"haired up" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1910, James Otis, chapter 14, in The Wireless Station at Silver Fox Farm, page 258:",
          "text": "“Give over fussin’, an’ take things as they come. That’s the only way to get along smooth-like in this world. You can keep yourself all haired up over this or that without changin’ it the least little bit.”",
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          "ref": "1940, Ben Ames Williams, chapter 2, in Come Spring, section 4, page 644:",
          "text": "‘Says being over there with Jason and Polly is more than his stomach can stand. Says they act as if he wasn’t there at all, they’re so haired up about each other. Kissing and a-mauling […]",
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          "ref": "1972, Elisabeth Ogilvie, chapter 12, in Weep and Know Why, page 91:",
          "text": "If I hadn’t heard all this talk of ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties, I wouldn’t have gotten so haired-up about things going boomp in the night.",
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          "ref": "1986, George V. Higgins, chapter 6, in Impostors, page 36:",
          "text": "“You know what happens when you get a good reporter all haired up to get a story, and he gets it, and then you say to him: ‘Oh, by the way, can’t print it’?”",
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          "text": "I could tell from his dismayed expression that he had come to the realization that Solomon should not have taken part in the inquest. But apparently Daggett was still all haired up that I had questioned his judgment, for it was me he reprimanded.",
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        "Excessively emotional, excited, aroused or angry."
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        "(US, colloquial, dated) Excessively emotional, excited, aroused or angry."
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        "(US, colloquial, dated) Excessively emotional, excited, aroused or angry."
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