hair (n.)
[back-formation from hairy] The complications that make something hairy.
Decoding TECO commands requires a certain amount of hair.
Often seen in the phrase infinite hair, which connotes extreme complexity. Also in hairiferous (tending to promote hair growth):
GNUMACS elisp encourages lusers to write complex editing modes.
Yeah, it's pretty hairiferous all right.
(or just:
Hair squared!
)