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hairy, a. and n.|ˈhɛərɪ|
Also 4 hari, heeri, 4–5 hery, 4–6 heery, 6 hary, heary, (hearry), heyry, 6–7 hairie, hayrie, -y.
[f. hair n. + -y1.]
A. adj.
1. a. Having much hair; clothed with hair; hirsute.
a1300Cursor M. 8085 Þair armes hari wit hirpild hid War sette til elbous in þair side. 1388Wyclif Gen. xxvii. 11 Esau my brother is an heeri man, and Y am smethe. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 106 An hery skyn. 1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 68 The hotter of complexion therefore that every man is..the hayrier is his body. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 128 His eares rough and heary. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VIII. 13 Caterpillars..are either smooth, or hairy. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 60 A bald man and a hairy man are opposed in a single point of view.
b. transf.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxv. x. 280 They be called Comets or hairie starres, for that..by the flashing of fire from them, certaine haires seeme to be scattered. 1672–3Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 48 We call it [a Comet] an Hairy⁓star. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 559 When Storms have shed From Vines the hairy Honours of their Head.
c. In specific names of animals. hairy armadillo, an edentate mammal (Chaetophractus villosus) found in Argentina; hairy frog, a West African frog (Trichobatrachus robustus), the male of which shows filaments of skin on sides and thighs during the breeding season; hairy woobud (hairy oobut), Sc., a woolly-bear; hairy woodpecker U.S., a common woodpecker (Dendrocopus auduboni or D. villosus) of the eastern parts of North America.
1840E. Blyth tr. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 125 The Pichiy of Azzara, and an allied species, the *Hairy Armadillo (Tatou velu, Az.), resemble the Encoubert. 1892W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata i. 17 The fourth..is the hairy armadillo, with habits which are in strange contrast to those of its perishing congeners, and which seem to mock many hard-and-fast rules concerning animal life. 1956G. Durrell Drunken Forest ii. 47 The hairy armadillo is the vulture of the Argentine pampa.
1925Jrnl. Morphol. & Physiol. XL. 342 The occurrence in a frog of long, hair-like processes covering the sides of the body and part of the thighs with a thick growth has excited the curiosity of biologists since the first discovery of this ‘*hairy frog’ nearly twenty-five years ago. 1960H. W. Parker tr. Mertens's World of Amphibians and Reptiles viii. 138 The male of the large, West African, Hairy Frog..shows hairlike proliferations of the skin 10–15 mm. (0·4–0·6 of an inch) long, at the breeding season; they are completely absent in the female.
1731M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. 19 Picus medius, quasi villosus. The *Hairy Woodpecker, weighs two ounces. 1808A. Wilson Amer. Ornith. I. 150 [The] Hairy Woodpecker..is another of our resident birds,..a haunter of orchards, and lover of apple trees, an eager hunter of insects. 1839J. J. Audubon Ornith. Biogr. V. 164 The Hairy Woodpecker, P[icus] villosus, is a constant resident in our maritime and inland districts. 1880Harper's Mag. Oct. 672/2 Picus auduboni is not now recognized as a valid species, but only as a local variety of the hairy woodpecker. 1896Sharpe Birds Gt. Brit. II. 11 On two occasions the Hairy Woodpecker is said to have occurred in the British Islands. 1956L. W. Wing Nat. Hist. Birds ii. 26 The Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers of North America bear striking resemblances to each other.
d. hairy at (about, in, round) the heel(s) (fetlocks): deficient in breeding. So hairy-heeled adj., and simple hairy, in the same sense. slang. Cf. hair n. 8 d.
1890R. L. Stevenson Mem. & Portr. 100 That hairy man of business knew his errand well. 1899A. Conan Doyle Duet 212, I couldn't stand that chap at any price. A bit too hairy in the fetlocks for my taste. 1905H. A. Vachell Hill xii, The Rev. Septimus scowled also, because he had always maintained that any Harrovian could accept defeat like a gentleman... ‘I always said he was hairy at the heel.’ 1906Macm. Mag. Nov. 9, I would join you and cry Viva Pio Nono! with the hairiest. 1922J. Buchan Huntingtower xi. 213, I can't say I ever liked him... Bit hairy about the heels. 1927Blackw. Mag. Oct. 488/2 He took refuge in..the display..of an honest but slightly hairy heel. 1928Observer 22 Jan. 10/7 (Advt.), There is an Atlantic [locomotive] over there..—a bit hairy about the heel.., but quite sporting on gradients. 1930A. E. W. Mason Dean's Elbow xi, What would those people say..if they knew? Hairy-heeled, eh? 1962N. Marsh Hand in Glove ii. 47, I always say that when people start fussing about family and all that, it's because they're a bit hairy round the heels themselves.
e. Excited, angry, ‘out of temper’.
1914J. Joyce Dubliners 54 She doesn't know my name. I was too hairy to tell her that. 1927W. E. Collinson Comtemp. Eng. 116 He got shirty or hairy.
f. hairy ape: a person of a low mental or social type.
[1922E. O'Neill (title) The Hairy Ape.] 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 750/3 The submerged tenth, the hairy apes of society.
g. In various fig. and slang senses: difficult (quot. 1848); out-of-date, passé; frightening, hair-raising; crude, clumsy, rough, erratic.
Some examples belong equally under sense 1 b. transf.
1848A. H. Clough Bothie ix. 53 He..never once had brushed up his hairy Aldrich. 1914D. O. Barnett Let. 25 Nov. (1915) 13, I..threw a hairy salute! Ibid. 2 Dec. 16 It's top-hole fun, with four hairy captains teaching us things. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. II. ix. 783 They were not throwing themselves into their parts as the hairy young Italians they were aping would have done. 1946B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays 7 There you go again using great long hairy words. 1950Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 239/1 Hairy, old, already known, passé; usu. said of a joke or story. 1962D. Slayton in Into Orbit 22 If you happen to be pulling a lot of Gs..it might get a little hairy trying to manipulate the controls with all the finesse you'd need. 1966‘W. Cooper’ Mem. New Man iii. iv. 239 The problem was of the kind that Mike described in his up-to-date slang as ‘hairy’, meaning complex in surface detail and involving more parameters than anybody would want to cope with simultaneously. In a word, messy. 1966J. Miles in T. Wisdom High-Performance Driving v. 45 You can go just as quickly if you brake and accelerate smoothly... If it's hairy its bad. 1966Surfer VII. iv. 48 One of the fastest, hairiest waves I've ever ridden. 1967Autocar 5 Oct. 24/1 This Healey had all the works racing mods which brought the engine power up to 210 b.h.p. and turned what is a hairy and perhaps a slightly clumsy road car into a Ferrari-beating racer. 1968Listener 20 June 816/1 Khe Sanh wasn't too bad. They had good bunkers there, but most places since Tet have been pretty hairy. 1968Sun 12 Nov. 8/5 Hairy: a fast driver is a hairy driver. 1968H. C. Rae Few Small Bones i. iv. 39 ‘Were you ever at one of his parties?’..‘Just one... It wasn't my style really. In fact it was pretty hairy... Too many jumped-up gentry.’ 1969J. Morris Fever Grass xvii. 154 Things may be rough now, baby, but they could get really hairy if you try to cross me. 1971New Yorker 21 Aug. 39 And do you, Elizabeth, take this man, John, to have and to hold, to love and to cherish, until the going gets hairy? 1972Times 14 Oct. 6/2 Lord Snowdon said during a break for an orange juice: ‘I was a bit frightened. Some bends are a bit hairy.’
2. a. Consisting of hair or of something resembling hair; hair-like. Now rare.
1535Coverdale Song Sol. vi. 5 Thy hayrie lockes are like a flocke of goates vpon y⊇ mount of Galaad. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 625 His brawny sides, with hairy bristles arm'd. 1634Peacham Gentl. Exerc. 16 Take a Broome stalke..chew it betweene your teeth til it..grow heary at the end like a pensill. 1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 98 Her Feathers are thready or hairy.
b. Made of hair.
1535Coverdale 2 Macc. x. 26 Gyrded with hayrie cloth aboute their loines. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 94 b, Like an heery sacke which is wouen or made of heeres. 1632Milton Penseroso 169 The hairy gown and mossy cell. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock ii. 25 With hairy springes we the birds betray. 1878C. Stanford Symb. Christ vii. 177 Clad in hairy raiment such as prophets used to wear.
3. Bot.
a. Covered with short weak thin pubescence.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. xiv. §2. 16 Hairie grasse..is small and little, and rough or hairie like a goate. 1671Grew Anat. Plants i. i. §45 Though the proper leaves are often hairy, yet these are ever smooth. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) I. 150 Styles 2, reflected, hairy. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 70 They preponderate in very hairy plants.
b. In the specific names of plants: see quots.
1597[see prec.]. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 118 Hairy Rest-harrow. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. VI. 41 Hairy Sedge.
4. Comb., as hairy-armed, hairy-arsed, hairy-chested, hairy-clad, hairy-eared, hairy-fibred, hairy-heeled, hairy-legged, hairy-locked, hairy-looking, hairy-nosed adjs.; also hairy-back, a fish of the family Trichonotidæ; hairy-crown, hairy-head, species of Merganser.
1530Palsgr. 315/1 Heary locked that hath syde lockes, cheuelu. c1611Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iii. Schisme 1039 Fasting hairy-clad. 1797T. Bewick Brit. Birds (1847) I. 291 Covered with hairy-looking feathers. 1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 518/2 The Hairy-nosed Porcupine H[ystrix] leucura. 1888G. Trumbull Names Birds 69 In..Cabinet of Nat. Hist., Vol. III., 1833, the present species [Merganser serrator] is referred to as Hairy-crown. Ibid. 74 Hairy-head, name in New Jersey of the Hooded Merganser. 1894Forbes Monkeys I. 52 The Hairy-eared mouse-lemur, Chirogale trichotis. 1896Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. V. 392 The remarkable fishes known as hairy-backs..distinguished from the last [Cepolidæ] by the jugular position of the pelvic fins, which are in front of the pectorals. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 782/1 In the hairy-nosed wombat (P[hascolomys] latifrons) of Southern Australia the fur is smooth and silky. 1937C. W. Ferguson Fifty Million Brothers vii. 96 What is this thing that has..drawn the admiring gaze alike of dictators and hairy-chested novelists? 1944A. Russell Bush Ways xliv. 192, I found there were numberless burrows of the hairy-nosed wombat. 1960G. Sanders Mem. Professional Cad i. v. 44 Meanwhile the man will applaud in a manner that he feels will demonstrate a fine balance between hairy-chested virility and sensitive intellectuality. 1964L. MacNeice Astrol. ii. 62 Saturn makes you hairy-chested. 1965J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry i. 31 Hairy-arsed learner, a man who has probably shorn hundreds of thousands of sheep..but whose skill has been much reduced by age or infirmity. 1967Partridge Dict. Slang 1164/1 Hairy-arsed, no longer young... Mature and hirsute and virile.
B. n. A heavy artillery horse, so called from its hairy fetlocks. Army slang.
1899A. Conan Doyle Duet 215 The hairies—trooper's chargers, you know. 1924Blackw. Mag. Mar. 365/2 We had the bar placed as high as possible and put the old ‘hairies’ as hard at the jumps as they could travel. 1930Even. Standard 15 Feb. 15/1 Whipping up the lumbering hairies to a desperate canter. 1959Times 31 Dec. 10/7 No longer should I be dependent on ‘hairies’ hired from the local cavalry regiment.
▸ hairy eyeball n. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.) a look given with narrowed eyes; esp. one indicating hostility or disapproval; freq. in to give the hairy eyeball.
1961Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 11 Nov. 2/2 ‘He gave me the *hairy eyeball.’ That meant he liked her. 1971W. Sonzski Punch goes Judy 75, I was tired of hairy eyeballs from white and black militants who thought I was a liberal jerk. 2001M. Azerrad Our Band could be your Life vi. 208 A gauntlet of bad-ass mohawked punks lined the edge of the stage, giving the band a massive hairy eyeball. |