lairy

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1. UKTouchy, aggressive or confrontational, usually while drunk.

   Don't get lairy with me!

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   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.

   2001 October 14, Simon Stuart, “rush to order”, in Glasgow Sunday Herald

   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 July 27, “‘We wouldn′t dream of making you feel fat’”, in Glasgow Herald

   The show is lairy, loud and laddish; it does exactly what it says on the tin.

   2002 September 24, Gareth McLean, “Live With Chris Moyles”, in The Guardian

   Watching the people get lairy / It's not very pretty I tell thee

   2004 November 1, “I Predict a Riot”, in Employment, performed by Kaiser Chiefs

   I started to get a bit lairy, agitated on drink.

   2005, Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards

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1. AustraliaVulgar 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.

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   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.

   2008, Helen Garner, True Stories, page 255

   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’.

   2009, Sally Neighbour, The Mother of Mohammed: An Australian Woman′s Extraordinary Journey Into Jihad, page 176

2. AustraliaSocially unacceptable.