shagged

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7

Definition of shagged

8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (rare)Having or covered with shaggy hair.
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adj

  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.
  7. (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!"”
    “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.”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of shag

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Etymology

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”).

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