单词 | hairy |
释义 | hairyadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Having much hair; clothed with hair; hirsute. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > [adjective] ruggedc1330 hairedc1380 hairya1400 hairish1570 valanced1603 capillary1656 crinal1656 crinose1727 hirsute1823 piliform1826 capilliform1835 trichoid1867 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8085 Þair armes hari wit hirpild hid War sette til elbous in þair side. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 106 An hery skyn. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. xxvii. 11 Esau my brother is an heeri man, and Y am smethe. 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. vii. f. 43 The hoater of complexion therefore yt euery man is,..the hayryer is his bodye. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 128 His eares rough and heary. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 13 Caterpillars..are either smooth, or hairy. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 51 A bald man and a hairy man are opposed in a single point of view. b. transferred. ΚΠ 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 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. 1672–3 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 48 We call it [a Comet] an Hairy~star. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 88 When Storms have shed From Vines the hairy Honours of their Head. View more context for this quotation c. 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. Phrases 4. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > ill-bred foul-itowenc1225 villain1340 villainous?a1366 lewdc1380 ungentle1398 low-bred1599 ill-bred1622 unbred1622 underbred1650 unjaunty1671 ungenteel1676 half-bred1694 ingenteel1694 cocktail1835 mal élevé1878 hairy at the heel1890 1890 R. L. Stevenson Memories & Portraits 100 That hairy man of business knew his errand well. 1899 A. Conan Doyle Duet 212 I couldn't stand that chap at any price. A bit too hairy in the fetlocks for my taste. 1905 H. 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.’ 1906 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 9 I would join you and cry Viva Pio Nono! with the hairiest. 1922 J. Buchan Huntingtower xi. 213 I can't say I ever liked him... Bit hairy about the heels. 1927 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 488/2 He took refuge in..the display..of an honest but slightly hairy heel. 1928 Observer 22 Jan. 10/7 (advt.) There is an Atlantic [locomotive] over there..—a bit hairy about the heel.., but quite sporting on gradients. 1930 A. E. W. Mason Dean's Elbow xi What would those people say..if they knew? Hairy-heeled, eh? 1962 N. 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. d. Excited, angry, ‘out of temper’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [adjective] irrec825 gramec893 wemodc897 wrothc950 bolghenc1000 gramelyc1000 hotOE on fireOE brathc1175 moodyc1175 to-bollenc1175 wrethfulc1175 wraw?c1225 agrameda1300 wrathfula1300 agremedc1300 hastivec1300 irousa1340 wretheda1340 aniredc1350 felonc1374 angryc1380 upreareda1382 jealous1382 crousea1400 grieveda1400 irefula1400 mada1400 teena1400 wraweda1400 wretthy14.. angryc1405 errevousa1420 wrothy1422 angereda1425 passionatec1425 fumous1430 tangylc1440 heavy1452 fire angry1490 wrothsomea1529 angerful?1533 wrothful?1534 wrath1535 provoked1538 warm1547 vibrant1575 chauffe1582 fuming1582 enfeloned1596 incensed1597 choleric1598 inflameda1600 raiseda1600 exasperate1601 angried1609 exasperated1611 dispassionate1635 bristlinga1639 peltish1648 sultry1671 on (also upon) the high ropes (also rope)1672 nangry1681 ugly1687 sorea1694 glimflashy1699 enraged1732 spunky1809 cholerous1822 kwaai1827 wrathy1828 angersome1834 outraged1836 irate1838 vex1843 raring1845 waxy1853 stiff1856 scotty1867 bristly1872 hot under the collar1879 black angry1894 spitfire1894 passionful1901 ignorant1913 hairy1914 snaky1919 steamed1923 uptight1934 broigus1937 lemony1941 ripped1941 pissed1943 crooked1945 teed off1955 ticked off1959 ripe1966 torqued1967 bummed1970 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 60 She doesn't know my name. I was too hairy to tell her that. 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 116 He got shirty or hairy. e. hairy ape n. a person of a low mental or social type. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun] carter1509 clumpertonc1534 club1542 pig1546 lout1548 clinchpoop1555 clout-shoe1563 loose-breech1575 hoyden1593 clunch1602 clod1607 camel1609 clusterfist1611 loon1619 Grobian1621 clota1637 hoyde1636 Hottentot1710 yahoo1726 polisson1866 mucker1884 bohunk1908 hairy ape1931 cafone1949 trog1956 oafo1959 1922 E. O'Neill (title) The Hairy Ape.] 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 750/3 The submerged tenth, the hairy apes of society. f. In various figurative and slang senses: difficult (quot. 1848); out-of-date, passé; frightening, hair-raising; crude, clumsy, rough, erratic.Some examples belong equally under sense A. 1b transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > unskilfully made or done > rough or crude gross1513 incult1599 infabricated1623 rough1680 artless1695 crude1786 blockish1880 hairy1914 the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich ix. 146 He..never once had brushed up his hairy Aldrich. 1914 D. O. Barnett Let. 25 Nov. in In Happy Memory (1915) 13 I..threw a hairy salute! 1914 D. O. Barnett Let. 2 Dec. in In Happy Memory (1915) 16 It's top-hole fun, with four hairy captains teaching us things. 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. ix. 783 They were not throwing themselves into their parts as the hairy young Italians they were aping would have done. 1946 B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays 7 There you go again using great long hairy words. 1950 in H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 239/1 Hairy, old, already known, passé; usu. said of a joke or story. 1962 D. Slayton in J. Glenn et al. 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. 1966 J. 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. 1966 Surfer 7 iv. 48 One of the fastest, hairiest waves I've ever ridden. 1967 Autocar 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. 1968 Listener 20 June 816/1 Khe Sanh wasn't too bad. They had good bunkers there, but most places since Tet have been pretty hairy. 1968 Sun 12 Nov. 8/5 Hairy: a fast driver is a hairy driver. 1968 H. 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.’ 1969 ‘J. Morris’ Fever Grass xvii. 154 Things may be rough now, baby, but they could get really hairy if you try to cross me. 1971 New 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? 1972 Times 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. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > [adjective] > consisting of hairy1535 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Song of Sol. vi. 5 Thy hayrie lockes are like a flocke of goates vpon ye mount of Galaad. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Eij His brawnie sides with hairie bristles armed. View more context for this quotation 1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) 16 Take a Broome stalke..chew it betweene your teeth til it..grow heary at the end like a pensill. 1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 98 Her Feathers are thready or hairy. b. Made of hair. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > hair > [adjective] > made of hairen971 hairy1535 mohair1635 goat's hair1642 Angora1722 Angola1790 pashmina1865 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. x. 26 Gyrded with hayrie cloth aboute their loines. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xxxiii. 207 Like an heery sacke which is wouen or made of heeres. 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 44 The Hairy Gown and Mossy Cell. 1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 357 With hairy Sprindges we the Birds betray. 1878 C. Stanford Symbols Christ (new ed.) vii. 177 Clad in hairy raiment such as prophets used to wear. 3. Botany. a. Covered with short weak thin pubescence. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [adjective] > having hair beardedc1450 downy1551 cottoned1578 friezed1578 maned1578 woolly1578 hairy1597 bristle-pointed1601 comous1657 fimbrious1657 tomentous1657 shagged1671 tomentose1698 crinated1724 villose1727 hispid1753 pubescent1760 setose1760 villous1766 lashed1776 silky1776 strigous1776 sericeous1777 awny1786 awned1787 strigose1793 shaggy1796 stupose1799 thready1804 feather-headed1821 setous1822 aristate1829 filamentous1835 fimbriate1836 puberulent1841 puberulous1841 sericated1848 barbate1853 strigillose1857 fimbrilliferous1866 ciliolate1870 fimbrillose1884 strigulated1899 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 16 Hairie grasse..is small & little, and rough or hairie like a goate. 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. i. 33 Though the proper Leaves are often hairy, yet these are ever smooth. 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) I. 150 Styles 2, reflected, hairy. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 70 They preponderate in very hairy plants. b. In the specific names of plants: see quots. hairy maple n. A. barbatum.† hairy moss n. Obsolete ? = hair-moss n. at hair n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1597 [see sense A. 3a]. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1374 This is called in English Goldilockes Polytrichon... It might also be termed Golden Mosse, or Hairie Mosse. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 118 Hairy Rest-harrow. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. VI. 41 Hairy Sedge. B. n. A heavy artillery horse, so called from its hairy fetlocks. Army slang. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in war or charger > that draws artillery train horse1643 hairy1899 1899 A. Conan Doyle Duet 215 The hairies—trooper's chargers, you know. 1924 Blackwood's 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. 1930 Evening Standard 15 Feb. 15/1 Whipping up the lumbering hairies to a desperate canter. 1959 Times 31 Dec. 10/7 No longer should I be dependent on ‘hairies’ hired from the local cavalry regiment. Compounds C1. In specific names of animals. hairy armadillo n. an edentate mammal ( Chaetophractus villosus) found in Argentina. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Edentata > [noun] > family Dasypodidae (armadillo) > genus Chaetophractus (hairy armadillo) peludo1839 hairy armadillo1840 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 125 The Pichiy of Azzara, and an allied species, the Hairy Armadillo (Tatou velu, Az.), resemble the Encoubert. 1892 W. 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. 1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest ii. 47 The hairy armadillo is the vulture of the Argentine pampa. hairy frog n. a West African frog ( Trichobatrachus robustus), the male of which shows filaments of skin on sides and thighs during the breeding season. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Diplasiocoela > family Ranidae (common frogs) > rana catesbeiana (hairy frog) hairy frog1925 1925 Jrnl. Morphol. & Physiol. 40 342 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. 1960 H. W. Parker tr. R. Mertens World of Amphibians & 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. Categories » hairy woobud n. (also hairy oobut) Scottish a woolly-bear. hairy woodpecker n. U.S. a common woodpecker ( Dendrocopus auduboni or D. villosus) of the eastern parts of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > member of genus Picoides witwall1668 pianet1706 hairy woodpecker1731 sap-sucker1805 ladder woodpecker1870 ladder-back woodpecker1884 1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. 19 Picus medius, quasi villosus. The Hairy Woodpecker, weighs two ounces. 1808 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. 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. 1839 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. V. 164 The Hairy Woodpecker, P[icus] villosus, is a constant resident in our maritime and inland districts. 1880 Harper'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. 1896 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. II. 11 On two occasions the Hairy Woodpecker is said to have occurred in the British Islands. 1956 L. W. Wing Nat. Hist. Birds ii. 26 The Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers of North America bear striking resemblances to each other. C2. a. hairy-armed, hairy-arsed, hairy-chested, hairy-clad, hairy-eared, hairy-fibred, hairy-heeled, hairy-legged, hairy-locked, hairy-looking, hairy-nosed adjs. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 315/1 Heary locked that hath syde lockes, cheuelu. 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 110 Fasting hairy-clad. 1826 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds (ed. 6) I. 146 Covered with hairy looking feathers. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 518/2 The Hairy-nosed Porcupine H[ystrix] leucura. 1894 Forbes Monkeys I. 52 The Hairy-eared mouse-lemur, Chirogale trichotis. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 782/1 In the hairy-nosed wombat (P[hascolomys] latifrons) of Southern Australia the fur is smooth and silky. 1937 C. W. Ferguson Fifty Million Brothers vii. 96 What is this thing that has..drawn the admiring gaze alike of dictators and hairy-chested novelists? 1944 A. Russell Bush Ways xliv. 192 I found there were numberless burrows of the hairy-nosed wombat. 1960 G. 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. 1964 L. MacNeice Astrol. ii. 62 Saturn makes you hairy-chested. 1965 J. 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. 1967 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 1164/1 Hairy-arsed, no longer young... Mature and hirsute and virile. b. hairy-back n. a fish of the family Trichonotidæ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Trichonotidae hairy-back1896 1896 R. Lydekker Royal 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. hairy-crown n. (see hairy-head n.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Mergus (merganser) > mergus serrator (red-breasted merganser) red-breasted goosander1747 shell-bird1770 red-breasted merganser1776 serula1802 hairy-crown1888 hairy-head1888 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 69 In..Cabinet of Nat. Hist., Vol. III., 1833, the present species [Merganser serrator] is referred to as Hairy-crown. hairy-head n. species of Merganser. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Mergus (merganser) > mergus serrator (red-breasted merganser) red-breasted goosander1747 shell-bird1770 red-breasted merganser1776 serula1802 hairy-crown1888 hairy-head1888 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 74 Hairy-head, name in New Jersey of the Hooded Merganser. Draft additions August 2004 hairy eyeball n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) a look given with narrowed eyes; esp. one indicating hostility or disapproval; frequently in to give the hairy eyeball. ΚΠ 1961 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 11 Nov. 2/2 ‘He gave me the hairy eyeball.’ That meant he liked her. 1971 W. Sonzski Punch goes Judy 75 I was tired of hairy eyeballs from white and black militants who thought I was a liberal jerk. 2001 M. 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. Draft additions December 2016 hairy goat n. colloquial (Australian and New Zealand) a racehorse which performs badly or is considered to be slow or useless; cf. goat n. 7. ΚΠ 1894 Quiz & Lantern (Adelaide) 13 Sept. 7/1 Oh! how the crowd roared when they saw the equine go to the starting post... ‘What are yer doin' with that there hairy goat?’ 1908 Referee (Sydney) 27 May 12/2 The ‘hairy goat’ had saved the fur-coated ‘bookies’. 1964 R. H. Morrieson Came Hot Friday vi. 69 Windsor Knot! What a hairy goat! What a divvy! 1984 W. W. Ammon Footpr. in Dusk vi, in W. W. Ammon et al. Working Lives 89 That thing! That hairy goat beat my beautiful little pony? Never in a month of bloody Sundays! 2011 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 10 June (Sport section) 64 Trainer Peter Moody has conceded Turnitup will look more like a ‘hairy goat’ than a serious contender for the Channel 7 Queensland Derby tomorrow. Draft additions December 2016 colloquial (originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand). to run (also go) like a hairy goat (also, and in earliest use dog) and variants: (of a racehorse) to run very slowly; to perform very badly; later also in extended use. Also occasionally in the opposite sense: to run very fast. ΚΠ 1912 Sun (Kalgoorlie, W. Austral.) 25 Feb. 2/4 The early backers of Cadonia for the Australian Cup must be chewing the cud of bitter reflection... He had 2lb. less that he has to carry in the Cup—and he ran like a ‘hairy dog’. 1919 Sydney Sportsman 9 July 6/1 He would show you a gallop on the track on the morning of a race that would justify anyone putting his last trouser button on, and would then run like a hairy Wilhelm goat in his race. 1920 Truth (Perth, Austral.) 11 Dec. 6/1 Wonder was it weight (of money) that made Pretty Bobby run like a hairy goat? 1964 M. Davis Watersiders 137 Ever since [yesterday] she's [sc. a moped] going like the one big hairy goat. Crook benzine. 1995 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) 20 May 19 The mare..ran like a hairy dog so..she was sprayed with a concoction which made all the chaps she raced with slow down to a heady saunter. 2000 Racing Post (Nexis) 10 Aug. (Sports Betting section) 80 Karlsson has missed his last three cuts and played like a hairy dog in Sweden last week. 2015 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 17 Aug. (Sport section) 14 I was off my food on Wednesday and Thursday with nerves and expectation. What if he wins by 20 lengths? What if he runs like a hairy goat? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1400 |
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