hairy adj.3
ill-bred, bad-mannered.
Macmillan’s Mag. (London) 9 Nov. 9: If you Liberals would agitate for some things of value I would join you and cry Viva Pio Nono! with the hairiest . | ||
Poor Man’s Orange 210: Hoping the dentist wasn’t the hairy old shocker he had been in her day. | ||
February’s Son 115: ‘All she’s done is drink too much, throw a hairy fit at some woman in a shop and threaten her with a steel comb’. |
In compounds
1. used of racehorses, fast [bloodstock use].
Bulletin (Sydney) 19 May 24/2: A festive M.L. milk-merchant has a predeliction for entering his early-risers for the trots [...]. Nominated for fun, as he said, his neddies couldn’t go as fast as a man, and backers used to laugh to see them in front of a sulky. T’other day, however, he entered a hairy-heeled hobbler, and it proved a particularly juicy thing. | ||
Boy in Bush 103: Lennie peacocking on an enormous hairy-heeled roadster; [...] Tom on a grey stallion. |
2. (also hairy-tailed) of people, of poor breeding, socially inferior, naïve.
Handley Cross (1854) 81: I’ll be bound for it she has a good foot and ancle. None of your hairy-heel’d ones. | ||
Yorks. Gaz. 18 Feb. 9/6: The hairy-heeled one goes with plenty of dash; but he’ll never outstay the well-bred ’un. | ||
Dean’s Elbow xi: What would those people say...if they knew? Hairy-heeled, eh? | ||
Men Without Wives I i: She’s grown almost as hairy-heeled as the cattle. Can swear like a bullocky, too. | ||
(con. 1940s) Sowers of the Wind 23: I’m tired of carrying babies for hairy-tailed schoolboys. From now on the officers can start to earn their dough, for mine! |
In phrases
SE in slang uses with reference to sex
In compounds
(W.I.) the vagina; thus make deposits at the hairy-bank, of a man, to be generous with material gifts to a girlfriend.
Official Dancehall Dict. 24: Hairy-bank the vagina. A man who is generous to his girlfriend by giving gifts of jewellery, cash, etc. is said to be making deposits at hairy-bank. |
the vagina.
Grits 463: The girls’re tawkin abaht [...] words faw ‘fanny’, it sounds like: [...] — Hairy clam. — Oh, yeh! |
the vagina.
Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: hairy cup See hairy doughnut. [Ibid.] n.p.: hairy goblet See hairy lasso. | ||
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‘Maureen’s Lusty Confessions’ on Apartment 231 🌐 How I long to scale atop your veiny love stalk so that you may savagely spear my hairy doughnut...My hairy doughnut of love. |
the female pubic hair; the vagina.
Sl. and Its Analogues. |
the female genital area.
‘The Hairy Ring’ in Fanny Hill’s New Friskey Chanterr in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 341: Oh! how great was my rapture — my pleasure — my bliss, / As I touch’d your ring — your hairy ring. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 27: Bague, f. 1. The female pudendum; ‘the hairy ring’. |
In phrases
to have sexual intercourse.
Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 84: Couvrir. To copulate; ‘to work the hairy oracle’. |
General uses
In compounds
see hairy n.3
(Aus.) a sycophant.
Digger Dialects 27: hairy-belly — A sycophant. (Also ‘Hairy-guts’). | ||
(con. WWI) Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: hairy-belly. A sycophant. |
(N.Z.) in cards, the joker.
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. |
(N.Z.) a woman who stops short of sexual intercourse.
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 96: hairy maclary A female permitting sexual exploration but stopping short of connection. |