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SHAGGY
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Irregular inflected forms: shaggier , shaggiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags
Example:
shaggy rugs
Synonyms:
shagged; shaggy
Classified under:
Similar:
rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)
Derivation:
shag (a fabric with long coarse nap)
shagginess (roughness of nap produced by long woolly hairs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Used of hair; thick and poorly groomed
Example:
a shaggy beard
Synonyms:
bushy; shaggy; shaggy-coated; shaggy-haired
Classified under:
Similar:
ungroomed (not neat and smart in appearance)
Derivation:
shag (a matted tangle of hair or fiber)
shagginess (unkemptness of hair)
Context examples:
The Affenpinscher is a small dog with a harsh, shaggy coat, and longer hair all over the face.
(Affenpinscher, NCI Thesaurus)
The shaggy eyebrows unbent a little as he rolled the steps toward the shelf where the Johnsonian literature was placed.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A footman opened the door, and a small, stout man in a shaggy astrakhan overcoat descended.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He put his hand into the breast of his shaggy jacket, and took out with great care a pretty little purse.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The Old English Sheepdog is a large, squarely proportioned, agile dog with a profuse, shaggy coat.
(Old English Sheepdog, NCI Thesaurus)
It can reach the size of a small pony and has a rough, shaggy coat and wiry bushy eyebrows.
(Irish Wolfhound, NCI Thesaurus)
The Bouviers Des Flandres is a powerful dog with a massive and heavily-coated head with a thick beard and mustache and shaggy eyebrows.
(Bouviers Des Flandres, NCI Thesaurus)
Briards are generally black, gray, or tawny and have a shaggy beard, eyebrows and mustache.
(Briard, NCI Thesaurus)
I am vastly honoured, sir, said my father, looking suspiciously at his guest from under his shaggy eyebrows, for with that grave face and those twinkling eyes it was hard to know how to take him.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the open, and near the edge of the cliff, there had assembled a crowd of some hundred of these shaggy, red-haired creatures, many of them of immense size, and all of them horrible to look upon.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
