisfying sense 3. 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.

In British mainstream use, “hairy” means “dangerous”, and consequently, in British programming terms, “hairy” may be used to denote complicated and/or incomprehensible code, but only if that complexity or incomprehesiveness is also considered dangerous.


Translation of 'hairy' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: covered in hair or having a lot of hair
a hairy chest.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: harig Arabic flag Arabic: كثير الشَّعْر Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: космат
Brazilian flag Brazilian: peludo Czech flag Czech: vlasatý, chlupatý German flag German: haarig
Danish flag Danish: behåret; lodden Greek flag Greek: τριχωτός, μαλλιαρός Spanish flag Spanish: peludo
Estonian flag Estonian: karvane Farsi flag Farsi: پر مو Finnish flag Finnish: karvainen
French flag French: velu, poilu Hebrew flag Hebrew: שָׂעִיר Hindi flag Hindi: बालों वाला
Croatian flag Croatian: dlakav Hungarian flag Hungarian: szőrös Indonesian flag Indonesian: berbulu
Icelandic flag Icelandic: hárugur, loðinn Italian flag Italian: peloso, villoso Japanese flag Japanese: 毛深い
Korean flag Korean: 털이 많은 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: plaukuotas Latvian flag Latvian: matiem klāts; spalvains
Malay flag Malay: berbulu Dutch flag Dutch: harig Norwegian flag Norwegian: (be)håret, lodden
Polish flag Polish: włochaty, owłosiony Persian flag Persian: پر مو Pashto flag Pashto: ويښتن، څمسن، ببر، تبشن
Portuguese flag Portuguese: peludo Romanian flag Romanian: păros Russian flag Russian: волосатый
Slovak flag Slovak: vlasatý, chlpatý Slovenian flag Slovenian: kosmat Serbian flag Serbian: dlakav
Swedish flag Swedish: hårig Thai flag Thai: ขนดก Turkish flag Turkish: tüylü, kıllı, saçlı
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 多毛的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: волосатий Urdu flag Urdu: بالوں سے بھرا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: rậm tóc, lông Chinese flag Chinese: 多毛的

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