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Dairy vs Lairy - What's the difference?

dairy | lairy |

As adjectives the difference between dairy and lairy

is that dairy is referring to products produced from milk while lairy is touchy, aggressive or confrontational, usually while drunk.

As a noun dairy

is a place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese.

dairy

English

(wikipedia dairy)

Noun

(dairies)
  • A place, often on a farm, where milk is processed and turned into products such as butter and cheese.
  • A dairy farm.
  • A shop selling dairy products.
  • (also dairy products'' or ''dairy produce ) Products produced from milk.
  • (New Zealand) A corner-store, superette or 'mini-mart' of some description.

    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * dairymaid * nondairy

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Referring to products produced from milk.
  • Referring to the milk production and processing industries
  • (British) On food labelling, containing fats only from dairy sources (e.g. dairy ice cream).

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    lairy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (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’”. 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."

    • Etymology 2

    Thought to be from . Australian National Dictionary Centre » Australian words » Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms » L

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (Australia) Vulgar and flashy.
  • * 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.
  • * 2008 , Helen Garner, True Stories , 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 , 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.
    • Related terms
    * lairiser

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