shaggy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: shag=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

shaggy, a. [From Shag, n.].

•  Rough with long hair or wool.  [1913 Webster]

  "About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin."  [1913 Webster]
•  Rough; rugged; jaggy.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

  "[A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

shaggy, adj. (shaggier, shaggiest)
1 hairy, rough-haired.
2 unkempt.
3 (of the hair) coarse and abundant.
4 Biol. having a hairlike covering.

Idiom

shaggy-dog story a long rambling story amusing only by its being inconsequential.

Derivative

shaggily adv. shagginess n.

THESAURUS

shaggy

bristly, broken, bumpy, bushy, choppy, cirrose, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, cross-grained, disheveled, fleecy, flocculent, furry, fuzzy, grainy, granulated, hairy, hirsute, hispid, homespun, horripilant, inequal, irregular, jolty, knobbed, lanate, linsey-woolsey, matted, messed up, mussed up, nappy, nubbly, nubby, pilose, pily, pimply, pitted, pocky, potholed, pubescent, rank, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, rumpled, rutted, rutty, shagged, snaggy, snarled, studded, textured, tousled, tously, tumbled, uncombed, uncut, uneven, unkempt, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unshorn, unsmooth, untidy, ununiform, wimpled, woolly

ROGET THESAURUS

shaggy

Roughness

N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, 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, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.