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hairy

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hair·y  (hâr)
adj. hair·i·er, hair·i·est
1. Covered with hair or hairlike projections: a hairy caterpillar.
2. Consisting of or resembling hair: a hairy overcoat.
3. Slang Fraught with difficulties; hazardous: a hairy escape; hairy problems.

hairi·ness n.

hairy
Adjective
[hairier, hairiest]
1. covered with hair
2. Slang dangerous, exciting, and difficult
hairiness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.hairy - having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"
hairless - having no hair or fur; "a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail"
2.hairy - hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains"
alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger

hairy
adjective 1. shaggy, woolly, furry, stubbly, bushy, bearded, unshaven, hirsute, fleecy, bewhiskered, pileous Biology pilose Biology
Translations
hairy [ˈhɛərɪ] adjpeludo, velludo
hairy [ˈhɛərɪ] hair adjpoilu(e)chevelu(e);
(inf) (= frightening); effrayant(e)
hairy [ˈhɛərɪ] hair adjbehaart;
(inf) (situation) → brenzlig, haarig
hairy [ˈhɛərɪ] adjirsuto/a; peloso/a;
(col) (= frightening); spaventoso/a


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His body was hairy like that of an ape, and his only clothing was a scarlet scarf twisted around his waist.
The roof is about twelve feet high, and runs to a pretty sharp angle, as if there were a regular ridge-pole there; while these ribbed, arched, hairy sides, present us with those wondrous, half vertical, scimetar-shaped slats of whale-bone, say three hundred on a side, which depending from the upper part of the head or crown bone, form those Venetian blinds which have elsewhere been cursorily mentioned.
It may be that he swept back into the past, and fell among the blood-drinking, hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times.
 
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