colourful English
Adjective
( -)
* 1895 , The Annual of the British School at Athens
- It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
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* 1895 , H. Walter Staner and Henry Sturmey, The Autocar
- One of the most colourful' people in motor racing, he writes in a '''colourful manner .
* 2002 , news.bbc.co.uk
- Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.
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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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