shaggy

[US]/'ʃægɪ/
[UK]/'ʃægi/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. rough-textured; thick and unkempt hair; covered with a coarse and tangled layer of hair.

Example Sentences

a dog with a long shaggy coat

a huge shaggy Alsatian.

the mountain goat has a long, shaggy coat.

This old man shaved his shaggy black beard.

as the sheep came on board, we grabbed their long shaggy fleeces.

His shaggy grey hair fell loosely across his brow.

massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.

He told us this joke, which turned out to be a shaggy-dog story, and I hate those!

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