Long, thick and unkempt

Usage examples of shaggy.

I recognized the little scholar with the shaggy gray beard, crocheted white cap, and drab shirt and pants who had come into the archive that morning.

The youngest was no older than Lan, a dim-looking, shaggy-haired youth mounted bareback on a pony that was just as shaggy, whose main article of clothing was a rough-sewn coat of sheepskin and hat and boots to match.

But what made the xoph so loathsome was that it was snowy-white, a repulsive albino thing, its stalk-like legs and bloated belly shaggy with stinking white fur, besoiled with oily droppings.

Mick wore his hair rather long and shaggy and Brewster never really got a good look at his ears.

Zeebron Stell, with his hefty build, swarthy skin, short-cropped black hair and shaggy mustache, almost an inverse of Brose, brought them back on track.

Quickly, before the bison regained his wind, Broud stepped up to the enormous shaggy animal and lifted his spear.

Brim and Broud stepped to either side of the shaggy head and gripped a horn, leaving one hand free to hold their spears.

Bantam, a little old rat of a pony with a shaggy mane and long rusty tail, who stood dozing quietly by the roadside, little dreaming of the bustling times that awaited him.

He glanced up into the tree and saw a grinning shaggy hummel hanging by its knees from a branch near the top.

Shaking off the last of his shaggy hummel hair, one of the men Torres had just sprayed held out his hand.

Its dark, humped form was slumped over, looking like a shaggy, debilitated volcano.

Here, too, were the fierce men from the Mendips, the wild hunters from Porlock Quay and Minehead, the poachers of Exmoor, the shaggy marshmen of Axbridge, the mountain men from the Quantocks, the serge and wool-workers of Devonshire, the graziers of Bampton, the red-coats from the Militia, the stout burghers of Taunton, and then, as the very bone and sinew of all, the brave smockfrocked peasants of the plains, who had turned up their jackets to the elbow, and exposed their brown and corded arms, as was their wont when good work had to be done.

Shaggy dogs whined at the doors until the mensal remnants were tossed out to them in the front yard.

The Tiloeans took no chances, and had overbound the shaggy mountain just to be sure.

Fedya himself at the head of the scout party, slightly hunched over the shaggy mane of his pacer, resembled a predatory pangolin wriggling towards a fat fly entangled in the grass.