haired
adjective
having hair of a specified kind (usually used in combination).
haired
American
[haird]
/ hɛərd /
adjective
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having hair of a specified kind (usually used in combination).
dark-haired; long-haired.
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New England (chiefly Maine). angry, annoyed, or upset (often followed byup ).
Don't get haired up over his insults.
-haired
British
adjective
Etymology
Origin of haired
Example Sentences
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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
Ms Potter opened the page to find Iona - a text-to-speech programme marketed as a red haired woman standing in a Scottish glen.
From BBC • May 27, 2025
Serra, 30 and shaggy haired, had shown his first splash piece a year earlier, in a group show at the Castelli Warehouse, a storage space on West 108th Street.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024
The couple sitting there, one light haired and one dark, had their backs to me.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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