Origin 1
Full definition of lairy
Adjective
- (UK) Touchy, aggressive or confrontational, usually while drunk.Don't get lairy with me!
- 2001. "rush to order". Simon Stuart, Glasgow Sunday Herald, 14 October."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."
- 2002. “‘We wouldn′t dream of making you feel fat’â€. Glasgow Herald, 27 July."Unskinny was a self-published riot of large lasses getting lairy in northern towns, and did a reasonable trade via friends and comic shops."
- 2002. "Live With Chris Moyles". Gareth McLean, The Guardian, September 24."The show is lairy, loud and laddish; it does exactly what it says on the tin."
- 2005. , Alexander Masters."I started to get a bit lairy, agitated on drink."
- 2005. "Women do make the worst drunks. Maybe it's the sick'n'sequin mix...". , The Independent on Sunday, 20 November."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."
Origin 2
Adjective
- (Australia) Vulgar and flashy.
- 1983, National Book Council (Australia), Australian Book Review, Issues 48-57, %22lairier%22|%22lairiest%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22lairy%22|%22lairier%22|%22lairiest%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jBedT93nEYaemQX4qIy2Dg&redir_esc=y page 29,He was lairy alright, resplendent in a purple blazer and pink trousers.
- 2008, Helen Garner, True Stories, %22lairier%22|%22lairiest%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pxmdT7LXHcL1mAXcucSrDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22lairy%22|%22lairier%22|%22lairiest%22%20australia%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 255,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.
- 2009, Sally Neighbour, The Mother of Mohammed: An Australian Woman′s Extraordinary Journey Into Jihad, %22lairier%22|%22lairiest%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FRKdT6TLOYu0iQf72tDHDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false page 176,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’.
- (Australia) Socially unacceptable.
