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  • haired
    haired
    adjective
    having hair of a specified kind (usually used in combination).
  • -haired
    -haired
    adjective
    having hair as specified

haired

American  
[haird] / hɛərd /

adjective

  1. having hair of a specified kind (usually used in combination).

    dark-haired; long-haired.

  2. New England (chiefly Maine). angry, annoyed, or upset (often followed byup ).

    Don't get haired up over his insults.


-haired British  

adjective

  1. having hair as specified

    long-haired

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of haired

1350–1400; Middle English hered; see hair, -ed 3

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There is Kyle Troup, the ginger haired “Pro with the Fro” — “I guess I’m the Bob Ross of bowling,” he says, though you may also think of Richard Simmons — clownish, with colorful dress.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 16, 2026

You may snigger that the fluffy haired and sequin-loving singer-songwriter is a cheesy anti-poet, fixating on such mortal lines as “No one heard at all, not even the chair.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 24, 2025

Iona is depicted in marketing imagery as a red haired woman in a Scottish landscape.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2025

Norman, the 50-pound and coarsely haired guest, snoozed within the plastic walls of his igloo-shaped shelter in mid-November.

From Seattle Times Nov. 24, 2023

The arm was slim and sparsely haired, without wrinkles or kidney spots.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Grey -haired, cigar -chewing Bobby Burns, bemedaled 31-year Air Force veteran, heard Bell out, called the terminal to verify his story, then rang up Tachikawa tower.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 47, grey -haired, jut-jawed Alvin George Brush sometimes feels like the old-woman-in-the-shoe.

From Time Magazine Archive

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