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a word that swings from grizzly bears to near-death freeway moments without changing a letter.
means Covered with or having a lot of hair, or — figuratively — alarmingly dangerous, difficult, or nerve-wracking.
from From Old English 'ǣrig' or 'hǣrig,' built on 'hǣr' (hair) plus the adjective-forming '-y' that English loves to tack onto things. 'Hair' itself traces back to a Proto-Germanic root (a cousin of German 'Haar' and Dutch 'haar'). The literal sense of 'shaggy, hirsute' is ancient; the slang meaning of 'frightening or perilous' is far younger — a 20th-century leap, likely from the image of one's hair standing on end with fear, the way a 'hair-raising' moment makes the scalp prickle.
- record holder
- one family has fur covering nearly their entire bodies
- old gene
- humans kept the DNA for full-body hair, just switched off
- slang origin
- meaning dangerous, it dates to 1960s test pilots
- goosebumps
- are leftovers from raising fur we no longer have
harry styles — british singer famous for long hair during one direction era, 2010-2016
chewie chewbacca — star wars character, wookiee with full-body hair covering, appeared in films since 1977
bigfoot sasquatch — cryptid reportedly sighted in pacific northwest forests with thick reddish-brown hair