Definitions for hairy
ˈhɛər ihairy

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. hairy, haired, hirsute(adj)

   having or covered with hair

   "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"

2. hairy(adj)

   hazardous and frightening

   "hairy moments in the mountains"

GCIDE(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Hairy(a.)

   Dangerous or frightening; as, a hairy encounter with a mugger.

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. hairy(Adjective)

   Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body.

   a hairy man

2. hairy(Adjective)

   Of an animal, having a lot of fur.

   hairy mammoth

3. hairy(Adjective)

   Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it.

   She is a great admirer of hairy chests.

4. hairy(Adjective)

   Difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating.

   It's a hairy problem, and will probably take several weeks to sort out.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. 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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

Entomology(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Hairy

   covered or clothed with hair.

How to pronounce hairy?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say hairy in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hairy in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hairy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of hairy in a Sentence

1. Bernard Uechtritz:

   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.

2. Annette Hosoi:

   In my view, one of the toughest challenges to overcome was fabricating controlled hairy surfaces, one of our postdoctoral associates, Jose Alvarado, figured out how to manufacture these test surfaces; he devised a way to cast the hairs in acrylic molds using a teflon-like coating to facilitate the release of the final structures.

3. Kate Goodall:

   We wanted to find the most talented entrepreneurs that we could, tackling the most hairy 21st-century social problems in the most courageous and innovative ways.

4. Juvenal:

   A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

5. Japanese Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom:

   A hairy person is sexy.

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