different between hairy vs bearded
hairy
English
Etymology
From Middle English hery, heeri, hary, equivalent to hair +? -y. Compare Saterland Frisian hierich (“hairy”), West Frisian hierrich (“hairy”), Dutch harig (“hairy”), German Low German harig (“hairy”), German haarig (“hairy”), Swedish hårig (“hairy”), Icelandic hárugur (“hairy”). Compare also Old English h?riht (“hairy”) and ?eh?re (“hairy”).
The sense "terrifying, scary" possibly results from a blend of hair-raising and scary.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h???i/
- Rhymes: -???i
Adjective
hairy (comparative hairier, superlative hairiest)
- Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body.
- a hairy man
- Of an animal, having a lot of fur.
- hairy mammoth
- Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it.
- She is a great admirer of hairy chests.
- (informal) Difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating.
- It’s a hairy problem, and will probably take several weeks to sort out.
- (informal) Causing anxiety or fright; terrifying, scary.
Synonyms
- (person): furry, hairful, hirsute
- (animal): furry
- (body part): furry, hirsute
Antonyms
- bald
- hairless
Derived terms
- hairily
- hairiness
Translations
See also
- dasypygal
Anagrams
- Yahir
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bearded
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b??d?d/, /?b??d?d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b??d?d/, /?bi?d?d/
Etymology 1
From beard +? -ed.
Verb
bearded
- simple past tense and past participle of beard
Etymology 2
From Middle English berded, from Old English ?ebearded, ?ebeardede, ?ebierd, ?ebierde (“bearded”), from Proto-Germanic *bardidaz (“bearded”), equivalent to beard +? -ed. Cognate with Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German b?rt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).
Adjective
bearded (comparative more bearded, superlative most bearded)
- Having a beard; involving a beard.
- c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV, Scene 1, [1]
- Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:
- 1693, Juvenal, The Satyrs, translated by John Dryden and others, London: J. Tonson, 1735, 6th edition, Satyr VI, p. 80, [2]
- There are who in soft Eunuchs place their Bliss; / To shun the Scrubbing of a bearded Kiss, / And 'scape Abortion; but their solid Joy / Is when the Page, already past a Boy, / Is Capon'd late; and to the Gelder shown, / With his two Pounders to Perfection grown. / When all the Navel string cou'd give, appears; / All but the Beard, and that's the Barber's loss, not theirs.
- c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV, Scene 1, [1]
- Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
- 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, lines 1-3, [3]
- This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld [...]
- 1881, Oscar Wilde, "Panthea" in Poems, Boston: Roberts Brothers, p. 182, [4]
- [...] but the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!
- 1894, A. E., "On a Hill-Top" in Homeward: Songs by the Way, London: John Lane, 1901, p. 42, [5]
- Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust / Their blackness high into the still grey light,
- 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, lines 1-3, [3]
- (Of an axe) having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.
- (in combination) Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene 1, [6]
- [...] who knows / If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent / His powerful mandate to you, ‘Do this, or this; Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; / Perform 't, or else we damn thee.’
- 1855, Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead, Part II, lines 55-7, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, 1909, p. 248, [7]
- [...] for with his hammer Thor / Smote 'mid the rocks the lichen-bearded pines / And burst their roots [...]
- 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,
- Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose from the water.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, Scene 1, [6]
Synonyms
- (zoology, botany) bristly
- (botany) awny
- (botany) barbate
- barbed
Antonyms
- beardless
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
bearded (plural beardeds)
- (informal, botany, horticulture) A bearded iris.
Anagrams
- breaded, debeard, derdeba
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