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Meanings of shaggy in English

Used of hair; thick and poorly groomed.

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Having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags.

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Examples for "shagged"
Examples for "shagged"
1
He duly dug out a pair of noticeably less shagged running shoes.
The Guardian
2
Long, greasy black hair shagged down his back to the shoulder blades.
The talisman
3
We slept a couple of hours, woke up, shagged again.
The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
4
Stayed with him all those years while he shagged around and made her miserable.
The Guardian
5
He had put away nearly three sixpacks during the baseball game, and he was shagged.
IT
Usage of shaggy in English
1
As a huge, shaggy hand grabbed Finn yet again, BB-8 scurried clear.
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
2
The floors in our new house had nice dark brown shaggy carpets.
God don't like ugly
3
Herbie the Lion yawned again and pulled his shaggy head back in.
A Grandpa's Notebook / Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Enc...
4
His shaggy hair floated in the cold breezes that blew by him.
Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome
5
Along with the shaggy hair, the new look made me completely unrecognisable.
Nightingale's lament
6
The latter shook his shaggy gray hair, and murmured something in German.
Lost on the Moon; Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds
7
Terry is short and shaggy-haired and has voted Democratic all his life.
206 Bones
8
There was something equivocal in the appearance of his shaggy, hair-smothered humanity.
Victory: An Island Tale
9
The loaf is a large, shaggy-looking round with a slightly open texture.
Kneadlessly simple: fabulous, fuss-free, no-knead breads
10
Then a shaggy brown bear and some little apes were brought in.
Tell Me Another Story: The Book of Story Programs
11
It was the buffalo herd, with every shaggy head to the storm.
The Last of the Plainsmen
12
In black, shaggy masses, they came toward the spring and its stream.
Operation: Outer Space
13
He sighed, almost ecstatic, and felt like hugging the great shaggy ape.
Stonewielder
14
Nicodemus let the shaggy head drop back into the bunk, and rose.
Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain
15
The bear shook his shaggy sides, and then a well-known voice replied,-
The Last of the Mohicans
16
The shaggy hounds howled their welcome and bounded out to meet him.
Assail
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Shaggy through the time
Shaggy across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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