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shaggy /ˈʃaɡi /adjective (shaggier, shaggiest)1(Of hair or fur) long, thick, and unkempt: the mountain goat has a long, shaggy coat...- The feline bristled its shaggy fur and started to stand.
- She glanced over and saw that even Walter's shaggy fur had taken on a touch of glamour, and Bill's looked much like her own.
- The young woman noticed its shaggy fur was receding and looked to see the moon disappearing behind another cloud.
Synonyms hairy, hirsute, bushy, thick, woolly, fleecy, long-haired, unshorn, uncut, shock-headed; tangled, tousled, unkempt, dishevelled, untidy, matted rare crinose, hispid 1.1Having long, thick, unkempt hair or fur: a huge shaggy Alsatian...- Their big shaggy komondor sheepdogs with matted dreadlock pelts stayed close at heel.
- She took a bow, and he grinned as he scratched his shaggy head.
- The pony was old, and had been Asa's own for three years, ever since Asa's older brother, Oberon, had handed him down when he had grown out of the shaggy brown pony.
1.2Having a covering resembling rough, thick hair.During the season, shear off faded blooms or cut back plants if they look shaggy; fertilize afterward....- During the actual weaving, tufts of fleece were sometimes knotted into the weave to anchor them, creating a fabric with a hairy or shaggy finish.
- In answer to Dianne's question, Jocelyn says that Roman Chamomile is very tough and has sweet smelling white flowers, but may grow shaggy and need mowing.
PhrasesDerivativesshaggily adverb ...- He had brown hair, curling shaggily around a sharp, high-cheekbone-lined, intelligent face, sparkling but melting brown eyes, and a body that shouldn't have been allowed to go around in shorts and muscle tees.
- The teddy bear that lives on in memory as being rich, dark brown, and shaggily massive turns out, when rescued from the attic decades later, to be anemic and disappointingly scrawny.
- The first time she saw me I was a long-haired, post-hippie, shaggily dressed, 27-year-old cave dweller.
shagginess /ˈʃaɡɪnəs/ noun ...- He is much happier in the muggy heat and I am enjoying the sight of the black Cleopatra lines around his eyes, which are usually obscured by general shagginess.
- I fervently attacked my menacing hide of beastly shagginess and managed to pull off a state of continuous hairlessness for over a year.
- Sal's was long and twisty with faux-careless shagginess at the back and swoopy blonde strips at the front.
RhymesAggie, baggy, craggy, draggy, jaggy, Maggie, quaggy, saggy, scraggy, slaggy, snaggy |