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
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
They resemble each other: both are red haired, fair skinned, though Gachet is much older.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
At 47, grey -haired, jut-jawed Alvin George Brush sometimes feels like the old-woman-in-the-shoe.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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