Hairy
['heərɪ] or ['hɛri]
Definition
(adj.) hazardous and frightening; 'hairy moments in the mountains' .
(adj.) having or covered with hair; 'Jacob was a hairy man'; 'a hairy caterpillar' .
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Definition
(a.) Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute.
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Examples
- Originally no doubt, and for untold centuries, the use was confined to the hairy, undressed, fresh, or dried skins, known as pelts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Take the wax from thy hairy ears. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Her population was chiefly a Mongolian population, with some very interesting white people of a Nordic type, the Hairy Ainu, in the northern islands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He knew something of the ferocity of these wild, hairy men, and his one desire was to put as many miles between himself and them as he possibly could. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I saw him to-night, about eight--helped him to shut up his shop--and he had got the letters then in his hairy cap. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then, as one, the males rushed headlong upon the thing which their terrific blows had reduced to a mass of hairy pulp. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- So it was that he spied Tarzan as the boy emerged from the clawing, pushing throng with that hairy forearm hugged firmly to his body. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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