hirsute [ˈhɜrsut] a.
1.) Having rough or shaggy hair; hairy, shaggy.
2.) Bot. and Zool. Covered with long and stiffish hairs.
3.) Of or pertaining to hair; of the nature of or consisting of hair.
4.) transf. and fig. Rough, shaggy; untrimmed. Of manners or style: Rough, unpolished (O.E.D. 2nd Ed.).
Etymology: Latin hirsutus, hairy, bristly.
"Juan, I said, was a most beauteous boy,
And had retain'd his boyish look beyond
The usual hirsute seasons which destroy,
With beards and whiskers, and the like, the fond
Parisian aspect which upset old Troy" (Don Juan, George Byron, 1819).
For those occasions when you need to use the word "hairy" in an essay but don't want to lower the tone.
18 comments:
This describes a lot of men I have been seeing at the pool lately. Sigh.
Now this is something i could use.
Love that painting, timeless classic and fits the featured word perfectly.
one thing's sure: I'm definitely not hirsute :)
My face is looking a little too hirsute, I need to shave soon :)
Aaaah if only I knew this word before I started focussing on architecture. I might have used it on one of my older papers on paintings.
Quite hard to find hirsute architecture. Though I'm pretty sure someone somewhere probably already has designed a hairy house.
<3 Goya! When we saw this painting in class we used to call it "Saturn Devouring His Son", but I'm not sure if that name was given by Goya himself, or by some scholar studying him.
That painting was in the new wall street movie, not as creepy as one would think.
Hey, it's Brandon. Though I always liked the term 'hair sweater' better. More degrading.
Big hirsute deal?
Good one. I have heard of hirsutism before. Nope I dont have it.
this one is useful =))
I never got why that painting is so famous. Kind of overrated if you ask me.
haha I love the last sentence. I can't wait to drop this word into a casual conversation.
x. jill
www.thoseghosts.blogspot.com
I read the meaning and, automatically, my brain reverted to its seven year old self and all I could see was Shaggy from Scooby Doo.
That painting is very disturbing yet I can't seem to look away from it.
Yo, bro, I used to be hirsute, but now I'm a lean clean machine. Remembered this word from my high school vocab lists, I remembered it by referring to it as "hair-suit" which, you know, basically covers it. :)
See my forthcoming profile pic, for the cleaness that is my machiness.
It definitely sounds better than hairy, it's handy
Another word I've only encountered reading fantasy novels
Interesting word. That painting is crazy!
I just used this word against my dad for a lot of points in Words with Friends, ha ha. You must've reminded me of it.
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