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August 31, 2011 3:38 am at 3:38 am #599027collegegradMember
I have a friend from a really out of town place. Her parents are BT and she totally “flipped out” and she is mamish takah a real BY girl now. She calls herself a hairy and I try to tell her that hairy is a derogatory term. I have a hard time putting the term to words so she understands what it means – any help from all you wise souls out there?
August 31, 2011 3:50 am at 3:50 am #804039golden momMemberhairy? never heard of that expresion before besides a person w alot of hair
August 31, 2011 3:55 am at 3:55 am #804040therealmgamaMembermaybe she means hero?! lol
August 31, 2011 3:56 am at 3:56 am #804041Sam2ParticipantI once heard it explained as someone who acts super-Yeshivish but is really just figuring out how to be Yeshivish at all. I have never heard it used about a girl (then again, I have never been talking to Yeshivish people about a girl, so…) and it was always used as a derogatory term.
August 31, 2011 3:57 am at 3:57 am #804042TheGoqParticipantmaybe she meant she’s is like a rabbit so shes harey?
August 31, 2011 4:31 am at 4:31 am #804043MDGParticipantI thought it was “Harry”, as in a guy’s name, and like Sam2 said it’s derogatory.
August 31, 2011 6:38 am at 6:38 am #804044YW Moderator-42ModeratorThis sounds familiar. I think we had a thread like this years ago, joseph, can you find it for us?
August 31, 2011 7:27 am at 7:27 am #804045LemonySnicketParticipantIt’s pronounced “harry”
According to my many years in research of this subject; as I understand it, A Harry is someone who wears white socks with dress slacks and who pronounces “Moshe” as “Moe-sheh” It has to be a combination of the two. I sometimes wear white socks with dress slacks but I say “Moshe” so I am officially disqualified. (sorry if this upsets anyone but hey, I didn’t set the rules)
August 31, 2011 7:57 am at 7:57 am #804046commonsenseParticipantnever heard the term hairy, it sounds a little like the term greasy.
August 31, 2011 5:51 pm at 5:51 pm #804047ToiParticipantk so this is funny. its harry.not hairy. it refers to the name. as in someone who would try to fit in with the yeshivish crowd but there are so many giveaways that he’s got no idea how to act. the most blatant one being his name “Harry”. harrys generally wear white socks, use highlighters in there gemaras, have never touched a cigarette, always have headphones in their ears while going someplace, have “shtarkmarks” to show the place of all the rishonim in their kovetz, always wear their brim down, use words like perhaps,suggest,possibility, and solution when trying to explain a tosfos, say tosfos, and always always have interlinear siddurim. I’m not bashing; just stating the facts.
August 31, 2011 5:58 pm at 5:58 pm #804048GumBallMemberI always thought it was cheesy or greesy not hairy..??
August 31, 2011 6:02 pm at 6:02 pm #804049TomcheMemberhairy means someone is like eisev; very hairy.
August 31, 2011 6:31 pm at 6:31 pm #804050Flatbush DudeMemberA ‘hairy’ is the Harryish way of saying Harry. Being as I don’t pronounce Harry ‘hairy’, I guess I am disqualified.
August 31, 2011 7:37 pm at 7:37 pm #804051ToiParticipanttypical flatbush.
August 31, 2011 9:33 pm at 9:33 pm #804052collegegradMemberim from the midwest and pronounce both words the same hairy and harry. but yes now that u mention it makes a lot more sense the name than the adj. gumball i never heard of the term cheesy before care to enlighten me?
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