What does hairy mean?
Definitions for hairy
ˈhɛər ihairy
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word hairy.
Princeton's WordNet
hairy, haired, hirsute(adj)
having or covered with hair
"Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"
hairy(adj)
hazardous and frightening
"hairy moments in the mountains"
GCIDE
Hairy(a.)
Dangerous or frightening; as, a hairy encounter with a mugger.
Wiktionary
hairy(Adjective)
Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body.
a hairy man
hairy(Adjective)
Of an animal, having a lot of fur.
hairy mammoth
hairy(Adjective)
Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it.
She is a great admirer of hairy chests.
hairy(Adjective)
Difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating.
It's a hairy problem, and will probably take several weeks to sort out.
Webster Dictionary
Hairy(adj)
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.
Entomology
Hairy
covered or clothed with hair.
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
First of all, I didn't describe transgender women that way, i was relating a story that a women's group told me about big, hairy men -- who are not transgender women, by the way -- coming into your facility and having to be accepted because of the rules that were in place.
I've done this for 30 years and I've been involved in some interesting and hairy deals, and I've seen money arrive in suitcases at the court house.
They could take on securities that they might not want as a favor and that's when things get hairy.
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
We were out on the glacier and a blizzard blew in. It started to get pretty hairy, he [ the guide ] would always say, ‘ Are you touching the [ mobile ] in front ? ’ I leaned forward to touch the [ snowmobile ] in front to have a look, and as I came back, my glove accidentally hit the off button. THE SECRET HISTORY OF ELLIS ISLAND.
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- валаса́тыBelarusian
- håret, behåret, loddenDanish
- haarig, pelzartig, behaartGerman
- peludo, velludoSpanish
- karvaneEstonian
- karvainenFinnish
- poilue, poiluFrench
- molachScottish Gaelic
- שעירHebrew
- बालदारHindi
- szőrösHungarian
- թավամազ, մազոտArmenian
- peloso, pelosaItalian
- שעירHebrew
- 毛むくじゃら, 毛深いJapanese
- pilosus, pilosa, pilususLatin
- matains, spalvainsLatvian
- pūhuruhuruMāori
- harig, behaardDutch
- pelutOccitan
- peluda, peludoPortuguese
- părosRomanian
- волосатый, мохнатыйRussian
- pirosu, pilosuSardinian
- hårigSwedish
- kürklü, postlu, kıllıTurkish
- волоса́тийUkrainian
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