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shaggy

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1. shaggy - Noun

2. shaggy - Adjective

3. shaggy - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Rough with long hair or wool.

Rough; rugged; jaggy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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O Caledonia stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child Land of brown heath and shaggy wood Land of the mountain and the flood. Walter Scott

I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears. Christine McVie

He told Dorothy he had brushed his shaggy hair and whiskers; but she thought he must have brushed them the wrong way, for they were quite as shaggy as before. L. Frank Baum

Boredom. He takes it with him everywhere, like an angry shaggy terrier that he sets on others from time to time. Imre Kertész

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out. David Antin

His eyes were almost sunken in his head; His face was thin and fleshless as a bone. His tangled, bristling hair, inspiring dread, And shaggy beard were wild to look upon. Ludovico Ariosto

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