shaggy
adjEtymology
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.
Definitions
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?
Having a surface like shaggy hair
Having a surface like shaggy hair; with a rough nap.
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.
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.
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