If you describe something as furry, you mean that it has a soft rough texture like fur. his herringbone tweed coat with its furry lining
A word originally describing a "funny (= strange) animal" in comics and cartoons, an animal with human characteristics The correct term would be anthropomorphized animal, short anthromorph In most cases the character behaves more like a human being in an animal body, being more a theriomorph
An animal character with human characteristics created by members of the furry fandom, usually loosely based on existing cartoon, mythological, or fantasy characters
A furry is an anthropomorphic intelligent animal, or for simplicities sake, it is a character that is cute, has fur, and/or tale, and looks human otherwise These are typically imitations of other animals that walk on two legs, like panthers, lions, bears, ect Furries are not by any means unique to MUDs, in fact furries originated in comics and many people can be seen at comic conventions and the like dressed up as these human animals, if you will Generally, any MUD character which has fur and is cute is deemed a furry Most furries hang out on the FurryMUCK, naturally (Smith & Cowan 1999)
covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs; "furred animals"; "a furry teddy bear"