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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-32/
- Published: 2020-03-02T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-03-01T18:04:36.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

The word for today is…

hirsute (adj) – 1\. Covered with hair; hairy.  
2\. Biology Covered with stiff or coarse hairs.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/hirsute?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Hirsute has nearly the same spelling and exactly the same meaning as its Latin parent, hirsutus. The word isn’t quite one of a kind, though—it has four close relatives: hirsutism and hirsuties, synonymous nouns naming a medical condition involving excessive hair growth; hirsutal, an adjective meaning “of or relating to hair”; and hirsutulous, a mostly botanical term meaning “slightly hairy” (as in “hirsutulous stems”). The Latin hirsutus is also an etymological cousin to horr?re, meaning “to bristle.” Horr?re gave rise to Latin horr?r-, horror, which has the various meanings of “standing stiffly,” “bristling,” “shivering,” “dread,” “consternation,” and is the source, via Anglo-French, of our word horror. The word horripilation—a fancy word for goose bumps—is also a hirsute relation; its Latin source, horripil?re, means “to shudder,” and was formed from horr?re and pilus (“hair”).

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