lairy

adj

1. (UK)Touchy, aggressive or confrontational, usually while drunk.

   “Don't get lairy with me!”

   “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.”

   “Unskinny was a self-published riot of large lasses getting lairy in northern towns, and did a reasonable trade via friends and comic shops.”

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

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

2. (Australia)Vulgar 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.”

   “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.”

   “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’.”

3. (Australia)Socially unacceptable.