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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
furry
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a furry creature
▪ Town dwellers see the squirrel as a cute furry creature, but to farmers they’re a pest.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
animal
▪ A sound more like a furry animal in pain than a big white woman enjoying herself.
▪ There seemed to be a dead, furry animal frozen to it.
▪ And like small, furry animals they hibernate during winter.
creature
▪ Pozzo was a small black furry creature that, years ago, had belonged to Henry.
▪ In each different place, he caught different furry creatures that I would never have known existed.
▪ Read in studio A pet lover with a passion for hamsters has let the furry creatures take over her terraced house.
▪ Edward Koren, whose furry creatures often defy links to any known species?
▪ You might see a group of these furry creatures in fields beside railway tracks.
friend
▪ Your furry friend thought he'd make a buck or two telling the papers where I was.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a furry cap
▪ a furry puppy
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the wall of the small intestine comes into view, you notice that it looks furry.
▪ I flattened my thin skirt between my bottom and the furry seat.
▪ Instead, George concentrated his efforts on the few remaining furry areas on an otherwise bare bear.
▪ She wore a tweed coat with a Cairngorm brooch in the lapel and a furry green felt hat.
▪ Your belly is very furry and quite sweet.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Furry

Furry \Fur"ry\, a. [From Fur.]

  1. Covered with fur; dressed in fur. ``Furry nations.''
    --Thomson.

  2. Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils.
    --Dryden.

  3. Resembling fur.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
furry

1670s, "made of fur, covered with fur," from fur + -y (2). As a noun, in reference to "anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities," also of people who identify with them, by 1995. Related: Furriness; furries.

Wiktionary
furry

a. 1 Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur. 2 (context informal English) Having both animal and human characteristics; of or related to the furry subculture. n. 1 An animal character with human characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture. 2 (context slang English) A member of the furry fandom or subculture; a furfan. 3 (context slang English) Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being a furry character. (qualifier: compare ''therianthrope'')

WordNet
furry
  1. adj. covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs; "furred animals"; "a furry teddy bear" [syn: furred]

  2. [also: furriest, furrier]

Wikipedia
Furry

Furry may refer to:

  • The quality of being made of or covered in fur
  • A member of the furry fandom
  • An anthropomorphic animal
  • Physicist Wendell H. Furry
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Usage examples of "furry".

Petrie stumbled forward with Prickles on his back, urgently pushing Adelaide in front of him, he could see nothing through his facemask but a torrential swarm of furry bodies, filling the hallway and writhing on the stairs.

Upon the platformlike shoulders of a large monoceroid quadruped rested a feathered flyer and a furry brachiator with well-developed hands.

They were the jolliest, tubbiest, brownest babies you ever saw with tiny nubbly knobs on their shoulders, as if they had started to grow wings and then changed their minds about it, and little furry pointed ears, as all wild creatures have.

Cameron snipped away till he had exposed the furry plump triangle of her lovecenter, by which, half fainting with shame and distress, the brownette had averted her face to one side and lay panting with agonized terror.

Consequently grain, fruits, and preserved vegetables were getting low and the villagers were complaining mightily about the extra ration of fish in their diet, since Carole was totally unwilling to whistle anything less cold-eyed and more furry to its demise on a supper table.

Tommys in hunter camo and chaste Christers, twists in chains and spray-on, clumps of sisters wearing the uniforms of a group marriage, a couple of furries and one girl wearing a body suit that looked just like bot skin.

The warrener, meanwhile, was looking about for somewhere to put the bunch of furry bodies which he held in one hand, and which Elys was trying to avoid looking at, for she always felt sorry to see dead conies although she was not averse to eating them when they appeared, roasted or in a pie, at the supper-table.

The sweetest-scented grasses lined her bower where other soft, furry pelts made hers the downiest couch in all the jungle.

The man named Drinn sat at the same table with Schmendrick and Molly, chattering as they ate, and filling their glasses with a furry black wine.

It was of fur, flat at the top, flat as a pie tin, with the moth-eaten earlaps turned up at the sides and looking exactly like small furry ears.

Grady stepped through the connecting door and shook his head, seeing her lying there, green-satin sleep mask over her eyes, black furry earmuffs blocking out sound.

But under the bristle, Kirk and the other crewmen could see that the actual bodies were composed of the same furry ropellke extensions, also bunching up tightly near the base and spreading out into footlike protrusions.

It crept on all fours, but when it reached the place where the king sat it rose upon its feet, and throwing the furry covering from its face, revealed a most extraordinary and weird countenance.

My choice of clothing reflected my mental state-black pants and an elderly gray turtleneck, topped with my furriest black cardigan.

Harlem, Remo found the longest Cadillac with the furriest seats and the most purple lights slung to the undercarriage.