# haired
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair +‎ -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /hɛəd/
* (General American) IPA: /hɛɹd/
* (General Australian) IPA: /heːd/
* (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /heəd/
* (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /hiəd/
* (Scotland) IPA: /heɹd/
* (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /hɜː(ɹ)d/
* Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
* Homophones: heard (fair–fur merger), herd (fair–fur merger)

### Adjective

haired (comparative more haired, superlative most haired)
* Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.
** 1888, Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, page 40:It was pointed at the tip, and whilst its dorsum was haired the opposite surface was hairless, hollowed out into a concha and directed forwards and outwards.
** 1993, Robert Ruark, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older, page 205:He made only one exception: our big rangy Llewellin setter named Frank, a blue-ticked genius that knew integral calculus where quail were concerned, and was haired almost as thinly as a pointer.
** 2014, Gerardo Ceballos, Mammals of Mexico, page 306:Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail.
* (in combination) Bearing some specific type of hair.
** 1818, Jane Austen, chapter 15, in Persuasion‎:He had never walked anywhere arm-in-arm with Colonel Wallis (who was a fine military figure, though sandy-haired) without observing that every woman's eye was upon him; every woman's eye was sure to be upon Colonel Wallis.
** 1848, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Dombey and Son‎:Mr Brogley himself was a moist-eyed, pink-complexioned, crisp-haired man, of a bulky figure and an easy temper […]
** 1892, Thomas Hardy, chapter 28, in Tess of the D'Urbervilles‎, page 196:At half-past six the sun settled down upon the levels, with the aspect of a great forge in the heavens, and presently a monstrous pumpkin-like moon arose on the other hand. The pollard willows, tortured out of their natural shape by incessant choppings, became spiny-haired monsters as they stood up against it.
** 1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York: Dutton, 1952, Record Twenty-Seven, p. 145,
    Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.
** 1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days‎:He was a tiny wiry-haired fellow with a pale, sharp-featured face and restless movements.
** 1958, R. K. Narayan, chapter 4, in The Guide, Penguin, published 1988, page 45:A clean-shaven, close-haired saint was an anomaly.
** 1962, Es'kia Mphahlele, chapter 5, in The African Image‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 69:Even the curly-haired boys from merchant families, very much to the disgust of their parents, fraternized with Coloured girls.
** 1997, Ted Hughes, “Myrrha”, in Tales from Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, page 116, lines 110–113:Remember the Furies, / The snake-haired, dreadful sisters / Who climb from the hell of conscience / Whirling their torches.
    She was a raven-haired beauty.

#### Hyponyms

* black-haired
* brown-haired
* dark-haired
* fair-haired
* ginger-haired
* golden-haired
* gray-haired
* grey-haired
* Judas-haired
* long-haired
* raven-haired
* red-haired
* short-haired
* silky-haired
* silver-haired
* silvery-haired
* smooth-haired
* tousle-haired
* tow-haired
* white-haired
* wire-haired
* yellow-haired

#### Derived terms

* Slovak Rough-haired Pointer

#### Translations
### Verb

haired
* simple past and past participle of hair

### Anagrams

* Haider, Hardie, Haredi, dehair