Hairy

Definition: Hairy

Hairy

Adjective

1. Having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar".

2. Hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hairy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Computing

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Hairy

Filament

Anguilliform; flagelliform; hairy; (rough); taeniate, taeniform, taenioid; venose, venous.

Roughness

Adjective: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly; (sharp); arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine"; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.

Crosswords: Hairy

I thought that hairy beast would be the end of me. (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett)

You're not too bright man, but ya got some big round hairy cajones (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost)

I know he's mean and hairy and smelly, and his hands are cold and clammy, but I think he's kinda sweet (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; writing credit: Jeffrey Price)

Kiss my hairy yellow butt (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Pretty hairy knuckles for a chick (All of Me; writing credit: Edwin Davis; Phil Alden Robinson)

He's the hairy handed gent who ran amuck in Kent (Werewolves of London; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: LeRoy P. Marinell, Waddy Wachtel and Warren Zevon)

The Hairy Ape (1944)

Hairy Tale (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Hairy Cell Leukemia (reference)

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Books

• Bearotica: Hot, Hairy, Heavy Fiction (reference)

• Garfield's Big Fat Hairy Joke Book (reference)

• Hairy MacLary Scattercat (Gold Star First Readers) (reference)

• Hairy MacLary's Bone (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Behind the Music That Sucks, Vol. 3 - Hairy Women of Rock! (reference)

• Big & Hairy (reference)

• Tom Dick & Hairy (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hairy on the Inside (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Shown are electron micrographs of the family of retroviruses that reproduce in t-lymphocytes. Retroviruses, which cause a variety of naturally occurring cancers in many animal species, also cause cancers in human beings. The first two human retroviruses to be discovered and characterized, human t-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) and type II (HTLV-II), have been associated with the human cancers known, respectively, as adult t-cell leukemia and hairy cell leukemia. HTLV-III is the AIDS virus, now called HIV-I. Epidemiologic studies have shown that HTLV-I infection and t-cell malignancy both cluster in certain geographic areas and in certain populations, and suggest that transmission occurs in the household, through sexual contacts, and perhaps at birth. See artwork: GR-30. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A histological slide of hairy cell leukemia. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Hairy smother weed - Bassia hirsuta at Sage Lot Pond, South Cape Beach. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Hairy Woodpecker. Credit: Unknown.

Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa) at Lower Table Rock. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Hairy Honeysuckle, also called California Honeysuckle, (Lonicera hispidula var. vacillans) located along Upper Trail Creek. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Once indoors, people should check themselves and their children for ticks, particularly in the hairy regions of the body. The immature deer ticks that are most likely to cause Lyme disease are only about the size of a poppy seed, so they are easily mistaken for a freckle or a speck of dirt. All clothing should be washed. (references)

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Hairy

Expressions using "hairy": hairy Ainu ♦ hairy ball ♦ hairy cell leukemia ♦ hairy darling pea ♦ hairy finger grass ♦ hairy golden aster ♦ hairy honeysuckle ♦ hairy leukoplakia ♦ hairy lip fern ♦ hairy root ♦ hairy shaker disease ♦ hairy spurge ♦ hairy tare ♦ hairy tongue ♦ hairy vetch ♦ hairy willowherb ♦ hairy wood mint ♦ oral hairy leukoplakia. Additional references.

Beginning with "hairy": hairy-backed, hairy-cell, hairy-chested, hairy-faced, hairy-footed, hairy-legged, hairy-legged vampire bat, hairy-leggedly, hairy-nosed, hairy-scary, hairy-toed.

Ending with "hairy": super-hairy.

Afrikaans

behaard (hirsute). (various references)

Albanian

shqetësues (anxious, disorderly, disquieting, disturbing, perturbing, pesky, pestilent, plaguy, vexatious, worrisome), rrëqethës (bloodcurdling, hair raising, heinous), me flokë, leshtor (bushy, fleecy, long-haired, mope-headed, pilose), leshatak (flocculent, mope-headed, shaggy), i vështirë (awkward, convoluted, deep, difficult, exacting, formidable, hard, intractable, Kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, onerous, painful, parlous, recondite, rough, scabrous, stiff, ticklish, toilful, trying), i rrezikshëm (breakneck, critical, dangerous, endangering, forbidding, hazardous, high risk, malign, nasty, parlous, perilous, pestilent, risky, risque, touch and go, unchancy, unsafe). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏كثير الشعر (hairiness), ‏مكسو بالشعر (pilose), ‏وعر (broken, bumpy, impassable, irregular, jolty, lumpy, malaise, mountainous, precipitous, ragged, rough, rugged, sharp, steep, tight), ‏زغب (coma, fluff, fuzz, nap, pile, plumule, pubescence, quilt), ‏أزغب (downy, nappy), ‏أشعر (pilose), ‏رهيب (bloodcurdling, bloody, chilly, dire, dreadful, fearful, fierce, grisly, gruesome, holy, horrible, horrific, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, nightmarish, redoubtable, smashing, super, terrible, wretched), ‏شعري (capillary, furry, poetical). (various references)

Bulgarian 

космат (barbate, hirsute, shag, shaggy), грубоват (inelegant, outlandish, robust, round), неприятен (annoying, chronic, clammy, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, hideous, hoggish, inconvenient, invidious, irksome, nasty, objectionable, painful, plaguesome, plaguy, repugnant, sour, tiresome, troublesome, ugly, unagreeable, unappetizing, uncongenial, uncool, undesirable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, untoward, unwelcome, vinegary, wicked), направен от коса, мъчен (awkward, difficult, formidable, ill, rum, rummy, stiff, tight, tough, trying), покрит с косми, покрит с коса, подобен на коса. (various references)

Chinese 

长毛, 毛茸茸 (shaggy). (various references)

Czech

vlasatý (hirsute), strašný (awful, chronic, dire, distressing, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrible, horrific, terrible, tremendous), nebezpeèný (dangerous, grave, hazardous, perilous, risky, ugly, unsafe), dìsný (awful, dreadful, fearsome, great, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-rising, horrid, lurid, macabre, unearthly, unholy), chlupatý (furry, fuzzy, hirsute, rough). (various references)

Danish

haaret (pilose, pilous), lodden (pilose, pilous), behaaret (pilose, pilous). (various references)

Dutch

harig (shaggy), ruigharig (bristly, shaggy, standing on end, untidy), ruig (coarse, crude, raw, rough, shaggy, unrefined, unwrought), behaard (hirsute). (various references)

Esperanto

harkovrita (hirsute), vila (shaggy). (various references)

Faeroese

loðin (shaggy). (various references)

Farsi 

پرمو (Shaggy), کرکین . (various references)

Finnish

karvainen (pilose, pilous). (various references)

French

poilu, velu (hairiness, hard). (various references)

German

haarig (haired, hairily, hirsute, shaggy), behaart (haired, hirsute, pilose). (various references)

Greek 

μαλλιαρόσ (fleecy, shaggy, woolly), μαλλιαρός (woolly), τριχώδησ (setaceous), τριχωτόσ (barbate, hirsute, pileous, pilose), τριχωτός (capillatus), τριχοειδής (capillary, hair, hairlike, piliform, pilose, pilous), δασύτριχοσ (hirsute, pilose, shaggy), δασύτριχος. (various references)

Hebrew 

שעיר (billygoat, furry, hirsute, pilose, satyr, shaggy). (various references)

Hungarian

hajas. (various references)

Indonesian

berambut. (various references)

Italian

peloso (furry, nappy, pilose, pilous), villoso (pilose, pilous, villous), capelluto (haired). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

毛深い (thickly haired), 多毛 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たもう, けぶかい (thickly haired). (various references)

Korean 

다모. (various references)

Manx

renaigagh (piliferous), gruagagh (brownie, ogre), geayshteenagh (cilicious, furry, hirsute, shaggy), garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, harsh, husky, ill-mannered, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, raw, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar), fynnagh (shaggy, super album), foltagh. (various references)

Norwegian

hårete, lodden. (various references)

Pig Latin

airyhay.(various references)

Portuguese

piloso (pilose, pilous, shaggy), peludo (fluey, fluffy, furred, furry, haired, hirsute, pilose, pilous, shaggy). (various references)

Romanian

hirsut (boorish, hirsute, shaggy), pãros (hirsute, pilose, shaggy), flocos (flocculent, shaggy), din pãr. (various references)

Russian 

страшный (blood-curding, dire, direful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grisly, hair raising, hair-raising, hideous, horrible, parlous, spooky, terrible, tremendous), ужасный (appalling, atrocious, awful, blood-curding, chilling, chronic, damnable, damned, desperate, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruelling, gruesome, hair raising, hair-raising, heinous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, macabre, perishing, spooky, terrible, tragic, unearthy), волосяной (hair), волосатый (hirsute), непостижимый (fathomless, inapprehensible, incomprehensible, inconceivable, inknowable, inscrutable, intangible, mysterious, numinous, unapproachable, unknowable, unsearchable), мохнатый (pilose, shaggy), избитый (common or garden, hackneyed, well-trodden). (various references)

Scottish

sporan (a purse, purse : sporan molach), ròmach (towsy), molach (rough; stormy), gibeach (fringed, neat, shaggy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

maljav (fuzzy, shaggy), kosmat (brushy, shaggy), dlakav (brushy, hirsute, shaggy). (various references)

Spanish

peludo (furry, haired, hirsute, shaggy), velludo (hirsute, shaggy), velloso (downy, dowry, fluffy, fuzzy, haired). (various references)

Swedish

hårig (hirsute). (various references)

Turkish

zor (arduous, baffling, constraint, crucial, cruel, difficult, exacting, force, formidable, hard, inconvenient, knotty, main, mean, might, rough, sticky, stiff, strain, tight, trickish, uneasy), tehlikeli (adventurous, breakneck, danger, dangerous, daring, forbidding, hazardous, noxious, parlous, perilous, pestilent, pestilential, risky, touch and go, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat), tüylü (downy, feathered, feathery, haired, hirsute, nappy, penniferous, pilose, pilous, plumed, plumose, plumy, pubescent, woolly), saçlı (crinite, haired, hirsute), riskli (adventurous, chancy, dangerous, Dicey, dodgy, forbidding, hazardous, not healthy, precarious, risky, touch and go, unsure, venturesome, wildcat), kıllı (bristly, crinite, haired, hirsute, pilose, pilous), kıl gibi (bristly, capillary), kıl (as cool as cucumber, bristle, hair, Moody, trichome). (various references)

Turkmen 

tьяlek. (various references)

Ukrainian

волосяний (pileous), волосатий (bearded, haired, hirsute, pilous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu lễ độ; vô giáo dục (hairy-heeled), rậm lông bằng tóc, mất dạy (hairy-heeled, ill-bred, unbred, ungentlemanly, unmannered, unmannerly), có tóc, có lông; rậm tóc, bằng lông giống tóc. (various references)

Welsh

gwalltog, blewog (shaggy). (various references)

pilosus. (various references)

velu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Hairy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahorey, cairy, dhair, Ghauri, hagry, Ha'ir, Haird, Hairi, hairie, hairin, hairly, hairn, hairry, hairt, hairty, hairu, hairv, hairys, haity, halry, hamir, Hanry, Harey, hari, Harib, Harif, haudy, Havira, hawir, Hazri, Heery, heiry, heory, hiar, hirly, hirry, hiry, hiryu, Hoiy, hrair, khabiri, lairy, mairy, nairy, pairy, Phairy, tairy, wairy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: airy, hair.

-2 letters: air, hay, rah, ray, ria, rya, yah, yar.

-3 letters: ah, ai, ar, ay, ha, hi, ya.

+1 letter: hydria.

+2 letters: charily, charity, diarchy, grayish, hardily, hayrick, hayride, haywire, hoarily, hydriae, whipray.

+3 letters: arythmia, arythmic, birthday, chivalry, crayfish, dyarchic, earthily, garishly, grayfish, harrying, hayricks, hayrides, haywires, heartily, hilarity, hydracid, hyracoid, hysteria, rakishly, shipyard, syrphian, trashily, triarchy, varnishy, whiprays, wrathily, yahrzeit.

+4 letters: airworthy, anhydride, anhydrite, arythmias, authority, bearishly, biography, birthdays, breathily, cherimoya, chicanery, chirality, chirimoya, chrysalid, chrysalis, coryphaei, diachrony, diathermy, dithyramb, dyarchies, dysphoria, epigraphy, fairishly, forsythia, hairstyle, hierarchy, holidayer, hooraying, hurraying, hybridoma, hydracids, hydrating, hydration, hydraulic, hydrazide, hydrazine, hymnaries, hyperacid, hyperarid, hyperemia, hyperopia, hyracoids, hysterias, inharmony, labyrinth, lathyrism, machinery, oligarchy, porphyria, preachify, preachily, raffishly, raunchily, shipyards, starchily, syrphians, throatily, thyroidal, trachytic, yahrzeits.