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lairy
/ˈlɛəɹi/
adj 3
Collocations
4ADJ.
druggy, large, northern
VERB + LAIRY
call, don't, get, getting
LAIRY + NOUN
batik, fur, jacket, mancs, mary, resplendent, shirt, towns
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
adj
1
Touchy, aggressive or confrontational, usually while drunk.
Don't get lairy with me!
There's always been a weird duality at the heart of New Order: the fact that three druggy, lairy Mancs and the drummer's girlfriend can craft music of such awesome emotive power as to make grown neds weep.
adj
1
Vulgar and flashy.
1983, National Book Council (Australia), Australian Book Review, Issues 48-57, page 29, He was lairy alright, resplendent in a purple blazer and pink trousers.
They had no wedding party, only an Australian couple in their sixties, the woman in a great deal of pancake and blusher and a lairy fur jacket.
2
Socially unacceptable.
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Don't get lairy with me!
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There's always been a weird duality at the heart of New Order: the fact that three druggy, lairy Mancs and the drummer's girlfriend can craft music of such awesome emotive power as to make grown neds
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Unskinny was a self-published riot of large lasses getting lairy in northern towns, and did a reasonable trade via friends and comic shops.
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1983, National Book Council (Australia), Australian Book Review, Issues 48-57, page 29, He was lairy alright, resplendent in a purple blazer and pink trousers.
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They had no wedding party, only an Australian couple in their sixties, the woman in a great deal of pancake and blusher and a lairy fur jacket.
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Sungkar told Rabiah he thought of her as he rode to freedom on his motor scooter through the green wrought-iron gates, disguised in a pair of blue jeans and a lairy short-sleeved batik shirt: ‘Rabiah
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