Shaggy

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  • adjective. Having, covered with, or resembling long rough hair or wool.
  • adjective. Bushy or matted.
  • adjective. Having a rough nap or surface, as a textile.
  • adjective. Poorly groomed; unkempt.
  • adjective. Marked by a lack of order or clarity in thinking, planning, or performance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Rough, coarse, or unkempt; thick, rough, and irregular.
  • Rough; covered with long coarse or bushy hair, or with something resembling it.
  • In botany, pubescent or downy with long and soft hairs; villous.
  • In embryology, villous: noting specifically that part of the chorion which develops long villous processes, and thus enters into the formation of the placenta, the rest of the chorion remaining smooth.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Rough with long hair or wool.
  • adjective. Rough; rugged; jaggy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Rough with long or thick hair, fur or wool; unshaven, ungroomed, or unbrushed.
  • adjective. Rough; rugged; jaggy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags
  • adjective. used of hair; thick and poorly groomed
  • Word Usage
    "Colangelo looked at Johnson's thin shaggy hair that nearly reached his shoulders, and said: Randy, if you want to have tattoos from your head to the bottom of your feet, and wear a nose ring on the mound while you pitch, we'll pass."
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aggie  Baggie  Maggie  aggie  baggie  
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blond  bushy  dirty  gaunt  glossy  
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    Words with the same meaning
    bristling  bristly  broken  bumpy  bushy  
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