shaggyadj.

/ˈʃaɡi/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s shaggie, 1700s shagy.

Etymology: < shag n.¹ + -y suffix¹. The altered form shackie , shacky adj.¹, appears in our quots. somewhat earlier.

a. Covered with or having long coarse or bushy hair. Of persons: Unkempt.

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the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > bushy, thick > having

shaggeda1000

roughOE

thick-hairedc1405

busheda1513

bush-haired1530

maned1530

bush-headed1552

shack-haired1555

mop-headed?1566

shag-haired1577

shag-hair1584

shaggyc1590

rug-headed1597

hirsute1621

hobby-headeda1625

shock1681

shocky1698

shock-head1842

tousled-headed1860

tousle-haired1880

flock-headed1891

thick-piled1976

c1590 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta iv. 1858 He sent a shaggy totter'd staring slaue.

1612 N. Field Woman a Weather-cocke D 3 Wilde Virginia, Blacke Affricke, or the shaggy Scithia, Must send it ouer as a Merchandize Ere thou shew any heere.

1616 B. Jonson Oberon 122 in Wks. I Trap our shaggie thighs with bels.

1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 42 Some black shaggy dog.

1755 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 169 2 two-year-old she cattle and a shagy bull.

1757 T. Gray Ode I ii. ii, in Odes 8 Shaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam.

1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. vi. 130 Shaggy uncombed ruffians, whose enormous mustachoes were turned back over their ears.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) ii. 13 He was a strong, loose, round-shouldered, shuffling, shaggy fellow.

1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 151 A mounted shepherd on his wild and shaggy horse.

b. Of a skin, or garment, etc.: Covered with coarse bushy hair.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough > rough and hairy (of things)

shaggy?1611

shagged-ragged1612

squalid1628

brushy1682

buzzy1836

brush-like1859

brushy-looking1882

whiskery1927

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xv. 282 Ioues huge and each-where shaggie shield.

1705 J. Philips Blenheim 408 While Volga's Stream Sends Opposite, in shaggy Armor clad, Her Borderers.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xvii. 107 Tunic and shaggy mantle.

1816 J. Galt Life B. West 94 A peasant dressed in shaggy skins.

c. Of a textile material: Having a long, rough nap; rough or coarse in texture.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [adjective] > coarse or rough

roughOE

sackena1450

rugged1558

homespun?1589

shaggy1664

nubbly1829

nubby1935

1664 S. Pepys Diary 11 Nov. Put on my new shaggy purple gown with gold buttons and loop lace.

1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) ii. 135 A shaggy Tap'stry, worthy to be spread On Codrus' old, or Dunton's modern bed.

1831 W. Scott Count Robert ii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 22 A surcoat composed of strong shaggy silk, so woven as to exhibit, at a little distance, no inaccurate representation of a bear's hide.

1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 113 [article Carpet-Weaver] But in Wilton, or other carpets that are required to be ‘shaggy’, the wires are made thin, and sharp at one end.

d. Botany and Zoology. Having or covered with rough or stiff hairs (hirsute) or long soft hairs (villous). Also in renderings of specific names, as shaggy maple, shaggy spunk.

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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [adjective] > having hair

beardedc1450

downy1551

cottoned1578

friezed1578

maned1578

woolly1578

hairy1597

bristle-pointed1601

comous1657

fimbrious1657

tomentous1657

shagged1671

tomentose1698

crinated1724

villose1727

hispid1753

pubescent1760

setose1760

villous1766

lashed1776

silky1776

strigous1776

sericeous1777

awny1786

awned1787

strigose1793

shaggy1796

stupose1799

thready1804

feather-headed1821

setous1822

aristate1829

filamentous1835

fimbriate1836

puberulent1841

puberulous1841

sericated1848

barbate1853

strigillose1857

fimbrilliferous1866

ciliolate1870

fimbrillose1884

strigulated1899

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [adjective] > hairiness > rough hair

ruggedc1330

shacky1565

shack1577

shacked1577

shaga1596

shaggy1796

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 81 Shaggy (hirsutus), rough with stiff hairs.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 218 Blossom shaggy.

1802 A. F. M. Willich Domest. Encycl. IV. 455 The Shaggy Spunk, or Boletus hirsutus, a species of Mushroom.

1833 Penny Cycl. I. 78/2 Acer villosum, the shaggy maple.

1840 J. Loudon & M. Loudon tr. V. Köllar Treat. Insects iii. 363 This beetle is somewhat shaggy and black.

1854 L. Pappe Silva Capensis (1862) 6 Flowers terminal on short, shaggy peduncles.

1854 L. Pappe Silva Capensis (1862) 14 Drupe shaggy.

e. Physiology, Pathology, etc. Bristling with hair-like processes. shaggy chorion, that part of the chorion which develops long villous processes, and thus enters into the formation of the placenta, the rest of the chorion remaining smooth.

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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [adjective] > hairiness > rough hair > bristling with hair-like processes

shaggy1799

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 2 Upon maceration in water for a certain time, it put on the usual shaggy appearance formed by the tubuli seminiferi.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 780/1 An epidermic layer..covering a thick and shaggy membrane.

1855 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. (new Amer. ed.) 62 And imbed themselves in the semi-fluid deciduous secretion, like roots in the soil, these have been called the shaggy chorion.

1888 W. H. Dickinson in Lancet 24 Mar. 565/1 The Furred or Shaggy Tongue.

1888 W. H. Dickinson in Lancet 24 Mar. 565/1 When there is great projection of the papillæ, so that these stand out distinctly, the term furred or shaggy represents this condition.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 739 It's [i.e. the inflamed pericardium's] surface is covered with floating shaggy processes.

f. transferred. Of the earth, a hillside, etc.: Covered with a rough, tangled growth. Also of a comet: ‘Hairy’.

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the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > comet > [adjective] > hairy

faxedOE

crinite1589

comate1600

shaggy1605

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective]

greeneOE

strongc1230

verdant1590

shrubby1598

shaggy1605

tufted1606

tufty1612

covered1632

vegetated1697

covert1707

verdurous1717

shagged1784

matted1791

vegetive1855

scrubbed1870

flourishing1883

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 45 And liberally the shaggie Earth [He will] adorne With woods, and buds of fruites, of flowers, & corne.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xii. 206 Those fallow Deere, and huge-hancht Stags that graz'd Vpon her shaggy Heaths.

1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata iv. vi. 319 [Other comets] become shaggy and compassed as it were with hair or frindge round about.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 224 A River..through the shaggie hill Pass'd underneath ingulft.

1780 G. Cumberland Landscapes (1793) 8 Nor less I joy, at parting day, to trace The sun-gilt forms of Enfield's shaggy chace.

1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. xiii The little flower-beds looked shaggy, grass-grown, and uncared for.

g. Having a rough surface. shaggy metal: in the Cheshire salt mines, ‘porous clay in the side of the shaft, which admits the ingress of fresh water’ ( Cheshire Gloss. 1886).

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough

unsmeetheOE

sharpc893

rowOE

reofOE

roughOE

unplaina1393

harsha1400

scrofc1400

stourc1400

ruggyc1405

asperous1547

harshy1582

shagged1589

horrid1590

unsmooth1598

gross1606

asperate1623

brute1627

scabbed1630

sleazy1644

rasping1656

scaber1657

asper1681

shaggy1693

gruff1697

grating1766

hackly1794

ruvid1837

scrubby1856

unkind1866

raspy1882

ruckly1923

sandpapery1957

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > porous

waterbed1791

shaggy metal1811

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. iv. iii. 83 Some by growing Soft first, as many Pears do,..others by growing Dry and Shaggy, as most Musc-Pears do; all which are different ways Conducing to Rotteness and Destruction.

1811 H. Holland in Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 50 Where this [porous] structure of the clay occurs it goes by the name of the shaggy metal.

1813 W. Scott Rokeby iv. 164 A mantle long and loose he wore, Shaggy with ice, and stained with gore.

1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria xiii. 332 Chocolate-coloured porphyres..highly shaggy and amygdaloidal.

1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 2) 402 Fruit globular, its husk very thick: bark of old trunk shaggy, exfoliating in strips or plates.

a. Of hair, etc.: Rough, coarse, tangled.

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the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > bushy, thick

roughOE

lothenc1440

bushed1535

shirl1567

shagged1587

shaga1596

bushya1609

thick1624

shaggy1638

moppy1725

tousled1847

1638 R. Montagu Articles Diocese of Norwich sig. B1^v Doth he [sc. your Minister] weare long shaggy haire?

1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (ed. 2) II. 78 Moss growing on Trees is of several sorts, cold and moist Ground produces a long shaggy, moist and dry Ground a short thick Moss.

1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 256 Thy shaggy Mane.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 65 The bushy red hair and shaggy beard.

1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. iv. 72 Eye-brows..sage and shaggy.

1868 C. Gibbon Robin Gray xxii His short shaggy hair was shaggier than usual.

1901 T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xiv. 141 Her dress is of long shaggy fibre.

b. Botany. shaggy hairs: see quots. Cf. shag n.¹

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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun] > downy covering

downa1382

woolc1400

cotton1551

frieze1640

dowl1661

tomentum1693

pubescence1760

pubes1772

shag1774

indumentum1847

shaggy hairs1884

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 55 Shaggy hairs are thread-like bodies, consisting of two or many layers or rows of cells.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 56 The multiseriate shaggy hairs of the Melastomeæ.

c. transferred. Of a wood, trees, etc.: Resembling a rough growth of hair.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adjective] > of or consisting of brushwood or scrub

frithy1523

scrubbya1687

scrub1749

shaggy1789

the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough > rough and hairy (of things) > resembling rough growth of hair

shaggy1789

1789 W. Gilpin Observ. River Wye (ed. 2) 38 A woody hill..rudely hung with shaggy furniture.

1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 303 The rocks and shaggy wood that fringe that river.

1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. ii. 162 Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.

1890 A. J. C. Hare Let. 22 Apr. in Story of my Life (1900) VI. xxvi. 193 A poor town hanging shaggy on the hillside.

Compounds

C1.

shaggy-bearded adj.

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1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 68 They were a..shaggy-bearded set.

shaggy-bodied adj.

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1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 58 A grizly shaggy-bodied deuill.

shaggy-chested adj.

ΚΠ

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 490 Ben Jumbo Dollard, rubicund,..shaggychested, shockmaned,..stands forth.

shaggy-fleeced adj.

ΚΠ

1879 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 15 May The black-faced shaggy-fleeced sheep.

shaggy-footed adj.

ΚΠ

a1593 C. Marlowe Hero & Leander (1598) i. sig. Bij Wretched Ixions shaggie footed race.

shaggy-headed adj.

ΚΠ

1840 T. Carlyle Let. 5 Sept. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1985) XII. 239 A fine..shaggy-headed man is Alfred [Tennyson].

shaggy-haired adj.

ΚΠ

1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 82 Foolish Sheapheards, that wear woont esteem, Your God all rough, and shaggy-hair'd to bee.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xvi. 15 The shaggy-haired, cravatless image of Felix Holt.

1974 L. Deighton Spy Story i. 14 A shaggy-haired giant, complete with kilt.

shaggy-leaved adj.

ΚΠ

1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 128 Shaggy-leaved Toad Flax.

shaggy-legged adj.

ΚΠ

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Etruscan Places (1932) i. 16 He grins and drinks wine, and immediately one sees again the shaggy-legged faun.

shaggy-throated adj.

ΚΠ

1946 R. S. Thomas Stones of Field 17 Thunder-browed and shaggy-throated All the men were there.

C2.

shaggy cap n. = shaggy mane n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > mushroom > types of

champignon1578

meadow mushroom1597

goat's beard1640

button mushroom1708

flap1744

flab?18..

whitecap1801

nutmeg-boletus1813

blewits1830

mitre mushroom1854

St. George's mushroom1854

springer1860

cheese-room1865

horse mushroom1866

oyster mushroom1875

redmilk1882

beef-steak fungus1886

blusher1887

shaggy cap1894

shaggy mane1895

maitake1905

shiitake1925

oysterc1950

miller1954

porcino1954

saffron milk cap1954

old man of the woods1972

portobello1985

1894 M. C. Cooke Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms 57 Shaggy Caps... This is one of the best of edibles, and common enough everywhere.

1979 Guardian 31 Oct. 14/1 The delightful pleasures of Shaggy Cap soup or Lawyer's Wig stew.

shaggy dog story n. a lengthy tediously detailed story of an inconsequential series of events, more amusing to the teller than to his audience, or amusing only by its pointlessness; also shaggy dog yarn, etc.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of > rambling tale

tale of a tub1532

cock-and-bull story1670

blind story1699

peramble1824

shaggy dog story1937

1937 Esquire May 56/1 One of the more sporting ways of finding out which ones are not [sane] is to try shaggy-dog stories on them.

1952 A. R. K. Barnard in A. Redman Somewhat ‘Shaggy’ 4 The comparatively recent type of story—the ‘Shaggy Dog’ yarn.

1952 A. Koestler Arrow in Blue i. viii. 68 The people of Budapest have a peculiar shaggy-dog kind of humour.

1958 Listener 16 Oct. 623/1 It was a shaggy-dog story about a small-town worthy who shams madness to avoid paying bills.

1972 ‘P. Ruell’ Red Christmas xi. 102 He seemed to be in the middle of an autobiographical shaggy-dog story.

shaggy ink-cap n. = shaggy mane n.

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1953 J. Ramsbottom Mushrooms & Toadstools Pl. 22 (caption) Shaggy Ink-Cap..often in enormous numbers on made-up ground.

1970 J. Webster Introd. Fungi ii. iv. 311 Coprinus comatus is a large terrestrial species (the shaggy ink-cap or lawyer's wig) which is edible.

shaggy mane n. an edible fungus, Coprinus comatus (Cent. Dict. Suppl.).

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > mushroom > types of

champignon1578

meadow mushroom1597

goat's beard1640

button mushroom1708

flap1744

flab?18..

whitecap1801

nutmeg-boletus1813

blewits1830

mitre mushroom1854

St. George's mushroom1854

springer1860

cheese-room1865

horse mushroom1866

oyster mushroom1875

redmilk1882

beef-steak fungus1886

blusher1887

shaggy cap1894

shaggy mane1895

maitake1905

shiitake1925

oysterc1950

miller1954

porcino1954

saffron milk cap1954

old man of the woods1972

portobello1985

1885 J. A. Palmer Mushrooms Amer. Pl. II. (caption) Shaggy-Maned Mushroom.]

1895 W. H. Gibson Our Edible Toadstools & Mushrooms 28 The Shaggy-mane..is conspicuously even~gilled, and is a decided delicacy.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 13 Mar. 19/2 Now is the time of the shaggy manes and field mushrooms.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	shaggy
释义	shaggyadj. /ˈʃaɡi/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s shaggie, 1700s shagy. Etymology: < shag n.¹ + -y suffix¹. The altered form shackie , shacky adj.¹, appears in our quots. somewhat earlier. 1. a. Covered with or having long coarse or bushy hair. Of persons: Unkempt. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > bushy, thick > having shaggeda1000 roughOE thick-hairedc1405 busheda1513 bush-haired1530 maned1530 bush-headed1552 shack-haired1555 mop-headed?1566 shag-haired1577 shag-hair1584 shaggyc1590 rug-headed1597 hirsute1621 hobby-headeda1625 shock1681 shocky1698 shock-head1842 tousled-headed1860 tousle-haired1880 flock-headed1891 thick-piled1976 c1590 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta iv. 1858 He sent a shaggy totter'd staring slaue. 1612 N. Field Woman a Weather-cocke D 3 Wilde Virginia, Blacke Affricke, or the shaggy Scithia, Must send it ouer as a Merchandize Ere thou shew any heere. 1616 B. Jonson Oberon 122 in Wks. I Trap our shaggie thighs with bels. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 42 Some black shaggy dog. 1755 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 169 2 two-year-old she cattle and a shagy bull. 1757 T. Gray Ode I ii. ii, in Odes 8 Shaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. vi. 130 Shaggy uncombed ruffians, whose enormous mustachoes were turned back over their ears. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) ii. 13 He was a strong, loose, round-shouldered, shuffling, shaggy fellow. 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 151 A mounted shepherd on his wild and shaggy horse. b. Of a skin, or garment, etc.: Covered with coarse bushy hair. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough > rough and hairy (of things) shaggy?1611 shagged-ragged1612 squalid1628 brushy1682 buzzy1836 brush-like1859 brushy-looking1882 whiskery1927 ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xv. 282 Ioues huge and each-where shaggie shield. 1705 J. Philips Blenheim 408 While Volga's Stream Sends Opposite, in shaggy Armor clad, Her Borderers. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xvii. 107 Tunic and shaggy mantle. 1816 J. Galt Life B. West 94 A peasant dressed in shaggy skins. c. Of a textile material: Having a long, rough nap; rough or coarse in texture. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [adjective] > coarse or rough roughOE sackena1450 rugged1558 homespun?1589 shaggy1664 nubbly1829 nubby1935 1664 S. Pepys Diary 11 Nov. Put on my new shaggy purple gown with gold buttons and loop lace. 1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) ii. 135 A shaggy Tap'stry, worthy to be spread On Codrus' old, or Dunton's modern bed. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert ii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 22 A surcoat composed of strong shaggy silk, so woven as to exhibit, at a little distance, no inaccurate representation of a bear's hide. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 113 [article Carpet-Weaver] But in Wilton, or other carpets that are required to be ‘shaggy’, the wires are made thin, and sharp at one end. d. Botany and Zoology. Having or covered with rough or stiff hairs (hirsute) or long soft hairs (villous). Also in renderings of specific names, as shaggy maple, shaggy spunk. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [adjective] > having hair beardedc1450 downy1551 cottoned1578 friezed1578 maned1578 woolly1578 hairy1597 bristle-pointed1601 comous1657 fimbrious1657 tomentous1657 shagged1671 tomentose1698 crinated1724 villose1727 hispid1753 pubescent1760 setose1760 villous1766 lashed1776 silky1776 strigous1776 sericeous1777 awny1786 awned1787 strigose1793 shaggy1796 stupose1799 thready1804 feather-headed1821 setous1822 aristate1829 filamentous1835 fimbriate1836 puberulent1841 puberulous1841 sericated1848 barbate1853 strigillose1857 fimbrilliferous1866 ciliolate1870 fimbrillose1884 strigulated1899 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [adjective] > hairiness > rough hair ruggedc1330 shacky1565 shack1577 shacked1577 shaga1596 shaggy1796 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 81 Shaggy (hirsutus), rough with stiff hairs. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 218 Blossom shaggy. 1802 A. F. M. Willich Domest. Encycl. IV. 455 The Shaggy Spunk, or Boletus hirsutus, a species of Mushroom. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 78/2 Acer villosum, the shaggy maple. 1840 J. Loudon & M. Loudon tr. V. Köllar Treat. Insects iii. 363 This beetle is somewhat shaggy and black. 1854 L. Pappe Silva Capensis (1862) 6 Flowers terminal on short, shaggy peduncles. 1854 L. Pappe Silva Capensis (1862) 14 Drupe shaggy. e. Physiology, Pathology, etc. Bristling with hair-like processes. shaggy chorion, that part of the chorion which develops long villous processes, and thus enters into the formation of the placenta, the rest of the chorion remaining smooth. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [adjective] > hairiness > rough hair > bristling with hair-like processes shaggy1799 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 2 Upon maceration in water for a certain time, it put on the usual shaggy appearance formed by the tubuli seminiferi. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 780/1 An epidermic layer..covering a thick and shaggy membrane. 1855 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. (new Amer. ed.) 62 And imbed themselves in the semi-fluid deciduous secretion, like roots in the soil, these have been called the shaggy chorion. 1888 W. H. Dickinson in Lancet 24 Mar. 565/1 The Furred or Shaggy Tongue. 1888 W. H. Dickinson in Lancet 24 Mar. 565/1 When there is great projection of the papillæ, so that these stand out distinctly, the term furred or shaggy represents this condition. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 739 It's [i.e. the inflamed pericardium's] surface is covered with floating shaggy processes. f. transferred. Of the earth, a hillside, etc.: Covered with a rough, tangled growth. Also of a comet: ‘Hairy’. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > comet > [adjective] > hairy faxedOE crinite1589 comate1600 shaggy1605 the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] greeneOE strongc1230 verdant1590 shrubby1598 shaggy1605 tufted1606 tufty1612 covered1632 vegetated1697 covert1707 verdurous1717 shagged1784 matted1791 vegetive1855 scrubbed1870 flourishing1883 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 45 And liberally the shaggie Earth [He will] adorne With woods, and buds of fruites, of flowers, & corne. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xii. 206 Those fallow Deere, and huge-hancht Stags that graz'd Vpon her shaggy Heaths. 1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata iv. vi. 319 [Other comets] become shaggy and compassed as it were with hair or frindge round about. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 224 A River..through the shaggie hill Pass'd underneath ingulft. View more context for this quotation 1780 G. Cumberland Landscapes (1793) 8 Nor less I joy, at parting day, to trace The sun-gilt forms of Enfield's shaggy chace. 1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. xiii The little flower-beds looked shaggy, grass-grown, and uncared for. g. Having a rough surface. shaggy metal: in the Cheshire salt mines, ‘porous clay in the side of the shaft, which admits the ingress of fresh water’ ( Cheshire Gloss. 1886). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough unsmeetheOE sharpc893 rowOE reofOE roughOE unplaina1393 harsha1400 scrofc1400 stourc1400 ruggyc1405 asperous1547 harshy1582 shagged1589 horrid1590 unsmooth1598 gross1606 asperate1623 brute1627 scabbed1630 sleazy1644 rasping1656 scaber1657 asper1681 shaggy1693 gruff1697 grating1766 hackly1794 ruvid1837 scrubby1856 unkind1866 raspy1882 ruckly1923 sandpapery1957 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > porous waterbed1791 shaggy metal1811 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. iv. iii. 83 Some by growing Soft first, as many Pears do,..others by growing Dry and Shaggy, as most Musc-Pears do; all which are different ways Conducing to Rotteness and Destruction. 1811 H. Holland in Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 50 Where this [porous] structure of the clay occurs it goes by the name of the shaggy metal. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby iv. 164 A mantle long and loose he wore, Shaggy with ice, and stained with gore. 1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria xiii. 332 Chocolate-coloured porphyres..highly shaggy and amygdaloidal. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (ed. 2) 402 Fruit globular, its husk very thick: bark of old trunk shaggy, exfoliating in strips or plates. 2. a. Of hair, etc.: Rough, coarse, tangled. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > bushy, thick roughOE lothenc1440 bushed1535 shirl1567 shagged1587 shaga1596 bushya1609 thick1624 shaggy1638 moppy1725 tousled1847 1638 R. Montagu Articles Diocese of Norwich sig. B1^v Doth he [sc. your Minister] weare long shaggy haire? 1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. (ed. 2) II. 78 Moss growing on Trees is of several sorts, cold and moist Ground produces a long shaggy, moist and dry Ground a short thick Moss. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 256 Thy shaggy Mane. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 65 The bushy red hair and shaggy beard. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. iv. 72 Eye-brows..sage and shaggy. 1868 C. Gibbon Robin Gray xxii His short shaggy hair was shaggier than usual. 1901 T. J. Alldridge Sherbro xiv. 141 Her dress is of long shaggy fibre. b. Botany. shaggy hairs: see quots. Cf. shag n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun] > downy covering downa1382 woolc1400 cotton1551 frieze1640 dowl1661 tomentum1693 pubescence1760 pubes1772 shag1774 indumentum1847 shaggy hairs1884 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 55 Shaggy hairs are thread-like bodies, consisting of two or many layers or rows of cells. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 56 The multiseriate shaggy hairs of the Melastomeæ. c. transferred. Of a wood, trees, etc.: Resembling a rough growth of hair. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adjective] > of or consisting of brushwood or scrub frithy1523 scrubbya1687 scrub1749 shaggy1789 the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough > rough and hairy (of things) > resembling rough growth of hair shaggy1789 1789 W. Gilpin Observ. River Wye (ed. 2) 38 A woody hill..rudely hung with shaggy furniture. 1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 303 The rocks and shaggy wood that fringe that river. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. ii. 162 Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. 1890 A. J. C. Hare Let. 22 Apr. in Story of my Life (1900) VI. xxvi. 193 A poor town hanging shaggy on the hillside. Compounds C1. shaggy-bearded adj. ΚΠ 1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 68 They were a..shaggy-bearded set. shaggy-bodied adj. ΚΠ 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 58 A grizly shaggy-bodied deuill. shaggy-chested adj. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 490 Ben Jumbo Dollard, rubicund,..shaggychested, shockmaned,..stands forth. shaggy-fleeced adj. ΚΠ 1879 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 15 May The black-faced shaggy-fleeced sheep. shaggy-footed adj. ΚΠ a1593 C. Marlowe Hero & Leander (1598) i. sig. Bij Wretched Ixions shaggie footed race. shaggy-headed adj. ΚΠ 1840 T. Carlyle Let. 5 Sept. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1985) XII. 239 A fine..shaggy-headed man is Alfred [Tennyson]. shaggy-haired adj. ΚΠ 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 82 Foolish Sheapheards, that wear woont esteem, Your God all rough, and shaggy-hair'd to bee. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xvi. 15 The shaggy-haired, cravatless image of Felix Holt. 1974 L. Deighton Spy Story i. 14 A shaggy-haired giant, complete with kilt. shaggy-leaved adj. ΚΠ 1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 128 Shaggy-leaved Toad Flax. shaggy-legged adj. ΚΠ a1930 D. H. Lawrence Etruscan Places (1932) i. 16 He grins and drinks wine, and immediately one sees again the shaggy-legged faun. shaggy-throated adj. ΚΠ 1946 R. S. Thomas Stones of Field 17 Thunder-browed and shaggy-throated All the men were there. C2. shaggy cap n. = shaggy mane n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > mushroom > types of champignon1578 meadow mushroom1597 goat's beard1640 button mushroom1708 flap1744 flab?18.. whitecap1801 nutmeg-boletus1813 blewits1830 mitre mushroom1854 St. George's mushroom1854 springer1860 cheese-room1865 horse mushroom1866 oyster mushroom1875 redmilk1882 beef-steak fungus1886 blusher1887 shaggy cap1894 shaggy mane1895 maitake1905 shiitake1925 oysterc1950 miller1954 porcino1954 saffron milk cap1954 old man of the woods1972 portobello1985 1894 M. C. Cooke Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms 57 Shaggy Caps... This is one of the best of edibles, and common enough everywhere. 1979 Guardian 31 Oct. 14/1 The delightful pleasures of Shaggy Cap soup or Lawyer's Wig stew. shaggy dog story n. a lengthy tediously detailed story of an inconsequential series of events, more amusing to the teller than to his audience, or amusing only by its pointlessness; also shaggy dog yarn, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of > rambling tale tale of a tub1532 cock-and-bull story1670 blind story1699 peramble1824 shaggy dog story1937 1937 Esquire May 56/1 One of the more sporting ways of finding out which ones are not [sane] is to try shaggy-dog stories on them. 1952 A. R. K. Barnard in A. Redman Somewhat ‘Shaggy’ 4 The comparatively recent type of story—the ‘Shaggy Dog’ yarn. 1952 A. Koestler Arrow in Blue i. viii. 68 The people of Budapest have a peculiar shaggy-dog kind of humour. 1958 Listener 16 Oct. 623/1 It was a shaggy-dog story about a small-town worthy who shams madness to avoid paying bills. 1972 ‘P. Ruell’ Red Christmas xi. 102 He seemed to be in the middle of an autobiographical shaggy-dog story. shaggy ink-cap n. = shaggy mane n. ΚΠ 1953 J. Ramsbottom Mushrooms & Toadstools Pl. 22 (caption) Shaggy Ink-Cap..often in enormous numbers on made-up ground. 1970 J. Webster Introd. Fungi ii. iv. 311 Coprinus comatus is a large terrestrial species (the shaggy ink-cap or lawyer's wig) which is edible. shaggy mane n. an edible fungus, Coprinus comatus (Cent. Dict. Suppl.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > mushroom > types of champignon1578 meadow mushroom1597 goat's beard1640 button mushroom1708 flap1744 flab?18.. whitecap1801 nutmeg-boletus1813 blewits1830 mitre mushroom1854 St. George's mushroom1854 springer1860 cheese-room1865 horse mushroom1866 oyster mushroom1875 redmilk1882 beef-steak fungus1886 blusher1887 shaggy cap1894 shaggy mane1895 maitake1905 shiitake1925 oysterc1950 miller1954 porcino1954 saffron milk cap1954 old man of the woods1972 portobello1985 1885 J. A. Palmer Mushrooms Amer. Pl. II. (caption) Shaggy-Maned Mushroom.] 1895 W. H. Gibson Our Edible Toadstools & Mushrooms 28 The Shaggy-mane..is conspicuously even~gilled, and is a decided delicacy. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 13 Mar. 19/2 Now is the time of the shaggy manes and field mushrooms. 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