haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛəd/
ipa: /hɛɹd/
ipa: /heːd/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /heəd/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /hiəd/
ipa: /heɹd/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /hɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
homophone: heard (fair–fur merger)
homophone: herd (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: more haired
form: most haired
Etymology: From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1888, Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, page 40:
text: 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.
ref: 1993, Robert Ruark, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older, page 205:
text: Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail.
ref: 2014, Gerardo Ceballos, Mammals of Mexico, page 306:
glosses: Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1818, Jane Austen, chapter 15, in Persuasion:
text: Mr Brogley himself was a moist-eyed, pink-complexioned, crisp-haired man, of a bulky figure and an easy temper […]
ref: 1848, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Dombey and Son:
text: 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.
ref: 1892, Thomas Hardy, chapter 28, in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, page 196:
text: 1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York: Dutton, 1952, Record Twenty-Seven, p. 145,
Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.
text: He was a tiny wiry-haired fellow with a pale, sharp-featured face and restless movements.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days:
text: A clean-shaven, close-haired saint was an anomaly.
ref: 1958, R. K. Narayan, chapter 4, in The Guide, Penguin, published 1988, page 45:
text: Even the curly-haired boys from merchant families, very much to the disgust of their parents, fraternized with Coloured girls.
ref: 1962, Es'kia Mphahlele, chapter 5, in The African Image, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 69:
text: Remember the Furies, / The snake-haired, dreadful sisters / Who climb from the hell of conscience / Whirling their torches.
ref: 1997, Ted Hughes, “Myrrha”, in Tales from Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, page 116, lines 110–113:
text: She was a raven-haired beauty.
glosses: Bearing some specific type of hair.
Hyponyms: black-haired
brown-haired
curlyhaired
dark-haired
fair-haired
ginger-haired
golden-haired
gray-haired
grey-haired
Judas-haired
long-haired
longhaired
raven-haired
red-haired
short-haired
shorthaired
silky-haired
silver-haired
silvery-haired
smooth-haired
tousle-haired
tow-haired
white-haired
whitehaired
wirehaired
wire-haired
yellow-haired
Derived terms: hairedness
Slovak Rough-haired Pointer
underhaired