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Shag
| shag rug
| shag-haired
| shag-rag
| shagbark
| shagbark hickory
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Shag
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Shag has 5 senses
- shag(n = noun.substance) Array - a strong coarse tobacco that has been shredded; Array is a kind of baccy, tobacco
- shag(n = noun.object) Array - a matted tangle of hair or fiber; "the dog's woolly shag" is a kind of tangle
- shag(n = noun.artifact) Array - a fabric with long coarse nap; "he bought a shag rug" is a kind of cloth, fabric, material, textile
- shag(n = noun.act) ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shtup - slang for sexual intercourse; Array is a kind of carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, congress, copulation, intercourse, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation
- shag(n = noun.act) Array - a lively dance step consisting of hopping on each foot in turn; Array is a kind of social dancing
Derived form adjective shaggy1
is a part of shag rug
Derived form adjective shaggy2
Derived form verb shag1
Verb Shag has 1 sense
- shag(v = verb.motion) Array - dance the shag; Array is one way to dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
Derived form noun shag5
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue Shag
CIDE DICTIONARY
Shag, n. [AS. sceacga a bush of hair; akin to Icel. skegg the beard, Sw. skägg, Dan. skjg. Cf. Schock of hair.].
- Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. [1913 Webster]"True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn." [1913 Webster]
- A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap. [1913 Webster]
- A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine. [1913 Webster]
- Any species of cormorant. [1913 Webster]
Shag, a.
Hairy; shaggy. Shak. [1913 Webster]
Shag, v. t.
To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough. [1913 Webster]
"Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
Shag, n.
1 a rough growth or mass of hair etc.
2 a coarse kind of cut tobacco.
3 a cormorant, esp. the crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax aristotelis.
1 a rough growth or mass of hair etc.
2 a coarse kind of cut tobacco.
3 a cormorant, esp. the crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax aristotelis.
Shag, v.tr. (shagged, shagging) coarse sl.
Usage
Usually considered a taboo word.
1 have sexual intercourse with.
2 (usu. in passive; often foll. by out) exhaust; tire out.
1 have sexual intercourse with.
2 (usu. in passive; often foll. by out) exhaust; tire out.
Etymology
18th c.: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
Shag
Burley, Cuban, Havana, Havana seed, Latakia, Maryland, Russian, Turkish, Virginia, bright, bring, bring back, bristle, call for, canaster, capillament, chase after, cilium, coat, crop, feel, fetch, fetch and carry, finish, fleece, flue-cured, fur, get, go after, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get, go to get, grain, granular texture, hair, head, head of hair, horsehair, indentation, knub, leaf, locks, lugs, mane, mat, mop, nap, nub, obtain, pelt, pick up, pile, pit, plug tobacco, pock, procure, protuberance, pubescence, pubic hair, retrieve, run after, seconds, secure, setula, shock, structure, surface, surface texture, texture, thatch, tresses, wale, weave, woof, woolROGET THESAURUS
Shag
Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.
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