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hairy
(redirected from hairy vetch)

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1.hairy - Annoyingly complicated. "DWIM is incredibly hairy."
2.hairy - Incomprehensible. "DWIM is incredibly hairy."
3.hairy - Of people, high-powered, authoritative, rare, expert, and/or incomprehensible. Hard to explain except in context: "He knows this hairy lawyer who says there's nothing to worry about." See also hirsute.

The adjective "long-haired" is well-attested to have been in slang use among scientists and engineers during the early 1950s; it was equivalent to modern "hairy" and was very likely ancestral to the hackish use. In fact the noun "long-hair" was at the time used to describe a hairy person. Both senses probably passed out of use when long hair was adopted as a signature trait by the 1960s counterculture, leaving hackish "hairy" as a sort of stunted mutant relic.
4.(topology)hairy - hairy ball.
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Hairy vetch is a part of that cycle, using bacteria that pull nitrogen from the air for the plant's own use during its winter and spring growing season.
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Over the winter, the farmers grow hairy vetch, a member of the bean family, and they mow it in the spring.
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