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    collegegrad
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    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?

    #804039
    golden mom
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    hairy? never heard of that expresion before besides a person w alot of hair

    #804040
    therealmgama
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    maybe she means hero?! lol

    #804041
    Sam2
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    I 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.

    #804042
    TheGoq
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    maybe she meant she’s is like a rabbit so shes harey?

    #804043
    MDG
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    I thought it was “Harry”, as in a guy’s name, and like Sam2 said it’s derogatory.

    #804044
    YW Moderator-42
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    This sounds familiar. I think we had a thread like this years ago, joseph, can you find it for us?

    #804045
    LemonySnicket
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    It’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)

    #804046
    commonsense
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    never heard the term hairy, it sounds a little like the term greasy.

    #804047
    Toi
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    k 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.

    #804048
    GumBall
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    I always thought it was cheesy or greesy not hairy..??

    #804049
    Tomche
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    hairy means someone is like eisev; very hairy.

    #804050

    A ‘hairy’ is the Harryish way of saying Harry. Being as I don’t pronounce Harry ‘hairy’, I guess I am disqualified.

    #804051
    Toi
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    typical flatbush.

    #804052
    collegegrad
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    im 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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    YW Moderator-42
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