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pelurious

pelurious adjective: hairy.

Adjective

pelurious (comparative more pelurious, superlative most pelurious)

  1. (rare) Hairy.
    • […] York and Savoy, and trays of onions, pearls of the earth, and pumets of mushrooms and custard marrows and fat vetches and bere and rape and red green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated apples and chips of strawberries and sieves of gooseberries, pulpy and pelurious, and...1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 282

Forms of pelurious

comparativemore pelurious
superlativemost pelurious

Origin of pelurious

Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce in his novel Ulysses. From Anglo-Norman pelure (“pelt, fur, animal skin”) + -ious.

Questions about pelurious

What does pelurious mean?
Pelurious means hairy.
What part of speech is pelurious?
Pelurious is an adjective.

Words near pelurious in the dictionary

  1. peludo
  2. peludoes
  3. peludos
  4. pelure
  5. pelures
  6. pelurious
  7. Pelusiac
  8. Pelusian
  9. Pelusians
  10. Pelusium
  11. Peluso

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