Meanings
nounlairiness (uncountable)
- UKuncountableThe property of being lairy (“grumpy or touchy”).
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The old songs spool out, reaffirming once again everything that is great about the Streets. "Brace yourself, 'cause this goes deep," runs a line from Turn the Page, pointing up [Mike] Skinner's ability to grapple with existential dread as well as the cinematic, blow-by-blow accounts of everyday lairiness.
2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2019
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lairiness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lairiness
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“lairiness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lairiness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lairiness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lairiness.
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