Wiktionary
a. Having coarse, stiff hair.
WordNet
adj. (especially of dogs) having stiff wiry hair; "a wire-haired terrier"
Wikipedia
Wire-haired may refer to a number of dog breeds with a harsh, wiry coat:
- German Wirehaired Pointer
- Istrian Coarse-haired Hound, also known as the Wirehaired Istrian Hound
- Styrian Coarse-haired Hound, also known as the Wirehair Styrian Mountain
- Wire Fox Terrier
- Wire-haired Dachshund
- Wirehaired Pointing Griffon
- Wirehaired Vizsla
Usage examples of "wire-haired".
So I viddy no easy access to the Peppy ear—emdash not in the near recent, anyway—dash, and my questing gaze shambled to the other end of the table, where wire-haired moppets presided, two in census.
They had a wire-haired fox terrier named Flip who belonged to them but also did acrobatics in the clown act.
Ned, the wire-haired terrier, who had always enjoyed being on his own and was by nature a tramp, managed to get along fairly well .
One morning, looking out her window facing Fifth, Lois saw somebody walking a wire-haired terrier.
The Librarian picked him up by the scruff of his neck and dangled him reflectively a foot off the ground, just out of reach of a small and elderly wire-haired terrier who was trying to remember how to bite people's ankles.
Harper's small, tense figure gave the ghost of a wriggle, reminiscent of a wire-haired terrier receiving approval.
Practically none of this was in fact the case, although he did have a small and exceedingly elderly wire-haired terrier called Wuffles that smelled badly and wheezed at people.