Hairy \Hair"y\ (-[y^]), a.
1. Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair;
rough with hair; hirsute.
[1913 Webster]
His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. Very complicated, difficult, or involved; as, a hairy
problem; a hairy equation. [Colloq.]
[PJC]
3. Dangerous or frightening; as, a hairy encounter with a
mugger.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hairy
adj 1: having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a
hairy caterpillar" [syn: hirsute] [ant: hairless]
2: hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains"
[also: hairiest, hairier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
145 Moby Thesaurus words for "hairy":
Herculean, abstruse, arduous, asperous, barbellate, barfy, bearded,
bewhiskered, bristled, bristling, bristly, brutal, bum, bushy,
capillary, chancy, cheesy, cirrose, cirrous, comate, complex,
complicated, confused, confusing, craggy, crappy, creepy, critical,
crummy, dangerous, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult,
dirty, downy, exacting, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, flagelliform,
fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, formidable, frightening,
fringy, funicular, furry, fuzzy, glochidiate, godawful, goshawful,
gossamery, grim, hairlike, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, harsh,
hazardous, hirsute, hispid, icky, intricate, jagged, jawbreaking,
jeopardous, knotted, knotty, laborious, lanate, ligamental, matted,
mean, nappy, nerve-racking, no picnic, not easy, operose, perilous,
pilose, precarious, problematic, pubescent, punk, putrid, rigorous,
risky, ropy, rough, rugged, scabrous, scary, scraggy,
set with thorns, setaceous, setose, setous, severe, shagged,
shaggy, shitty, silky, spiny, steep, stinking, stinky, strenuous,
strigal, strigate, strigose, stringy, stubbled, stubbly, studded,
taeniate, taeniform, tangled, thorny, threadlike, thready,
ticklish, toilsome, tough, treacherous, trichoid, tricky, tufted,
uncertain, uneven, unhealthy, unshaven, unshorn, unsmooth, unsound,
uphill, vomity, whiskered, wicked, wiry, woolly, worrying,
yecchy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
hairy
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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