furry

See also: Furry

English

The wolverine is a furry carnivore.

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der.

Proto-Germanic *fōdrą

Frankish *fōdrbor.

Anglo-Norman fuerrebor.

Middle English furre

English fur

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English furry

From fur + -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜː.ɹi/

  • Audio (UK):

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• (General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈføːɹiː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜɹ.i/

  • Audio (US):

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• (Northern England):
  • (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.ɹi/
  • (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛː.ɹi/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈfʌ.ɾe/, /ˈfʌ.ɾɪ/, /ˈfʌ.ɾi/
• (Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈføː.ɾi/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈføː.ɹi/
• (South Asia) IPA^(key): /fərːi/, (non-rhotic) [fəːri]
• Rhymes: -ɜːɹi
• Hyphenation: fur‧ry
• Homophones: firry (fern–fir–fur merger), fairy (fair–fur merger)

Adjective

furry (comparative furrier, superlative furriest)

1. Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.

   His treatment of our furry friends was nothing short of appalling.

   • 1957 November 19, Peter Simple [pseudonym; Michael Wharton], “[Way of the World] End of the Affair”, in The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, 4 a.m. edition, number 31,912, London, page 10, column 4:

     There were certain cages you felt you had to pass on tiptoe, noting some aged Fellow whispering endearments into a snow-leopardess’s furry ear.

   • 1999 June 10, Rick Marin, “How Deep Is Your Rug?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Hard to believe that, until recently, this furriest of floor coverings had been written off as the ultimate home-furnishing faux pas.

2. Resembling or characteristic of fur.

   a furry texture

   a furry smell

4. (informal) Of or related to the furry fandom, a subculture defined by an interest in anthropomorphic animal characters.

Derived terms

• anti-furry
• drink from the furry cup
• furgot
• furrily
• furriness
• furry bait
• furryism
• furry lobster
• furry muff
• furry triangle
• furspeech
• hurry-furry merger
• nonfurry
• popufur
• unfurry

Translations

covered with fur — see also hairy

• Afrikaans: pelsig
• Arabic: فَرْوِيّ m (farwiyy), مُفَرَّى m (mufarrā), فَرَوَانِيّ m (farawāniyy)
• Bulgarian: кожен (kožen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毛茸茸 (zh) (máoróngróng)

• Dutch: pelzig, pels- (nl)
• Esperanto: pelta, vila (eo)
• Finnish: karvainen (fi), pörröinen (fi)
• French: poilu (fr), velu (fr)
• German: pelzig (de), Pelz-
• Greek: γούνινος (el) (goúninos)
• Hungarian: szőrös (hu)
• Irish: clúmhach
• Latvian: pūkains, spalvains
• Lithuanian: kailiuotas m
• Malay: berbulu
• Māori: whaihuruhuru
• Plautdietsch: falich
• Polish: kudłaty (pl), puszysty (pl), futrzany (pl)
• Portuguese: peludo (pt)
• Romanian: păros (ro), blănos (ro) (rare)
• Russian: пуши́стый (ru) (pušístyj), мехово́й (ru) (mexovój) (especially if made of fur)
• Scottish Gaelic: molach
• Spanish: peludo (es), lanudo (es), peloso (es), lanoso (es), pubescente (es) (botany)
• Swedish: päls- (fur animal = pälsdjur, for example), lurvig (sv) (thick fur), hårig (sv), pälsklädd
• Volapük: plädik (vo)

of or related to the furry fandom

• Catalan: furro
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獸 / 兽 (zh) (shòu), 福瑞 (zh) (fúruì)

• Hindi: फ़री (farī)
• Japanese: ケモい (kemoi)
• Polish: furry (pl)
• Portuguese: furro
• Spanish: furro (es)

Noun

furry (plural furries)

A furry vixen.

1. Someone who identifies with or as an animal character with human-like characteristics (an anthropomorphic animal character).

   Synonym: fur

2. An anthropomorphic animal character of this kind.

   Synonyms: anthro, fur, (dated) funny animal

   Hyponym: fursona

   What percentage of furries are wolves?

3. Any member of the furry fandom or subculture (including those without fursonas).

   The furry had designed an elaborate costume.

   • 2020, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN:

     Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit.

   • 2020 September 25, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN, page 245:

     While members of the fandom seem to use "fandom" in a formal capacity explicitly to describe particular interest in forms of art, it is also used less formally to refer to all members of the furry community regardless of artistic involvement and commitment to a fursona.

   • 2021 August 26, Jessica Ruth Austin, Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 57:

     24 per cent of respondents of the 1,011 results did not have a fursona at all. This shows that having a fursona is still in the majority but it opens up questions as to why a significant minority do not have them but still consider themselves a Furry.

   • 2023 April 23, Taylor Lorenz, “'Am I Cringey? Yes. Do I Care? Absolutely Not'”, in Rolling Stone‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 June 2023:

     Many young people are also reevaluating what once constituted cringe, attributing use of the term to unacknowledged bigotry more than just a rejection of sincerity. Some niche communities, such as furries, anime fans, and fetish groups, who were once mocked on social media, have since amassed cultural power that has launched them into the mainstream.

Coordinate terms

• (furry fandom senses): anthro, avian, feathery, scalie, feral

Derived terms

• anti-furry
• fur
• furry number

Related terms

• befurred
• furdom
• furfag
• furfan
• furmeet
• furrification
• furrydom
• fursecution
• fursona
• furvert
• transfurmation

Translations

animal character with human-like characteristics

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獸 / 兽 (zh) (shòu), 獸人 / 兽人 (zh) (shòurén), 福瑞 (zh) (fúruì), 獸獸 / 兽兽 (shòushòu)

• Dutch: furry m
• Esperanto: felano, felulo
• Finnish: turri (fi)
• French: furry (fr) m or f
• German: Furry (de)
• Hungarian: furry (hu)
• Italian: furry (it)
• Japanese: ケモノ (ja) (kemono), 獣人 (ja) (jūjin)
• Korean: 수인 (ko) (su'in)
• Polish: furry (pl) m or f
• Portuguese: furry m or f by sense, furro m
• Russian: фурри (ru) m (furri)
• Spanish: furro (es)

member of the furry fandom

• Bulgarian: фъ́ри n (fắri)
• Catalan: furro m, furry m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獸迷 / 兽迷 (shòumí), 獸人控 / 兽人控 (zh) (shòurénkòng), 獸控 / 兽控 (zh) (shòukòng), 福瑞控 (zh) (fúruìkòng)

• Danish: furry
• Dutch: furry m
• Esperanto: felano, felanino
• Estonian: furry (et)
• Finnish: turri (fi), turrifani
• French: furry (fr)
• German: Furry (de) m or f
• Hindi: फ़री m or f (farī)
• Icelandic: loðboltar, feldingar, furry, loðfeldingar
• Japanese: ケモナー (ja) (kemonā), ^{(please verify)} ファーリー (fārī), ^{(please verify)} ファーリーズ (fārīzu)
• Latvian: furijs
• Lithuanian: furis, furry
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: furry

• Polish: furry (pl) m or f, futrzak (pl) m, furas m
• Portuguese: furry m or f, furro m
• Russian: фурри (ru) (furri)
• Spanish: furro (es), furry (es) m
• Swedish: furry c, pälsare c
• Turkish: furry
• Ukrainian: фурі pl or m or f or n (furi), фур m (fur)
• Welsh: ffwri, furry

See also

• therianthrope
• kemonomimi
• nahualism
• anthropomorphism
• zoomorphism

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English furry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʏ.ri/
• Rhymes: -ʏri
• Hyphenation: fur‧ry

Noun

furry m (plural furries or furry's, no diminutive)

1. a furry (member of furry fandom)

   De furry deed haar werknemers geloven dat haar hond een wolf was.

   The furry made her employees believe that her dog was a wolf.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English furry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.ʁi/

• Audio (France):

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Noun

furry m (plural furries)

1. a furry (member of furry fandom)

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der.

Proto-Germanic *fōdrą

Frankish *fōdrbor.

Anglo-Norman fuerrebor.

Middle English furre

English fur

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Germanic *-gaz

Proto-West Germanic *-g

Old English -iġ

Middle English -y

English -y

English furryubor.

Portuguese furry

Unadapted borrowing from English furry.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfɐ.ɹi/

• Rhymes: -ɐɹi
• Hyphenation: fur‧ry

Noun

furry m or f by sense (plural furries)

1. furry (member of furry fandom)

Swedish

Furries i Stockholm som står vid ett staket.

Etymology

Borrowed from English furry.

Noun

furry c

1. a furry (member of the furry fandom)

   Synonym: pälsare

Declension

Declension of furry

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	furry	furrys
	definite	furryn	furryns
plural	indefinite	furries, furrys	furries, furrys
	definite	furriesarna, furrysarna	furriesarnas, furrysarnas