单词 | hairy |
释义 | hairy (once / 1291 pages) 1adj 2adj Hairy things are furry or fuzzy — covered with hair. If your hairy dog lies on your bed, your bed may end up hairy as well. If your dad has a bushy beard, he has a hairy face, and while some kinds of caterpillars are sleek and smooth, others are hairy. Informally, you can also use hairy to mean "scary." The biggest roller coaster at an amusement park will probably have a few hairy loops and turns. This slang meaning has evolved from its original use as "difficult," dating back to the 1840s. WORD FAMILYhairy: hairier, hairiest, hairily, hairiness, nonhairy+/hair: hairless, hairlike, hairs, hairy/hairless: hairlessness USAGE EXAMPLESIn the Bavarian town of Kirchseeon, residents dressed as hairy, masked monsters marched through the streets in a traditional "Perchten" parade on Sunday. Reuters(Dec 19, 2016) And yet Australia's "hairy panic" raised more than a few smiles around the world. BBC(Dec 16, 2016) His impressive stature – for his species – led researchers to nickname him Chewie after the towering hairy Wookiee in Star Wars. The Guardian(Dec 14, 2016) 1 adj having or covered with hair 2Jacob was a hairy man a hairy caterpillar Syn|Ant haired, hirsute canescent, hoary covered with fine whitish hairs or down coarse-furred, coarse-hairedhaving coarse hair or fur comal, comate, comoseof certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair curly-coated, curly-hairedcovered with curly hair dark-coated, dark-hairedcovered with dark hair downy, puberulent, pubescent, sericeouscovered with fine soft hairs or down floccose(of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs furlikeresembling fur furred, furrycovered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs fuzzed, fuzzycovering with fine light hairs glossy-coated, glossy-furred, glossy-hairedhaving glossy hair hispid(of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles lanate, woollycovered with dense cottony hairs or hairlike filaments long-hairedwith long hair pappose(of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles pilary, pilose, pilouscovered with hairs especially fine soft ones rough-hairedhaving hair that feels rough shock-headedhaving a shock (or untidy mass) of hair short-hairedwith short hair silky-hairedhaving hair that resembles silk silver-hairedhaving hair the color of silver smooth-hairedhaving hair that feels smooth snake-haired(of monsters) having snakes for hair soft-hairedhaving soft hair stiff-hairedhaving stiff hair thick-hairedhaving thick hair tomentose, tomentousdensely covered with short matted woolly hairs velvety-furred, velvety-hairedhaving hair that feels like velvet wire-haired, wiry-coated(especially of dogs) having stiff wiry hair wiryof hair that resembles wire in stiffness woolly, woolly-haired, wooly, wooly-hairedcovered with dense often matted or curly hairs hairless having no hair or fur bald, bald-headed, bald-patedlacking hair on all or most of the scalp baldinggetting bald beardless, smooth-facedlacking hair on the face depilatoryable to remove hair or render hairless depilouscompletely hairless glabrescentlacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless glabroushaving no hair or similar growth; smooth naked-muzzledhaving a muzzle that is hairless naked-tailedhaving a tail that is hairless nonhairywithout hair tonsuredhaving a bald spot either shaved or natural adj hazardous and frightening hairy moments in the mountains Syn alarming frightening because of an awareness of danger |
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