Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of fur
comparative more furred · superlative most furred
- Having fur.
- Made with fur.
- Having a covering of thin, soft, short hair.
1 more example
She had a lot of dark hair pinned untidily back from a small well-formed brow, and her tilted nose and large embarrassed eyes had survived intact from the mistrusts and agitations of a schoolgirl, which maturity had striven to defeat by lengthening her chin and tightening her lips, while giving her skin the faintly furred matt surface of pickled virginity.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 128 - Coated as if with fur
- especially, of a tongue having a coating consisting chiefly of mucus and dead epithelial cells.
Synonyms & antonyms
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furred. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/furred
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