adj
Meaning 1
Having or covered with shaggy hair.
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Usage: rare
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adj
Having or covered with shaggy hair.
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Usage: rare
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adj
Unkempt; clothed in rags; ragged.
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Usage: obsolete
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adj
Of garments and fabrics: having a rough or long nap.
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Usage: obsolete
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adj
Covered with scrub, trees, or rough or shaggy growth.
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adj
Jagged; having a rough, uneven surface.
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adj
Of hair: long; rough; shaggy.
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adj
Extremely tired.
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Usage: slang, vulgar
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verb
simple past and past participle of shag
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Usage: form-of, participle, past
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adjective satellite
having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: shaggy
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History
From Old English sceacgede, from sceacga (“hair”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggiją (“beard, stem”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to jump, move, hurry”).
Uncertain. Perhaps related to fagged or to shag. Originally Kentish dialect according to Wright.