Hirsute

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passionandparadox
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Hirsute

Postby passionandparadox » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:43 am

I didn't even know this word existed until I noticed it in a book about logic/pragmatics/communication:
On the other reading, (16) is false, since it attributes being not bald to the king of France, and there is no king of France around to be hirsute.
Hirsute (etym, dict)
1621, from L. hirsutus "rough, shaggy," related to hirtus "shaggy," and possibly to horrere "to bristle with fear."

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Postby skinem » Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:39 pm

I've only heard of it as meaining hairy---but there is some logic to the idea that it may be related also to horrere (which seems obviously to be the root of horror...)
I guess someone could be horribly hirsute...


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