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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



... accustomed; and she was surprised to perceive by her father's gesture and address that the speaker must be one of the lords of the castle. She looked up, and saw on the pathway above her a tall, large-framed young man, his skin dyed red with sun and wind, in odd contrast with his pale shaggy hair, moustache, and beard, as though the weather had tanned the one and bleached the other. His dress was a still shabbier buff suit than her father had worn, but with a richly-embroidered belt ...
— The Dove in the Eagle's Nest • Charlotte M. Yonge
... come with the expedition were no exception to fondness for dogs, and had brought two shaggy, short-eared, long-nosed brutes with them that had never barked or uttered a sound except to snarl at any stranger who came near them and absolutely refused to make friends with anyone. One of these accompanied Rand and the ...
— The Boy Scouts on the Yukon • Ralph Victor
... and the elder Cameron appeared—a short, square-built man, with a face seamed with lines of care and eyes much like Wilford's, save that the shaggy eyebrows gave them a different expression. He was very glad to see his son, though he merely shook his hand, asking what nonsense took him off around the Lakes with Mrs. Woodhull, and wondering if women were never happy unless they were chasing after fashion. The elder ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... short to look down upon them, his grim, deeply-lined brown face twisted up into a smile as he took off an old sealskin cap and began to softly polish his bald head, which was surrounded by a thick hedge of shaggy grey hair, but paused for a moment to give one spot a rub with his great rough, gnarled knuckles. His hands were enormous, and looked as if they had grown into the form most suitable for grasping a pair of oars to tug a boat ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn
... watched them go from beneath his shaggy, scowling eyebrows, and his thin lips relaxed their usual tightness to curve in a ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston


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