shaggy

English

Etymology

From shag +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃæɡi/

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  Rhymes: -æɡi

Adjective

shaggy (comparative shaggier, superlative shaggiest)

1. Having long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool.

   a shaggy dog

   • 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:

     They waited until Dorothy awoke the next morning. The little girl was quite frightened when she saw the great pile of shaggy wolves, but the Tin Woodman told her all. She thanked him for saving them and sat down to breakfast, after which they started again upon their journey.

   • 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210:

     Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?

2. Having a surface like shaggy hair; with a rough nap.
3. (figuratively) Confused, muddled.
   • 2023 January 6, Charles Pulliam-Moore, “M3gan is a midrange delight about the horrors of 21st-century parenting”, in The Verge‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-09-15:

     Universal and Blumhouse’s M3gan is exactly the right amount of ridiculous, which is why it can afford to be a little shaggy toward the end.

Derived terms

• shaggily
• shagginess
• shaggy cut
• shaggy dog story
• shaggy dog tale
• shaggy God story
• shaggy inkcap
• shaggy mane
• shaggy soldier

 

Translations

with long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur, or wool

• Albanian: kalesh (sq)
• Arabic: أَشْعَث m (ʔašʕaṯ)
• Bulgarian: чорлав (bg) (čorlav), рунтав (bg) (runtav)
• Czech: huňatý, chundelatý, střapatý
• Esperanto: hirta
• Finnish: takkuinen (fi), pörröinen (fi)
• French: hirsute (fr)
• Galician: guedelludo
• German: zottelig (de), zottig, zottelhaarig, struppig (de), strubbelig, zerzaust (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: δασύς (dasús), λάσιος (lásios), βλοσυρός (blosurós)

• Hungarian: kócos (hu)
• Irish: mosach, suasánach
• Italian: ispido (it) m, irsuto (it) m, villoso, peloso (it), cappelluto, arruffato (it), scapigliato (it), spettinato (it)
• Kazakh: сабалақ (sabalaq), барақ (baraq)
• Latin: hispidus, villōsus
• Macedonian: чо́рлав (čórlav), ру́нтав (rúntav), бу́шав (búšav)
• Maori: tuahuru, pūhutihuti
• Plautdietsch: scheibich
• Polish: kudłaty (pl) m, kosmaty (pl) m
• Portuguese: felpudo (pt), desgrenhado (pt)
• Russian: косма́тый (ru) (kosmátyj), мохна́тый (ru) (moxnátyj), лохма́тый (ru) (loxmátyj), патла́тый (ru) (patlátyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: giobach, molach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рундав

  Roman: rundav (sh)

• Spanish: greñudo (es), desgreñado (es), despeinado (es), desmelenado (es), chascón (es) (Chile, Bolivia)
• Swedish: raggig (sv), lurvig (sv), rufsig (sv)
• Ukrainian: кудлатий m (kudlatyj), кошлатий m (košlatyj), волохатий m (voloxatyj), патлатий m (patlatyj)

with a surface like shaggy hair; rough nap

• Bulgarian: мъхнат (bg) (mǎhnat)
• Finnish: karkea (fi)
• Italian: ruvido (it)
• Macedonian: ро́шав (róšav)
• Scottish Gaelic: giobach

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} păros (ro), ^{(please verify)} neîngrijit (ro), ^{(please verify)} aspru (ro), ^{(please verify)} neras (ro)

References

• “shaggy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.