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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shaggy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
shaggy dog story
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
head
▪ A glow behind her shaggy head is moonlight, cloud scarred at the change of seasons.
▪ Occasionally, it gave its enormous, shaggy head a turn.
▪ The big shaggy head turned to look at me.
▪ My co-voyager was propped against the rail, great shaggy head nodding as he seemed to half-doze.
▪ He is a one-man debauch. - See him, the drunkard, his huge shaggy head filled with nonsenses!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a shaggy dog
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A shake roof is rather shaggy in appearance.
▪ Bare yellow skin on head and throat, ruff shaggy, bill much slenderer than other vultures.
▪ I imagined the shaggy beast confused, not knowing which of us to chase.
▪ In the distance, live oaks dotted the landscape, as shaggy and dark and hunched as buffalo.
▪ Occasionally, it gave its enormous, shaggy head a turn.
▪ The mammoth had a shaggy coat to protect it against the rigours of the ice ages.
▪ The peak was scalloped into two shaggy wings across its western exposure, which made it appear to be embracing the cove.
▪ These actions cause the eye, beak and face to vanish beneath the shaggy white ruff.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shaggy

Shaggy \Shag"gy\, a. [Compar. Shaggier; superl. Shaggiest.] Rough with long hair or wool.

About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin.
--Dryden.

2. Rough; rugged; jaggy.
--Milton.

[A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell.
--Keble.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shaggy

"rough, coarse, unkempt," 1590s, from shag (n.) + -y (2). Related: Shaggily; shagginess. Earlier was shagged, from Old English sceacgede "hairy;" compare Old Norse skeggjaðr, Danish skægget "bearded." The shaggy-dog story as a type of joke is attested from 1944, perhaps from vaudeville.

Wiktionary
shaggy

a. 1 rough with long or thick hair, fur or wool; unshaven, ungroomed, or unbrushed. 2 Rough; rugged; jaggy.

WordNet
shaggy
  1. adj. used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; "bushy locks"; "a shaggy beard" [syn: bushy]

  2. having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags; "junipers with shagged trunks"; "shaggy rugs" [syn: shagged]

  3. [also: shaggiest, shaggier]

Wikipedia
Shaggy (musician)

Orville Richard Burrell CD (born October 22, 1968), best known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican-born Canadian-American reggae fusion singer and deejay. He is best known for his hit singles " Oh Carolina", " Boombastic", " It Wasn't Me" and " Angel". He was nicknamed after the Scooby-Doo character.

Shaggy

Shaggy may refer to:

  • Shaggy (musician) (born 1968), Jamaican American reggae rapper and singer
  • Shaggy (2 Live Stews), radio personality and producer of 2 Live Stews
  • Shaggy Rogers, a fictional character from the Scooby-Doo series
  • Shaggy 2 Dope, half of the hip hop, horrorcore band Insane Clown Posse
  • Shaggy Flores (born 1973), Nuyorican poet, writer and African diaspora scholar
  • Shaggy (film) a 1948 Pine-Thomas film
Shaggy (film)

Shaggy is a 1948 American drama film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey and written by Maxwell Shane. The film stars Brenda Joyce, Georgie Nokes, Robert Shayne, Jody Gilbert, Ralph Sanford and Alex Frazer. The film was released on June 11, 1948, by Paramount Pictures.

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.