'Shaggy' definitions:
Definition of 'shaggy'
From: WordNet
adjective
Used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; "bushy locks"; "a shaggy beard" [syn: bushy, shaggy, shaggy-haired, shaggy-coated]
adjective
Having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags; "junipers with shagged trunks"; "shaggy rugs" [syn: shagged, shaggy]
Definition of 'Shaggy'
From: GCIDE
- Shaggy \Shag"gy\, a. [Compar. Shaggier; superl. Shaggiest.] [From Shag, n.] Rough with long hair or wool. [1913 Webster]
- About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Rough; rugged; jaggy. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- [A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'shaggy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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