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Hairy   /hˈɛri/   Listen
adjective
Hairy  adj.  
1.
Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; hirsute. "His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge."
2.
Very complicated, difficult, or involved; as, a hairy problem; a hairy equation. (Colloq.)
3.
Dangerous or frightening; as, a hairy encounter with a mugger.





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"Hairy" Quotes from Famous Books



... monkeys tore into their buns as if they were half starved. In their hunger they got a few mouthfuls down without appearing to notice that anything was wrong. Then suddenly one of the monkeys hurled his bun at the bear and the other leaped on the big hairy creature's head. Apparently they thought the innocent bear had something to do with the trick that ...
— The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code • John Henry Goldfrap, AKA Captain Wilbur Lawton
... curved claw-like antennae or feelers in front, and two horns projecting behind, so that, but for the sharp fiery eyes of the creature, it would have been difficult to tell its head from its hinder part. Its rusty colour, its ill-shaped body, and hairy legs, combined with the piercing look from its eyes, gave it a most vicious appearance, such as belongs, less or more, to all of its race—for it was of ...
— The Boy Hunters • Captain Mayne Reid
... those scoundrels of English to menace the uniformed patriots of the French republic! The second in command drew a revolver, and pointing at the hairy breast of the leader of the Noa-Noans, shouted: "Au le vapeur! Diable! What, you whisky-filled pigs, you ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... garden-wall the bees With hairy bellies pass between The staminate and pistilate, Blest office ...
— Poems • T. S. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot
... that idea is as good as any." He put one long, lean, hairy hand on the short, fat knee beside him and said: "The whole trouble with our Protestant religion is that we have no confessor. So some of us talk to our lawyers, and some of us talk to our doctors, and in extreme unction we talk ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White


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