What does hairy mean?
Definitions for hairy
ˈhɛər iha·i·ry
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word hairy.
Princeton's WordNet
hairy, haired, hirsuteadjective
having or covered with hair
"Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"
hairyadjective
hazardous and frightening
"hairy moments in the mountains"
GCIDE
Hairyadjective
Dangerous or frightening; as, a hairy encounter with a mugger.
Wiktionary
hairyadjective
Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body.
a hairy man
hairyadjective
Of an animal, having a lot of fur.
hairy mammoth
hairyadjective
Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it.
She is a great admirer of hairy chests.
hairyadjective
Difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating.
It's a hairy problem, and will probably take several weeks to sort out.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Hairyadjective
Etymology: from hair.
She his hairy temples then had rounded
With coronet of flowers. William Shakespeare, Midsum. Night’s Dream.Children are not hairy, for that their skins are more perspirable. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
Storms have shed
From vines the hairy honours of their head. John Dryden, Virgil.
ChatGPT
hairy
Having or covered with hair; characterized by the presence of hair. The term 'hairy' can also be used informally to describe a situation or problem that is complex or difficult to handle.
Webster Dictionary
Hairyadjective
bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute
The New Hacker's Dictionary
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.
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Entomology
Hairy
covered or clothed with hair.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hairy in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hairy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of hairy in a Sentence
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Still, for a man so incredibly hairy and square, watching my dad on a bike was like watching a penguin spread his wings and take flight.
It was pretty hairy, glad it’s over. It was definitely pretty tense, i could see the mechanics working on the car as we rolled through, adjusting the wings. I asked them not to tell me. It’s definitely a roller coaster of emotions for everybody and I ’m actually really relieved that that’s all over.
I never knew how hairy men were! it just felt like I had finally finished growing up. I simply grew up as a female, and transitioned to a male.
I prefer older men. That’s right, older men. I like my men ‘well-seasoned,’ if you will, meaning with a little bit of ‘salt and pepper’ sprinkled in their hairy parts.
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- валаса́тыBelarusian
- lodden, behåret, håretDanish
- haarig, behaart, pelzartigGerman
- velludo, peludoSpanish
- karvaneEstonian
- karvainenFinnish
- poilu, poilueFrench
- molachScottish Gaelic
- שעירHebrew
- बालदारHindi
- szőrösHungarian
- մազոտ, թավամազArmenian
- peloso, pelosaItalian
- שעירHebrew
- 毛むくじゃら, 毛深いJapanese
- pilusus, pilosa, pilosusLatin
- matains, spalvainsLatvian
- pūhuruhuruMāori
- harig, behaardDutch
- pelutOccitan
- peluda, peludoPortuguese
- părosRomanian
- мохнатый, волосатыйRussian
- pilosu, pirosuSardinian
- hårigSwedish
- kürklü, postlu, kıllıTurkish
- волоса́тийUkrainian
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