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Key attributes in ascendance have included furriness, smileyness, and singsong-y name-y-ness.

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2012

The best I've had are Scottish: at Franco's, temple of my childhood, the chips were coated in a majestic furriness, and lay in the polystyrene like hot soggy slugs.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2012

Before the war, most private meteorologists were rural quacks who went by the phases of the moon or the furriness of caterpillars.

From Time Magazine Archive

It remains to be seen whether this flurry of furriness will revive what has been a dwindling industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mere removal of accidental thickness and furriness in the lines of the drawing enabled him to see into the meaning of that wonderful production.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George