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haired

[ haird ]

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 by up ):

    Don't get haired up over his insults.



-haired

adjective

  1. having hair as specified

    long-haired



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Word History and Origins

Origin of haired1

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

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Example Sentences

At that point, a tall, brown-haired man with wire-rimmed glasses came over to me, sat down, and peppered me with questions.

But there was also curly-haired Queen guitarist Brian May and playwright Tom Stoppard.

Long gone are the days of the Young British Artists movement: now a salt-and-pepper-haired filmmaker is the artist of the moment.

Suddenly, a  tall, curly haired white man appeared and thrust himself in the middle of the opposing forces.

Joe Sutter is 93 now, silver-haired and moving a tad more slowly than he would like, but still pugnacious and sharp of tongue.

They sat in the hall and cried; the black-haired boy looking on from afar.

He came later, and Harry, the black-haired boy, was mainly responsible for his coming.

The fight was over and Lawrence rode up to the house, and was met on the porch by a white haired, fine looking old gentleman.

She was thin, skinny, dark-haired, and possessed of great physical strength in the form of endurance.

Mrs. Tom was very golden-haired and blue-eyed and pink and white, but none was further removed from insipidity than she.

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