hair up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Earmarks supplement brands for owner identification. When a cow critter gets all haired up in a thick winter coat, a brand gets harder to read than an earmark."
- "That afternoon Flint hiked up the gulch and into the mountains, found his mules in good flesh and hairing up for cold weather, and paid the rancher for another month of pasturage."
- "And hanging beside the porcupine was what whould have been a nice a nice mountain lion pelt if it had been killed in the winter. Thing was mangy. You know how they get in the summer when they’re not haired-up."
- "He ran a hand up the side of his face and winced disapprovingly at the prickle. They wouldn’t let him shave, and he haired up fast."
- "And then she saw a small shadow—she supposed shame—pass across her father’s face when he looked at her nakedness. Because she was hairing up, she supposed."
- "“I’m foolish to be roaming around this time of night like an old cat, haired up by the wind. […]”"
Usage
- American usage
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
Inflected Forms
hairs up (present, singular)
hairing up (participle, present)
haired up (participle, past)
haired up (past)