Word of the Day:
haired
What It Means
Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.
Haired in Context
“He made only one exception: our big rangy Llewellin setter named Frank, a blue-ticked genius that knew integral calculus where quail were concerned, and was haired almost as thinly as a pointer.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).
Source and license
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