haired en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /hɛəd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /hɛɹd/ (General-American)
- /hiəd/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
- /heɹd/ (Scotland)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /heːd/ (Australia)
- /heəd/ (New-Zealand) without the cheer–chair merger
- /hɜː(ɹ)d/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
Etymology
From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).
Meanings
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Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.
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.
1993, Robert Ruark, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older, page 205: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.
1888, Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, page 40:Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail.
2014, Gerardo Ceballos, Mammals of Mexico, page 306:
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(in-compounds) Bearing some specific type of hair.
Even the curly-haired boys from merchant families, very much to the disgust of their parents, fraternized with Coloured girls.
1962, Es'kia Mphahlele, chapter 5, in The African Image, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 69: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.
1818, Jane Austen, chapter 15, in Persuasion:He was a tiny wiry-haired fellow with a pale, sharp-featured face and restless movements.
1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days:Mr Brogley himself was a moist-eyed, pink-complexioned, crisp-haired man, of a bulky figure and an easy temper […]
1848, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Dombey and Son:1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York: Dutton, 1952, Record Twenty-Seven, p. 145, Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.
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.
1892, Thomas Hardy, chapter 28, in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, page 196:A clean-shaven, close-haired saint was an anomaly.
1958, R. K. Narayan, chapter 4, in The Guide, Penguin, published 1988, page 45:Remember the Furies, / The snake-haired, dreadful sisters / Who climb from the hell of conscience / Whirling their torches.
1997, Ted Hughes, “Myrrha”, in Tales from Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, page 116, lines 110–113:She was a raven-haired beauty.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more haired | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most haired | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
haired up · silver-haired bat · hairedness · underhaired · Slovak Rough-haired Pointer
Hyponyms
curlyhaired · silver-haired · raven-haired · whitehaired · ginger-haired · red-haired · longhaired · short-haired · silvery-haired · long-haired · brown-haired · grey-haired · wire-haired · black-haired · Judas-haired · gray-haired · golden-haired · dark-haired · tow-haired · fair-haired · shorthaired · smooth-haired · white-haired · wirehaired · silky-haired · yellow-haired · tousle-haired
Translations (11)
es peloso (having hair) · es peludo (having hair) · es cabellado (having hair) · es melenudo (having hair) · is -hærður (having certain type of hair) · es cabelludo (having hair) · fi karvainen (having certain type of hair) · fi karvainen (having hair) · es de cabello (having certain type of hair) · es de pelo (having certain type of hair) · fi -tukkainen (having certain type of hair)