hairy
pronunciation
How to pronounce hairy in British English:
UK [ˈheəri]
How to pronounce hairy in American English:
US [ˈheri]
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- Adjective:
- having or covered with hair
- hazardous and frightening
Word Origin
- hairy (adj.)
- early 14c., "covered with hair, rough, shaggy," from hair + -y (2). From 1848 in slang sense of "difficult," perhaps from the notion of "rugged, rough." Farmer calls this "Oxford slang." Related: Hairiness. For adjectives Old English had hæriht, hære "hairy;" hæren "of hair."
Example
- 1. He truly is a hairy fairy godmother !
- 2. Keep your hairy pets away
- 3. A hairy leg may get sunburned more quickly than a shaved one .
- 4. New hair growth on clean-shaven skin is more noticeable than on a hairy surface .
- 5. A group of danish scientists wondered whether global warming would make the hairy , meat-eating wolf spiders of northeastern greenland bigger , since longer summers mean more hunting time .