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shaggy
| shaggy cap
| shaggy dog story
| shaggy-coated
| shaggy-haired
| shaggymane
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective shaggy has 2 senses
- shaggy(s = adj.all) bushy, shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired - used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; "bushy locks"; "a shaggy beard" Derived forms noun shag2, noun shagginess1
- shaggy(s = adj.all) shagged - having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags; "junipers with shagged trunks"; "shaggy rugs" Derived forms noun shag3, noun shagginess2
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Rough with long hair or wool. [1913 Webster]"About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin." [1913 Webster]
- Rough; rugged; jaggy. Milton. [1913 Webster]"[A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
shaggy, adj. (shaggier, shaggiest)
1 hairy, rough-haired.
2 unkempt.
3 (of the hair) coarse and abundant.
4 Biol. having a hairlike covering.
1 hairy, rough-haired.
2 unkempt.
3 (of the hair) coarse and abundant.
4 Biol. having a hairlike covering.
Idiom
shaggy-dog story a long rambling story amusing only by its being inconsequential.
Derivative
shaggily adv. shagginess n.
THESAURUS
shaggy
bristly, broken, bumpy, bushy, choppy, cirrose, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, disheveled, fleecy, flocculent, furry, fuzzy, grainy, granulated, hairy, hirsute, hispid, homespun, horripilant, inequal, irregular, jolty, knobbed, lanate, linsey-woolsey, matted, messed up, mussed up, nappy, nubbly, nubby, pilose, pily, pimply, pitted, pocky, potholed, pubescent, rank, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, rumpled, rutted, rutty, shagged, snaggy, snarled, studded, textured, tousled, tously, tumbled, uncombed, uncut, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unshorn, unsmooth, untidy, ununiform, wimpled, woollyROGET THESAURUS
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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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