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Wiry

//ˈwaɪ(ə)ɹi// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling wire.

    "My hair was very wiry in my teens."

  2. 2
    Thin, muscular and flexible.

    "Don't fight him. He may be small, but he's wiry."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of hair that resembles wire in stiffness wordnet
  2. 2
    lean and sinewy wordnet
  3. 3
    of or relating to wire wordnet

Etymology

From wire + -y.

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