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hairy [a]

1)	having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"

Synonyms :

hirsute

See Also:

comal downy floccose furred fuzzed hispid lanate long-haired pappose pilary shock-headed short-haired tomentose wire-haired woolly hairless canescent furlike

2)	hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains"

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alarming

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. Annoyingly complicated. "DWIM is incredibly hairy."

2. Incomprehensible. "DWIM is incredibly hairy."

3. Of people, high-powered, authoritative, rare, expert, and/or incomprehensible. Hard to explain except in context: "He knows this hairy lawyer who says there's nothing to worry about." See also hirsute.

The adjective "long-haired" is well-attested to have been in slang use among scientists and engineers during the early 1950s; it was equivalent to modern "hairy" and was very likely ancestral to the hackish use. In fact the noun "long-hair" was at the time used to describe a hairy person. Both senses probably passed out of use when long hair was adopted as a signature trait by the 1960s counterculture, leaving hackish "hairy" as a sort of stunted mutant relic.

4. hairy ball.

[Jargon File]

(2001-03-29)

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