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Shagged  adj.  Shaggy; rough.






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"Shagged" Quotes from Famous Books



... clambered over crags, all shattered and tossed about everyhow; in some parts curiously worn and hollowed out, almost into caverns. The rock, shagged with sea-weed,—in some places, a thick carpet of sea-weed laid over the pebbles, into which your foot would sink. Deep tanks among these rocks, which the sea replenishes at high tide, and then leaves the bottom all covered with various sorts of sea-plants, as if it were some ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various

... laciniate^, laciniform^, laciniose^; pappose^; pileous^, pilose^; trichogenous^, trichoid [Med.]; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose^, crinite^; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous^, bearded, pilous^, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed^; setous^, setose^, setaceous; like quills upon the fretful porcupine [Hamlet]; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear. downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate^, lanated^; lanuginous^, lanuginose^; tomentose^; fluffy. Adv. against ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... be sair partin'—" And then, seeing the sympathy in the landlord's eye and fearing a disgraceful breakdown, Auld Jock checked his self betrayal. During the talk Bobby stood listening. At the abrupt ending, he put his shagged paws up on Auld Jock's knee, wistfully inquiring about this emotional matter. Then he dropped soberly, and slunk away ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson

... huge forests, and unharboured heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity. Yea, there where very desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblenched majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin ...
— L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas • John Milton



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