haired

From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair +‎ -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɛəd/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɛɹd/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /heːd/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /heəd/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /hiəd/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /heɹd/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /hɜː(ɹ)d/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
• Homophones: heard (fair–fur merger), herd (fair–fur merger)

haired (comparative more haired, superlative most haired)

1. Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.
   • 1888, Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir John Murray, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, page 40:

     It was pointed at the tip, and whilst its dorsum was haired the opposite surface was hairless, hollowed out into a concha and directed forwards and outwards.

   • 1993, Robert Ruark, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older, page 205:

     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.

   • 2014, Gerardo Ceballos, Mammals of Mexico, page 306:

     Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail.

2. (in combination) Bearing some specific type of hair.
   • 1818, Jane Austen, chapter 15, in Persuasion‎:

     He had never walked anywhere arm-in-arm with Colonel Wallis (who was a fine military figure, though sandy-haired) without observing that every woman's eye was upon him; every woman's eye was sure to be upon Colonel Wallis.

   • 1848, Charles Dickens, chapter 9, in Dombey and Son‎:

     Mr Brogley himself was a moist-eyed, pink-complexioned, crisp-haired man, of a bulky figure and an easy temper

   • 1892, Thomas Hardy, chapter 28, in Tess of the D'Urbervilles‎, page 196:

     At half-past six the sun settled down upon the levels, with the aspect of a great forge in the heavens, and presently a monstrous pumpkin-like moon arose on the other hand. The pollard willows, tortured out of their natural shape by incessant choppings, became spiny-haired monsters as they stood up against it.

   • 1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York: Dutton, 1952, Record Twenty-Seven, p. 145,

     Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.

   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days‎:

     He was a tiny wiry-haired fellow with a pale, sharp-featured face and restless movements.

   • 1958, R. K. Narayan, chapter 4, in The Guide, Penguin, published 1988, page 45:

     A clean-shaven, close-haired saint was an anomaly.

   • 1962, Es'kia Mphahlele, chapter 5, in The African Image‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 69:

     Even the curly-haired boys from merchant families, very much to the disgust of their parents, fraternized with Coloured girls.

   • 1997, Ted Hughes, “Myrrha”, in Tales from Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, page 116, lines 110–113:

     Remember the Furies, / The snake-haired, dreadful sisters / Who climb from the hell of conscience / Whirling their torches.

   She was a raven-haired beauty.

haired

1. simple past and past participle of hair

• Haider, Hardie, Haredi, dehair