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haired up

adj

Definitions

  1. Excessively emotional, excited, aroused or angry.

    • “Give over fussin’, an’ take things as they come. That’s the only way to get along smooth-like in this world. You can keep yourself all haired up over this or that without changin’ it the least little bit.”
    • ‘Says being over there with Jason and Polly is more than his stomach can stand. Says they act as if he wasn’t there at all, they’re so haired up about each other. Kissing and a-mauling […]
    • If I hadn’t heard all this talk of ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties, I wouldn’t have gotten so haired-up about things going boomp in the night.

  2. simple past and past participle of hair up

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