different between hirsute vs furry

English

Etymology

From Latin hirs?tus (“shaggy, hairy”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h???sju?t/, /h???su?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h??sut/
• ,
• Rhymes: -u?t

Adjective

hirsute (comparative more hirsute, superlative most hirsute)

1. Covered in hair or bristles; hairy.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Partition 3, Section 3, Member 1, Subsection 2, p. 674,^[1]

     A third eminent cause of iealousie may be this, when hee that is deformed hirsute and ragged, and very vertuously giuen, will marry some very faire niec piece, or some light huswife, he begins to misdoubt (as well he may) she doth not affect him.

   • 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or Naturall Historie, London: William Lee, VII. Century, p. 157,^[2]

     […] there are of Roots, Bulbous Roots, Fibrous Roots, and Hirsute Roots.

   • 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: John Hunt, Canto IX, Stanza 53, p. 31,^[3]

     Juan, I said, was a most beauteous Boy,

     And had retained his boyish look beyond

     The usual hirsute seasons which destroy,

     With beards and whiskers and the like, the fond

     Parisian aspect […]

   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: Charles Griffin & Co., Volume 2, p. 133,^[4]

     At that period, too, the Jew’s long beard was far more distinctive than it is in this hirsute generation.

   • 2008, Desmond Morris, The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body, London: Vintage, Chapter 2, p. 30,

     Despite occasional hirsute rebellions by Cavaliers in the seventeenth century and hippies in the twentieth, the shaggy, long-haired male has remained a rarity […]

Usage notes

• Considerably more formal than everyday hairy.

Synonyms

• hairy

Antonyms

• glabrous

Derived terms

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hirs?tus.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i?.syt/

Adjective

hirsute (plural hirsutes)

1. hairy, bristly, shaggy

Further reading

• “hirsute” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Adjective

h?rs?te

1. vocative masculine singular of h?rs?tus

English

Etymology

From fur +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f???i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?f?i/
• Rhymes: -??ri

Adjective

furry (comparative furrier, superlative furriest)

1. Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.

2. (informal) Of or related to the furry subculture.

Translations

Noun

furry (plural furries)

1. An animal character with human-like characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture.

   Synonym: fursona

2. A member of the furry fandom.

3. Someone who roleplays or identifies with a furry character. (Compare therianthrope.)

Coordinate terms

• (furry fandom senses): anthro, avian, scalie, feral

Related terms

• befurred
• furdom
• furfag
• furfan
• furmeet
• furrydom
• fursecution
• fursona
• furvert

Translations

See also

• kemonomimi
• nahualism
• anthropomorphism
• zoomorphism

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English furry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.ri/
• Hyphenation: fur?ry

Noun

furry m (plural furries or furry's)

1. A furry (member of furry fandom).