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shagged

shagged adjective: having or covered with shaggy hair. Also the simple past and past participle of shag.

Adjective (1)

shagged (comparative more shagged, superlative most shagged)

  1. (rare) Having or covered with shaggy hair.
  2. (obsolete) Unkempt; clothed in rags; ragged.
  3. (obsolete) Of garments and fabrics: having a rough or long nap.
  4. Covered with scrub, trees, or rough or shaggy growth.
  5. Jagged; having a rough, uneven surface.
  6. Of hair: long; rough; shaggy.

Adjective (2)

shagged (comparative more shagged, superlative most shagged)

  1. (slang, vulgar) Extremely tired.
    • No, I am shagged, for I know, / Jack Ragaboy, awhile ago, / Got sorely flogg'd for begging there; / The beadle had him to the may'r!"1790, Edward Nairne, “The Beggars”, in Kentish Tales, 2nd edition, published 1824, page 51
    • An Sal sung out, "why dis here wall, / It looks sa old an hagged; / I'm mortally afared 'twill fall / An I was deadly shagged.a. 1821, John White Masters, Dick and Sal at Canterbury Fair

Also used as

shagged is also the simple past and past participle of shag.

Forms of shagged

comparativemore shagged
superlativemost shagged

Origin of shagged

From Old English sceacgede, from sceacga (“hair”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggiją (“beard, stem”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to jump, move, hurry”).

Uncertain. Perhaps related to fagged or to shag. Originally Kentish dialect according to Wright.

Words formed from shagged

Questions about shagged

What does shagged mean?
Shagged means having or covered with shaggy hair.
What part of speech is shagged?
Shagged is an adjective.

Words near shagged in the dictionary

  1. shagbarks
  2. shagfest
  3. shagfests
  4. shaggability
  5. shaggable
  6. shagged
  7. shagged out
  8. shaggedness
  9. shagger
  10. shagger's back
  11. shaggers

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