hair shirt
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nounDefinition of HAIR SHIRT
1
: a shirt made of rough animal hair worn next to the skin as a penance
2
: one that irritates like a hair shirt
Examples of HAIR SHIRT
- <the constant need to cut costs was a hair shirt, but one that the theater company had to live with>
First Known Use of HAIR SHIRT
14th century
Related to HAIR SHIRT
- Synonyms
- aggravation, aggro [British], bother, botheration, bugbear, exasperation, frustration, annoyance, hassle, headache, inconvenience, irk, irritant, nuisance, peeve, pest, rub, ruffle, thorn, trial, vexation
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Rhymes with HAIR SHIRT
advert, alert, assert, avert, bellwort, birthwort, Blackshirt, brownshirt, bush shirt, camp shirt, colewort, concert, convert, covert, desert, dessert, dissert, divert, dress shirt, evert, exert, expert, exsert, figwort, fleawort, glasswort, Hastert, hornwort, inert, insert, invert, lousewort, lungwort, madwort, milkwort, mugwort, nightshirt, outskirt, overt, pay dirt, pervert, pilewort, ragwort, redshirt, revert, ribwort, saltwort, sandwort, Schubert, seagirt, sea squirt, soapwort, spearwort, spleenwort, stitchwort, stonewort, stuffed shirt, subvert, sweatshirt, toothwort, T-shirt, ungirt
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