Meaning of lairy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Touchy, aggressive or confrontational, usually while drunk.
   UK
2. Vulgar and flashy.
   Australia
3. Socially unacceptable.
   Australia

Examples

“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.”

“Unskinny was a self-published riot of large lasses getting lairy in northern towns, and did a reasonable trade via friends and comic shops.”

“The show is lairy, loud and laddish; it does exactly what it says on the tin.”

“Watching the people get lairy / It's not very pretty I tell thee”

“I started to get a bit lairy, agitated on drink.”

“Obviously, I'm not beginning to suggest women commit as much violent crime as men when plastered. But I do now concede that being aggressive, ignorant, lairy and foul-mouthed suits the ladies even less than it suits the fellas.”

“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.”

“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 reckoned the safari suit was bad—if only she could see me now’.”

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