furred
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Verb edit
furred
- simple past and past participle of fur
Adjective edit
furred (comparative more furred, superlative most furred)
- Having fur.
- Made with fur.
- Having a covering of thin, soft, short hair.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 128:
- She had a lot of dark hair pinned untidily back from a small well-formed brow, and her tilted nose and large embarrassed eyes had survived intact from the mistrusts and agitations of a schoolgirl, which maturity had striven to defeat by lengthening her chin and tightening her lips, while giving her skin the faintly furred matt surface of pickled virginity.
- Coated as if with fur
- especially, of a tongue having a coating consisting chiefly of mucus and dead epithelial cells.
References edit
- “furred”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.