hairy
1. Annoyingly complicated. " DWIM i s incredibly hairy." 2. Incomprehen sible. " DWIM i s incredibly hairy." 3. Of people, high-powered, authoritative, rare, expert, and/or incomprehen sible. Hard to explain except in context: "He know s thi s hairy lawyer who say s there' s nothing to worry about." see al so hirsute. The adjective "long-haired" i s well-atte sted to have been in slang u se among scienti st s and engineer s during the early 1950 s it wa s equivalent to modern "hairy" and wa s very likely ance stral to the hacki sh u se. In fact the noun "long-hair" wa s at the time u sed to de scribe a hairy per son. Both sen se s probably pa ssed out of u se when long hair wa s adopted a s a signature trait by the 1960 s counterculture, leaving hacki sh "hairy" a s a sort of stunted mutant relic. 4. hairy ball. [Jargon File] (2001-03-29) style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-style:dashed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition suitable contents: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ad ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ at ] [ au ] [ av ] [ aw ] [ B ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ be ] [ bo ] [ by ] [ ca ] [ cat ] [ ch ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ co ] [ com ] [ con ] [ context ] [ cr ] [ cu ] [ D ] [ de ] [ dj ] [ do ] [ du ] [ DWIM ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ eh ] [ engine ] [ er ] [ es ] [ fact ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ gh ] [ gi ] [ gl ] [ gn ] [ gy ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hackish ] [ hair ] [ hairy ball ] [ hing ] [ hirsute ] [ hr ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ inc ] [ ir ] [ is ] [ it ] [ J ] [ Jargon File ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ kn ] [ la ] [ law ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ ls ] [ lt ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ mode ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ mu ] [ mutant ] [ na ] [ nature ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ nn ] [ no ] [ ns ] [ O ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pa ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ pr ] [ pt ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ s ] [ sa ] [ say ] [ sc ] [ se ] [ sh ] [ si ] [ sig ] [ signature ] [ sl ] [ so ] [ sort ] [ st ] [ su ] [ T ] [ test ] [ text ] [ th ] [ to ] [ topology ] [ tr ] [ tt ] [ us ] [ va ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ ws ] [ ye ]
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