hirsute
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin hirsūtus (“shaggy, hairy”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
hirsute (comparative more hirsute, superlative most hirsute)
- Covered in hair or bristles; hairy.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Partition 3, Section 3, Member 1, Subsection 2, p. 674,[1]
- A third eminent cause of iealousie may be this, when hee that is deformed hirsute and ragged, and very vertuously giuen, will marry some very faire niec piece, or some light huswife, he begins to misdoubt (as well he may) she doth not affect him.
- 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or Naturall Historie, London: William Lee, VII. Century, p. 157,[2]
- […] there are of Roots, Bulbous Roots, Fibrous Roots, and Hirsute Roots.
- 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: John Hunt, Canto IX, Stanza 53, p. 31,[3]
- Juan, I said, was a most beauteous Boy,
- And had retained his boyish look beyond
- The usual hirsute seasons which destroy,
- With beards and whiskers and the like, the fond
- Parisian aspect […]
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: Charles Griffin & Co., Volume 2, p. 133,[4]
- At that period, too, the Jew’s long beard was far more distinctive than it is in this hirsute generation.
- 2008, Desmond Morris, The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body, London: Vintage, Chapter 2, p. 30,
- Despite occasional hirsute rebellions by Cavaliers in the seventeenth century and hippies in the twentieth, the shaggy, long-haired male has remained a rarity […]
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cripps, Partition 3, Section 3, Member 1, Subsection 2, p. 674,[1]
Usage notes
- Considerably more formal than everyday hairy.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
hairy
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
hirsute (plural hirsutes)
Further reading
- “hirsute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) hīrsūte
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