haired
Americanadjective
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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.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of haired
Example Sentences
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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
Sheriff’s detectives and FBI agents served a search warrant at the Buzzard home where a makeshift memorial on the sidewalk includes a picture of the curly haired girl.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025
When the then curly haired youngster won in 2010 he fired weekend rounds of 66 and 62 after making the cut with nothing to spare.
From BBC • May 12, 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
A father and son, both red haired, are locking white shutters over their windows.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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