[
UK
/hɜːsˈuːt/
]
[ US /hɝˈsut/ ]
[ US /hɝˈsut/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having or covered with hair
a hairy caterpillar
Jacob was a hairy man
How To Use hirsute In A Sentence
- I am hoping that my hirsute body will prevent any bugs from plundering the sanctity of my inner ear.
- Meggie gaped at the tiny thing roaming blindly round Fee's bare skin in search of more hirsute territory, then she began to weep. THE THORN BIRDS
- The nineteen-year-old in question is precociously hirsute on account of his Mediterranean parentage.
- They dubbed their hirsute trio the Full Silkwood, after a typically audacious punch line from the show. Undefined
- In The Comforter, a hirsute woman (an actual genetic condition that led to the bearded lady once popular in freak-shows and French courts), cradles an eyeless creature conceived of as an udder with a large mouth. Spread ArtCulture: Patricia Piccinini's World of Creatures Great & Small
- The _leaf-sheath_ is glabrous or glabrescent and sometimes hirsute; margin is ciliate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- Not as conscientious as the hirsute man in front of me, I took this as my cue to step out of line.
- Her sled-dogs clustered about her in hirsute masses, and the leader, Wolf Fang, laid his long snout softly in her lap. A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA
- More than eight out of ten hirsute he-males told some infantile men's magazine that their chest fuzz made them feel more manly.
- In college I was introduced to a friend's friend, a short, cute, hirsute writer named L. who drank too much.