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Plural of shag

regular plural

The plural of shag is shags.

Forms of shag

Singularshag /ˈʃæɡ/
Pluralshags
Countablecountable and uncountable

Shags in a sentence

  • He still carried the basket with the shags and pig-weed.1941, Ernestine Hill, My Love Must Wait, A&R Classics, published 2013, page 11. From the entry pigweed
  • She chatters, mainly to Simon, pointing out a circling mollymawk, a line of shags winging away from Maukiekie, a penguin that surfaces not far from the boat.1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 210. From the entry mollymawk

Meaning of shag

  1. noun Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc.
  2. noun Coarse shredded tobacco.
  3. noun A type of rough carpet pile.

Full definition of shag

Questions about the plural of shag

What is the plural of shag?
The plural of shag is shags.
Is shag countable?
Shag is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shag (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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