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/ʃaɡ/, U.S. /ʃæɡ/ 1.
a. Rough matted hair, wool, etc. rare or archaic.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [noun] > hairiness > rough hair
shagc1050
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 379/41 Coma, feax, sceacga.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xxxiii. 214 Of the same kind is the Goat hart, and differing onely in the beard and long shag about the shoulders.
1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 410 Many Prickles interspersed among the Hairy Shag that covered the sides.
a1732 J. Gay Fables (1738) II. v. 41 A Bear of shagg and manners rough, At climbing trees expert enough.
1771 tr. A. J. Pernety Hist. Voy. Malouine Islands (1773) 289 They have a sort of buskins or half-boots, made of the same skins, with the shag on the inside.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. v. vii. 65 A rugged mop of hair, not a little resembling the shag of a Newfoundland dog.
1869 H. Bushnell Women's Suffrage iii. 50 The base in his voice and the shag on his face.
1898 C. F. Lummis Awak. Nation 104 It is a purely leonine type—not by bulk or shag, but by look and port.
b. A mass of matted hair; also shreds (of bark).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > tuft or lock of
washlock1604
shag1607
staple1805
the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > bushy or thick
bush1509
hair-bush1580
bush-heada1603
shag1607
fella1616
mop1616
bush-hair1692
hassock1754
mopheada1816
shock-head1817
shock1819
flock-hair1878
tousle1880
the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [noun] > bark > a piece of
peeling1598
shag1607
barka1645
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > [noun] > genus Panthera > panthera leo or lion > parts of
maneeOE
shag1607
pouncea1670
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 626 For that [wool] which was rough and thicke in ancient time was vsed for this purpose, and also to make garments, hauing the shags thereof hanging by it like rugs.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xv. 138 The King of Iudah was then like a sleeping Lion, which did not shew his rage with his erected Shagge.
1882 Harper's Mag. May 870/1 Nuts which have been packed away and wedged beneath the loose shags of bark.
c. The nap (esp. long and coarse) of cloth.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > pile or nap of > specific
shaga1661
floss1871
a1661 B. Holyday in tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) ii. Notes 25 Then their Galbana rasa, white smooth sarcenet without hair or shag;..of this our Women now wear hoods.
1716 J. Gay Trivia i. 4 True Witney Broad-cloath with it's Shag unshorn.
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. vi. 201 The face [of velvet] has a short shag, or ‘pile’, occasioned by the insertion of short pieces of silk thread doubled under the shoot.
1853 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 431/1 Plush, a textile fabric, with a sort of velvet nap or shag on one side.
d. transferred. Applied to thick down on plants.
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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun] > downy covering
downa1382
woolc1400
cotton1551
frieze1640
dowl1661
tomentum1693
pubescence1760
pubes1772
shag1774
indumentum1847
shaggy hairs1884
1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 365 The shag [Fr. la pluche], or inner part of these flowers.
1854 L. Pappe Silva Capensis (1862) 18 Twigs, petioles, calyces and underside of leaves densely coated with brown shag.
1854 L. Pappe Silva Capensis (1862) 19 Petioles and veins clothed with a dense rusty shag.
e. A (tangled) mass of shrubs, trees, foliage, etc.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood
ronea1300
underwooda1325
rammel1338
brushetc1380
scroga1400
bushailec1400
frithing1429
brushal1430
brushc1440
ronec1440
thevec1440
garsil1483
shroga1500
cablish1594
south-bois1598
undergrowth1600
frith1605
hand timber1664
subbois1664
urith1671
brushwood1732
bush-wood1771
underbrush1775
slop1784
woodiness1796
scrub1805
shag1836
chaparral1845
underbush1849
underscrub1870
sand-brush1871
buck-brush1874
bush1879
horizontal scrub1888
tangle-wood1894
shin-tangle1905
1836 J. Struthers Dychmont i, in Poet. Wks. (1850) II. 50 Were thy broomy shag but shorn, Thou might'st be made to wave with corn.
1855 R. Browning Up at Villa iii Stuck like the horn of a bull Just on a mountain's edge as bare as the creature's skull, Save a mere shag of a bush with hardly a leaf to pull!
1877 R. D. Blackmore Erema III. lii. 190 Dark shags of ling, and podded spurs of broom.
1905 M. E. Freeman Debtor 60 He could see the gleam of the current through the shag of young trees which found root in the unpromising soil.
1905 M. E. Freeman Debtor 396 Only the oak-leaves, a brownish-red shag mostly on the lower branches, were left on the trees.
f. figurative. Roughness, brutality of manner.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 693 As if, like him of fabulous renown [i.e. Orpheus], They had indeed ability to smooth The shag of savage nature.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. viii. xiii. 368 This metamorphose into the shag of a savage is not perceptible to myself.
2. A cloth having a velvet nap on one side, usually of worsted, but sometimes of silk. Also, a kind or variety of this.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [noun] > silk or woollen
dornick1489
caddis1536
Florentine1545
rash1578
shag1592
prunella1656
brocatellea1684
crown rash1710
crépon1887
1592 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 211 Three quarters of blacke shage, 12s.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 439 Chiorze, where Bulls as big As Elephants are clad in silken shag.
1613 F. Beaumont Masqve Inner Temple sig. Dv The high Priest a cap of white silke shagge close to his head, with two labels at the eares [etc.].
1623 Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 86 I..gaue him ordre to bring for me..crymson shagg and Spangled Lace for winter Clothes for my Children.
?1725 Sadberge (Durham) Par. Reg. A..cushion of red shagg.
1769 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 7) III. 280 The Woollen Manufacture called Half-thicks, Frizes, and Shags.
1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 72 The Indians make a most elegant cloathing..as fine as a silk shag.
1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 277 The blanket manufacture at Witney, and that of worsted shaggs at Banbury.
1825 W. Scott Talisman iv, in Tales Crusaders IV. 54 A cap of rough shag.
1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 179 Engine Shag and Poldavey 1,119 yards.
1887 Fortn. Rev. Aug. 294 The King, says Petion, wore a coat of dark shag, and his linen was not clean.
3. † a. A garment, rug, or mat of shaggy material.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > with specific qualities > article of
shag1634
poodle1827
lightweight1919
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > rug > types of, generally
shag1634
hearthrug1790
buffalo-robe1804
hooked rug1880
area rug1941
hook rug1951
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 97 At the end sate the Potshaugh or great King..his seat hauing two or three white silke shags vpon the Carpets.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 50 A [magnified] Sage Leaf looks like a white Rugge, or Shagge, full of Knots, tassel'd all with white silver Thrums.
1681 T. Jordan London's Joy 9 St. Patric..a gray Mantle with a thick shag about his Neck of large green Silk and Gold fringes.
1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. 361 Twelve Royal travelling Coaches..; one Set of Shags.
1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 229 The Regiments-Quartermaster..embaled in a long woollen shag.
1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross (new ed.) xiv. 103 His hunting clothes, consisting of a roomy scarlet coat,..drab shags, and mahogany-coloured tops.
b. Westminster School slang. (See quot. 1902.)
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1902 R. Airy Westminster 108 Any coat other than an ‘Eton’ or ‘tails’ is a ‘shag’.
c. elliptical. A shag carpet or rug; shag pile. See sense Compounds 4 below.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > type of pile
velvet carpet1860
loop pile1924
shag1951
1951 K. R. Gillespie Home Furnishings v. 164 A few cotton floor coverings woven on standard carpet backs have come into the market, in addition to the bouclé weaves, shags, [etc.].
1974 Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 18 Apr. (Sears Advts. Suppl.) 5 Nylon pile shag. Long shag that's slow to show soil!
1976 H. Nielsen Brink of Murder xii. 108 The floor was carpeted with soft yellow shag.
4. (In full shag tobacco.) A strong tobacco cut into fine shreds.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > finely shredded
shag tobacco1789
1789 Act 29 Geo. III c. 68 §127 Upon the exportation of any short cut tobacco, shag tobacco, roll tobacco, and carrot tobacco.
1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. 527 Porter and pop, mirth-moving max, and fragrant shag.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story i A constant and agreeable odour of shag tobacco.
1862 F. E. Anstie in Cornhill Mag. Nov. 607 One pipe..of Virginian tobacco in the shape of bird's-eye or shag.
1876 J. Dunning Tobacco 17 ‘Shag’ is the generic name of all those varieties of leaf which have passed through the cutting machine.
5. ? Used for snag. [Compare shagged adj.1 2c; but perhaps a misprint.]
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1649 J. Taylor Wandering 6 At a stile I had a great disaster, for a shagge or splinter of the stile tooke hold of my one and onely breeches.
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General attributive. C1. Simple attributive.
shag edging adj.
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1808 Trans. Soc. Arts 26 p. x The ingenious Implement..for cutting Shag Edgings.
shag manufactory n.
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1794 R. Davis Gen. View Agric. Oxf. 26 The shag manufactory at Banbury.
shag manufacture n.
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1780 A. Young Tour Ireland i. 278 Bandon was once the seat of the stuff, camblet, and shag manufacture.
C2. † shag sponge n. Obsolete a ‘muricate’ sponge.
shag boy n. dialect = shag foal n. (b).
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin
thursec725
puckOE
puckleOE
goblina1350
hurlewaynes kin1399
Hoba1500
bogle?1507
chimera?1521
hobgoblin1530
chyppynutie?1553
bearbug1560
boggard1570
bugbear?c1570
empusa1572
puckerelc1580
puck bug1582
imp1584
urchin1584
fear-babea1586
hob-thrush1590
hodge-poker1598
lar1598
poker1598
bogle-bo1603
mormo1605
foliot1621
mormolukee1624
buggle-boo1625
pug1631
black man1656
feind1659
Tom Poker1673
duende1691
boodie?a1700
worricow1711
bolly1724
Tom Po1744
fleying1811
pooka1824
booger1827
alp1828
boll1847
bogy1857
beastie1867
boogie1880
shag boy1882
1882 M. G. Watkins In Country (1883) 210 Fairies and shag-boys! lasses are often skeart at them, but I never saw none.
1884 G. S. Streatfeild Lincolnshire & Danes 357 Shag-boy also Shag-foal, a ghost.
shag end n. North American colloquial = fag end n. 1.
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1972 J. Mosher Some would call it Adultery iv. xxi. 176 It was the shag end of winter and there were scarcely any victuals to be had.
1977 G. V. Higgins Dreamland i. 13 The years that came between that night..and the shag end of 1971.
shag foal n. dialect (a) ‘a foal with its first year's coat on’ ( N.W. Linc. Gloss. 1877); (b) a hobgoblin (see quots. 1847, 18561).
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin > in form of animal
barghest1732
padfoot1736
shag foal1847
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Shag-foal, a sort of ghost or spectre, which under this appearance is thought by the common people to haunt different parts of the county. Linc.
1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln 722 Shag-foal, a hobgoblin in the shape of a small rough horse.
1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln 736.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > specific types > spongia muricata
shag spongea1776
a1776 J. Ellis Nat. Hist. Zoophytes (1786) 185 Spongia muricata. Shagg Sponge.
C3. passing into adj., composed or made of ‘shag’ (sense 2).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from choice of fibres > [adjective] > cotton or woollen
shag1611
sateen1851
khaki1869
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. Dv I am going to buy a shag ruffe.
1621 in A. J. Kempe Losely MSS (1836) 426 For 17 yards of fyne doble shagg bayes, for Gilbert's murning cloake [etc.].
1706 in C. N. Robinson Brit. Fleet (1894) 493 Striped shag breeches, lined with linen.
1836 F. Marryat Japhet II. xv. 140 He was dressed in highlow boots,..a shag waistcoat, and a blue frock overall.
1911 B. Capes Loaves & Fishes 181 Wandering unsociable in a shag coat.
C4. Of carpets, rugs, etc.: having a long, rough, pile. Also shag pile. Cf. shaggy adj. 1c.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [adjective] > covered with a carpet > type of carpet
ingrain1836
thick-piled1853
Yarkand1880
Tekke1900
washed1911
Transylvanian1915
Herati1931
Lotto1931
Seljuk1931
shag pile1946
tufted1960
1946 House Beautiful Oct. 199 (advt.) Charm Tred Shag Cotton Rugs.
1947 Sun (Baltimore) 1 Dec. 13/4 (advt.) Heavy Loop Pile Shag Rugs.
1969 D. E. Westlake Up your Banners (1970) xlii. 309 The silence had the texture of a shag rug.
1974 Times 3 May 11/4 Kosset Panorama, the cheapest shag carpet I have seen.
1974 Times 12 Aug. 22/8 (advt.) Carpets..Shag Piles and Berber Weaves.
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/ʃaɡ/, U.S. /ʃæɡ/ a. A cormorant, esp. the crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax graculus, which in the breeding season has a crest of long curly plumes. Also with defining name, applied to several varieties of the cormorant, and sometimes erroneously to the common shag at different periods of its age, under the idea that it is a different variety.
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the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > phalacrocorax aristotelis (shag)
shag1566
scarf1668
shag pelican1785
shag cormorant1826
1566 Act 8 Eliz. c. 15 §2 For euery head of..Busarde, Schagge, Carmeraunt, or Ryngtayle, two pence.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 35 Curlewes, Teale, Widgeon, Burranets, Shags, Duck and Mallard.
1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ 249 Corvus aquaticus minor sive Graculus palmipes. The Shag.
1729 J. Wood Voy. 85 An island which is much frequented by a sort of Fowl which are called Shaggs, that live mostly upon fish.
1769 J. Cook Jrnl. 11 Nov. (1955) I. 197 Plenty of wild Foul, such as Shags, Ducks, Curlews.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 600 Crested Shag. Pelecanus cristatus.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 600 Violet Shag.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 601 Red-faced Shag.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 602 Spotted Shag.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 603 Carunculated Shag.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 604 Magellanic Shag.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 605 Pied Shag.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 606 Tufted Shag.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 606 African Shag.
1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. ii. 607 Dwarf Shag.
1824 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds X. 423 Chinese Shag.
1824 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds X. 425 Brown-necked Shag.
1824 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds X. 431 New Holland shag.
1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 288 Cormorants, or shaggs, as they are more commonly termed.
1841 Selby in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. ix. 255 The common cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), and the crested shag (P. cristatus), are permanent residents.
1861 Coues in Proc. Philad. Acad. 241 Both this [Graculus dilophus] and the G. carbo are universally known as ‘Shags’.
1879 J. Beerbohm Wanderings in Patagonia ii. 12 We startled a large covey of shag, which, to judge by the accumulation of guano, appeared to roost there habitually.
1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 191 New Zealand is especially rich in shags,..having not less than thirteen species, amongst these the curiously colored spotted shag (Phalacrocorax punctatus).
1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 191 Flock after flock of violet-green shags (P. pelagicus) came up to the steamer.
b. transferred. a shag on a rock: used in various Australian colloquial phrases as a type of the isolated or exposed.
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1845 R. Howitt Impressions Austral. Felix 233 ‘Poor as a bandicoot’, ‘miserable as a shag on a rock’, &c.; these and others I very frequently heard them make.
1929 J. Raeside Golden Days 16 The flood waters did not subside, and we were there like three shags on a rock.
1971 D. Ireland Unknown Industr. Prisoner 275 It's easy enough to curse England. Leaving us out here like a shag on a rock.
Compounds
shag cormorant n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > phalacrocorax aristotelis (shag)
shag1566
scarf1668
shag pelican1785
shag cormorant1826
1826 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIII. i. 82 Shag cormorant (Phalacrocorax Graculus).
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the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > phalacrocorax aristotelis (shag)
shag1566
scarf1668
shag pelican1785
shag cormorant1826
1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 581 Shag Pelecan.
shag-like adv. in the manner of a shag.
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1896 T. E. Brown Lett. (1900) II. 165 Indications (stage-directions, hints like yours) send one skimming shag-like over the water.
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shagn.3
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > shaking > a shake
shag1581
shake1581
wap?1635
1581 B. Rich Farewell Mil. Profession (1846) 166 When she sawe she waked not, she laied her hand upon her, and givyng her a shagge, she said withall, Mistres, awake! my maister calleth for you.
2. dialect. The refuse of barley, corn, oats, etc. Cf. shack n.1 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > siftings or refuse
mill dust1354
roughc1460
overchaving1607
sid1673
grey meal?1771
shag1822
slurry1825
slush1843
slutch1851
1822 Caledonian Mercury 9 Dec. (Jam.) Mr. Robert Meiklejohn, brewer, Alloa, sowed a quantity of shag, from English barley,..being the skimmings of his malt cisterns.
1823 Caledonian Mercury 13 Nov. (Jam.) Oats have about ten times the quantity of shag they had last year.
1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 725/3 Shagg, (Stirlings.), tail corn.
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shagn.4
A low, rascally fellow.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > base person > [noun]
houndOE
hinderlingc1175
whelpc1330
vilec1400
beasta1425
dog bolt1465
shake-rag1571
vassal1589
brock1607
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
slubberdegullion1612
baseling1618
shag1620
shab1637
slabberdegullion1653
whiffler1659
hang-dog1693
reptile1697
Nobodaddyc1793
skunk1816
spalpeen1817
tiger1827
soap-lock1840
shake1846
white mouse1846
sweep1853
shuck1862
whiffmagig1871
scrubber1876
ullage1901
jelly bean1905
heel1914
dirty dog1928
crud1932
crut1937
klunk1942
crudball1968
scumbag1971
bawbag1999
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
scavenger1563
old boss1566
rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
mustard-token1600
viliaco1600
cargo1602
stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
thrum1612
rabbita1616
fitchock1616
unworthy1616
baseling1618
shag1620
glow-worm1624
snip1633
the son of a worm1633
grousea1637
shab1637
wormship1648
muckworm1649
whiffler1659
prig1679
rotten egg1686
prigster1688
begged fool1693
hang-dog1693
bugger1694
reptile1697
squinny1716
snool1718
ramscallion1734
footer1748
jackass1756
hallion1789
skite1790
rattlesnake1791
snot1809
mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
spalpeen1817
nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
tiger1827
beggar1834
despicability1837
squirt1844
prawn1845
shake1846
white mouse1846
scurf1851
sweep1853
cockroach1856
bummer1857
medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
schweinhund1871
creepa1876
bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 170 Shagge, a terme of reproach semes to come of Shog, Shagag, or Shag heb. to do vnadvisedlie [etc.].
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Shag, or Shack, a blackguard. Suffolk.
1801 C. Smith Lett. Solitary Wanderer I. 352 Was now under the hard necessity of becoming shag, fag, skip, or whatever the boys in the higher forms chose to insist upon.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
shagn.6
coarse slang.
a. An act of copulation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > an act of
swivec1560
fall1594
sleep1612
fuck1663
merry bout1780
stroke1785
screw?c1845
charver1846
fuckeea1866
sex act1888
frigc1890
grind1893
mount1896
poke1902
tumble1903
screwing1904
ride1905
roll1910
trick1926
lay1932
jump1934
bang1937
knock1937
shag1937
a roll in the hay1945
boff1956
naughty1959
root1961
shtup1964
home run1967
seeing to1970
legover1975
bonk1978
zatch1980
boink1989
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 748/2 Shag, a copulation; also, copulation generically.
1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 114 It was not just a good shag I needed. It was romance.
b. One who copulates. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > one who has intercourse
prancer?1560
fucker1598
poker1880
shag1971
shagger1971
1971 K. Amis Girl, 20 ii. 76 Ageing shag tries to stimulate jaded appetite by re-creating situation of days of first discovery of sex.
1978 K. Amis Jake's Thing ix. 94 The moustached shag and the flat-chested bint..had moved away from the bar with their drinks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
shagn.7
A dance popular esp. in the U.S. in the 1930s and 1940s, and characterized by vigorous hopping from one foot to the other.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > shaking or jiving dances > [noun]
twist1894
shimmy1918
shimmying1919
shimmy shiver1919
heebie-jeebies1923
shimmy shake1925
shimmy-fox1926
shag1932
jitterbugging1938
jitterbug1939
jive1943
the Shake1946
swim1965
1932 (title of jazz piece) Shag.
1937 Dancing Times Nov. 170/1 The rage of the winter is the Big Apple and its related steps... Such steps as the Shag, the Flea Hop, the Strut, and the Walk, are combined with the new Big Apple notes.
1938 Sun (Baltimore) 24 June 4/3 The Virginia reel, the shag, the sugarfoot and trucking predominate on the dance program.
1954 S. G. L. Dannett & F. R. Rachel Down Memory Lane 131 The shag is a fast, nervous, hopping dance, performed in time to a strongly accentuated rhythm.
1963 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 Oct. 104/2 [The Negroes'] body rhythm and frank sensuality turned the formal European waltz into..the shag, the Susie Q. and the big Apple.
Derivatives
shag v.5 (intransitive) to dance the shag.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > shaking or jiving dances > [verb (intransitive)]
shimmy1919
jitterbug1939
jive1939
shag1939
twist1961
1939 F. Ramsey & C. E. Smith Jazzmen xiii. 271 Usually when Brunions reaches the third chorus..the kids have stopped shagging.
1940 Time 29 Jan. 17/1 A citizenry shagging to the tune of Oh Johnny! refused to take the 1940 Campaign seriously.
ˈshagger n.1 one who dances the shag.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > shaking or jiving dances > [noun] > dancer
jitterbug1937
shagger1939
twister1966
1939 F. Ramsey & C. E. Smith Jazzmen xiii. 271 The Crescent Billiard Hall..frequented by the best shaggers in town.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
shagadj.
/ʃaɡ/, U.S. /ʃæɡ/ Now rare or archaic.
1. Having shaggy hair.Formerly sometimes hyphenated, as shag-dog.
ΚΠ
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ciij Round hooft, short ioynted, fetlocks shag, and long.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 201 Black—long—shag—curld heads.
1639 J. Ford Ladies Triall iii. sig. E4v A' has chang'd Haire with a shagge dogge.
1642 (title) An exact Description of a Roundhead and a long-headed Shag-Poll.
1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xxxiii. 76 The shagg dogg was so well bred, that his Master us'd to send him by himself to Smithfield Shambles.
c1670 A. Wood Life (1891) I. 199 He..had a curl'd shag-pate, was squint~ey'd and purblind.
1760 Impostors Detected II. iii. viii. 77 Two hundred of these creatures [monkeys], mounted on shag dogs came first.
1883 A. Dobson Old World Ballads 181 Huddling they came, with shag sides caked of mire, With hoofs fresh sullied from the troughs o'erturned.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 97 The picketed ponies, shag and wild, Strained at their ropes.
2. Of hair, a mane, etc.: Long and rough, shaggy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > bushy, thick
roughOE
lothenc1440
bushed1535
shirl1567
shagged1587
shaga1596
bushya1609
thick1624
shaggy1638
moppy1725
tousled1847
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [adjective] > hairiness > rough hair
ruggedc1330
shacky1565
shack1577
shacked1577
shaga1596
shaggy1796
a1596 Sir Thomas More (1911) iii. ii. 111 How long Hath this shagg fleece hung dangling on thy head?
a1596 Sir Thomas More (1911) iii. ii. 118 When were you last at barbars? how longe time Have you vppon your head woorne this shagg haire?
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. xxii. 532 Sheepe..with their shag-coats.
1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) ii. sig. F2 The Gentleman tooke the dog in shagge-haire to be some Watch-man in a rugge gowne.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xviii. 314 Clip away the long shag haire from about the pasternes.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. Shagge haire, ruygh hayr.
1975 R. L. Duncan Dragons at Gate (1976) i. 12 Jenkins feigned the appearance of his early thirties..sandy-colored shag hair.
Compounds
General attributive.
shag-bearded adj.
ΚΠ
1907 H. Trench New Poems 10 Shag-bearded pines, All gnarled, loom down.
shag-coated adj.
ΚΠ
1907 Black Cat June 26 Dogged at every step by the sinister, velvet-footed march of shag-coated wolves.
shag-eared adj.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. ii. 84 Thou ly'st thou shagge-ear'd [mod. edd. shag-haired] Villaine. Mur. What you Egge? View more context for this quotation
1884 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. IX. 133/2 I have frequently heard a Shetland pony called ‘shag-ear'd just like a moke’.
shag-faced adj.
ΚΠ
1716 R. Arbuthnot in Stuart Papers (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1904) II. 218 Macdonald..is a shag-faced, thin fellow.
shag-footed adj.
ΚΠ
1901 J. Barlow From Land of Shamrock 222 Gulls..swooping about among the shag-footed, tramping plough-horses.
shag-headed adj.
ΚΠ
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. iii. 46 Half a score of shag-headed Irish kernes.
shag-woolled adj.
ΚΠ
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiii. 216 Flocks of shag-wooll'd Sheepe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† shagv.1
Obsolete. rare.
1. transitive. To toss about.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)] > toss about
wevea1375
chulle138.
shagc1380
roam?a1400
toss1511
dindle-dandle?1555
betoss1582
tost1606
rout1829
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 374 And þe boot, amydde þe water, was shaggid [v.r. schoggyd; L. jactabatur] wiþ wawis.
2. intransitive. To shake, waggle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > shake
quakeeOE
bivec888
shakec950
reseOE
aquetcha1000
divera1225
quavec1225
quetchc1275
squetchc1330
tremblec1374
waga1398
roga1400
shaga1400
quashc1400
shatter1533
a1400 Pistil of Susan 106 Þe chouwet, þe cheuerol, þat schaggen on niht.
1572 L. Mascall tr. D. Brossard L'Art et Maniere de Semer v, in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 31 But alwayes take good heede to the binding of your heds, that they waxe slacke, or shagge, neyther on the one side or other, but remaine fast vpon the clay.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > shaking
quakingeOE
quakea1350
shakingc1380
rogging1440
shaggingc1440
brangling1584
quagswagging1653
shake1665
quivering1801
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 443/1 Schaggynge, schoggynge, or waverynge, vacillacio.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
shagv.2
/ʃaɡ/, U.S. /ʃæɡ/ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > unevenness > be or become uneven [verb (intransitive)] > become rough > be rough and shaggy
shag1596
the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > hang or be suspended [verb (intransitive)] > hang down > unevenly
sag1592
shag1596
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ix. sig. T6 Long curld locks, that downe his shoulders shagged . View more context for this quotation
1801 C. Smith Lett. Solitary Wanderer II. 90 But here are vines planted on hills, and shagging like copse-wood in England.
2. † b. To make a long or rough nap or pile on (a cloth or other material). Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To render rough or shaggy, esp. the surface of the earth, a hillside, a rock, etc. (with a growth of trees or the like). Chiefly in past participle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > produce vegetation [verb (transitive)] > cover with vegetation
reverdure1525
shag1612
beshag1868
1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise ii. vi. 130 His nether parts of a Goate declare the inequality of the earth being rough and shagged as it were with trees plants hills, &c.
1637 J. Milton Comus 15 Caverns shag'd with horrid shades.
1730 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons 204 The swain..sees other hills ascend Of unknown joyless brow; and other scenes, Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain.
1806 R. Mant Poems i. 32 Where seas extend of everlasting ice, And horror shaggs the unsunn'd precipice.
1873 W. D. Howells Chance Acquaintance iii. 74 The woods that hitherto have shagged the hills with a stunted and meagre growth,..now assume a stately size.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross II. iii. 65 The fringe of the dominant black weed, like heavy brows, shagging the outlook.
1897 F. Thompson New Poems 113 Who lit the furnace of the mammoth's heart? Who shagged him like Pilatus' ribbèd flanks?
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > treat or process textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > put nap on > long or rough nap
shag1672
1672 Brit. Patent 165 (1857) 1 A rich silk shagg..made of a silke wast..and shagged by tezell or rowing cardes, like as English bayes, rowed fustians, or dimatyes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
shagv.3
/ʃaɡ/, U.S. /ʃæɡ/ coarse slang.
1. transitive and intransitive. To copulate (with).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse
playOE
to do (also work) one's kindc1225
bedc1315
couple1362
gendera1382
to go togetherc1390
to come togethera1398
meddlea1398
felterc1400
companya1425
swivec1440
japea1450
mellc1450
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474
engender1483
fuck?a1513
conversec1540
jostlec1540
confederate1557
coeate1576
jumble1582
mate1589
do1594
conjoin1597
grind1598
consortc1600
pair1603
to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608
commix1610
cock1611
nibble1611
wap1611
bolstera1616
incorporate1622
truck1622
subagitate1623
occupya1626
minglec1630
copulate1632
fere1632
rut1637
joust1639
fanfreluche1653
carnalize1703
screw1725
pump1730
correspond1756
shag1770
hump1785
conjugate1790
diddle1879
to get some1889
fuckeec1890
jig-a-jig1896
perform1902
rabbit1919
jazz1920
sex1921
root1922
yentz1923
to make love1927
rock1931
mollock1932
to make (beautiful) music (together)1936
sleep1936
bang1937
lumber1938
to hop into bed (with)1951
to make out1951
ball1955
score1960
trick1965
to have it away1966
to roll in the hay1966
to get down1967
poontang1968
pork1968
shtup1969
shack1976
bonk1984
boink1985
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with
mingeOE
haveOE
knowc1175
ofliec1275
to lie with (or by)a1300
knowledgec1300
meetc1330
beliea1350
yknowc1350
touchc1384
deala1387
dightc1386
usea1387
takec1390
commona1400
to meet witha1400
servea1400
occupy?a1475
engender1483
jangle1488
to be busy with1525
to come in1530
visitc1540
niggle1567
mow1568
to mix one's thigh with1593
do1594
grind1598
pepper1600
yark1600
tumble1603
to taste of1607
compressc1611
jumble1611
mix?1614
consort?1615
tastea1616
bumfiddle1630
ingressa1631
sheet1637
carnal1643
night-work1654
bump1669
bumble1680
frig?c1680
fuck1707
stick1707
screw1719
soil1722
to do over1730
shag1770
hump1785
subagitatec1830
diddle1879
to give (someone) onec1882
charver1889
fuckeec1890
plugc1890
dick1892
to make a baby1911
to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912
jazz1920
rock1922
yentz1924
roll1926
to make love1927
shtupa1934
to give (or get) a tumble1934
shack1935
bang1937
to have it off1937
rump1937
tom1949
to hop into bed (with)1951
ball1955
to make it1957
plank1958
score1960
naughty1961
pull1965
pleasurea1967
to have away1968
to have off1968
dork1970
shaft1970
bonk1975
knob1984
boink1985
fand-
1770 T. Jefferson Memorandum Bks. 27 Dec. (1997) I. 200 He had shagged his mother and begotten himself on her body.
1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Shag, to copulate.
1879–80 Pearl (1970) 258 A fellow who's had the mishap, To forget, when he shagged her, to button his flap.
1958 N. Levine Canada made Me iv. 102 You know what they're talking about? If they got shagged last night.
1969 J. Wood Three Blind Mice iii. 32 We..go and shag ourselves half-stupid all night..and pay them for it in the morning!
1973 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 24 Aug. 1417/4 The credo of the new fashioned mammy is if you shag, I shag.
1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xvii. 413 There are plenty of men who will shag anything if it's a virgin.
1980 R. Adams Girl in Swing xxi. 279 ‘He's never absent.’ And the corporal next to Jack muttered, ‘Well, I 'ope 'e ain't 'angin' around when I'm shaggin' my missus.’
2. Used profanely in imprecations and exclamations. Cf. fuck v. 4, shag v.4 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [verb (transitive)] > obscene oaths
pox1601
bugger1779
frig1905
fuck1922
shag1933
stuff1955
motherfuck1965
feck1972
1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine ii. 88 ‘Paddy—give us Paddy McGulligan's daughter, Mary Ann.’ ‘Oh shag off!’
1971 R. Ludlum Scarlatti Inheritance iv. 43 ‘Get four men and get out there.’ ‘Go shag, Captain.’ ‘Are you disobeying your superior officer?’
1973 G. Pinsent Rowdyman 135 ‘Then shag you!’ I shouted, as he swaggered away.
Derivatives
ˈshagger n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > one who has intercourse
prancer?1560
fucker1598
poker1880
shag1971
shagger1971
1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 12 I could watch my reflection in the mirror of the wardrobe... Now there was a born shagger, if ever I saw one, given the chance.
ˈshagging n.2 and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [adjective] > having sexual intercourse
wapping1612
engendering1620
shagging1772
on the job1922
rogering1953
1772 R. Cosway Let. 24 Feb. (British Museum, Townley Archive, TY 7/2028) With respect to shagging—it is much the same as when you left us (your part omitted)—but as to myself I stick as close to Radicati's Arse as a Bum Bailif to Lord Deloraine's.
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 41 All the vulgar linguistic emphasis is placed upon the poking element;..rooting, shagging are..acts performed upon the passive female.
1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 9 God, what sodding, shagging, scab-devouring misery it all was!
1977 Zigzag Aug. 4/3 Plus the fact it gets hotter than shagging in the back of a car during the summer of '76.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
shagv.4
/ʃaɡ/, U.S. /ʃæɡ/ 1. intransitive. To make off; to wander aimlessly; to traipse. Frequently with adverbs slang. When followed by off there is some overlap with sense 2 of shag v.3
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
1851 Gloss. Gloucestershire 11 Shag, to steal away.
1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iv. 192 He watched a familiar looking airedale dog shag about.
1938 D. Runyon Furthermore xiv. 278 The Princess is getting too grown-up to be shagging around Broadway, and..she is now going to public school.
1968 ‘B. Mather’ Springers xv. 162 I'll take you into Russia with me—or you can shag off on your own.
1976 W. H. Canaway Willow-pattern War xiv. 140 We'd been shagging around over these mountains for four days now, and we hadn't seen one single musk deer.
2. transitive. To chase. Also const. up. spec. in Baseball, to go for or catch (fly balls). U.S. colloquial.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow [verb (transitive)] > pursue
followOE
driveOE
to go after ——OE
to come after——c1275
pursuec1300
suec1300
catcha1325
chasec1330
enchasec1380
to pursue aftera1387
ensuea1513
subsecute1548
prosecute1549
jass1577
course1587
to make after ——a1592
scorse1596
chevya1825
to take out after1865
shag1913
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > play baseball [verb (transitive)] > catch
catch1887
trap1892
shag1913
1913 C. H. Claudy Battle of Baseball 318 I was allowed to ‘shag’ foul balls.
1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan ii. 66 Demons..would come and lean over his bed..until his old man came and shagged them away.
1955 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Mar. 19/8 Coan..shagged flies under the tutelage of Coach Tom Oliver.
1979 Navajo Times (Window Rock, Arizona) 24 May 15/1 I was originally picked as an outfielder, so I played two years shagging balls in the outfield.
1981 G. V. Higgins Rat on Fire v. 37 Every so often..I got to shag up a couple of guys who haven't told a clean joke in years and give the guy free entertainment.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.31581n.41620n.61937n.71932adj.1593
v.1c1380v.21596v.31770v.41851