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horsehairy en · ADJ

Etymology

From horsehair + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or covered with horsehair.
   • He puts stitches in the roof of your mouth — black horsehairy ones that tickle. 1932, Northwest Journal of Dentistry, volume 20, page 210:
   • It was a dark, horsehairy place with a sort of abandon-hope atmosphere that seemed suitable for people that had no money, and who were going indefinitely into pawn. 1905, Lloyd Osbourne, Baby Bullet: the motor of destiny, page 171:

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