| 单词 | shaggy |
| 释义 | shaggy (once / 1145 pages) adj Shaggy things are messy, thick, and rough. Your long-haired mixed breed dog might be shaggy, while your sister's sleek Siamese cat isn't shaggy at all. Shaggy almost always describes an animal's fur or a person's unruly hair. A well-loved stuffed animal might be soft and shaggy, and your brother's curly hair is especially shaggy when he first rolls out of bed in the morning. On the cartoon "Scooby Doo," Scooby's best friend is a goofy, shaggy-haired guy named Shaggy. Shaggy followed the earlier adjective shagged, from the Old English sceacgede, or "hairy." WORD FAMILYshaggy: shaggier, shaggiest, shaggily, shagginess+/shag: shagged, shagging, shaggy, shags USAGE EXAMPLESWhen the young black woman went South, she shed some of her proper bourgeois upbringing and began to feel the shaggy earth beneath her feet. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) They lined State Street when the park became too full, holding children and shaggy dogs. New York Times(Nov 20, 2016) Speaking by phone from the Izalco penitentiary, Chiki, who was serving time for extortion, ordered Shaggy to make a pickup of an extortion payment. New York Times(Nov 20, 2016) 1adj used of hair; thick and poorly groomed a shaggy beard Syn bushy, shaggy-coated, shaggy-haired ungroomed not neat and smart in appearance 2adj having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags shaggy rugs Syn shagged rough, unsmooth having or caused by an irregular surface |
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