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Shaggy   /ʃˈægi/   Listen
adjective
Shaggy  adj.  (compar. shaggier; superl. shaggiest)  
1.
Rough with long hair or wool. "About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin."
2.
Rough; rugged; jaggy. "(A rill) that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell."





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"Shaggy" Quotes from Famous Books



... dinner horn, whistled to his dog and started. Springing up from where he had been watching every expression of his master's face, the shaggy collie bounded around him as he moved across the lawn, while the woman watched them with a proud and happy smile. They had scarcely entered the long lane leading to the pasture, when a woodchuck shambled ...
— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss
... limb and broad of shoulder. He was clad in the skins of beasts, and carried in his hand a knotted club. His tangled hair hung down upon his brawny neck, and his fierce eyes gleamed from behind his shaggy brows. ...
— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott
... his shaggy head. He was proud of the appreciation his accomplishment had excited. "No; I don't hypnotize them," he explained. "Anybody can make old Father Lobster fall asleep if he only rubs him in the right place. ...
— Madge Morton's Victory • Amy D.V. Chalmers
... in youth had been handsome, but of that peculiar Jewish cast which age renders harsh and prominent. The high narrow wrinkled forehead, the small deep-set jet-black eyes, gleaming like living coals from beneath straight shaggy eyebrows, the thin aquiline nose, the long upper lip, the small fleshless mouth and projecting chin, the expression of habitual cunning and mental reservation, mingled with sullen pride and morose ...
— Mark Hurdlestone - Or, The Two Brothers • Susanna Moodie
... land he had ever seen, and one of the loveliest. Here Earth, the Woman, rounded and beautiful, reclined at her ease before him, naked as God had made her. How different she was from that savagely shaggy man-land in the North whence he sprang! But for a haystack like a hive on a far ridge, a fold in a hollow, and the hillsides patched here and there with plough, it might have been an ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant


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