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.

How to pronounce hairy?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Ramon Mata Gonzalez Jr:

   210809182019-The most difficult task, one has yet to face, besides death to their own flesh is; acknowledging, dying to and ultimately surrendering to what one, both, loves and hates more than anything in this world...their own worst enemy...themselves. Death is beautiful. However, Dying is the ugly part.-Ramon MGJr-211509182019 Think back for a second, a fear of sorts, that neither grips, nor taunts you. First jump(not dive) off the high dive. Now, think what is good, in you that you do best, only you can embrace it's passion, no longer. Like ripping a bandage off your hairy arm. Instant pain, relief, now freedom to harness what you no longer struggle to control. Self. Free, friend. Free indeed. Paz.

2. Zelda Williams:

   My apologies, by the way, for subjecting you to the sight of my father in spandex, 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.

3. Japanese Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom:

   A hairy person is sexy.

4. 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.

5. Theresa Dellinger:

   There are little hollow hairs in that fluffy, hairy material, it's not going to reach out and bite you, but if someone brushes up against that hair, it'll release toxins that you'll have a reaction to.

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