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lairiness

lairiness noun: the property of being lairy (“grumpy or touchy”).

Noun

lairiness (uncountable)

  1. (UK) The property of being lairy (“grumpy or touchy”).
    • The old songs spool out, reaffirming once again everything that is great about the Streets. "Brace yourself, 'cause this goes deep," runs a line from Turn the Page, pointing up [Mike] Skinner's ability to grapple with existential dread as well as the cinematic, blow-by-blow accounts of everyday...2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Origin of lairiness

From lairy + -ness.

Questions about lairiness

What does lairiness mean?
Lairiness means the property of being lairy (“grumpy or touchy”).
What part of speech is lairiness?
Lairiness is a noun.

Words near lairiness in the dictionary

  1. Lairenlakpam
  2. Lairg
  3. lairier
  4. lairiest
  5. Lairikyengbam
  6. lairiness
  7. lairing
  8. lairing it up
  9. lairing up
  10. lairise
  11. lairised

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