shaggy

adj
/ˈʃæɡi/

Etymology

Etymology tree Old English sċeacga Middle English *schagge English shag Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English shaggy From shag + -y.

  1. derived from *(s)kek-
  2. inherited from *skaggô
  3. inherited from sċeacga — “hair, wool
  4. inherited from *schagge
  5. suffixed as shaggy — “shag + y

Definitions

  1. Having long, thick, and uncombed hair, fur or wool.

    • a shaggy dog
    • Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?
  2. Having a surface like shaggy hair

    Having a surface like shaggy hair; with a rough nap.

  3. Confused, muddled.

    • Universal and Blumhouse’s M3gan is exactly the right amount of ridiculous, which is why it can afford to be a little shaggy toward the end.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shaggy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01shaggy02nap03day04sun05star06heavier07heavy08bear

A definitional loop anchored at shaggy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at shaggy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA