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horsehairy

horsehairy adjective: resembling or covered with horsehair.

Adjective

horsehairy (comparative more horsehairy, superlative most horsehairy)

  1. Resembling or covered with horsehair.
    • 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
    • He puts stitches in the roof of your mouth — black horsehairy ones that tickle.1932, Northwest Journal of Dentistry, volume 20, page 210

Forms of horsehairy

comparativemore horsehairy
superlativemost horsehairy

Origin of horsehairy

From horsehair + -y.

Questions about horsehairy

What does horsehairy mean?
Horsehairy means resembling or covered with horsehair.
What part of speech is horsehairy?
Horsehairy is an adjective.

Words near horsehairy in the dictionary

  1. horsehair shirts
  2. horsehair worm
  3. horsehair worms
  4. horsehaired
  5. horsehairs
  6. horsehairy
  7. Horsehay
  8. horsehead
  9. horsehead fiddle
  10. horsehead fiddles
  11. Horsehead Nebula

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