Englishhairy
adjective
1 the shirt was unbuttoned, revealing a hairy chest | a rather hairy young man:
hirsute, shaggy, bushy, hair-covered, long-haired;
woolly, furry, fleecy, fuzzy;
bearded, unshaven, unshorn, bewhiskered, stubbly, bristly;
technical pilose, pileous, pappose;
rare crinite, crinigerous.
▷antonyms hairless; short-haired.
2 informal it got very hairy when we ran into some troops guarding the border:
risky, unsafe, dangerous, perilous, hazardous, high-risk, touch-and-go, fraught with danger;
tricky, ticklish, difficult, awkward, uncertain, unpredictable, precarious;
Scottish unchancy;
informal chancy, dicey, sticky, iffy;
British, informal dodgy;
North American, informal gnarly;
archaic or humorous parlous.
▷antonyms safe.
hairy Oxford Dictionary of English